Teaching Plan Teaching Aims1. Knowledge aims:(1) To help the students to grasp the basic knowledge of some small creatures like spiders and enlarge their ken of knowledge(2) To enable the students to distinguish facts from opinions2. Ability aims:(1) To help students read for specific information(2) To develop the students skill of analyzing, summarizing and writing 3. Emotional aims:(1) To motivate the students to learn more about animals and to keep a harmonious relationship with nature (2) To advise the students never to judge anything or anyone only from the appearanceAnticipated problems and solutions:ProblemsSolutions1. Students are not familiar with the type of a play and may not able to grasp the information.1. To use pictures or samples to give them a vivid idea of some special terms2. To design tasks with progressive difficulty levels and help the students fully process the information2. Students may have trouble in converting a short play into an argumentative essay.1. To introduce the basic structure of an argumentative essay2. To help students tell facts and opinions apart and rearrange the sentences from the play for an well-organized essay 3. To teach students some conjunctions to link the sentences more smoothly and naturallyTeaching Aids: Computer, WorksheetsTeaching Procedure:StagesContentsTeachers activitiesStudents activitiesPurposesI. Lead inBackgroundShow some pictures of small creatures to see whether the students can identify them.Tell the name of the small creatures shown in the pictures.To attract students attention and arouse students interest in the text to be readRaise a question about whether a spider is an insect and help the students to classify these small creatures correctly.Figure out the features of an insect and classify other small creatures according to their features.To enlarge students ken of knowledge and help them understand the sentence in the text “ A spider is not an insect.” II. Pre-readingpreparationBrainstormGuide the students to use some adjectives to express their impressions of spiders.Brainstorm the adjectives to describe their feelings towards spiders while watching relevant pictures.To show that different people may have opposite opinions on the same objectListeningLet the students listen to the recording to get familiar with the background of the play.Listen to the recording to find out the names of the two main characters, their relationship and where the play takes place.To help the students get familiar with the setting of the playIII.While-readingprocedureSkimming &MatchingLet students skim the text as soon as possible and match the sections with the corresponding synopses.Skim the whole text, mainly the first and last sentence of each section and match the sections with the suitable synopses.To help students get a general idea of the textScanning&PerusingSection 1: Let the students read the first section very quickly, then try to find the mistakes in teachers description.Read the first section, and pick out the mistakes in the teachers description through listening and explain why that part is wrong.To check students understanding of this sectionSection 2: Guide the students to find the specific information to fill in the blanks through scanning, Scan the second section and fill in the blanks with the specific information.To guide the students to search for the specific information through scanning Section 3: Help the students to understand this section through a game, and then read for details and match the new words with pictures.Play the game and do the matching.To arouse students interest and curiositySection 4: Ask the students to predict the authors opinion in the fourth section and read for answers.Predict and read for the answers.To train the students to read for authors attitudeSection 5: Guide the students to summarize the passage.Summarize the passage.To cultivate the students ability to summarizeIV.Post-readingactivitiesWriting instructionsIntroduce the structure of an essay and teach the students how to write a good introduction and subtopic.Write the introduction part of an essay and use suitable conjunctions to link the sentences in subtopic 1.To let the students have a general idea of how to write an essay and practice conjunctionsWritingpractice(Optional)Ask the students to cooperate with the partner to make up a subtopic section or a conclusion.Rearrange the sentences and add necessary conjunctions to make up a smooth section.To guide the students to practise writing a good subtopic section or conclusionV. Assignment1. To finish the essay “Friend or enemy?”2. (Optional) To write an essay “It is good / harmful to watch TV a lot.” To consolidate students ability to write an essay