Half a Day

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Half a Day

• By Naguib Mahfous

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Proudly brought to you by Class 3!

• Presenters
• Deng Xiaowen,
• He Jing,
• Yuan Hui,
• Dou Wei

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Course Description

• Course Intensive reading
• Time 4 Class hours
• Students 20 freshmen,
• 1st Term English Majors
• Presumptions Students have sound preview
  finished pre-class work, 2 ss have prepared their
  presentation for the class

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Objectives of Study

• Understand the main story
• Appreciate the seemingly simple language
• Recognize the techniques of narration
• Perspective of narrating
• Symbolic meaning
• Implicit foreshadowing
• Figures of speech

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Teaching Plan

• Check on Preview (10 mins)
• Ts task ask questions
• Ss task answer questions
• strategic goals global understanding,
  prediction

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Teaching Plan

• 2. Introduce the author and social background (20
  mins)
• Ts task introduce ss presentation
• Ss task presentation (2 ss, 15 mins)
• strategic goals activate ssworld knowledge, the
  ability to search for relevant information,

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Teaching Plan

• 3. Work out the general story (10 mins)
• Ts task organize and explain pair work,
  provide 3 pictures
• Ss task pair work
• strategic goals skimming, gap-filling,
  inferencing, visual strategy

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Teaching Plan

• 4. Work out the general structure and main idea
  of each part (10 mins)
• Ts task ask questions
• Ss task answer questions
• strategic goals read for the gist, skimming,
  summarizing

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Teaching Plan

• 5. Detailed study---Part I.(30 mins)
• Ts task ask general question distribute the
  task sheet (fill in blanks with verbs and
  collocations) drive home key words, phrases, and
  sentences
• Ss task answer questions fulfill the task
  check answers with peers first
• Linguistic goals key words, phrase, and
  sentences
• strategic goals skimming, scanning,
  consolidating key phrases and verbs

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Teaching Plan

• 6. Detailed Study---Part II (40 mins)
• Ts task ask general questions distribute the
  task sheet (paraphrase) explain some key words,
  phrases, and sentences
• Ss task answer questions paraphrase check
  answers with peers
• Linguistic goals key words, phrases, and
  sentences
• strategic goals skimming, contextualization
  (work out the implied meaning in paraphrase)

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Teaching Plan

• 7. Detailed study---Part III (40 mins)
• Ts task ask general questions distribute the
  task sheet (chart) and organize the group work
• Ss task answer questions, group work, group
  report
• Linguistic goals key words, phrase and sentences
• strategic goals skimming, scanning, comparison
  and contrast

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Teaching Plan

• 8. Symbolic meaning (20 mins)---Prize!!!
• Ts task organize ss group work (figure out
  the hints in the text relating to the boys
  experience at school to real life experience in
  the world, and discuss their symbolic meanings)
• Ss task group work, group report
• Linguistic goals use the words, phrases and
  sentences learned in the text
• strategic goals scanning, summarizing,
  communicative strategies, analyzing, search
  reading

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Teaching Plan

• 9. Homework (10 mins)
• Ts task ask ss to write an essay ask them how
  they would write (summarize the metal experiences
  of the boy)
• Ss task write an essay after class finish
  exercises on the textbook
• strategic goals summarizing, self-reflecting,
  writing

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Recapture! (10 mins)

• We have
• Understood the story
• Appreciated the language style
• Reinforced the theme
• Recognized the narrating techniques
• Reflected the strategies used

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Demo Time!

• By Class Three

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Warm-up and Lead-in (10 mins)

• Check on preview
• Prediction of the title
• Ss reflection of the reading processes
• Introduce ss presentation
• By ??

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Jigsaw! (10 mins)

• Organize the pair work
• Explain the pair-work (2 tasks!)
• Students feedback
• Summarize
• Introduce the strategies used
• By ??

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Comparison and Contrast! (20 mins)

• Reflect what we have learned before
• Introduce and organize the group work
• Group work (10 mins)
• Feedback and comments
• Introduce the strategies used
• By ??

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Comparison and Contrast (Part III)
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Thank You!

• Questions and comments are welcome!