Unit 3 Traditional skills
Period 2 Reading 1
Ⅰ Learning Targets
Knowledge Target
知识目标
Understand the general idea of the text. 读懂课文大意。
Get familiar with expressions about cormorant fishing.
熟悉与鸬鹚捕鱼相关的表达。
Ability Target
能力目标
Practice skimming and scanning skills. 练习快速阅读技能。Improve reading and comprehensive ability.
提高朗读与理解能力
Emotion Target
情感目标
Cooperate with partners.
学会合作。
ⅡLearning Strategies
(1) Self-study (2) Group cooperation (3) Group competition
III Learning Procedures
Activity 1: Before reading.
Finish exercise A1 &A2 on P34. Then watch a piece of video clip about cormorant fishing.
Activity 2: While reading.
Read paragraph 1 and 2 while listening to the tape . Let’s learn something about Wang Damin and his cormorants.
1. What is Wang Damin?
2. How old is he?
3. What do cormorants look like?
4. What does Wang Damin use cormorant to do?
5. Why cormorant are good at catching fish?
6. How long do cormorants stay under the water?
Read paragraph 3 while listeningto the tape .Let’s learn what the cormorant fishing is.
Read paragraph 3 and decide the following sentences are True or False.
( )1. Damin ties a piece of grass around the cormorants’ necks.
( )2. Damin catch fish with nets and a fishing rod.
( )3. Damin sets off to work on his boat in the early morning.
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( )4.After dark, Damin lights a candle on a post at the front of the boat.
Read paragraph 4 while listening to the tape . Then let’s have a discussion about the future of this type of traditional work.
1.Where was the cormorant fishing practised ?
2.Are young people interested in doing this type of work today?
These sentences are about the article on page 35. Each sentence has one incorrect word or number in it. Underline the mistake and write the correct word or number in each blank.
Activity 3: After reading.
Group discussion: In 50 years, perhaps there will be no more cormorant fishermen in the world. Do you agree or not? What jobs do most young people choose to do today? Discuss with your partners.
Activity 4: Read after the tape, and try to imitate the pronunciation and intonation.
跟读录音,模仿语音语调.
Activity 5: Read the text to the teacher or the group leader.( Level A & B) .
Level A students try to recite the story in class.
到老师或组长处过关朗读. A层同学尽量在课堂上背诵课文.
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