内容正文:
The Age of Majority
Teaching material analysis:
1. Before reading activity of the section “Understanding ideas” makes students know the legal ages that are allowed to do different things in China. Activate students' existing knowledge of legal ages.
2. While reading activity of the section “Understanding ideas” test the students' ability of understanding the title of the text and the ability to extract information.
3. Post-reading activity of the section “Understanding ideas” inspire students to think deeply, understand the content of the text, and actively explore the meaning of the theme through judging the main idea, understanding the details and answering open questions.
Teaching objectives & Core Competencies and Values for students:
1. Lead students obtain the main information of the text, accurately understand the meaning of the title according to the text. Let students choose another suitable title for the text by reading the text.
2. Let students accurately obtain the key information. Let students learn how to tell facts from opinions. Let students further understand the text.
3. Let students realize the significance and responsibility of adulthood. Let students think how to improve themselves and establish a correct outlook on life and a positive attitude toward life.
Teaching key points:
1. Lead the students to understand the text and obtain the key information. Let students learn how to tell facts from opinions, grasp the understanding to adulthood of three students and how they position adulthood.
Teaching difficult points :
Lead the students to understand the meaning and responsibility of adulthood, deepen the understanding and thinking of the meaning of the theme.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Warming up
1. Guessing game.
2. Are you looking forward to be an adult? and why?
3. What else can you do at 18 in China?
Step 2 Skimming the passage
1. Where can you possibly read for a text like this?
2. What’s the genre of this passage?
A. column B. no