| M5U2 Project Writing a report 唐杰 江苏省丹阳高级中学 I. Teaching Aims 1. To help students learn something about the present situation of the Yangtze river and climate change; 2. To help students improve their basic skills of speaking and writing; 3. To help raise students’ awareness of protecting the environment; 4. To make the students more interested in learning English and gain happiness from learning. II. Important Points 1. To help students grasp the structure of a report and the skills of writing a report; 2. To encourage students to take active in the group work. III. Difficult Points How to help students write a report reflecting the structure of a typical report by using the skills gained from reading the two articles. IV. Teaching Methods 1. Task-based teaching 2. Communicative teaching V. Blackboard-writing design 1. Title: M2U1 Reading: Language points 2. Content: Key points in the class VI. Teaching procedures Step 1: Lead-in 1. Show students a map of the Yangtze River and ask students a question: What do you know about the Yangtze River? (1) It’s the third longest river in the world and the longest river in China, which is 6,300 kilometers long. (2) It runs across 11 provinces, including Chongqing and Shanghai, and goes into the East China Sea. (3) It’s China’s most important source of freshwater. (4) Many dams have been built, including Three Gorges Dam in Hubei. … 2. Show students more pictures to show the problems facing the Yangtze River Step 2: Reading 1. Protecting the Yangtze River (1) scanning l What problems is the Yangtze River facing? l What are the causes of the problems? l What measures have been taken to solve the problems? (2) skimming: Analyzing the structure Parts | Main ideas | Part 1 (para 1) | The health of the Yangtze River has raised concern. | Part 2 (paras2-4) | A lot of work has been done by people as well as the government to protect the river. | Part 3 (para 5) | The environmental situation is improving. |
2. Climate change and a low carbon life (1) predicting Can you predict what the article will talk about according to the title? (2) Scanning l What problem does the article talk about? l What are the causes of the problem? l What is advised to solve the problem? (3) Task-based reading 1. ______: Climate change and a low carbon life | Problem | More gases such as carbon dioxide have 2. _____ off the world climate change. | 3. ______ | ◆Animals and people produce carbon dioxide when 4. ______. ◆We put more carbon into the atmosphere. ◆5. ______ more petrol and electricity lets off more carbon. | 6. ______ | ◆Walking or using a bike when 7. ______. ◆Choosing public transport 8. ______ of a private car or a taxi. ◆Recycling as much as possible, 9. ______ l products and paper products. ◆10. ______ more trees. |
Answers: 1. Title 2. set 3. Causes 4. breathing 5. Consuming 6. Solutions 7. possible 8. instead 9. particularly 10. Planting Step 3 Summary What’s the similarity in the structure (结构) of the two articles? Part 1 Raising the issue Part 2 Analyzing the causes Part 3 Presenting possible solutions Step 4 Group work: Writing a report 1 Planning Instructions: Choose a topic about the environmental protection for your report. Choose a speaker, who will make notes while having the discussion and report your report to the whole class. 2. Writing the report Instructions: Every group member is expected to take active part in the discussion and give some advice. The speaker should make notes during the discussion. The report should reflect the same structure with the two articles we have read. 3. Presenting the report Now it’s time to share your report with the class. Step 5 Homework Polishing up the report after class according to the group work |
