内容正文:
Continuation Writing
My Experiences with Computer Games
Teaching Design
南昌市实验中学 董旋Sara
I. Teaching Objectives
By the end of the class, students will be able to:
1. know that a narration generally consists of 5 parts (beginning, rising action, climax, falling action and ending) and the content of each part by analyzing the story mountain;
2. predict the continuing events by inferring from the given sentences;
3. design reasonable plots based on the relationship of actions and results;
4. realize that one should have self-control as for playing computer games by discussing the theme of the story.
II. Teaching Process
1. Lead-in
T shows the pictures of some popular computer games to arouse students’ interest and to introduce the topic of the passage.
2. Reading
(1) Reading for basic information
Skim the passage and answer the questions.
What is the writing style of the passage?
The passage is written in the order of _______.
What’s the main idea of the passage?
The step aims to help students to grasp the main feature of narration and have a whole picture of the passage.
(2) Reading for the main character
Students fill in the blank and find out the actions of the main character and the results of the actions.
The step aims to help students to figure out what problem the author came across and students can understand that certain actions lead to relevant results.
(3) Reading for plots
T leads Ss to learn about the story mountain and the main sequential events of a story. Ss match the events of this passage to have a clear picture of the plots.
3. Preparation for writing
Predicting the plot next
T guides Ss to infer the development from the given sentences.
This step helps Ss to brainstorm the plot next. And Ss should know that everything happens for a reason and they need to think hard to make up a logical and reasonable part of the story.
4. Writing
Ss write the continuation paragraph one based on the previous discussion.
5. Assessment
Ss share their writing and asses