新进阶3综合Unit1

New Progressive College English Book III UNIT 1 Working Holiday Abroad

Unit 1 Working Holiday Abroad

1. Teaching Objectives:

Students will be able to

A. discuss the relevant topics

B. understand the text with skimming and scanning

C. learn languages, e.g. words, phrases, difficult structures

D. think further

2. Time Allotment:

1st Period: Lead-in Activities (Warm-up activities; Discussion about working holiday abroad )

2nd Period: Global-reading Activities (Text: Approaching the theme; analyzing the text organization)

3rd Period: Detailed reading Activities (Understanding the Text in a deeper level, analyzing difficult sentence structures)

4th Period: Detailed reading Activities (Learning new words, summarizing good usage)

5th Period: Comprehending Reading 1 (Skimming the text, explaining the difficult sentences of the Text, doing sentence translation)

6th Period: After-reading Activities (Viewing and Listening; Speaking; Assignment)

3. Teaching Procedures:

3.1 Lead-in Activities

Step 1. Warm-up activities

Introduce the topic to the class: Working Holiday Abroad, and ask students the question:

“What a working holiday is ?”

Ask the students to watch twice a video clip of a talk about a working holiday in Opener

Ask the students to understand the main points by filling blanks of the summary given in

Opener

Help the students to sum up the main points of the talk about a working holiday:

? A working holiday is when you spend a significant amount of time in another country and have the working rights to back it up. You are able to pick up a job or two (or 6) and

break that arrangement up by traveling or moving on to a new location in the country.

?With a working holiday visa, you can work as you go

? A working holiday could end up being a life-changing experience.

? A working holiday can do wonders for really introducing you to a new culture.

Method:Method: PPT; communicative approach.

Step 2: Discussion about joys and challenges of taking working holidays overseas

Have students work in pair talking about joys and challenges of taking working holidays

overseas and invites some students to report to the class.

Method: Using task-based language teaching method, communicative approach.

3.2 Global reading

Step 1. Approaching the theme

The teacher asks students questions: How would you like to take a working holiday abroad ? Do you think it would suit you or take too far away from the world in which you feel comfortable ? Do you want to experience joys and challenges of taking working holiday? The students’ answers may vary. Then the teacher tells students that they will learn a text about a person’s real experience of taking working holiday abroad, and they will know what it is really like to take working holiday abroad.

Method: PPT; communicative approach.