内容正文:
THE FRESHMAN CHALLENGE
Unit Title
Teenage life
Students
45 senior one students
Duration
45mins
Lesson
Reading and Thinking
Topic
The freshman challenge
Teaching philosophy
1. The whole design is based on the New English Curriculum Standards. In this lesson, the text analysis is under the certain theme of context and whole unit, and students’ English core competences which are language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality and learning ability would be taken into consideration and improved through activities.
2. This is an instructional design based on the student--centered teaching philosophy. In this lesson, in order to help students have a better understanding of this passage, the teacher will design some activities to guide and help students do team work and self-study.
Text analysis
Thematic context : People and self
Genre: self-introduction
Source of text: The teaching material of my lesson is chosen from People’s Education Press, Book 1 Unit 1, Teenage Life. And the topic is from, Reading and Thinking, The Freshman Challenge.
What: In this article, the author introduces the challenges he faced in the first week of senior high school, and his attitude towards these challenges and the solutions he found at the end.
Why: the author hopes students learn that life is always full of challenges, what we need to do is not only having positive attitude, but also finding the ways to solve them.
How: The story goes based on Adam’s experience in the first week of high school. It is developed by three lines. First, the challenges Adam faced. Second, Adam’s attitude towards these challenges. Third, the ways Adam found to solve these challenges.
Students analysis
What they have
1. My 45 students are in senior one, the first semester of senior high school. Most students have learned English for 3 years, so they have accumulated some daily vocabularies and sentences, which helps them understand this passage.
2. Meanwhile, this passage is clos