Teaching Contents: An article about who invented tea.

Teaching Objectives:

(1) Knowledge objective

Students can know the source of tea and become, more familiar with the topic of tea.

(2) Ability objective

Students can use the two reading strategies--skimming and scanning to get the information from the passage.

Meanwhile, they can use the phrases in the passage to describe the source or history of something in their writing.

(3) Emotional objective

Students will have a basic understanding of tea and have more interest in Chinese tea culture. Through group work, their cooperative awareness will be improved.

Teaching Key Points:

How to make students master the two reading strategies--skimming and scanning.

Teaching Difficult Points:

How to help students find the related information from passage and understand the main idea of it.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Pre-reading (3 minutes)

The teacher shows the picture about the story of tea on the textbook which shows that a peon sit on the chair watching a glass of water and lets students guess what happened and predict the content about the reading material.

(Justification: Guessing part will focus students' attention on the main topic of the reading passage. It makes students think critically about the topic and provides them with the opportunity to connect some aspects of the topic to their own lives.)

Step 2 While-reading (12 minutes)

Activity 1: Fast reading

The teacher asks students to read the short passage quickly and conclude the main idea. Then the teacher gives some feedback on students' ideas.

(Justification: Fast reading trains students' skimming skills for the general information of the passage.)

Activity 2: Careful reading

The teacher asks students to read the passage again and answer the following questions:

What is the article about

When was it invented

How was it invented

Then the teacher gives them positive feedback on their answers.

(Justification: In this part, students' analyzing and summarizing ability can be trained. In the process of reading for the detailed information, students' scanning skills can be trained.)

Step 3 Post-reading (10 minutes)

(1) Retelling

The teacher provides key words and phrases and students retell the passage according to these words. If a student has some difficulties in the process of retelling, the teacher gives him/her some hints or encouragement.

(2) Writing

Students are divided into 4 groups. The teacher asks students to write an article by using the phrases and words in the box.

invent by bring toaccording todiscover produce

After students finished, one student in each group shares his/her work to the class and the teacher gives some evaluation on their writings.

(Justification: Retelling can help students strengthen what they have learned during the lesson. After retelling,writing in groups can help students to express their ideas in another form, which can develop their writing abilities and cooperative awareness.)