1、Information Processing in EFL Reading -Accessing and Synthesizing Book6 Unit3 Period Two: Advice from GrandadReading Teaching Design I. Teaching Content Analysis This passage which includes two parts ,the first part is a letter, the second part is an internet page ,mainly talks about grandad wrote t
2、o James to persuade him to quit smoking ,in which mainly talks about three questions : how people are addicted to smoking ;why we should quit smoking; and how we can stop smoking . The topic is familiar to the students but the whole text is hard to understand because of a lot of information and too
3、much implied information especially grandads feelings change and his love for his grandson which is scattered in the whole passage. Students are supposed to solve these three questions and form right attitude towards smoking .1. Important Points 1) Students understand and master some advanced words
4、and phrases and sentence pattern. 2) Students access and synthesize some shallow and inner information in the passage. 3) Students learn to take right attitude towards smoking.2. Difficult Points 1) Students get better understanding of grandads purpose and feeling changes. 2) Students learn to take
5、right attitude towards smoking.II. Learners AnalysisThe students are from Grade Three, Class Eight of Panan No.2 Middle School which is a key class of this school. The students have a sound foundation of English learning, active classroom atmosphere. But there is still great room for them to improve
6、: their English levels are significantly different; their ability of accessing and synthesizing information and their oral English are not excellent enough. To solve these problems, there are various activities in this period such as :prediction ,finding topic sentences and titles; filling in blanks
7、 ;summary; discussion etc. III.Teaching AimsBy the end of this lesson, students will be able to:1) Students get to comprehend the text and grasp important new words and phrases and sentence pattern: be addicted to ; tough , adolescence (adolescent ), due to , desperate , pregnant,be accustomed to ,
8、strengthen, if I were, I wouldetc.2) Students learn to access and synthesize the information of the passage, especially some implied information. 3) Students form right attitude towards smoking.IV. Teaching Procedures Step one: Greetings and Lead-in活动一: The teacher cheers the whole class up by greet
9、ing them.活动二:Lead in and prediction T: One of the mistakes we often made during our adolescence is smoking , take my brother James for example . As an adolescent, out of curiosity , he started smoking ,gradually ,he was addicted to it ,as we all know ,its easy to begin smoking ,but its tough to quit
10、 it , so he felt very desperate , when my granddad heard of it ,he wrote a letter to James ,my Granddad is a man who believes in “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything .” if you were Grandad , what would you write to James, can you predict?S1:If I were Grandad , I would writ
11、e my own experience of smoking to persuade my Grandson to give up smoking .S2: If I were Grandad , I would write some suggestions to him.S3: If I were Grandad, I would tell him some harmful effects of smoking.S4:T: Ok, lets read the letter and see if your prediction is right or not.【设计说明】:本单元的话题为健康生
12、活，而本篇课文是爷爷以写信的形式，通过自身的经历来劝说孙子-James禁烟，主要讲述了人们为什么会对吸烟上瘾；吸烟会产生什么危害，以及如何戒烟这三个问题。单元话题A healthy life笔者认为太大，所以导入部分直接以“我们年少时，经常犯的一个错误-“吸烟”为切入口，并将文中的主要人物Grandad、Granson(James)称为是自己的爷爷和弟弟，这样会吸引学生对话题的兴趣（因为学生对老师的有关事情比较感兴趣），并且以自己弟弟(James)的“怎样开始吸烟-吸烟上瘾-想戒烟”的故事配以图片来引出和让学生感知课文中的一些重点词汇如：adolescence/adolescent、curio
13、sity、be addicted to 、tough 、quit 、desperate、 granddad等。最后以if you were Grandad , what would you write to James, can you predict? 让同学们预测文本的内容，培养学生的预测能力。同时也训练本单元的重点句型（与现在事实相反，虚拟语气的表达句型）。预测之后让同学们阅读文本，以检测他们的预测是否正确，自然而然让学生进入到文本阅读阶段。Step two: Reading活动一: Please glance through the text and find out : 1 .How
14、 many parts does the reading text consist of and whats the main idea of each paragraph?2. Whats the main idea of the passage? Suggested answer: 1.There are five paragraphs: P1: -Grandads good health and the way he keeps healthy. P2:- Grandad shows his understanding of James smoking.P3:-Three differe
15、nt ways to become addicted to smoking .P4:-The harmful effects of smoking .P5:- Grandads expectation and advice.2. The main idea of the passage: Grandad wrote to James to give some advice on how to quit smoking .【设计说明】: 通过这两个问题引导同学们迅速查找每段的主题句，勾勒出文本结构,从而把握文本主题：爷爷通过分析抽烟的原因和害处来合理建议并规劝孙子戒烟。训练同学们提取字面信息，整
16、合文本内容的能力。活动二: Scanning and Careful readingQ1:How are people addicted to smoking ?Read paragraph 3,4 and fill in the blanks.【设计说明】:图表能很有效地将复杂和高难度的信息转化成视觉信息，从而降低理解的难度，帮助学生更为有效地提取信息，设计这个表格主要处理信中的第一大问题：人们为什么会对吸烟上瘾，同时训练学生提取和整合信息的能力。 （present some pictures on the screen ）T: Do you know this man ?Ss: Wen Z
17、hang , a famous young actor .T: Yes, Its reported that he smoked in a restaurant on the eighth in May, when his smoking video was broadcast , the public urged him to apologize for smoking in public ,under pressure ,he had to make an apology in his microblog . why should he apologize to the public?S1
18、: Because smoking is harmful to others .S2:Smoking in public is forbidden especially in big cities, like in Beijing .T: Yes , Can you find what are harmful effects of smoking ? Q2: Why should we quit smoking ? T: From this exercise ,we know smoking is not only harmful to smoker themselves ,but also
19、is harmful to others ,especially to our families ,we shouldnt let our families become passive or second- hand smokers .So for the people you love and the people love you , you shouldnt smoke ! 【设计说明】: 以2016年5月份著名演员文章的“吸烟门”事件作为导入，引发学生思考吸烟有什么危害,处理信中的第二大问题：吸烟会产生什么危害。表格中问题的提出，没有按照文本中的顺序，主要按照“吸烟对自己和别人分别造
20、成了什么危害”的思路让学生对文本中的信息进行重组、归类和整合提炼，以突出重点信息，简化复杂内容。很好地训练了学生的信息提取和整合能力。同时引导同学们认识到吸烟对自己和对别人都会造成危害，特别是对家人，不要让家人成为被动或二手烟的受害者，让同学们认识到：为了爱你的人，和你所爱的人，我们都不应该吸烟！T：Now that we have known harmful effects of smoking , so its time we should quit smoking , How can we stop smoking ? Can you give James some advice ? H
21、ave a short discussion : (a few minutes later ,ask some students to share their advice )S1: James can throw away the last package of cigarettes .S2: James can have some sweets when he wants to smoke .S3: He can do something else when he wants to smoke .S4:T: Here are some suggestions from the intern
22、et ,but titles are missing , I give you five minutes , please match them as quickly as possible ,go ahead.Q3： How to stop smoking【设计说明】：通过第二大问题的处理，学生已经知道吸烟的危害之大，既然已经知道其危害性，那么我们该如何戒烟呢？自然引出对文本中第三个大问题的思考。-如何戒烟。文本中对于如何戒烟这个问题是以一个网页的形式出现的，给出了几条建议。为了更好地训练学生的阅读能力和思考能力，笔者将文本中这部分的tips进行了挖空，对标题进行了“留白”处理，把它变成一个
23、相当于新高考中的“七选五”的形式。引导同学们对该部分文本信息进行高级整合，也是对同学们是否准确理解该部分文本信息的检测。首先让同学们给James提建议，有一个思考的过程，同时也练习同学们的口头表达能力；再让同学们完成“七选五”的练习，提高了阅读的有效性。Step three: Further reading 活动一: There are two clues of the passage ,one is “The clues of advice” ; the other is “The changes of Granddads feeling” , can you match them , ha
24、ve a try! 【设计说明】：文中有两条线，一条是爷爷给的建议线，另外一条是爷爷的情感变化线，这两条线梳理有点难度，为了降低难度，笔者设计成了连线配对的形式，在课堂活动中，先让学生自己思考；再相互交流，最后一起核对答案。这样有利于学生对文本主线的把握，深度推断爷爷的情感变化，提升了学生的批判性思维的能力，同时也是一种思想交流和碰撞的互动活动。活动二: Think of Grandads writing ways and the reason Q1：In which way did grandad try to persuade his grandson to give up smoking
25、? Suggested answer：From his own experience.Q2：What are advantages of using this method ?Ss：Through his own experience ,Granddad can make his advice more believable , more convincing , and he hopes his grandson quit smoking, and hopes his grandson lives as long as himself , from above we can see his
26、deep love for his grandson .【设计说明】：通过这两个问题链的设置，引导同学们思考爷爷在劝说孙子戒烟时，用了什么方式（自己的亲身经历，）以及这样做的目的，从而看出爷爷的良苦用心，和对孙子深深的爱！活动3:Video time and discussion time T: Yes , you did very well. So much for today , lets enjoy a short piece of video . （ after watching ）T: Can you tell me what you can get from the video?S
27、1:Life is precious ,we shouldnt become one of the numbers .S2:We should be not only responsible for ourselves; but also responsible for others .S3: Health is the most important , whether you want to be healthy or not is decided by yourself .S4: There are so many people who are addicted to smoking ,s
28、o we should keep away from it T: You did a very good job, from what you said just now ,Im happy to see you have developed right attitude towards smoking ,from this video , we can see:Life is precious! whether you want to become one of the numbers or not is your decision ,we should value our lives!【设
29、计说明】:播放一段英文的世界无烟日公益广告(1分20秒)-“你是否想成为数字中的一员，由你决定”，有关吸烟的危害，让同学们对吸烟的危害理解得更加深入，也是对文本主题的升华。通过“what you can get from the video?”引导同学们对吸烟形成正确的态度，真正理解文本所传递的深层含义。并且把视频中令人深思的语句，通过屏幕再次呈现给同学们，加深印象！Step four: Summary time :T: After reading granddads letter, what did he told us in this letter? lets review! 【设计说明】
30、：让学生再次回顾文本内容，其实也是一种思维导图，以便让学生对文本的框架有一个整体认知，形成语篇意识。以填空的形式，是检测学生的掌握情况，另外一方面也是检测学生对重点词汇的运用、掌握情况。Stepfive: HomeworkIf you were my brother -James , please write a letter back to Grandad . Your letter should include:1.What you have learnt from his letter.2.Whats your attitude towards smoking . Pay attenti
31、on to：in this passage you should use these words and phrases ：be addicted to ; tough , adolescence (adolescent ), due to , desperate 【设计说明】: 通过给爷爷写回信，和文本的开头形成一种呼应，同时通过让学生写出从爷爷的信中知道了什么和自己将以怎样的态度对待吸烟，并且要运用文本中的重点短语和词汇，目的是让同学们对文本进行再一次的消化、吸收，特别对相关的重要信息进行重组，很好的锻炼了同学们对信息的提取和整合能力，同时也提高了同学们的评判性思维的能力以及运用知识的能力
32、。V. Feedback The teaching design combines the two famous theories TBLT and ESA together to successfully lead the students develop their ability of accessing and synthesizing information, to cultivate their reading skill and to effectively achieve their learning aims. In this period, the teacher perf
33、orms like an instructor to lead the students to read, to think and to talk and discuss. And in this period, there are various activities such as：prediction ,finding topic sentences and titles; filling in blanks ;summary; discussion etc. which greatly inspired and activate the students to focus their attention and to involve themselves in the period.