Teaching aims:
1. Enable the Ss to learn about Xie Lei’s school life in London.
2. Help the Ss to summarize the benefits and difficulties of living in a foreign country.
3.Further develop the Ss’ strong will of overcoming difficulties that they would face and the Ss’ determination of meeting the challenges.
Teaching important & difficult points: Help the Ss to summarize the benefits and difficulties of living in a foreign country.
Teaching methods: Task-based teaching method, Skimming, Scanning and Group discussion.
Teaching procedures & ways:
Step 1 Leading in
T: As we know, now more and more people live or study abroad, even some high school students are sent to study abroad. Do you know why?
T:what are the difficulties they might have in their study and daily life?
Today we are going to read a newspaper article about a Chinese student who is studying abroad. Open your book ,turn to page 38 ,and read the title to me .
Step 2 Listening
Listen to the text and answer the following questions
1) Which country does Xie Lie study in?
2)which course is she doing first ?
Step3 Skimming
Find out the main idea of each paragraph
Para1( ) A. Xie Lei is getting used to the Western University way of learning.
Para 2 ( ) B. The newspaper will follow Xie Lei’s progress in later editions.
Para 3( ) C. The general introduction of Xie Lei and her study.
Para 4 ( ) D. The advantages of living with a host family.
Para5 ( ) E. Xie Lei, a Chinese girl, is studying in a foreign country--London.
Para 6 ( ) F. The difficulties Xie Lei met while living in London.
Para 7( ) G. Xie Lei feels much more at home in England now and is living an active life.
Step4 Careful Reading
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions
1.What are some of difficulties she faced when she first came to England? (para.3)
2.Why does Xie Lei board with a host family while studying in England? (para.4)
A.She feels lonely while staying in a foreign country.
B.She is afraid to get used to a new life in a new country.
C.She can make good preparations for her courses.
D.She can have opportunities to learn more about everyday life and customs in a new country.
3.Why is she doing a preparation course first? (para.5)
4.How does Xie Lei try to get used to the new social life in England? (para.6)
A. She tried to avoid raising a feeling of homesick.
B. She tries to join in a few university clubs to share more social activities and meet some people she had much in common with.
C. She tries to put her heart into her preparation for her courses.
D. She tries to protect herself from the strange enviroment and does nothing to make herself familiar with the culture.
Read the text and finish the chart .
Step5 Summary
The passage mainly talks about the Chinese student Xie Lei’s __________ ______ ____ ______, especially about some _______ she gets as well as some _______ she faces while studying in London.
Step 6 Homework
1. Fill in the blanks
Xie Lei _______ a plane for London six months ago to complete a business___________. She is now halfway through the __________ year. At the beginning, she had to learn almost everything again. She lives with a _____ family, which gives her the __________ to learn more about everyday life and _______ in her new country.
She wrote her first ______ to her______, but she only got an E. Now she has_________ the life and she feels much more __ _____ and is going to join a few university _____ in order to have a _______ between study and a social life. We wish Xie lei all the best with her_______.
Keep it up ! Xie lei.
2. Make a dialogue
Suppose you are a newspaper reporter. Please interview Xie Lei 下载本文