Period 3：Reading, Speaking &Writing Task
一、教学目标
1. 语言知识目标
1)学生能够正确读写及运用以下单词：
catalogue; donate; voluntary; purchase; anniversary; seed; sew; ox; trunk; tractor; Kenya; click; tailor; political; distribute; distribution; security; operate; clinic
2)学生掌握下列词组的意思并能在句子中熟练运用：
in need; sewing machine; trunk library; choose from
2. 语言技能目标
1)强化略读、查读等阅读微技能，训练通过寻找关键词等方式更快速并准确地确定文章的大意，理清文章的总体框架与脉络的技能。
2)继续运用已经掌握的基本猜词技巧猜测文章中的部分单词。
3)根据提纲，快速构思完成英语习作的技能。
3. 语言能力目标
增强阅读理解能力和书面表达能力。
4．情感态度与文化意识目标：
1）帮助学生理解志愿者工作的意义，培养学生在日常生活中帮助他人、扶贫救困的爱心。
2）在小组合作互动中，增强学生的团队合作精神与分享意识。
二、重点难点
1. 教学重点：阅读能力、写作能力的培养和提高
2. 教学难点：训练用英语获取信息、处理信息、分析问题和解决问题的能力; 用英语说明自己学习生活情况的能力
三、教学准备
1．学生的学习准备：熟读本单元的单词词组，想一想如何用英语向别人介绍自己的情况
2．教师的教学准备：查找“希望工程”的相关信息
3．教学用具的设计和准备：制作与课文相关的多媒体课件。
四、教学过程
Step 1 Pre-reading
Several questions: 1. What can we do for the children in poor areas or countries?
2. Have you ever tried to send a gift or something to the children in poor areas or countries? How can you send the gift to them?
Now let’s read the passage”The World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue”
[设计说明] 通过几个问题直接引入要学习的内容。由于第一篇课文介绍志愿者在巴布亚新几内亚共和国部落教书的经历，所以提问What can we do for the children in poor areas or countries?学生可能会回答：teach the children，也可能会出现这样的答案，如：send some clothes/some money/some gifts to them.这样教师可以顺利地进入下面的问题：How can you send the gift to them?随后进入课文的阅读。
Step 2 Reading and speaking
1. Read the passage and answer the following questions:
1)What’s the passage about? (How to send a gift to those who need them.)
2)Where is the list of the gifts? (It is on the left side of the page.)
3)What’s the purpose of the Internet page? (Let people give an unusual gift to the poor.)
4)In the Internet Page, there’s a card on the right.How can you get it?
(When you choose from the catalogue a gift for some of the world’s poorest.)
5)What occasions(场合)can you use the cards for?
(Weddings, births, birthdays, Christmas or anniversaries,etc..)
6)In what kind of order are the gifts listed? (In order of price.)
2. On the Internet page, when you click on each gift, you get a description of that gift. In pairs, write the correct gift(A to U)from the Internet page next to each description below.
1) This gift allows a woman who is a trained tailor to make some income,giving her and her family a better future.(India, Tanzania, Kenya)
2)This gift gives a person the opportunity to acquire basic reading and writing, and life skills. Adults develop the confidence to partcipate in the social, economic and political lives of their communities. (Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Uganda)
3)This gift covers the cost of production and distribution of seedling, as well as training in tree care for the local villagers who are working hard to prevent their land from turning into desert. (Kenya, Tanzania, India)
4)This gift buys a goat. A goat gives milk and is a valuable income. Goats increase in mumber quickly and add much to a family’s food and financial security. They are easy and fun for children to care for. (Nepal, India, Uganda)
5) This gift covers the cost of exercise books and textbooks for community primary schools that operate in poor or remote villages. (Southern Sudan)
6) This gift gives a child a good start in life. Community schools provide good quality education for children who would otherwise have no opportunity to attend school. (Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda)
(Key: 1.N 2.G 3.A 4.J 5.F 6.I)
[设计说明]作为语言运用部分的阅读文章，“世界上最有用的礼物清单”通过图文结合的方式，介绍了一些特殊的礼品，阅读难度不大。所以只设计了两个练习来帮助学生理解课文内容。第一个练习是学生快速阅读后回答问题，第二个练习是仔细阅读后找出合适的捐赠项目。之后，可以简单提提文中出现的短语：in need, choose from，及两个名词短语sewing machine, trunk library。
Step 3 Writing (p75 in Workbook)
1. Introduce some information about Hope Project
T: In fact, not only in PNG, India, Kenya, but also in China, many children in poor areas still need help. Their parents have no money to afford to keep them at school,although they are so dying for school. In some areas, the classroom are badly-equipped.(Show some pictures to the Ss and then introduce Hope Project.)
2. Shanshan is a 11-year-old girl from Gansu Province whose family cannot afford to keep her at school. You have just decided to sponsor(资助) her. Shanshan loves practising English. Write a short letter to her in English. The following points should be included in your letter.
A writing sample:
Hello Shanshan,
My name is Steve and I’m really pleased that I can help you stay at school.I’ve heard that you love practising English so I’m also practising my English in this letter.
Let me tell you a bit about myself.I’m 16 years old and I go to No.2 Middle School in Bejing. My favourite subjects at school are maths and science. I have a great group of friends that I play soccer with every lunchtime. In my spare time I like going to the movies and reading.
I live with my mum and dad in an apartment on the 15th floor. I have two sets of grandparents. My mum’s parents live far away in Shandong, but I see my othere grandparents often as they live near us.
I’d live to get a letter from you and to learn about your life in Gansu.
Yours sincerely,
Yang Xiaoping
[设计说明] 由捐助说到了中国农村很多孩子因贫困无法上学，介绍”希望工程”，再过渡到如果你捐助了一个学生，给她写封信，介绍你自己的学习和生活情况。信的提纲已经给出，这便于学生快速构思，有助于学生在课堂上规定的时间内完成习作。如果时间不够，学生仅仅完成初稿，可以把修改和誊抄的工作作为家庭作业布置下去。