How to Teach the Reading Material in Module 3 of New Standard English for Senior Students Book Four

Hello! Everyone ! my name is--------------. I feel very honored to be here and share some of my teaching ideas.Today I am going to talk about how to teach the reading material Communication：No Problem?in Module 3 of New Standard English for Senior Students Book four.(First I am going to analyze

Part 1 My understanding of this lesson

The analysis of the teaching material

The passage introduces some examples of cultural body language in greeting people. It plays a very important part in the English teaching of this unit because it is main reading passage in this unit which is closely related to the top,Body Language and it includes the most language points of this unit. What’s more, it introduce the structures in this unit, the –ing form as the Attribute and Adverbial. By studying this lesson, students can improve their reading ability, learn different ways of greeting. At the same time, we should make students get familiar with the grammar pattern. Of course, the students should receive some moral education. Let students understand different body language，know the importance of “Do as Romans do” and respect different culture.

(By learning this reading passage, I can help the students to achieve the following goals, so let’s go to the second part :

Teaching aims:

1. Knowledge objects

a, Enable the students to understand the main idea of the text

b, learn different greetings around the world

2. Ability objects:

a, To improve the student’s reading ability, especially their skimming and scanning ability.

b, To train the Ss’ abilities of studying by themselves and cooperating .

3. Moral objects:

a, enable the students to understand and respect the cultural difference in different body language

Teaching important points:

---how to improve the students’ reading ability by skimming’ scanning and careful reading

Teaching difficult points:

---how to get the students to grasp the main idea and the key words of each paragraph as quickly as possible

---how to finish a task: act out different ways of greetings and describe the performance in English

Analysis of the Ss:

1. The Ss have known some body language in their daily life.

2. They are lack of vocabulary, and They don’t often use English to express themselves and communicate with others.

3. Some Ss are not active in the class because they are afraid of making mistakes.

Part 2 My teaching methods and aids

Teaching methods: While dealing with this lesson, I’ll do my best to make students the real master of the class while the teacher as a director. So I will adopt

1. Communicative Approach

2. Task-based teaching approach

3. group work and individual method

Teaching aids:

1. multimedia

2. the blackboard

Part 3. Teaching steps / procedures

Step 1: Lead -in:

I will give the students a performance without saying anything first then ask the students to guess what my performance is about. I will perform like this… After the performance I will ask the students why they can or can’t understand me

Purpose: to arouse the students’ interest in the reading passage and Bring in new subject: Communication ;No problem?

Step 2. Pre-reading

1. I will ask Ss to look at the picture on P26 and the title of the passage to predict the main idea according to the following question:

where are the people, who are they? and what happens to them?

(2. ask Ss to use as much words as possible to describe the picture.)

purpose: To develop Ss’ reading skill---predicting (and present some new words in the passage such as …)

Step 3. Fast reading

1. Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and answer the question.

What’s the main idea of the passage?

2. ask students to read again and divide the passage into several parts and match the main idea of each part.

purpose: Ss are required pay special attention to the first or last Para of

the article (or the first sentence or the last sentence of each Para.) To

develop Ss’ reading skill --- skimming, that is, how can we get the

general idea of a passage as quickly as possible.

Step 4: Careful reading

1.In order to help the students understand the passage better, I will ask focus the Ss on paragraph 2-paragraph 4. let Ss Read these paragraphs again to complete the table. Where is he/ she from? What does he/ she do when he/ she meet someone at the airport for the first time? and what does he/she mean?

2. Ask the students to work in pairs, read the passage again and take turns to ask and answer the questions in exercise 2 on P27. the purpose is to help them to cooperate with each other and use English to express themselves.

purpose: To develop Ss’ reading skill---scanning, that is, how to find out the clue of a story and motivate Ss to cooperate with each other.

As the students know the whole reading passage better, I will go to finish the next task:

Step 5: Performance

Some students will be asked to come to the front to act out how people in the countries mentioned in the passage greet each other. While the students are performing ,others have to figure out which countries they are from and describe their performance in English.

Purpose: to make students understand the passage better and express themselves in English

Step six: Discussion (Work in groups of four and tell each other)

1. Is body language important for us students? WHY?

2. Can you give some examples in which we only use body language to communicate?

After the students’ discussion , a representative from each group may demonstrate their results to us. This is a good way to train students’ ability of team work.

After that, I will give the conclusion that students must remember it is important to learn some information about body language,since we are learnig English, we must know a lot about body language of English native speakers, so that we can communicate with them better some day. Even between students and teachers ,body language is also important when we are having lessons we can use our body language more to communicate instead of using words.

Step seven: the homework:

1. Write a summary about the passage in about 30 words.

Goal: To spur Ss to consolidate what they have learned.

2.Find out more ways of greeting in the different cultures.

Goal: To encourage Ss to study English spontaneously and independently after class, develop Ss’ cross-culture communicative skills.

Part 4. Time distribution

1. Lead in (2 minutes)

2. pre-reading(1 minutes)

3. fast reading (8 minutes)

4. careful reading (15 minutes)

5. performance (8 minutes)

6. Discussion (5 minutes)

7. Homework (1 minute)

Part 5. Blackboard design

The title of this reading passage is on the top of the blackboard. Divide the blackboard into 2 parts. On the left part I will write down the structure of the passage, while the right part is for the screen.