内容正文:
Reading For Writing
Basic Information
Students
Senior High School Grade One
Duration
40 minutes
Type of the lesson
Reading For Writing
Teaching material
Unit 3 Sports And Fitness , Senior High School English
Book 1, Published by PEP
Material analysis
Thematic context
Man and society- live a healthy and positive life
Text type
Narration
Text analysis
What: This article describes Kayla's physical and mental transformation before and after fitness. This lesson explores the relationship between sports and people's lives from the perspective of health. Students are required to understand the correct attitude towards fitness and write a passage to explain their own changes.
Why: The narration aims to guide students to develop correct healthy values and fitness methods, and understand that a healthy life includes not only physical health but also mental health. In this way, students are reminded to pay attention to all aspects of their health and develop a holistic concept of wellness.
How: The structure of the text is clear and simple: the first paragraph describes the past problems and concerns; The second paragraph describes the way she did to change her mind; The third paragraph describes what did she got after changing her thinking. The article adopts the method of comparison and contrast: comparing the past and the present. Also this is an easy rhetorical device that students can use in their writing.
Learner analysis
Most students have a basic vocabulary on health topics, but they are not able to write passage by using comparison and contrast. They have known many sports events in listening and speaking, and learned how to do when facing difficulties in reading and thinking, such as never give up. In this class, students are able to imitate the rhetorical device -- comparison and contrast-- and the structure: What did Kayla did in the past? How did she change her mind? What did she got at the present? In this case, students are able to wri