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Theme：人与社会——重要国际组织与社会公益机构

Content Type：speech transcript

Class duration：40 min.

Content Analysis：

【What】本板块语篇为演讲稿，话题为联合国。身为一名联合国亲善大使，作者介绍了联合国的背景知识和使命。他强调了联合国在饮水安全、消除贫困和教育三方面所做出的努力和取得的成就，并在语篇最后呼吁大家为建立一个更美好的世界做出积极贡献。

【Why】本文旨在加深学生对于联合国的理解，培养学生国际视野，提升学生构建人类命运共同体的意识与能力。

【How】本文遵循演讲稿的总分总基本结构，结构清晰，条理清楚，确保读者能够理解作者观点。在文中作者使用了举例、列数字和引用名人名言等多种写作手法，使其观点更有说服力。

Students Analysis:

Students in Senior 3 should have the basic reading skills of getting the main idea and figuring out the structure of a given passage, and they have some knowledge about the structure of a speech transcript. However, they may not be familiar with the words and background information related to the United Nations. Some of them might need additional help in summarizing the opinions of the author.

Learning aims:

By the end of this section, students will be able to:

1. Figure out the structure of the speech transcript;

2. Retell the missions and achievements of the UN in their own words;

3. Develop the desire and passion to help others.

Teaching focus and difficulty:

Teaching focus-grasp the main idea and the structure of the speech transcript

Teaching difficulty-how to summarize the achievements of the UN in students’ own words

Teaching facilities:

PPT, blackboard and chalks, textbooks.

Teaching procedures:

Steps

Activities

Purpose

Mode&Time

Pre-reading

Step 1

Ss answer the two questions:

1. What do you know about the United Nations?

2. Which world problem do you think requires urgent attention and should be addressed first? Why

Trigger Ss’ background information and arouse the interest.

3’ CW

While reading

Step 2

Ss go through the whole passage quickly and finish Part A1 on page 32.

Figure out the structure of the script and the main idea of each part

2’ IW

Step 3

Ss go through the passage again.

1. Read Para.1 and answer:

Why does the speaker describe the background to the establishment of the UN in detail? What effect does it have on the audience?

2. Read Para.2 and answer:

When was the first meeting of the UN held? How many member states was there?

3. Read Para.3-5 and fill in the blanks:

Fields	Efforts	Achievements
Providing clean drinking water	l Recommending the amount of water for personal and domestic uses. l Calling for transboundary water cooperation. l Providing clean water for needy communities through various water projects.	The percentage of people with easy access to safe drinking water increased to 74.3%.
Ending poverty	l Focusing on understanding how people experience poverty in other ways besides income. l Identifying three key dimensions, which comprise ten indicators. l Working with governments and communities.	The UN can find the root causes of poverty and ensure that those causes are efficiently addressed.
Promoting education	l Creating many education programmes such as the Reimagine Education initiative. l Ensuring more children have access to the education programmes.	The UN helps remove long-standing barriers to learning and support every child’s right to learn.

4. Read Para.6 and answer:

At the end of the speech, Howard Zinn is quoted as saying,”Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” How do you understand this quote?

Through different tasks, guild Ss to pay attention to the details of the passage, making preparations for the summary part.

20’

IW,

Step 4

Pair work: Choose one issue the UN is tackling and retell the measures and achievements in your own words.

Retell the content using own words.

5’ PW

Post-reading

Step 5

Answer the questions below:

1. What kind of writing strategies does the writer use in this passage? What is the effect?

2. Do you think it’s necessary to use these writing strategies in a speech? Why or why not?

Guild Ss to reflect on the writing strategies of a speech.

5’ IW

Step 6

Write a summary of the transcript and introduce the UN in front of the whole class.

5’ IW

Homework:

1. Polish up your own summary.

2. Underline unfamiliar words and phrases in the passage.

Notes:

Ss: Students T: Teacher IW: Individual work GW:Group work CW:Class work

Blackboard Design

唐玉婷

单丽娟

翟林一

高春萍

高馨

高英

胡思霞

刘佳佳

陆赟

钱佳

史俊杰

王珏

徐禄

徐婷燕

张怡

张正良

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