1、高中英语人教版新教材选择性必修二 Unit2 Reading and Thinking 教学设计教学分析The topic of this unit is “Bridging Cultures”, which is involvedwith crossing-cultural interaction. And going abroad for furthereducation is a way for ss to learn the cultures around the worldand promote Chinese culture. The reading text just shows
2、 theexperience of an exchange student, Xie Lei in adapting to the newenvironment. In a new cultural surrounding, exchange ss may findit hard to adapt to the new life and academic requirements. Toovercome all kinds of cultural shocks, they will try to fit into thenew culture through learning new thin
3、gs and asking for helps. Inthis process, they will embrace the new culture and share theirown culture. Then, they will just function as a cultural messengerwho are building a bridge among cultures. For ss, they areinterested about it since its related to their future development.But they know few ab
4、out cultural shocks and some tips incrossing-cultural interactions. Thus, the teaching objectives aredesigned as follow:教学目标1) To summarize the problems and cultural shocks of exchangestudents in adapting to the new life abroad and the strategies forcrossing-cultural interaction by analyzing the cha
5、llenges of XieLei.2) To analyze the role of exchange students in promoting cultureandcrossing-culturalcommunicationbyreadingfortheexperience of Xie Lei.3)Toevaluatethesignificanceofcrossing-culturalcommunication by thinking about why people choose to joiningin exchange programmes.教学重难点To analyze the
6、 role of exchange students in promoting cultureandcrossing-culturalcommunicationbyreadingfortheexperience of Xie Lei.教学过程Step1: Lead-inA vlog of the first day as an exchange studentBrainstorm the problems he might meet.【Aims: to elicit the topic and prepare for the following reading.】Step2: Predicti
7、onRead the title and form for genre.Read to raisequestions about the possible content.【Aims: to stimulate ss motivation for reading and set contextsfor automatic reading.】Step3: Read for Main idea and structure.Summarize the mainidea of each paragraph by listing key words.【Aims: to practisess summar
8、y skills like locating key words.】Step 4: Read for the answers to the questions.1. Figure out thebackground information about Xie Lei.2. Read for the challengesand feeling s of Xie Lei by drawing the form.3. Analyze whathelped Xie Lei adapt to the new culture.【Aims: to work out the experience of Xie
9、 Lei and analyze the roleof exchange students in promoting culture and crossing-culturalcommunication by reading for the experience of Xie Lei.】Step5: ThinkingWhy do people choose to study abroad? 【Aims: todevelop sscritical thinking ability by evaluating the reasons of ssgoing abroad.】Step6: Homework【Aims: to develop ss cultural awareness and extend theirhorizons about cultures around the world.】
