Unit 5 Parents and Children Text A “A Time for Memories”教案.doc

Lesson plan -For Book 1 Unit 5 Parents and Children Text A “A Time for Memories” Textbook: Zooming In: An Integrated English Course (Book 1), by Qin Xiubai, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education PressTeacher:Text: Unit 5 Text A “A Time for Memories”Students: freshmen, non-English majorsTime: 3 periods (120mins)Teaching aid: computer and blackboardI. Students autonomous learning before class:1. Think about the questions in the section of Get Started. Students are at the beginning of their college study and their English proficiency is not very good. If they think about these questions before class, they will have something to say easily when they are asked about relevant topics during the class.2. Learn the new words in advance. II. Analysis of the textbook:Zooming In: An Integrated English Course (Book 1), published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, is a new college English textbook targeting at non-English majors. It aims to train freshmens integrated skills and autonomous learning ability. The book consists of 8 theme-based units. Classroom teaching focuses on Text A and students are expected to read Text B and finish all the tasks on their own with the help of the learners CD. It is strongly suggested that students autonomous learning ability should be developed by classroom activities, such as pair work and group work, and online supervision, conferencing as well as face-to-face tutorials. III. Analysis of the Text A: Text A is a narrative piece of writing about the unforgettable time between mother and children. The article firstly presents the past fond memories between the author and her mother under a pine tree in a park nearby. And then it moves to the stories between the author and her sons. By stories between two generations, the author tells us that love and memory will never “die”. Mothers love is common and great. Therefore, students will have a new and deep understanding about mothers love by understanding the whole text. IV. Teaching approach: The integration of communicative and task-based teaching approach. V. Teaching objectives for Text A: By the end of the classes about this unit, students will be able to:(Knowledge objective) 1. grasp and know some useful words and expressions. 2. make clear the writers purpose to write the text and the ideas about the relationship between mother and children.(Affective objective) 3. feel and understand the special love between mother and children.4. know that love and memory will never “die” even people die.(Competence objective) 5. talk about and write their relationship with their parents with useful expressions.6. acquire the reading skill. 7. retell the story.V. Key and difficult points: 1. Grasp the information of the text and understand it. 2. Be able to apply the useful expressions to talk about or write parents and their love.VI. Teaching procedures: 1. Reading (40mins)1) Pre-reading activities (6mins) Task1: Appreciation of two family photos Task2: Discussion: Please talk about your parents and their love? 2) While-reading activities (28mins)Task 1: The first reading (skimming, 8mins)Read the text quickly and finish the table on Page 155. While reading, please underline the unknown words or expressions.PartParagraph(s) Main IdeaOne 18The writer recalls the days when she and her mother would meet and chat about life under a pine tree in the park nearby, and it was there that she learned that her mother was dying of heart disease. Two913After the writers mother died, the writer still brought her sons to the same spot which brought back fond memories of her mother. Such visits and gatherings under the tree had created a close bond between her and her sons.Task 2: The second reading (scanning, 20 mins)Step 1: Questions and answers (17 mins)Questions in Part I for detailed understanding: 1. Where was the writer at the beginning of the story? 2. What did the writer and her mother usually talk about under the pine tree in recent years? 3. What was the mothers response when the writer told her she was getting married? 4. What did the writer compare the growth of the pine tree to? 5. What did the writer get to know about her mother that afternoon? What did the writer and her mother do that day?Answers: 1. She was in a park, sitting on an old blanket under a pine tree. 2. They usually talked about life. However, sometimes they also recalled events that happened when the writer was a child, such as her first time dating and her senior prom. 3. Her mother cried on hearing the news, but with tears of joy. 4. The growth of the pine trees was compared to the growing closeness between the writer and her mother and their deepening love for each other. 5. She knew that her mother was dying of heart disease and there was not any solution to this problem. The writer and her mother cried, held each other and wished for more time together. Questions in Part II for detailed understanding:1. What happened to the mother after that day?2. Who did the writer bring to the same spot in the park? What did they talk about there? 3. What did the writers oldest son do one day? 4. What was the writers response at the news?Answers: 1. She died soon after that day. 2. The writer brought her sons there and they talked about family picnics, gatherings and her mother, who died before the boys were born. She also told them the funny things when they were small and praised them for what they had done well. 3. He wanted to meet his mother in the park and told her the news that he was getting married soon. 4. She cried tears of joy, hugged him and told him that she was proud he had grown up.Step 2: Finish the exercise Task Two on page 155. (3mins)1. Recently, the family had picnics and gatherings quite often under the pine tree in the park. 2. When the writer told her mother that she was going to get married, her mother felt very sad. 3. The deepening love and close relationship between the writer and the mother grew with the pine tree. 4. The daughter guessed that her mother was dying before her mother told her the truth 5. The writers sons came to the pine tree often after their grandmother died because their grandmother used to take them there. 6. The writer occasionally visited the pine tree after her mothers death because she missed her mother. Answers: FFTTFF3) Post-reading (6mins) Task 1: Story retellingTask 2: Discussion: How do you feel about the love in the text?2. Grammar points (65mins) (略) Task 1: Useful words and phrases Task 2: Sentences paraphrase Task3: Checking some exercises on page 167-17