Unit 5 Traveling abroadPeriod 1 A sample lesson plan for reading(KEEP IT UP, XIE LEI Chinese students fitting in well) IntroductionThis period will be warming up by students talking about what studying abroad is. Then students will first be guided to pre-read the text getting to know why people study aboard. The text will be read both for its forms and its contents. Useful expressions from the text will be found and copied. Sentences will be made with the expressions. Reading the text again for the type of writing and the summary of Keep it up, Xie Lei is to be done with the period ended in students drawing a diagram of the text and retelling it in their own words.ObjectivesTo help students understand the text’s forms and contents and learn about traveling abroadTo help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, expressions and structures learned in this unitFocusAidsMultimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagramsProcedures1. Warming up by talking about what studying abroad is?Good morning, class. What is this? Yes, it’s a photo. A photo of my daughter. She is studying abroad.Studying abroad is the act of a student pursuing educational opportunities in a foreign country. Typically classes are taken while studying abroad award credits transferable to higher education institutions in the home country. However, students may pursue these opportunities at any age and may not require college credit. Students studying abroad maylive in a dormitory or apartment with other students or with a "host family", a group of people who live in that country and agree to provide student lodging.Topics of study can vary. Some students choose to study abroad in order to learn a language from native speakers. Others may take classes in their academic major in a place that allows them to expand their hands-on experience (e.g. someone who’s studying marine biology studying abroad in Jamaica or a student of sustainable development living and studying in a remote village in Senegal). Still other students may study abroad in order to explore topics within the framework of a different educational system (e.g. a student of English who goes to the United States to study American literature).2. Pre-reading by getting to know why people study aboardWhy does my daughter go studying abroad?There are a variety of reasons students may choose to study abroad. It is as an opportunity for them to immerse themselves in a foreign culture and have experiences unattainable in their own country.As stated above, students may study abroad in an effort to expand their opportunities beyond those their home university offers. Learning a language is one of the most common reasons for studying abroad. Another is the opportunity to travel and experience new places. Many students also choose to study abroad in hopes of enhancing their employment prospects.Study abroad is also a form of diplomacy, whereby students from different countries are able to interact, overcome and appreciate cultural differences and build relationships with people outside their nativecountry. This is foreign relations on a personalized level and contributes to the current trend of globalization.3. Reading for formsRead the text again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.4. Copying expressionsYou are asked to copy all the useful expressions into your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from Keep It Up，Xie LeiChinese student fitting in wellsay goodbye to…跟……说再见, board a plane for…登上前往……的飞机, It is the first time…这是……的第一次, leave one’s home country.离开某人的祖国dream of …梦想……, meet … in the student cafeteria在学生餐厅碰到……, between lectures课间休息, complete a business qualification获得工商管理资格证书, halfway through the preparation year读完半年的预科班, enter a degree course进入学位课程, highly recommend…非常推荐……, need some preparation first首先需要做一些准备, get used to a whole new way of life 习惯一种全新的生活方式, take up all your concentration占去你的全部注意力, in the beginning在开始时, live in the same city居住在同一个城市, all her life她的一生, learn almost everything again几乎每件事都得再重新学习, feel like a child感觉象个孩子, how to pay on the bus乘公交时怎样付款, how to ask…for…如何向……要……, know the English for…知道……的英文, get lost迷失, ask a passer-by for directions向过路人问路, talk on listening tapes在听力磁带上说的那样, live with a host family与房东一家人同住,give… lots of good advice给……许多好的建议, live in student accommodation or apartments with other students和其他学生一起住在学生宿舍或公寓房里, board with English families寄宿在英国人家中, live with host families和房东家人住在一起, at university上大学, give … the opportunity to learn more about…给……提供机会学习更多……, customs in their new country他们新国家的风俗习惯, hear an expression听到……的表达, seem strange to…对……似乎奇怪, ask…for help向……寻求帮助, miss my family 想念我的家人, a great comfort很大的安慰, have a substitute family有个替身家庭, preparation course预科课程, get used to academic requirements of a Western university熟悉西方大学里在学术方面的要求, do the first essay for…做第一篇论文, find an article on the Internet在网上找到一篇文章, make a sort of summary of…做了一个…的小结, hand… in把……上交, get a really good mark得到一个高分, get an E得了一个E, numb with shock非常吃惊, first of all首先, without acknowledging…没有感谢……, as far as如……一样远, read lots of different texts阅读大量的不同文章, have different opinions 有着不同的观点, give one’s own opinions给出自己的见解, refer to…提及……, lack confidence to try…缺乏信心去试着做……, get the idea开始懂得，得到意旨, feel much more at home感到如在家般自在, at the beginning,在开始时 appear quite normal似乎很正常了, be so occupied ~ing that…如此忙于……, get used to…习惯……于, have a balance between…and…在……和……方面之间的平衡, join a few university clubs参加几个大学里的俱乐部, have… in common with…和……有……的共同之处, follow one’s progress跟踪某人的进展, in later editions of this newspaper在今后的几期的报纸中, wish…all the best with …’s enterprises衷心祝愿……事业有成, deserve to succeed应该取得成功5. Making sentences with the expressionsYou are to write your own sentences with the expressions you found from the text. Use as many non-restrictive clauses as possible.Sentences made with expressions from Keep It Up, Xie Lei1.Six months ago, I said goodbye to my father, who is sick in bed.2.I boarded a plane for China, which is a great country.3.It is the first time I left my home country, which is situated in centralAsia.4.I dreamed of becoming a college teacher for so long.5.I will meet you in the student cafeteria, which is five miles away southof the campus.6.Between lectures, I will go to the library, at which I read and rest duringthe noon.7.To complete a business qualification, I have to go to Japan, which iseast of my home country.8.Halfway through the preparation year, I entered a degree course whichwas highly recommended by my father.9.Quite different from my father, this man needs some preparation firstto get used to a whole new way of life here.10.I will take up all your concentration, about which I know little.11.In the beginning I lived in the same city for five years.12.To learn almost everything again, I felt like a child.13.You have to learn how to use the phone, which is red in color.14.I don’t know how to pay on the bus, which is driven by robots.15.I don’t know how to ask my teacher for help, which is very importantfor me.6. Reading more about studying abroad"I spent the 2002-2003 year at Beijing University in Japan, and I enjoyed myself so much that I will be returning to work for an additional 6 months. Being abroad, in a time of war, was an eye opening experience. I was in Tokyo for the largest public demonstration ever held in Japan, and it was unbelievable. Living and studying in Japan was absolutely brilliant... can't wait to get back to my local for a pint with my old mates from Vietnam." --- Lasa Tieja"I am emailing from an internet cafe in China, my study abroad country. After spending almost a year here, I am certain that the study-abroad experience is absolutely indispensable for global studies majors. Studying concepts of globalization and reading about the impacts can never compare to the experience of living in a country directly impacted by these processes. (Which are often overlooked in Russia, especially when it comes to cultural aspects.)" ---Yanfa Gata"My name is Shalanmu and I am a fourth year global major. I have been studying this entire year in Korea. I would say that no global studies education would be complete without studying abroad. Traveling is important, but seeing new places and cultures is not as powerful or important as living in new places and really getting to know what its like. Just learning how to communicate in a new language provides a wider lens and deeper range. Studying in Korea is definitely going to validate my degree in global studies. And if you're going to do study abroad, 6 months doesn't really cut it, because soon as you get your bearings and catch your breath its over and time to get backto India" --- Shalanmu7. Reading the text again for the type of writing and summary of Keep it up, Xie LeiDetermining the type of writing will help you determine the author’s topic (subject), purpose (why he is writing), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive, condeming, objective, etc.)It is important to find main ideas when reading. Main ideas help you remember important information. The main idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph. The topic tells what all or most of the sentences are about. The other sentences in the paragraph are called details. Details describe or explain the main idea. Read the text to find the main idea.7. Closing down by drawing a diagram of the text and retelling it in yourown wordsMost texts have a three-part structure—introduction, body, and conclusion. You can see this structure in texts whether they are narrating, describing, comparing, contrasting, or analyzing information. Each part of the text plays an important role in communicating writer’s meaning to the reader. Now read the text for its structure and draw a text diagram. Retell the text story with the help of the diagram if possible.。
