Traditional adulthood ceremony held in Shaanxi教学设计
Target students: students from senior I
Reading material: Traditional adulthood ceremony held in Shaanxi
Teaching aims: In this lesson, students will be able to
1. understand the true meaning of optimism and develop the quality of being
optimistic.
2. use the target words and expressions in blank filling and summary task.
Words: magical optimism remarry complex stepfather
responsibility immigration representative eventually
Expressions: bear the thought of some time passed before see no end to
fill out is certain to turn out
3. take part in an interview to share with their trouble-solving stories.
Difficult points: 1. Students may find the words especially some specific terms a big problem
when they are reading the text. （such as “bear the thought of”）
2. Students may find it difficult to finish their life stories of dealing with troubles. Important points：In this lesson,
1. Students will mainly focus their attention on the acquisition of new words and
expressions.
2. Students will learn to become more optimistic and hold an positive attitude
towards life.
Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Warming up
Greetings: the teacher asks the following questions and talks about what a generation students belong to and since they are going to be 18 years old soon, 18 must mean a lot to them. A discussion about what 18 means to them and what they will do on that special occasion is to be held in the very beginning of the lesson.
Q1: how old are you? When were you born?
belong to post-90s (课文词汇)
Q2: What does 18 mean to you?
Q3: What will you do on that special occasion?
Let ’s see what students in XI’an did to celebrate their adulthood ceremony.
【设计说明】：通过和学生以日常交流的形式提出问题，让学生讲述他们的年龄，出生年份从而引出九十后post-90s 这个课文词汇。在这些90后学生即将迈入18岁成人礼的这一时刻询问他们18岁对他们意味着什么，他们会在18岁那天做些什么来引入主题。从情感上对学生进行潜移默化的教育，使学生意识到18岁意味着青春，成长，感恩，责任，守法，从而实现对课文学习的很好预热。Let ’s see what students in XI’an did to celebrate their adulthood ceremony.是承上启下过渡句，自然引入文章阅读部分。
Step2. Reading
1. Understanding of the headline and the photo.
Before reading, the students will have a prediction about what the passage is about by reading the headline and the photo.
【设计说明】：引出话题后紧接着通过让学生研究标题和图片来对文章内容作出预测，并使全体学
生的注意力集中到篇章上来。本文是新闻稿，标题的解读在文章阅读中占重要地位，
对插图及其文字说明的研读也有助于学生从大体上对整个新闻稿的内容有个大概轮
廓。
2. Analyze the structure of this news report
The teacher shows the structure of a typical news report and let the students find out the most important factors such as headline, lead, body and photo in the report.
Headline Traditional adulthood ceremony held in Shaanxi
Lead Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Body Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
Paragraph6
Photo
【设计说明】：教师展示新闻稿的框架结构及所包含的各个要素，使得一篇新闻稿的典型结构清晰的展示在学生面前。在学生对新闻稿的脉络有基本认识之后再引导学生一步一步阅读文章的各个部分，从而做到有的放矢，水到渠成之效。
3. Detailed reading for the news lead part (Para. 1) of the news report
Q: What can we learn from the news lead?
Who _____________________________________________ What ______________________________________________ Where _____________________________________________ When ______________________________________________
【设计说明】：
4. Detailed reading for the body part (Para. 2-6) of the news report
1. Blank filling exercise for Para. 2
Clothes:
Ceremony: __________________ for young men
__________________ for young women
Participants____________ in front of their parents and ____________ their advice.
【设计说明】：学生通过细读，找到文章中的细节，通过完成划线填空加深对中国传统成人仪式衣着，帽饰等方面的理解，通过完成表格了解不同受访者对于传统成人仪式的看法。
Step3. Features of the news report
1．Feature 1 : The Inverted Pyramid
The most important facts (lead) are placed at the beginning and works "down“ from there. The first paragraph contain enough information to give us a good overview of the entire news report. The rest of the passage explains and expands on the beginning.
The news report might be cut off at any point due to space limitations.
2．Feature 2 : News lead
In general, news lead consists of Five "W"s and the "H“
(Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?)
Any good news report provides answers to most of these questions in its news lead .
Almost 50 young people (who) participated in a Chinese traditional coming-of-age ritual (what) in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, (where) on Wednesday, Labor Day. (when)
Read another news lead
Japanese pop star noriko sakai, who disappeared on Monday after her husband was detained on drugs charges, has surrendered herself to Tokyo police.
3. Feature 3 : Embedded structure
To make the news report concise, many embedded structure are used in the passage.
For example: Chen Aiguo, whose son participated, said that
Convey enough information in minimum words.
4. Feature 4: objective
Instead of using “agreed; argued; praised; complained; announced; claimed; boasted; protested”, only “said ” and “added ”are used in this news report.
【设计说明】：结合本篇新闻稿实例对新闻题材文章中最为重要的几个特征，倒金字塔结构，新闻导语，嵌入语，客观性等进行剖析，进一步加深学生对新闻稿体裁文章的理解。
Step4. Post-reading
1. critical thinking
Q1: What sub-headline will you give to the news report?
Q2: From your point of view, what comment will you make on the ceremony?
Q3: What else can we students do to protect Chinese traditional culture?
【设计说明】：完成细读环节及文体分析环节后，学生不仅对文章内容有了较为深入的了解，同时
对新闻体裁稿有了进一步的认识，本环节通过设计与课文内容既相关又有所拓展
的内容，着力培养学生的批判性思维能力，通过判断和解释，学生能更深刻地了
解文章主题，同时形成正确的关于保护和延续中国传统文化的态度与情感。
4. Extension: relate to yourself
What do you want to say to them at your adulthood ceremony?
to yourself / parents / teachers / friends and classm
【设计说明】： 基于课文积极乐观价值观的理念，设计采访环节引导学生讲述他们自身遇到麻烦
时的情境，使学生意识到在遇到麻烦时，自信，坚持等优秀品质所能发挥的巨大
力量。
Step 5. Home work
1.Finish your life story.
2. The passage is supposed to cover the following aspects:
＊ What trouble did you meet?
＊ How did you feel then?
＊ How did you deal with the trouble?
＊ What have you learned from your experience?
【设计说明】： 家庭作业是对上一阶段采访部分扩展的写作输出。强调本课所学的情感价值观在
具体实践中的应用，初步培养学生积极乐观，坚持自信的优秀品质。
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