M7 U2 Project Exploring Chinese medicine南京九中吕若男Teaching Objectives:1. Students are expected to read a passage about Chinese acupuncture2. Improve students’ reading, speaking and thinking abilities.3. Enable students to prepare and present a dialogue and an oral report on Chinese medicine.Teaching Approaches:Task-based approachesForm of Activities:Individual, pair or group work and topic discussions.Teaching Aids:The multimedia and the blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step 1 Lead-in1. Freetalk: talking about getting ill and the hospitals the students prefer to go to when they are ill, which aims at introducing the topic of Chinese medicine.T: As we know, spring has come, and it’s a beautiful season. But in the season , people tend to get ill easily. Would you tell me which hospital in Nanjing would you prefer to go to ?S:…T: As for me, I prefer to go to Jiangsu Hospital of Chinese medicine. Do you know why? Because I have faith in Chinese medicine. It’s really safe and magic and has many special treatments, for example…(Showing a picture of acupuncture treatment on the screen and ask students a question)Q: What is happening to the person? (She is receiving an acupuncture treatment.)2. V ocabulary teaching: talking about 3 basic factors of acupuncture and study somekey words related to understanding acupuncture and the passage.Blackboard: acupuncture, needle, point, pulse, energy channel, arrowhead, sword-like Step 2 Reading1. Read Para 1 and 2 to find information about history and development of Chinese acupuncture and acupuncture needles.Ask students to read the part quickly and collect the information to fill in the chart above and check the answers with the whole class.2. Read aloud Para 3 together and find necessary information to finish the exercise about points.3. Read Para 4 to find relative information about checking pulse and the purpose of it.4. Read Para 5-6 to answer questions about functions of acupuncture and theory of the treatment.• Q1: What medical problems can acupuncture treat?• Q2:How does acupuncture reduce and relieve pain• A1: bad pains( such as neck and back pains), headaches, injuries, stomach problems and blood pressure problems.addictions to cigarettes, drugs, alcohol and food (overeating).•A2: blocks pain signals from reaching the spinal cordpromotes the production of chemicals in the body which reduce pain Step 3 FeedbackRetell what have been learnt about Chinese acupuncture with the assistance of key words.acupuncture•history•development•needles•points•pulses/ energy channel,•insert/symptom/swollen…Step 4 Extension1.Discuss other branches of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese treatment:showing pictures of different kinds of traditional Chinese treatment: cupping, Gua Sha treatment, massage, dietotheraphy, traditional Chinese herbal medicine.pare Chinese and western medicine (medical science)Key words: treatment, history, effect…3.Make up a dialogue between Steven and Li Hua talking about Chinese medicine,based on what have been learnt about acupuncture and the discussion about Chinese medicine.Key words:•Acupuncture: history, needles, points, pulse, energy channel, insert,symptom, swollen, addictions, pain, relieve…•Branches: acupuncture / cupping(拔火罐) /Gua Sha treatment / massage (推拿) /traditional Chinese medicine (中药)•Differences from Western medicineStep 5 Homework1. Write an article about traditional Chinese medicine (one herb or treatment).2. Finish the exercises of this unit.。