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Teaching Plan
                            外研版选修6  模块1
The Wrong Kind of Small Talk
Teaching objectives :
1. Knowledge and skill:
1) To get the students to master some key words and expressions to enlarge their vocabulary;
2) To train the skills of fast reading and careful reading;
3) To develop students’ communicative ability by learning the text. 
2. Emotion and values
To get the students to experience the wrong kind of small talk, and learn to avoid such embarrassment in the daily communication.
3. Cultural awareness:
To enable the students to learn about the English culture of social communication and develop their social skills in their daily life..
4. Learning strategies:
1) Memory strategies: creating mental linkages 
2) Cognitive strategies: receiving and sending information
3) Social strategies: asking questions; cooperating with others; communicating with others.
Teaching importance and difficulties
1)Vocabulary
awkward, outspoken, absence, cautious, clerk, modest, hostess.
2)Sentence structure
I guess they chose you to discourage you from spending your whole career with us.
3)Improve students’ ability of reading fast and grasping useful information to comprehend passages.
Teaching strategies:
Student-centered teaching; task-based learning, pair-work; group work and cooperative learning.
Teaching aids: a multimedia computer
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Pre-reading
A video leads in the topic of the wrong kind of small talk
Step 2. Fast reading
Get the students to read the whole passage silently and choose the best answer.
Step 3 Careful reading
Careful reading for filling in a form of the brief introduction to Esther
Step 4 Paras.3--22
According to the stories, fill in the blanks.
Step 5 Paras.3--8
Design reading comprehension about the first two stories. 
Step 6 Paras.9--15
Fill in the blank and answer the question
Step 7 Paras. 16—18
Find out the sentence which has the similar meaning.
Step 8 Paras. 19—22
Pair work: To make up a dialogue between Esther and her friend to experience the embarrassment of the wrong kind of small talk. And then act it out.
Step 9 Sum up the structure of the passage. Learn of the author’s attitude.
Step 10 Finish the summary
Step 11 Free talk
To avoid such wrong kind of small talk, what should we do and what shouldn’t we do? Please give some advice.
Step 12 Homework.
Please write a letter to give Esther some advice on how to do proper small talk

Blackboard design

The Wrong Kind of Small Talk
absence                           We are the best!
  awkward                          We are the best!
                                 We are NO.1.
                                 We are NO.1.