Unit2 language-Project教案

designing a booklet

teaching aims:

1.                   train the students’ writing, reading and speaking abilities.2. get the students to talk about writing a booklet about chinese characters.3. get the students to cooperate with others.teaching difficult point:how to help the students finish the tasks of writing and speaking.teaching methods:1. reading, talking and writing to improve students’ integrating skills.2. individual, pair work and group work to make every student take an active part in class.3. discussion to help the students cooperate.teaching aids:1. the multimedia2. the blackboardteaching procedures:step 1  greeting and lead-in show the students a picture and answer the questions.l                       can you make out any of these chinese characters?l                       do the chinese characters remain the same for thousands of years?chinese characters are always changing!

step 2  fast reading

l                       who first invented chinese writing?

cang jie.

l                       when did the chinese government introduce simplified chinese characters?

in the 1950s.

step 3  careful reading

read the passage and answer:1. how old is the chinese writing?thousands of years.2. how did cang jie invent chinese writing?cang jie saw the footprints of birds and animals in the snow and he got the idea he could use different shapes or pictures to represent objects.3. what do we call the first real chinese characters?we call them pictograghs, which mean line drawings of physical objects.4. how did the character of “mountain” develop over time? can you give any other examples?the pictograph for a mountain was originally three peaks together. then this became one peak and three lines and finally turned into the character we use today. there are some other examples such as ‘eye’, ‘sun’, and ‘moon’.

step 4  read the passage again and divide the passage into several parts, then give the main idea of each part.