内容正文:
Reading and Thinking
Basic Information
Students
Senior high School Grade One
Duration
40 minutes
Type of the lesson
Reading and Thinking
Teaching material
Unit 3 Sports And Fitness , Senior High School English
Book 1, Published by PEP
Material analysis
Thematic context
Man and society-sportsmanship and positive attitude towards life
Text type
Narrative text
Text analysis
What: The text mainly talks about these two athletes’ hardships and achievements during their sports career. After reading the text, students will be able to appreciate the merits of the athletes and build up their confidence as well as persistence when facing the difficulties.
Why: The text in this lesson is talking about sportsmanship by introducing two famous athletes - Lang Ping and Michael Jordan. In the text, students are guided to find the detail information and the main idea of the text and finally learn some reading skills. Students can learn from their achievements in sports area, knowing how they act in the field of sports and learning from their deeds. In this way, students will be able to know how to be persistent and brave in daily life when faced with difficulties.
How:The text introduces the two athletes’ achievements first and makes students have a overall expression about the athletes. And then it shows the difficulties and solutions on their way to success.
Learner analysis
1. Linguistic achievements:
Since the students have learned how to invite a friend to a sports event in the last lesson, they have known a lot of sports events and related words and expressions. However, as freshmen, students don’t know how to read the passage logically and get the main idea quickly. The teacher should guide them as a scaffolding to grasp the main idea as well as catch the detail information. In this lesson, they are able to have a further reading about famous stars and learn the following reading strategies: making prediction, summarizing the whole text by using tabl