内容正文:
THE WELL THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Unit Title
Making a difference
Students
45 senior two students
Duration
45mins
Lesson
Understanding ideas
Topic
The well that changed the world
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 to cultivate their critical and creative thinking.
Text analysis
Thematic context : human and society
Genre: narration
Source of text: The teaching material of my lesson is chosen from 2019 Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Book 3 Unit 2, Making a difference. And the topic is from, Understanding ideas, The well that changed the world.
What: In this article, the author introduces Ryan’s story of building wells in Africa and encouraging more and more people to join him in helping make the world a better place.
Why: the author hopes students learn that as long as you have the awareness of helping others and put it into practice, you will make a difference.
How: The story goes based on Ryan’s life experience. It is developed by three lines to show how Ryan helps others and makes a difference. First, Ryan’s awareness and behavior of building wells to help people in Africa. Second, people in Africa have benefited from Ryan’s help. Third, more and more people are inspired by Ryan’s behavior to help people in Africa.
Students analysis
What they have
My 45 students are in senior two, the second year of senior high school. Actually, most