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Unit 2 “Welcome Xie Lei”
Business Student Building Bridges
Learning objectives:
(1) Use reading skills to get the main idea and detailed information.
(2) Learn about Xie Lei’s experience and her feelings of learning abroad in Britain.
(3)Discuss exchange students' function as a cultural messenger in cross-culture communication.
Step 1 Lead-in: Video
1. Enjoy a short video.
2. What kind of challenges did the boy face?
Step 2 Pre-reading
Look at the title and the picture.
What do you want to know from this passage?
Step 3 While-reading
1.Read the text quickly and divide the text into 3 parts.
Part
Paragraph
Main content
Part1
brief introduction
Part2
Part3
2. Read Para.1-2 and answer questions.
(1).Who is Xie Lei? She is_____________.
(2).Where did she go? She boarded the plane for______.
(3).When did she go? _________________
(4).Why did she choose the programme? Because__________________
3. Read Para.3-7 and fill in the table.
Challenges
What Xie Lei did
Daily life
adaptation to a whole new life
learnt to use______________________
learnt to ask______________________
asked for help from_________________
Loneliness
Academic requirements
writing an essay
got help from___________
_______a lot to prepare
participating in _________
and giving________
gave an presentation on____________________
4. Scan the passage to circle the words that show Xie Lei’s feelings and why she had such feelings.
She felt excited and nervous because it was the first time that she had left China, and she didn’t know what to expect.(Para1)
She felt_________ because she ____________________________________.(Para4)
She felt_________ because she ____________________________________.(Para5)
She felt_________ because she ____________________________________.(Para6)
She felt_________ because she ____________________________________.(Para6)
She felt_________ because she ____________________________________.(Para7)
Step4 Post-reading
1. Disussion:How has Xie Lei helped to build bridges between China and the UK?
In the host family, she________________________________________________
In class, she________________________________________________________
In social activities, she________________________________________________
2. Role-play: Suppose you are a group of reporters from CCTV and you are going to interview Xie Lei about her life in the UK.
For example:
Host: Welcome to CGTV! Today we are talking about studying abroad. We are now joined by our reporter XXX, who reports on school life in the UK. Hi,XXX.
Reporter: Hello, host.
Host: In recent years, there are an increasing number of students going abroad for further study. Can you help us connect one of the exchange students to learn about her experience?
Reporter: Of course. Nice to meet you, Xie Lei. I’m the news reporter XXX from CGTV. May I ask you a few questions about your life in the UK?
Xie Lei: Sure, go ahead, please.
Reporter: How is your life in the UK? Did you meet some challenges and how could you handle them?/ How do you feel when facing challenges? / What did you do as a cultural messenger? / What else can we do to spread our Chinese culture? /...
Xie Lei: ...
Reporter: Sounds great! Thanks for your help and we wish you all the best!
Step5 Summary
Review what we have learnt from this lesson
Step6 Homework:
Suppose you are attending an exchange programme in the UK, and your classmate Jack is quite interested in Chinese culture. As a "cultural messenger", please write an email to introduce Chinese culture to him.
Self-evaluation
Things I can do
Evaluation
I can concentrate on the lesson
5
4
3
2
1
I can think actively
5
4
3
2
1
I can understand the words and expressions in this unit.
5
4
3
2
1
I can remember the related words of these words and expressions.
5
4
3
2
1
I can learn to use different reading skills and apply to reading .
5
4
3
2
1
I still need more practice in _________________(words, reading comprehension)
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