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Teaching Plan
Teaching objectives:
By the end of the class, the students are expected to
I. know more about one essential characteristic of cats that they can survive falls;
II. have their reading comprehension enhanced through skimming and scanning and learn to integrate
reading comprehension with summary writing and speaking (in the form of debating);
III. become more aware of the necessity to protect animals’ rights and get encouraged to take more care
of them.
Teaching Important Points:
Enable students to improve their reading, speaking and writing skills on the basis of their critical
thinking.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to have the students summarize the text effectively by paraphrasing and how to get them to
cooperate well to perform a successful debate in limited time.
Teaching aids:
Multi-media and blackboard
Teaching Methods
1. Reading-to-Speaking Approach; 2. Communicative Approach (Task-based Instruction)
Teaching Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities Purposes
Step 1: Pre-reading
(5 min)
Task 1
Show students a sketch
of a cat drawn stroke
by stroke to get the
students to guess what
the animal is.
Watch the sketch on
the screen and guess
the animal.
To introduce the
topic of “cat” and
arouse their interest
in this lesson.
Task 2
Show students pictures
of cats with various
facial expressions and
some cat cartoon
characters they are
familiar with to get
them to tell some
distinctive features of
cats.
Look at the pictures
on the screen and try
to generalize the
features of cats.
To introduce the
major topic of the
lesson --- the cats
can survive falls.
Step 2: While-reading
(23 min)
Skimming
(5 min)
Play the video clip of
the text and get the
students to tell the main
idea of each of the
paragraphs by finding
the topic sentence as
well as the sentence
indicating the two
paragraphs’ relation.
Watch the video clip
and generalize the
main ideas of the
two paragraphs.
To help the students
to obtain a clear
structure of the text.
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities Purposes
Step 2: While-reading
(23 min)
Scanning
(10 min)
Have the students scan
Paragraph 1 and do the
T or F exercises. After
that, get students to
Scan Paragraph 1
and do the T or F
exercises.
To help the students
to comprehend the
details of this text.
2
generalize the major
features of cats
mentioned in the first
paragraph.
Have the students scan
Paragraph 2 and fill in
the blanks in a table
showing the basic
information about the
experiment.
Scan Paragraph 2
and fill in the blanks.
Summary
(8 min)
Review the basic
aspects of summarizing
news and give an
outline of the text on
the first column of the
slide necessary for
students to fill in the
blanks of a possible
version of the summary
on the right column.
Remind the students to
fill in the blanks by
paraphrasing.
Fill in the blanks in a
possible version of
the summary
provided by the
instructor.
To consolidate the
comprehension of
the text and the
essential
paraphrasing skills
to summarize the
texts.
Step3: Post-reading
(10 min)
A Model
Parliamentary
Debate
Have students discuss
on the issue of
experimenting on
animals and get them to
form two groups on the
sides of both the
government and the
opposition. Four
representatives from
each side should
choose their own roles
in the assembly to
deliver their views in
the debate in around
30-40 seconds per
person.
Establish their own
views on animal
testing and
eloquently deliver
their arguments.
To help students get
familiar with British
parliamentary
debating system and
what’s more
important, to further
comprehend the very
essence of the
experiment narrated
in the text: testing on
animals, thus
allowing them to
have a chance to
voice their opinions
on this issue
critically.
Step 4: Assignment
(2 min)
Write an argumentative essay about your views on experimenting on animals in around
120-150 words.
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