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Teaching Material:
Unit 3 More Reading ‘Learn to care for plants’ Oxford English
Material Analysis
The text is a brief introduction of three plants which can be used to decorate our home in spring, i.e. common white jasmine, the Yulan magnolia and the golden
ball cactus. As most students in my class live in flats and are not very familiar with gardening, the introduction of two some succulent plants which are more closely
related to their life are added to enrich the learning material.
Learner analysis
The targeted learners are senior one students from Minhang High school with medium language proficiency. As students may not show so much interest in the
topic of plants, some questions about the interest aspects of plants are raised for students to explore before class, which arouse their interest and lay a foundation for
their following procedures. What’s more, the students are accustomed to answering questions with only a few words, which obviously hinders their improvement in
oral English. Therefore, during the teaching process, the teacher should have the awareness of guiding the students to talk in complete sentences.
Teaching objectives:
By the end of the lesson, the students are expected to
1. guess the meaning of new words from the context with the help of pictures, such as ‘bush’ ‘vine’ and ‘litter ’
2. grasp the main idea of the passage by skimming and scanning
Teaching Plan
3. learn about the characteristics of and care tips on the five plants introduced
4. recommend one plant for gardening and give advice on how to care for it
Teaching focuses
the characteristics of and care tips on the five plants introduced
Teaching difficulties
How to guide the students to grasp the feature of each plant and lead them to apply what they learned to deal with the specific situations.
Stages Learning Activities Teaching Purposes Interaction
Pre-reading Sharing their research findings about some interesting aspects of plants.
To arouse the students’ interest and introduce the topic of
caring for plants.
T—Ss
While-
reading
Skimming the passage to find out the three plants to decorate our home. To help the students have a whole picture of the passage. T—Ss
Finding information about the features and usage of common white
jasmine.
To help students sort out the information about the
features of white jasmine.
T—Ss
Reading Para 2 to locate detailed information about the Yulan magnolia.
To help the students sort out the characteristics of the
Yulan magnolia.
T—Ss
Guessing the meaning of ‘litter’, ‘ideal’ and ‘moist’ from the context.
To guide the students to guess the meaning of new word
in context.
T—Ss
Reading Para 3 and fill in the blanks about the golden ball cactus.
To lead the students to find out the detailed information of
the golden ball cactus.
T—Ss
Working with their partner to find out the features and care tips of the
fleshy plant they are reading about.
To help the students learn more about the features of
succulents.
T—Ss
S—Ss
Sharing their information with the other group.
To stimulate their interest by giving them different reading
materials.
S—Ss
Post-reading
Performing a role play to give advice on what to plant and how to care for
the plant according to the give situation.
To lead the students to overview the knowledge learned
about the plants.
S—Ss
Assignments
Choose a plant, whether one in the textbook or not, and write an introduction of its features and care tips.
Find more interesting aspects of plants and write a short report.
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