A Lesson Plan for A Trip on “The True North”Student level: Senior Grade 1Teaching time:40 minutesTeaching material: A trip on “The True North”Teaching aims: 1. Guide students to acquire information through reading 2. Strengthen students ability to adopt the proper reading strategies based on the genre3. Cultivate students critical thinking by analyzing how the details are presentedTeaching difficulties:1.Help students to read fast and comprehend thoroughly2. Analyze how the details are presentedTeaching procedure: Warm-up (Aim: To interest the students, and activate their prior knowledge.)1. Play the national anthem of Canada, O Canada. (1)What does it mean by “The True North”?(2) What is conveyed about Canada?(3) What else do you know about Canada?2. Free talk & pictures about Canada. ReadingPrediction & Brainstorming:(Aim: To get the students prepared for the reading task they are supposed to fulfill.)1. Study the picture and the title on P34 and guess what “the true north” possibly means.2. What does the passage mainly deal with? A A. A trip.B. “The True North”. 3. Think about what will be included in a passage introducing a trip.Possible answers:Who/When/Why/How/Where(Basic information. Paragraph 1)Scenery/Cultures/Cuisine/ Landscape (Impressive features. The body.)Fast reading: 1.Read the passage fast and find out the basic information about the trip.Who: Li Daiyu and Liu Qian.Why: To visit their cousins.How: By airplane and by train.Where: Montreal.2.Read fast and find out the route of the trip. (Remind the students to pay attention to the capitalized words.) China-(Canada)Vancouver-Calgary-The Thunder Bay-TorontoCareful reading: Read carefully and find out the impressive features of each place. VancouverCalgary Thunder BayTorontowarmestmountainsthe oceanskiing sailingforestthe RockyMountainsanimalsthe CalgaryStampedeemptyfarmsocean shipsthe Great Lakesfresh waterLake SuperiorforestClimate;Location;Lifestyle;Natural scenery Natural scenery;Animals CulturePopulation;AgricultureNatural resources;Natural sceneryNatural scenery Post reading:Analyze how the details are presented by the author.(Aim: To get the students to realize that there are different ways of presenting the details.)1. How does the author introduce Vancouver?Does he state the cousins own experience or quote others words? - By quoting Danny Lins words.(Indirect experience)2.When introducing the “empty Canada”, how does the author make it more persuasive? - The cousins confirmed that Canada is empty by stating what they saw and recalling what they had learnt in middle school.(Both direct experience and indirect experience)Conclusion: Basic information (Who/When/Why/How/Where)Introducing a trip Direct experienceStriking features (Scenery/Cultures/Cuisine/ Landscape )Indirect experience Homework & Consolidation:1.Read the passage again and finish exercise1& exercise2 on P35.2.Please write an article about one of your trips.