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初三教案第337期

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Issue 337

广州市陈嘉庚纪念中学

张妮妮

Students raise their own vegetables (P3)

1. Have you ever grown vegetables?

2. Do you know how to grow vegetables?

3. If you have a garden, what vegetables will you grown in it?

While reading

Choose the correct answer:

( B ) 1. The students grow _____ in the school garden.

A. flowers B. vegetables

C. grains D. fruits

( D ) 2. Which of the following isn’t taught in the program?

A. leadership B. team-building skills

C. environmental issues D. writing

( C ) 3. Colleen Royer is ____.

A. a gardening expert B. a student

C. the coordinator C. a teacher

( B ) 4. What did the students do with the ripe vegetables?

A. They sold the vegetables.

B. They cooked the vegetables and ate them.

C. They gave the vegetables to charities.

D. We don’t know.

Post-reading activities

Role play

Student A acts as the reporter of the school newspaper.

Student B acts as a student who has taken part in the program.

1) Student A prepares 3-4 questions.

2) Student A interviews Student B about the program and Student B’s feelings towards it.

2. You’re a student who took part in the program. Write an email to your pen pal about it.

Are you healthy enough…(P4-5)

1. Do you like PE class? Why or why not?

2. Do you like PE tests? Why or why not?

3. What tests must you take in your PE class; long jump, high jump, sit-ups, push-ups or endurance runs? Which ones are you good at?

While-reading

True or False

( F ) 1. All schools in the US use the Presidential Fitness Test.

( T ) 2. The Presidential Fitness Test has been used for more than 50 years.

( F ) 3. The students must get scores at or above 85 percent on all activities in the Presidential Fitness Test.

( F ) 4. Students in the US are tested only twice every year.

( T ) 5. Both the Presidential Fitness Test and the PE test check if the students are healthy.

( T ) 6. Junior students in China must take the PE test if they want to go to senior high school.

Post-reading activities

Group work:

Please list the activities in your PE lesson, such as long jump, 50-meter run and sit-ups.

Please use 2-4 sentences to describe your favorite activity.

2. You are a PE teacher. Please complete the following notice to your students.

In order to prepare for the entrance exam for senior high school, we need to do extra exercises on weekday mornings besides PE lessons.

On Monday, we will …

Bloody bullfight banned (P5)

1. Please use some adjectives to describe bullfighting.

2. Which country is famous for bullfighting?

3. What does a bullfighter do when he fights a bull?

While-reading

Choose the correct answer:

( A )1. Barcelona is ______.

A. a place B. a man

C. a bullfighter D. an animal lover

( B )2. Bullfighting is popular in ______.

A. Asia B. Europe

C. Africa D. Oceania

( B )3. Which of the following is not done by the bullfighter when he fights a bull?

A. He angers the bull.

B. He throws darts at the bull.

C. He avoids and exhausts the bull.

D. He kills the bull.

( C )4. Which of the following statements is not true according to the article?

A. Bullfighting is an exciting sport.

B. Bulls are always killed at the end of bullfighting.

C. King Felipe V banned bullfighting because he thought it was bad for the bulls.

D. The writer thinks it is good to ban bullfighting.

Post-reading activities

1. Debate

Divide into two groups. One is for bullfighting while the other one is against it. Ask them to have a mini debate. They can use the article for reference.

Useful expressions:

I think bullfighting is …; in my opinion…; I believe…; set a … example;

2. Work in groups of four.

You are animal lovers. Please design a poster to call on people to ban bullfighting.

After you have finished, ask one member of your group to explain the poster to the whole class.

Differences make beauty (P6)

1. Do you think a cracked pot is useless?

2. What can you use a cracked pot to do?

3. What shortcomings do you have? How do you deal with them?

While-reading

True or False

( F ) 1. The old woman didn’t know that one of the pots had a crack.

( T ) 2. The old woman used the pots to carry water home every day.

( T ) 3. The perfect pot carried twice as much water as the cracked pot did.

( T ) 4. The cracked pot was ashamed of its crack.

( F ) 5. Someone planted flower seeds outside of the woman’s home.

( T ) 6. “Our own cracks” means our own imperfections.

Post-reading activities

1. Writing:

You are the cracked/perfect pot. Write about a day of your life and what you think of the other pot. Use the article as reference.

Post-reading activities

2. Give a speech:

“Each of us has our own cracks. But it’s these cracks that make our lives together so interesting and meaningful.”

What are your cracks? How have they made your life interesting and meaningful?

Write a speech and then give it to the whole class.