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Teaching Plan
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Teaching Aims
1. Knowledge aims:
(1) To help the students to grasp the basic knowledge of some small
creatures like spiders and enlarge their ken of knowledge
(2) To enable the students to distinguish facts from opinions
2. Ability aims:
(1) To help students read for specific information
(2) To develop the students’ skill of analyzing, summarizing and
writing
3. Emotional aims:
(1) To motivate the students to learn more about animals and to keep a
harmonious relationship with nature
(2) To advise the students never to judge anything or anyone only
from the appearance
Anticipated problems and solutions:
Problems Solutions
1. Students are not familiar with the
type of a play and may not able to
grasp the information.
1. To use pictures or samples to
give them a vivid idea of some
special terms
2. To design tasks with progressive
difficulty levels and help the
students fully process the
information
2. Students may have trouble in
converting a short play into an
1. To introduce the basic structure
of an argumentative essay
argumentative essay. 2. To help students tell facts and
opinions apart and rearrange the
sentences from the play for an
well-organized essay
3. To teach students some
conjunctions to link the sentences
more smoothly and naturally
Teaching Aids: Computer, Worksheets
Teaching Procedure:
Stages Contents Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purposes
I.
Lead in
Background
Show some pictures of small
creatures to see whether the
students can identify them.
Tell the name of the small
creatures shown in the pictures.
To attract students’
attention and arouse
students’ interest in the
text to be read
Raise a question about
whether a spider is an insect
and help the students to
classify these small creatures
correctly.
Figure out the features of an
insect and classify other small
creatures according to their
features.
To enlarge students’ ken
of knowledge and help
them understand the
sentence in the text “ A
spider is not an insect.”
II.
Pre-reading
preparation
Brainstorm
Guide the students to use
some adjectives to express
their impressions of spiders.
Brainstorm the adjectives to
describe their feelings towards
spiders while watching relevant
pictures.
To show that different
people may have
opposite opinions on the
same object
Listening
Let the students listen to the
recording to get familiar with
the background of the play.
Listen to the recording to find
out the names of the two main
characters, their relationship
and where the play takes place.
To help the students get
familiar with the setting
of the play
III.
While-reading
procedure
Skimming
&
Matching
Let students skim the text as
soon as possible and match
the sections with the
corresponding synopses.
Skim the whole text, mainly
the first and last sentence of
each section and match the
sections with the suitable
synopses.
To help students get a
general idea of the text
Scanning
&
Section 1: Let the students
read the first section very
quickly, then try to find the
mistakes in teacher’s
Read the first section, and pick
out the mistakes in the
teacher’s description through
listening and explain why that
To check students’
understanding of this
section
Perusing description. part is wrong.
Section 2: Guide the students
to find the specific
information to fill in the
blanks through scanning,
Scan the second section and fill
in the blanks with the specific
information.
To guide the students to
search for the specific
information through
scanning
Section 3: Help the students
to understand this section
through a game, and then
read for details and match
the new words with pictures.
Play the game and do the
matching.
To arouse students’
interest and curiosity
Section 4: Ask the students
to predict the author’s
opinion in the fourth section
and read for answers.
Predict and read for the
answers.
To train the students to
read for author’s attitude
Section 5: Guide the students
to summarize the passage.
Summarize the passage. To cultivate the students’
ability to summarize
IV.
Post-reading
activities
Writing
instructions
Introduce the structure of an
essay and teach the students
how to write a good
introduction and subtopic.
Write the introduction part of
an essay and use suitable
conjunctions to link the
sentences in subtopic 1.
To let the students have a
general idea of how to
write an essay and
practice conjunctions
Writing
practice
(Optional)
Ask the students to cooperate
with the partner to make up a
subtopic section or a
conclusion.
Rearrange the sentences and
add necessary conjunctions to
make up a smooth section.
To guide the students to
practise writing a good
subtopic section or
conclusion
V.
Assignment
1. To finish the essay “Friend or enemy?”
2. (Optional) To write an essay “It is good / harmful to watch TV a lot.”
To consolidate students’
ability to write an essay
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