a city is dying 教案

NAME: 黄凌娟 (20006385)

Lesson Plan

Unit 5 A City is Dying

Participants: Freshmen of English major Time: a total of 4 contact hours.

Aims: though analyzing the passage, learn words, expressions, and how to write an

argumentation

Content: A City is Dying.

Skills: listening, analyzing, word-contact, passage writing, Procedures Teacher’s role I. Introductory Remark

Omitted Total time: 5 minutes Students think

individually and feed II. Warming-up

back. 1.explain the word “Athens” in Chinese ---雅典

2.what’s your association with the word “Athens”? Teacher’s remark: yes, -----a capital of Greece we will never associate -----2004 Olympic Games will hold there “the dying city ” with -----a city of arts this city of art -----full of Greek mythos

Total time: 10 Ⅲ pre-reading

1 look at the title “A City is Dying”, do you feel fresh when the first time minutes of your glancing? 2 describing something with the “dying ” ------the person, patient in particular, the animal 3. Introduce background of “Athens” “Pericles” “Parthenon” “Acropolics” and “Greece” ------seeing powerpoint

Total time:25 minutes Ⅳ while-reading

1.Now look at the passage and skimming the whole text in 5 minutes. and answer the following questions: Sts read through the

text in five minutes and ? which city :______________

what happened:____________ report back in class reasons of that:_____________ another 5minutes solution:__________________

?the topic of each sentences

para 1:_____________________ para 2:_____________________ para 3:_____________________ para 4:_____________________

Content

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2. detail reading

Para 1

The scene of “Athens”

?How about the deteriorating (worsen) situation in “Athens” at rush hour?

------stinking bus ,crowded streets, horns, smog ?comparative studying:

what do you know about the scene in ChongQing?

------ the same situation: stinking bus ,crowded streets, horns, smog ?. explain “sulfur dioxide” -----a toxic gas

----- A colorless, extremely irritating gas or liquid, SO2, used in many industrial processes, especially the manufacture of sulfuric acid. Para 2

Great population

?pay attention to the change of population in “Athens”. -----120,000 people from outlying provinces -----40% of citizenry -----6.5 million by 2000 Para 3

Noise and pollution

? the first sentence: transitional sentences ? writing skills used -----examples -----figures

-----enumeration Para 4

solutions proposed and result ?Solutions proposed: ① a committee of representatives----discussing a plan to

unclog the city

② ③

Sts read the paragraph one by one closely and answer the questions:

The last 5 minutes used to summarize what we learn and the structure of the whole passages Question: how the author organize the

a save-Athens ministry----proposing heavy tax to whole passage? discourage in-migration ask students to answer a master plan----moving many government officers to next class. city’s fringes

? result

the city id suffocating due to 3 factors -----more Greeks into Athens -----few parks

----few plants producing oxygen

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Another 2 contact hours Ⅴ post-reading ? check the task

?the stylistic feature of the passage----- exposition ?how to write an argumentation

Time: about 25 minutes The form structure of writing an exposition following:

Part 1 Topic: the issue to be commenced

Thesis: my attitudes towards it

Part 2 Thesis: (more specific)

Either can be Details: reasons important factor Part 3 Transition These 10 words should

Thesis: (more specific) be grasped and used

Details: reasons flexibly

Part 4 Conclusion (solutions proposed) Enlarging students’ word with these words Ⅵ homework (about 20 minute) ?word contact Demolish: To damage Find a suitable word from the text on the following items. (someone's reputation, ① To surround and shut in; enclose: ( hem ) for example) severely. ② To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. Cram: ① To eat

( cram ) quickly and greedily

③ To tear down completely; raze or to do away with completely; put ② To prepare an end to. ( demolish ) (students) hastily for

④ To come up against; encounter: ( confront ) an impending ⑤ To clear a blockage from (a drain, for example). (unclog) examination.

⑥ One that moves from one region to another by chance, instinct, or Function: ① A plan. ( Migrant ) specific occupation or

comparison: emigrant n.移居外国者, 移民 e--out role

immigrant n (自国外移入的)移民 im --in ②An official ceremony

⑦ The action for which one is particularly fitted or employed. or a formal social ( function ) occasion. ⑧ To put forward for consideration, discussion, or adoption; suggest Propose: ①To offer (a ( propose ) toast to be drunk)

⑨ To feel discomfort from lack of fresh air ( suffocate ) To make known as ②⑩ A region remote from urban areas; backcountry. ( hinterland) one's intention; ? write an exposition after class on the above topic “on Purpose or intend: pollution control” at least 150 words. The passage should especially of marriage

analyze the reason and propose the solution. The passage should be hand out a week later.

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