高中英语 Unit 17 Communication Workshop教案 北师大版选修6

Communication WorkshopTeaching Aim:Learn to use the linking words to make a anecdote more compact.Learn to paraphrase words and phrases in the passage.Stage 1 backgroundIntroduce the main plots of Gullivers Travels(格列佛游记)，this may be helpful for the students to fill in the blanks with proper linking words.“Gullivers Travels” is written by Irish writer Jonathan Swift.Jonathan Swift : Irish author and journalist, the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Swifts best known work is Gullivers Travels (1726).Lilliput: 小人国Pictures of NovelGullivers TravelsStage 2 thinkingThink about how the writer:Attracts the attention of the reader.Shows the order of events.Shares feelings with the reader.Use vivid language to make the writing more interestingStage 3 analyzingLearn the writing skills in the third draft by comparing each other in detailStage 4 applyingFinish exercise 3Stage 5 WritingWrite a personal anecdote: example Stage 1 Decide which situation you are going to write about. You may need some imaginations. Here are some suggestions. 1 a day when everything went wrong 2 a disastrous school outing 3 a terrible night out think about the other people who were involved. Were they funny, tough, nervous? Stage 2 Draw a timeline and write notes about the main events. Stage 3 Divide your notes into four or five paragraphs. Stage 4 Write your story in sentences. Stage 5 Check your story for mistakes.Math Anxiety PersonifiedI had a friend who was Math anxiety personified. She did not take high school math, and was convinced that she was not mathematically inclined, as are most women in our culture.Intimidated by a certain administrator who spouted impressive sounding stats all the time at meetings , and we used to back off and give in. Eventually other evidence convinced us that said individual was a certified idiot. So, my math anxious friend sat down and went through this clowns report one night, math text in one hand, report in other and found about 12 errors in first page.At next meeting, she called him on it, and we win our first battle with this idiot. From then on we won all our battles with him and my friend said, You know, this math stuff is really hard, except for these few things I had to read to nail this clown. That stuff was all pretty straight forward.To make a long story short, she is currently finishing her Ph.D. in statistics. Moral of this story is, if you dont let yourself be intimidated - and if you can just add, subtract, multiply and divide - you can do 90% of th