TEACHING PLANBackground information：Time & Date：09：35-10：15 on May 25,2013Class 168Teacher： Elaine YangTeaching content：Reading & Writing, reading for fun of Unit 1, model3, NSECTeaching analysis： In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing students reading ability by reading extensively. The way I plan to deal with the passage will be different from detailed reading since the passage “A sad love story” is the second reading material in the unit. Developing students reading strategies will be the focus.While reading, get students learn to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. How to find specific is the soul of reading.As to new words and phrases, the teacher can first find these students feel most difficult and help them to understand.The purpose of “A sad love story” is to introduce a cross-cultural view of lovers festival-Qiqiao Festival and Valentines Day. Its set in a present-day context that students can relate to, and respond to.The teacher can first talk about the two festivals and the characters to lead the topic and then ask students to read the passage and do some comprehending exercises. While checking their answers with the whole class, deal with the language problems students cant work out by themselves.This is an extensive reading lesson, so the learning of languages points should not be the key part. Help students develop reading skills is helping them in a bigger picture.Important points:1. Students develop reading skills by extensive reading;2. Students read and understand the passage.Difficult points:1. Students learn to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning and so on.2. Students understand foreign culture and compare the two festivals about love.Teaching aims:1. Students learn some useful new words and expressions in this part, e.g. apologize, drown, sadness, wipe, weep, remind, forgive, turn up, keep ones word, hold ones breath, set off, etc.2. Students understand “A sad love story”.3. Develop students reading skills by extensive reading and students be able to learn how to use different reading skills to read different reading materials.4. Stimulate students love of Chinese festival and culture by learning foreign culture and custom.5. Develop students sense of group cooperation and teamwork.Teaching aids:Tape recorder, PowerPoint slides, blackboard.Teaching procedure: (本文重点发展阅读技巧，而知识点可适当淡化，若有需要可事后将其中难理解的句子专门进行语法分析)Stage 1. lead-inT: Good morning everyone. Before we start todays class, I prepared two questions for you. Do you know anything about Valentines Day?Suggested answers: yes;February 14; lovers Day How about Qiqiao Festival?Suggested answers: yes;the 7th day of the 7th lunar month;Chinese Valentines Day.T: So the two festivals are related. Both of them are mentioned in the passage we are going to learn. Lets find out more. Now please turn to page 7. And have a look at the title of the passage.The title is the soul of the passage. Form it, we know the passage is a story about love. Usually, love story is happy but this one is sad.Stage 2. General understanding Step 1. Listen and judge 1. Before we listen to the tape, we should figure out the main characters.There is a trick. Names start with capital letters. Can you find them?Li FangHu Jin What happened to them?Niu Lang Lets find out.The Waving girl2. True or False1) Li Fang waited for Hu Jin, but she didnt show up. Even so he did not lose heart.(F)2) Because her granddaughter got married to a human, the Goddess of Heaven got very angry.(T)3) The Waving girl was made to return to Heaven without her husband. They were not allowed to meet forever.(F)4) Hu Jin had been waiting for Li Fang for a long time with a gift for him.(T)(The students need to point out the evidence.)Step 2. Comprehending1) What is the reason why Li Fang and Hu Jin did not meet on time?Suggested answer:They did not meet on time because Li Fang waited in the coffee shop while Hu Jin in the tea shop. Li Fang was so disappointed that he threw the gift away.2) Why was the TV story what Li Fang needed?Suggested answer:It is about lost love, just like Li Fang and Hu Jin. 3) Why do people want the weather to be fine on Qiqiao Festival?Step3. If you dont like the ending, made one on your own.Step 4. What are the sentences that you cant understand?(If no, the teacher is supposed to find some sentences that may cause some comprehending difficulties.)Step 5. Retell the story with given key words The Waving girl visited met got married Goddess of Heaven return to followed but stopped by At last, they are allowed to meet once a year on the bridge of magpies wringsStage 3. Reading for fun“Santa Claus is coming to town” (song) is l about Christmas.Santa Claus is a happy old man. Every Christmas Eve, he c