Unit 3 Back to the past Task

Giving a talk about a historical event

Teaching Objectives:

1 to teach and instruct students some specific procedures when trying to achieve a goal

2 to make students be aware of the appropriate ways of performing each individual procedure and master the skills

3 to make sure students have opportunities to combine the skills they have learned with reality

4 to aid students to choose and organize the information they have got and help them complete their products

5 to enhance students' overall abilities and improve their integrated skills

Important and difficult points:

Make students learn how to write an outline of a speech and how to host a talk about a historical event.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Get the students to know something about how to give a talk about a historical event.

Discuss the following questions in groups:

1. When you have conversations with your friends, what decides the topic you are talking about?

2. Will the topic be different if someone else joins your conversation?

3. Will the topic be different if you move to another place to talk?

4. Will it be different if you are doing something else while you are talking?

Step 2 Skills building 1