Unit 8 I’ll help clean up the city parks．

the 7th period
reading: no problem!
ⅰ. teaching aims and demands
1. knowledge objects
（1） key vocabulary
solve, complain, your concern, trust, wheelchair, brilliant and so on.
（2） text
2. ability objects
train students’ ability of identify main idea.
train students’ ability of understanding words in context.
train students’ ability of reading for special information.
3. moral object
help your family and friends to solve the life’s big or small problems with the ways you have learnt.
ⅱ. teaching key points
1. key vocabulary.
2. read the text to identify main idea.
3. read the text to understand words in context.
4. read the text for special information.
ⅲ. teaching difficult points
1. train students’ reading skill.
2. train students’ writing skill.
ⅳ. teaching procedures
step ⅰ part 1
call the students’ attention to the title of the article.
tell me the title of the article, please.
yes, it’s no problem. what do you think the article is about based on the title?
ask one or two to tell what they think of based on the title.
then ask the students to look at the picture on this page. say, look at the picture, please. what can you see in it?
what is happening?
ask one student to answer the questions.
choose one student to tell his own answer.
then tell the students to discuss the questions with their partners.
tell them to give their own answers and not to read the article.
as they discuss, walk around the room looking at their progress. once most students are finished, ask several pairs to report their results to the class. let the whole class compare their answers.
step ⅱ part 2
ask one student to read the instructions to the class. make sure that all the children know what to do.
call the students’ attention to the chart.
have the students read the four headings together. then tell them to see the example answer in the column of explanation.
say, now please read the article quickly and note to catch the main idea of each part. fill in the forms with complete sentences like the example given.
ask the students to complete the task individually. more around the classroom while they are reading and writing, checking their progress and trying to find out what are difficult for them. after they all finish filling in the blanks, have some students to report their answers to the class.
the answers can vary, but they have to express the main idea with correct complete sentences.
let the other students decide whether their answers are right or wrong and help correct the mistakes they may make.