内容正文:
TEEN FAINTS AFTER SKIPPING MEALS
Students
45 students
Topic
Teen faints after skipping meals
Lesson
reading
Duration
45mins
Teaching philosophy
1. The whole design is based on the New English Curriculum Standards. In this lesson. 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. Student--centered teaching philosophy are also included in this instructional design. 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 : human and self
Genre: a news report
Source of text: The text is a news reports selected from the Book 1 of the Compulsory English published by the Yilin Press.
What: The news report is about a teenage girl fainted in her class because she skipped meals to lose weight, which reveals a common phenomenon that many teenagers of both sexes have unhealthy weight-loss habits. And heath experts are making some efforts to solve it.
Why: the author hopes students understand that being healthy is being beautiful, and teenagers need to choose healthy ways to become beautiful.
How: the news report goes based on Jennifer’s story of losing weight which reveals the social phenomenon that in our society, most people think being beautiful is being thin. However, health experts suggest that teenagers should choose healthy ways to become beautiful.
Students analysis
What they have
My 45 students are in senior one, the first year of senior high school. Actually, most students have mastered some reading strategies, like scanning, skimming, so they are able to find specific information in the text. And in the last class, they have learned some new words, like faints, extreme, slim down and so on. Of course, this topic is about losing weight, it is c