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Teaching Plan
Background
Information
Teaching material: Unit 6 When was it invented? from Ninth-grade English book, by People’s Education Press (2013)
Students: Middle school students, Grade 9
Lesson duration: 45 mins
Lesson type: Reading
Analysis of the teaching material
This unit is about the inventions. This passage mainly introduces the invention-tea as one of the most popular drink in the world. An Accidental Invention talks about how tea was invented by accident, Lu Yu and his book Cha Jing and how tea spread to other countries. An Accidental Invention is an interesting exposition and a logical passage with a few new words and phrases. The grammar focuses on the passive voice in simple past tense.
Analysis of the students
Students are in Grade 9. They are familiar with the topic – tea and are interested in reading stories, which make the lesson easy to approach. What’s more, students have already learned the vocabulary of this unit in the last lesson. Also, they have learned some reading strategies, such as using skimming to get the main idea of the passage and scanning to extract some specific information. More importantly, they are active in speaking and discussing activities.
Teaching Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to
1) find out the main idea of the passage and topic sentences in each paragraph;
2) extract key words which describe how tea was discovered and write out the base form, past form and past participle of the verbs and induce the sentence structure;
3) list the content of Cha Jing in pairs;
4) sum up countries and time of tea spreading in a chart in groups;
5) retell tea in three aspects according to the mind map.
Key Points
sum up countries and time of tea spreading in a chart in groups;
Difficult Points
retell tea in three aspects according to the mind map.
Teaching Aids
PPT, chalk, blackboard and multimedia-devices.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1
Lead-in
(4mins)
Show some pictures of drinks: