The Ninth Period Cultural Communication

Teaching goals 教学内容

1. Target language语言目标

a: Words and expressions

intelligent dolphins, local factories, educational system, unknown facts, underwater world, agricultural countries, industrial cities, horrible sight

　b. Structure of Historical Events

Structure of Historical Events Content Introduction Background information Major events Meaning 2. Ability goals能力目标

　Help students read, generalize and do comparison reading.

3. Learning ability goals学能目标

　Students learn to read following a certain procedure: predict, get a general understanding, generalize the main idea of each paragraph, summarize the structure, test understanding.

Teaching important points教学重点

　Help students compare the reading materials with the same structure.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

Enable students to read independently with the help of reading procedures.

Teaching methods教学方法

　Team-work learning, co-operative learning, discussion, activity-based learning.

Teaching aids教具准备

　Multimedia.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Revision

Activity one: Make short phrases

T: Look at the listed phrases and read them aloud. Then please turn to page 63 and