【考试咨询】浙江教师交流群：287234887｜微信公众号：浙江教师考试网

浙江教师招考公告｜浙江教师历年真题｜32学院免费课程｜面授班级

After greeting, I will show students some pictures about slogans about some tutorial centers then ask students to guess the names of them and how much students know them, in this way the teacher will lead the topic of “tutorial centers” very naturally and it can also arouse students’ interest.

Step 2 Pre-reading

Before reading I will let them do a simple survey among students about whether they have attended tutorial centers or not, how long they have attended, whether it’s effective to attend or not and so on.

By doing this, students can aware attending tutorial centers has become overspread, it can also attract students’ attention and lay a foundation for the following reading steps.

Step 3 While-reading

1. global reading

For the while-reading, students should do a global reading, they need to Read the first title and the first paragraph of four parts in 3 minutes and answer the following questions:

(1) What type of people wrote the letters?

(2) What are the people in the letters writing about?

During this activity, students’ skimming skills can be trained. It’s an individual work, so the autonomous learning method can be demonstrated also.

2. careful reading

After that I will let students read the passage again carefully in 10 minutes and answer the following questions:

(1) How did Mandy Zhang feel about using English after studying at the tutorial center?

(2) According to Rex Yang, what is the main aim of the owners of tutorial centers?

(3) Why does Simon Lan go to a tutorial center?

(4) What does Grace Li mean when she says, “You must do some detective work before you enroll”?

These questions can help students to understand this passage much better. This activity can also develop students’ scanning skills to grasp the detailed information.

Step 4 Post-reading

Through all the readings students can get the key points of this lesson, so I would like to arrange a debate for them to improve their communicative ability. The topic is whether they agree or disagree to attend a tutorial center, then they will give the reasons. They need to work in 2 groups, one group is for the argument and the other group is against the argument. After 10 minutes, I will invite the representatives of each group to share their ideas.

So this debate can achieve the emotional aims to increase their interest in discussing with others together and they can hold a correct attitude to attending tutorial centers. Also, they can develop critical thinking and speaking ability.

Step 5 Summary and homework

After all the activities I will show the key points on the screen and summarize together to help students to consolidate understanding of the passage.

After class, I will give students homework that they should write their opinions for or against students attending tutorial centers. It is a good way to cultivate their writing ability and critical thinking.

Blackboard design

The main information is demonstrated on the blackboard and its logic is clear.