Period 4 Reading and Writing
The General Idea of This Period
In this period the teaching and learning will center on reading and writing.As usual, the teacher can begin the teaching with reviewing the former knowledge.The following part is the lead-in—talking about some scientists, because this unit talks about great scientists and this passage is about Nicolaus Copernicus and his theory.
As to reading training, the teacher should still develop the students’ ability of scanning and skimming.So at the beginning, get the students to prepare some knowledge for reading. For that purpose, the teacher will firstly ask for information about Copernicus according to what the students already know.
Then the teacher can have the students listen to the tape and find out whether the statements are true or false.It is designed to train the students’ listening and to check whether the students have previewed the passage
