2024年3月14日发(作者：)

Unit 5 The Chinese Writing System: Connecting the Past and the Present Reading and

Thinking

Teaching Objectives: At the end of this period, you are expected to be able to:

1. To figure out the main structure of the passage through the analysis of G-P pattern.

2. share the Chinese language and culture to increase your cultural awareness.

3. judge the writing purpose/intended readers/the author's attitude/key information of

the passage.

4. express your own ideas on the given topics by critical thinking

Teaching Focus:

To apply different approaches of discourse analysis to deepen the understanding of the

text and language use.

To express personal ideas with the help of the target template and lexis.

Teaching Procedures:

I. Warming up

Game time: Guess and Answer

Prediction Look at the picture and the title of the passage, can you predict / guess

what the passage is mainly about ?

II. Guided Discourse Analysis

Teacher: Get everyone to figure out the discourse pattern of the text assisted by G-P

strategy, and share the lexis relevant to each topic.

*Students: Apply the G-P strategy, dig into the whole text and

share the related details as well as language from it.

Purpose: To figure out the theme, topic, thread, and transition of the text, 4-t strategy

Interactive Task 1: Figuring out textual pattern(语篇结构、模式)

Guided Questions:

1. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 1 ?

___________________________ ____________________

’s the main idea of each paragraph?

(Para2)__________________________

2(Para3) ___________________________

(Para4)____________________________

(Para5) ______________________________

(Para6) ______________________________

So the structure (结构) of this passage is ___________

III. Interactive Task 2: Theme analysis (主题分析)

*Teacher:

Let students analyze the pragmatic value of the text through different angles.

*Students: Recall the 10 angles of pragmatics analysis;

analyze the text through 4 angles and supply evidences or details.

Purpose: To integrate language with meaning as well as to foster students’ deep

learning skills

Read the passage carefully to find out the topic sentence (主题句 ) and supporting

details in each paragraph. Para1General statement:

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Conclusion:___________________________________________________________

What’s the function (作用) of the underlined sentence?________________

Para 2The topic sentence:__________________________________

Detail1: ________________________________________________________

Detail2____________________________________________________________

Para 3The general statement:_______________________ _________

Detail1: _______________________________________________________

Detail2:_____________________________________________________________

Conclusion :________________________________________________

Para 4The topic 3 sentence:_________________ _

Conclusion: ____________________________________________

Comment: _______________________________

What’s the purpose of underlined sentence _______________

Para 5The topic sentence:___________________________

Conclusion: __________________________

What’s the purpose of underlined sentence _________________________

Para 6The topic sentence:__________________________

Conclusion: _______________________

Purpose of the Comment: _____________________

IV. Interactive Task 3:

Analyzing pragmatic value(语用分析)

is the writing purpose of the passage?_________________

is the passage written for?_______________

Thread and transition:

Time events

Modern times At the beginning

By the Shang Dynasty Over the years

In the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE)

Even today

In the modern times

Today

V. Interactive

Task 4: Review topic related lexis/vocabulary

(用下面的提示词汇复述

4文章)Para here are many but one of the main factors

Para 2:At the begining, picture symbols it dates back

Para 3: over the years, developed into different forms ....it was a

time when ... however

Para 4 : Emperor Qin, united, develop in Even today

Para 5 : become in modern times ... art form

Para Chinese culture..an

VI. Interactive Task5 :

Group work

Discuss: choose one factor that has helped the Chinese language and culture survive

and give your reasons based on the lexis you have learned and G-P patterns Viewpoint :

Introduction:

Explanation:

Conclusion:

Assignment

① Look through the topics and lexis acquired in this period as well as this module.

② Read the supplementary material

Analyze the article with the help of 4-T angles and pragmatic analysis.

③Use your own words to briefly summarize the passage_

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