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Unit 6 Plan for Yourself
Section B 1a-1e
I. Teaching Aims
1. Students can understand the reading text "Making Resolutions" and get its main idea and structure: what a resolution is, what resolutions can be about, why people hardly keep them, and how to make resolutions work.
2. Students can get and organize information by putting sentences A-D back into the text (1b), matching each paragraph with its main purpose (1c) and completing the mind map (1d).
3. Students can talk about plans and resolutions with the target language and give their own ideas (1a, 1e).
4. Students learn to make realistic plans and stick to them.
II. Key and Difficult Points
Key points:
1. Key words and phrases: resolution, promise, improve one’s life, physical health, take up a hobby, self-improvement, confident, organized, set mini-goals, make ... work, write down, stick to.
2. The main idea and the paragraph structure of the text.
Difficult points:
1. Putting sentences A-D back into the right places by using the context.
2. Summarizing each paragraph’s main purpose and completing the mind map with the right information.
III. Teaching Tools
The textbook (Unit 6, Section B 1a-1e), the blackboard and coloured pens, a handout of the reading text, the mind-map handout, word cards of the key words, the recording of the text (optional), and a simple PPT (optional).
IV. Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Lead-in (5 mins) [1a]
1. The teacher asks students to discuss the questions in 1a: What kinds of plans did you make last year Were you able to stick to the plans Why or why not
2. The teacher writes "resolution" on the blackboard and explains that a resolution is a promise we make to ourselves, then leads to the topic of the text.
[Purpose] To activate the topic and the students’ own experience, and to prepare the key word "resolution" for reading.
Step 2: Pre-reading (3 mins)
1. The teacher writes the title "Making Resolutions" on the blackboard and asks students to predict what the text may talk about.
[Purpose] To train students to predict from the title and to read with a purpose.
Step 3: While-reading I (10 mins) [1b]
1. The teacher asks students to read the text quickly and put sentences A-D in the correct places.
2. The teacher checks the answers and asks students to say why each sentence goes there.
[Purpose] To help students get the whole text and use the context to work out where a sentence belongs.
Step 4: While-reading II (12 mins) [1c & 1d]
1. The teacher asks students to read the text again and match each paragraph with its main purpose in 1c.
2. In pairs, students complete the mind map about "Resolution" with information from the text in 1d.
3. The teacher checks the answers and helps students see the whole structure of the text.
[Purpose] To train students to find the main idea of each paragraph and to organize the information with a mind map.
Step 5: Post-reading (8 mins) [1e]
1. The teacher asks students to discuss the questions in 1e in groups of four.
2. Some students share their answers in class, and the teacher gives short comments.
[Purpose] To give students a chance to use the language and ideas of the text to talk about their own plans.
Step 6: Summary & Homework (2 mins)
1. The teacher and students sum up how to make a resolution work: set a possible goal, set mini-goals, write it down and ask friends to remind you.
2. Homework: write down one resolution you are going to make this term and how you are going to keep it.
V. Blackboard Design
Unit 6 Plan for Yourself Section B 1a-1e Making Resolutions
resolution = a promise to yourself
Resolutions can be about: physical health / learning new things / self-improvement
Most people hardly keep them: too difficult / forget about them
How to make it work: set mini-goals -> write it down -> ask friends to remind you
六、教学反思
本课是一节阅读课，话题贴近学生生活，1a、1e 的讨论参与度高。但部分后进生在做 1b 还原句子时只凭词面匹配，忽略上下文衔接，错误集中在 C、D 两句；1d 思维导图填写时归纳不够简洁，易照抄整句。后续应引导学生先找段落主题句再填图，还原句子环节增加"为什么放这里"的追问，强化逻辑衔接意识；讨论环节可先同桌互说再全班展示，照顾不敢开口的学生。

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