Teaching Plan for Unit 2 (SEFC Book 3)The Second Period, Reading: “The Human Development Report”I. Teaching Objectives1. Language Objective New words: hunger, income, poverty, reduce, measure, goal.2. Ability Objective Students will develop reading skills (skimming for the main idea of the text and scanning for specific information, summarizing information and making inferences.)3. MoralObjectives Students will understand that as humans they should love others and help others so that the world will be filled with love.II. Important and Difficult PointsTo help students to use skimming and scanning skills to get some understanding of the passage.III. Teaching Methods1. Discussion, question-answering activities to lead the students to learn.2 Teaching Aids: pictures; colored chalks; multimediaIV. Teaching ProceduresStep I Lead-in (5mins)T: Good morning, everyone.S: T: At the beginning of the class, I have a question for you: Do you like to learn something about the other countries in your daily life?S: T: If yes, that means you have known much about foreign countries. OK. Now Id like to test how much you do know. Here please match these countries below with the continents they are respectively in.America, the UK, ChinaS: T: Yes, that is it. No matter it is the developed country or the developing country, all have the same goal. What is it?S: .T: Yes, it is “development”. With development, developing countries can become developed countries and with development, developed countries can surely become much better. So development is core of every country. Then how to realize development, this is the topic of many studies. Today, we will learn something about it. Are you ready for our new material?S: T: OK. Please turn to Page 12 and pay attention to the text: “The Human Development Report”.Step II Fast Reading (6mins)T: Now class, I will give you 3 minutes to have a quick look at the text. Please write down the information you think is important, and then tell me what the main idea of the text is in your own words.(Four minutes later)T: OK, time is up. Who can tell us your idea about the text?S: .T: Good, sit down please. Lets do it together. Just a glance through the passage, we can know the text consists of five parts. Right?S: .T: Now take just one or two sentences from each paragraph, we can find something. What is it?S: T: Obviously the whole passage focuses on . This forms the main idea of the article. To understand the text better, now we will read it again, this time, carefully and somewhat slowly.Step III Careful Reading (26mins)T: I need a volunteer to read the first paragraph. Whod like to have a try? Yes, please!S: .T: Good, sit down please. From this paragraph we can get some information about the passage.What is it? S: .T: Good, sit down please. Yes. Here we can know when, what and who. In other words, this paragraph serves as the beginning of the whole passage, giving us some basic knowledge related to the topic. Now go to paragraph 2. Whod like to read it aloud? S: .T: Good, sit down please. Now how about this paragraph? What can we get?S: T: Yes. This paragraph shows us how different countries in the world are ranked. Now lets move to the next part. Would you please read the text aloud with me?S: T: .(Note: The teacher will take the same way to deal with the rest three paragraphs so that students can know the main idea of each paragraph. In the process of careful reading, the teacher and the class work together to fill in the following table. Once the reading is finished, the main idea of each paragraph becomes so clear for students to see. This is meaning-centered reading)Para 1When? What? Who?Para 2The rank of different countries.Para 3The most important goals.Para 4The achievements made by China. The great challenges of the developing countries.Para 5A solution to solve those problems of developing countries.T: OK, we have finished the tables. Please look at the questions above the text and finish them.(1) What did world leaders agree to do in 2000?They agreed to work together to reduce poverty by 2015 or earlier. (2) What does the human development index measure?It measures a countrys achievements in 3 ways: life expectancy (how long people usually live), income and education.(3) What are the first two developed goals? a. Reduce poverty and hunger. b. Make sure that all children have education up to the age of 11.(4) What progress have we made towards these goals? From 1953 to 1962, China increased life expectancy by 13 years. In the last 10 years in China, 150 million people moved out of poverty.(5) What should developed countries do?