LESSON PLAN
Time of Lesson: 45 minutes
Students: Senior Grade One
Teaching Material: How Did Postage Stamps Come Into Use Teaching Objectives:
1. To train Ss\' reading ability(such as guessing the meaning of new words in the context, the speed of reading.)
2. To train Ss\' reading comprehension(To get messages from what they read.)
Teaching Points:
1. Ss get used to three reading skills.
2. Ss understand the given passage.
Properties:
Stamps, letters, postcards, work sheets, OHP
Teaching Method:
Communicative Approach
Lesson Type:
Reading
New Words and A Phrase:
postage, put forward, proposal, seal, deliver, system, postal
Procedures:
Step 1. Warm-up(6\')
1. Lead-in
Show some stamps, letters and postcards and have free talk to arouse students\' motivation.
2. Dealing with some new words
Q: Do you know the postage of a letter?
Explain \"postage\", and write postage on the Bb.
postage: payment for the carrying of letters
A: Fifty fen for any place in China except Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.
Q: What do the postmen do with the letters?
A: They take the letters from the postbox and carry them away to the places on the envelopes and deliver them to the addressed people.
Explain \"deliver\", and write deliver on the Bb.
deliver: take letters or goods to the addressed people.
Q: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps? Use OHP to project the question onto the screen.
Explain \"put forward\" and \"proposal\", and write them on the Bb.
put forward: put an idea before people for thinking over proposal: sth. proposed, plan or idea, suggestion
Again: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps?
Step 2. Skimming(4\'30\")
1. Instructions
T: Now I give you a passage to read, and for the first time you should only find the answer to the question. You have only two and a half minutes to read. So don\'t read word for word. Read quickly. Just try to find the answer.
2. Handing out the reading material and reading
3. Checking
Q: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps.
A: Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster in England.
Step 3. Scanning(6\')
1. Instructions
T: This time I give you three minutes to read the passage. When you are reading, find the answers to the two questions.
Use OHP to project the questions:
1. Why was the postage high in the early nineteenth century when people did not use stamps?
2. When was postage stamps first put to use?
2. Reading
3. Checking
1) Pair work
