things I wish I’d known revised教案

teaching plan
teaching content: things i wish i’d known when i was young
teaching aims:
1. get the students to learn some “philosophy of life” with different reading skills.
2. raise students’ awareness of positively facing life and hardships and meanwhile develop their ability of solving problems.
3. enable students to taste the difference between western and chinese beliefs and encourage students to identify and absorb.
4. learn the importance of cooperating and sharing.
teaching procedure:
1. pre-reading
enjoy a song together with the students. ask the ss to understand the lyrics.
this song mainly tells the singer is regretting what has been done before. therefore, this part is aimed to ease the students and bring in the topic of the class as well.
2. while-reading
①help the students to get the main idea of the passage by reading the title and the first two paragraphs.
the main idea is that we wish we had known things when we were younger so that we could have lived a better life.
this step mainly aims at developing ss’ ability of skimming.
② encourage ss to predict what will follow.
the following is some of the author’s tips shared with readers.
this step is designed to train ss’ skill of predicting in a context.
③ ask ss to do a careful reading and information sharing.
1)ss will be given 2 to 3 minutes to read the following tips. ask the ss to match the tips and explanations.
2)teacher gives some pictures or videos to help ss understand some difficult tips or ask them to understand and illustrate by applying relevant tips.
  pictures of conflicts and wars ----tip 2
  pictures of fashion ---tip 4 & tip 8
  video 1---tip 5
  video 2---students give their various answers
    this part is aimed to enhance ss’ ability of information-sorting. when checking ss’ understanding of the information, ss will learn to observe and solve problems independently.
3. post-reading
① (pair work) get the ss to share which tip impresses them most and offer reasons.
this part intends to further ss’understanding of the tips and teach them to share.
② ask ss to find out the author’s different beliefs from common ones.
this part is designed to help ss understand difficulty in the passage.
③ introduce the author
this step aims to give ss information source of the writer.
④ (group work) ask ss to create their own life philosophy and share.
this step highlights ss’ awareness of positively facing life and develop ss’ ability of cooperating.