2019新人教高中英语选择性必修二Unit 2 Bridging Cultures
Reading and Thinking 公开课教案
Teaching aims:
1.Enable students to summarize the main idea of the passage.
2.Guide students to figure out Xie Lie’s experience of living abroad and describe it in their own words.
3.Enable students to analyse the challenges and solutions that students might be faced with while studying abroad, and share their opinions on the significance of acting as a cultural messenger.
Teaching key points:
1.Lead students to explore the reasons behind the events and sort out the emotional and logical lines.
2.Encourage students to analyse the structures of the passage.
Teaching difficult points:
Enlighten students to think deeply about the role that foreign students play in cultural communication and voice their opinions on the significance of acting as cultural messengers.
Teaching procedures:
Step ⅠWarming up
Talk about the picture and title of the article and then answer the following questions.
1.Is the girl in the photo in China or abroad?
2.How do you think she is building bridges?
3.What challenges do you think she might come across in a foreign country?
4.Where is the article from and what is it about?
Suggested answers:
1.The girl is probably studying abroad.
2.She might be trying to build bridges through exchanging cultures.
3.Challenges that she might come across may include adaptation to a whole new life,loneliness,and academic requirements.
4.It’s probably a feature in newspapers talking about a Chinese student’s experience of studying abroad.
showcaseStepⅡ Read for the main idea
Go through the passage,find out the following elements and the main idea of each paragraph and summarize the main idea of the whole passage.
Five key elements:
who:_____________
what:_____________
where:____________
when:_____________
why:______________
The main idea of each paragraph:
Paragraph 1:____________________________
Paragraph 2:____________________________
Paragraph 3:____________________________
Paragraph 4:____________________________
Paragraph 5:____________________________
Paragraph 6:____________________________
Paragraph 7:____________________________
Paragraph 8:____________________________
The main idea of the whole passage:____________________________
Suggested answers:
Five key elements:
who:a Chinese student named Xie Lei
what:her experience of studying abroad,mainly including challenges in daily life and academic requirements
where:the UK
when:six months after she arrived in London
why:to complete her exchange programme
The main idea of each paragraph:
Paragraph 1:Xie Lei boarded a plane for London to study abroad.
Paragraph 2:The reason why she chose the exchange programme.
Paragraph 3:The challenge she met in daily life.
Paragraph 4:The life with her host family.
Paragraph 5:The challenge in writing an essay.
Paragraph6:The challenge in participating in generating ideas,offering examples,applying concepts and giving presentations.
Paragraph 7:Her acting as a cultural messenger building a bridge between China and the UK.
Paragraph 8:Best wishes to Xie Lei.
The main idea of the whole passage:
The article is about how a Chinese girl,Xie Lei,managed to adapt to a new life in the UK and meet the academic requirements as an exchange student.Apart from that,the article also talks about how Xie Lei acts as a cultural messenger building a bridge between China and the UK.
Activity2 Read for details.
Read the text and take notes,and then describe Xie Lei’s experience in your own words.（红部分为学生作答）
Challenges | Solutions | Feelings | |
Daily life | adaptation to a whole new life | learnt to use public transport;learnt to ask for things she didn’t know the English names for;asked for help | excited,nervous |
loneliness | lived with a host family | comforted | |
Academic requirements | writing an essay | got help from her tutor;read a lot to prepare | confused |
participating in generating ideas,offering examples,raising questions and giving presentations | gave presentation on traditional Chinese art | surprised,confident,feel at home | |
Activity 3 Understand long sentences
Read the article and work in groups to analyse the structures of the four underlined sentences.Use the following tips for help.
Understand long sentences
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