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一、Teaching Objectives
1. Students can grasp and use the key words such as stress, continue, training, development, understand the text and retell it correctly and fluently.
2. Students can feel the difference and similarity between two cultures and raise the awareness of the balance of study and relaxation.
3. Students can analyze the positive and negative aspects and express their own ideas.
4. Students’ reading skills of predicting, skimming, and scanning can be improved through different kinds of reading activities and they can guess the meaning of the words in bold according to the context.
二、Teaching Key Points
1. Students can understand the main idea of the text and guess the meaning of the key words in the text better.
2. Students can improve different reading skills, such as predicting, skimming, and scanning through different reading activities.
三、Teaching Difficult Point
It’s hard for students to keep a balance between study and relaxation.
四、Teaching Aids
Pictures, radios, and dictionaries.
五、Teaching Procedures
Step 1. Lead-in
Play a video of a schoolboy’s busy weekend when he attends various after-school activities including ping-pong training, calligraphy courses and piano practice. And ask students some questions: What’s your opinion about the phenomenon? Why is the boy unhappy?
The teacher invites some students to answer them to lead in the new lesson.
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Students think about what the problem is for Chinese students nowadays.
2. Students guess if American children have the same problem.
Step 3. While-reading
Skimming
1. Students read the text quickly and answer the question “What problem do American students have?”
2. Students discuss with their partners and match the headings with the paragraphs.
3. Check the answers together.
Scanning
Task 1: Guess the meaning of some key words according to the context
T: American students are busy on weekends, too. But what for? Students are asked to read and choose the best answer.
1. ( ) Many children learn a lot on weekends so that they can compete and win. What does “compete” mean?
A. try to be the best of the first to finish something
B. make their parents happy
2. ( ) “In some families, competition starts very young and continues until the kids get older” What does “continues” mean?
A. begins
B. goes on
3. ( ) Doctor says too much pressure is not good for a child’s development. “Kids should have time to relax…”
A. getting better or bigger
B. getting worse or smaller
Task 2: Answer questions
(1) Does Cathy Taylor think it’s important for kids to join after-school activities? Why?
(2) Does Linda Miller agree with Cathy? What’s her opinion?
(3) Does Dr. Green agree with Cathy or Linda? What does she say?
Intensive reading
1. Read the passage again and fill in the following chart
NamesOpinions
_______She believes it’s important for her children’s _______.
She wants her children to be _______.
______She thinks it’s ______ and unfair.
Why don’t they just _______ the kids be kids?
People shouldn’t _______ their kids so hard.
DoctorsToo much ______ is not good for a child’s _______.
AliceIt can cause lots of _______ for children.
2. Try to retell different opinions from different people with the guidance of the chart above.
Step 4. Post-reading
Task: Hold a discussion
Students work in groups to discuss “What do you think of after-school activities?” Students are asked to express their opinions and then give a report.
Sentence patterns for reference:
Ways of expressing opinions: I think…, I don’t think…, in my opinion…, I agree with… because …, I don’t agree/ disagree with… because…
Step 5. Summary
Students summarize what they have learned in this lesson and the teacher gives supplement if necessary, and reminds them of the importance of keeping balance between study and relaxation.
Step 6. Homework
1. Retell the whole text.
2. Make a weekend plan including balanced learning and relaxing activities and share it next class.
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