Lesson 86

Unit 22 A tale of two cities

SEFC BOOK 2B

Longjiang High School Lv Mingxiang

Part 1: Teaching material

1. Content

The teaching material which I am going to talk about is Lesson 86, the second lesson in Unit 22,SEFC Book 2B. It is also the first lesson of the reading material in this unit.

2. Status and functions

The purpose of the senior high school English teaching and learning is to develop the students’ basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing; to cultivate the students’ communicative abilities both in spoken and written English. Reading ability is the most important one of them. The passage in Lesson 86 is a reading material. We can make good use of it to cultivate the students’ reading ability. Meanwhile, this is the second time for senior high school students to read the novel, students can also learn something about the culture, history and custom about the English-speaking countries. This is very helpful in their comprehension and expression in English in future. So this lesson is very important in this unit. It is also important in the whole book.

3. Teaching aims and demands

1). Knowledge objects

a. To master the uses of some four-skill words and expressions, such as disturb, fortune, deed, arrival, attend, suffer, let… in, in peace, fall in love, make sure of, etc.

b. Revise the Past Perfect Tense and its Passive Voice.

Learn the structure of the ---ing form used as the attribute and adverbial.

2). Ability objects

a. Continue to cultivate the students’ ability of previewing the text and using the dictionary.

b. Teach the students how to find out the chronological order of the events in the passage and how to make clear of the relationship between the characters in it.

c. Stimulate the students to solve the problems through discussion in small groups.

3). Moral objects

Language is the carrier of culture. It has close relation to culture. In teaching foreign languages, we should help the students to originate their good moral characters. After reading this lesson, they will learn to be selfless, to be as good as one's word, to rise above self.

4. Important and difficult points

Important point: The structure of the ---ing form used as the attribute and adverbial.

Difficult point: How to find out the chronological order of the events in the passage and how to make clear of the relationship between the characters in the passage.

Part 2: Teaching method

The principles of choosing the method:

1. Students are the masters of the study. So they must be the masters of the class. In choosing the teaching method, we must pay special attention to the principle that students are always the center of the study. Teachers are just the directors, like the coach in a sports team.

2. According to the outline of English teaching and learning, written communicative ability includes two aspects: one is reading, the other is writing. Reading is the input in learning, while writing is the output. Satisfying output needs enough input.

3. Cooperation is very important both in school and out of school. We should give the students chances to learn how to cooperate in their learning. That will be very useful in the future when they leave school.

Because of the three principles mentioned above, I will have the students do the most work in class. I’ll ask them to deal with the passage as the whole. What’s more, I’ll stimulate them to turn to their classmates to solve the problems they encounter in reading.

Part 3: Learning method

Language is not only knowledge, but also a skill. Skills can only be grasped through practice. Practice makes perfect. Reading skills can only be gained by reading a lot. In this lesson I’ll help the students to develop the following skills:

1. How to preview the text, especially how to use the dictionary.

2. How to make clear of the chronological order of the events which happen in the passage.

3. How to find out the relationship between the characters that appear in the passage.

Part 4: Teaching Procedure

Step1: Revision

In this step, I’ll ask the students some questions about the dialogue in Lesson 85. Then I’ll ask two pairs to act out the dialogue without their books.

Step2: Presentation

Give the students a brief introduction to the author Charles Dickens and briefly introduce the story in this unit.

Step 3: Listening

Listen to the tape and answer two questions to get the general idea of the passage.

Step 4: Reading

1.Scanning: Read the passage quickly to find the answer to the question: How many characters are mentioned in the story?

2.Fast reading: Read the story again and answer the questions in Ex. 1 on Page119. Then take notes in Part 3 on Page 57. Check the answers in pairs first, then with the whole class.

3.Intensive reading: Read the passage again. In groups, try to put the events in Part 4 in correct order. Check the answers with the class.

Step 5: Language points

Explain some difficult language points in the text.

1. They had come from England, having heard the news that Dr, Manette, ….

2. … having been kept a prisoner in the Bastille, …

3. make sure of / that

4.come to

Step 6: Summary

Step 7: Homework

Do Ex. 2 after class.

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