My First Ride on a TrainReading

锦州市黑山第一高级中学 刘红云

• I. Analysis of the Teaching Material

• II. Teaching aims and demands

• III. Teaching key and difficult points

• IV. Teaching theories, methods and

   aids

• V. Learning Methods

• VI. Teaching Procedures

• VII. Blackboard design

• VIII. Teaching reflection

I. Analysis of the Teaching Material

Reading

II. Teaching aims and demands

●Knowledge aim

●Ability aim

●Emotional aim

III. Teaching key and difficult points

• to learn the style of narration

• to get the general idea and some detailed information by using skimming and scanning

IV. Teaching theories, methods and aids

• The Whole language Approach and the Theory of Schema

• Task-based method

• Multimedia Computer Assisted Instruction

V. Learning Methods

• Autonomous learning

• Cooperative learning

• Task-based

• Student-centered

VI. Teaching Procedures

• Step 1 Leading-in

• Step 2 Reading Task

• Step 3 Practice

• Step 4 Summary

• Step 5 Homework

Step 1 Leading-in

Step2 Reading Task

Learn and retell the passage

Pre-task Content Prediction

Questions:

① Is it an argumentation or a narration?

②Is it about a person or a matter?

Narration

whowhen

where

whatwhyhow

Task-cycle Reading Comprehension

• Skimming

• Scanning

Skimming

• Read the frame of the article. Then

talk about the main idea of the text.

My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and I'm 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away. We spent two days and nights on the train. The train was wonderful and the food was great. …………………...……………………………………………………………………………………...……………………………………………………………………… The train was comfortable and the people were nice. ……………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Why is the train called the Ghan? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance. ………. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. …………......……………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………

Question: What’s the passage about?

• A. a train ride to Sydney

• B. taking the train to Australia

• C. travelling to the central part of

Australia

• D. a child visiting her grandmother

Scanning

• Ask the students to scan the

text by using different methods according to different paragraphs.

Paragraph 1 Questions

• Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago?

• Was her destination on the coast of Australia?

Paragraph 2 Fill in the chart

food

scenery

First hundred kilometers

After that

Suddenly

Paragraph 3 T or F exercises

• Alice didn’t study while she was on the train.

• Alice enjoyed both talking to others and watching the night sky.

Paragraph 4-6 Put the following sentences in the right order

• ① They tried riding horses, but failed.• ② Camels were trained to carry supplies back from the central part.• ③ Australians needed a way to the central

country. • ④ Camels were shot because of the new railway line built by the government.• ⑤ They brought camels from Afghanistan.

Post-task

Retell the text with the help of the key words

Recently …my first ride on a… got on …got off….

The train…and the food… For the first few hundred kilometers of the

journey… After that… Suddenly…The train …and the people… During the day… One night…The Ghan… …A long time ago… …A hundred and fifty years ago…

…For many years… …until the 1920s… …in 1925… …in 1935…

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Key words:

Part 4

Step3 Practice Describe the first time you went on a trip

• Where did you go?• When did you go? • Why did you go there?• Who did you go with?• What did you do there?• How did you go there?

Step 4 Summary

• Ask the students to make a brief conclusion about the text.

Step 5 Homework

• Write a passage Write down the description o

f your fist trip

VII. Blackboard design

• Module 3 My First Ride on a Train when Skimming for main idea who where Scanning for detailed information

what why how

VIII. Teaching reflection

Reading

• New words — linguistic schema

• Lead-in — content schema

• Reading task — formal schema

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