Lecturer: Ji Yun

School: Qingdao No.2 Middle School

Place: Lecture Theater

(Room 417, Fourth Floor, Teaching Building )

Time: Dec. 16th, 2005

教学案例：

Teaching Aims:

Help the students learn more about World War II.

Have a deep understanding of the significance of the D-Day Landings as well as the importance of world peace.

Improve the students' reading comprehension ability.

Type of Lesson:

a reading comprehensive lesson

Teaching Aids: Multimedia

Teaching Methods: Task based method

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 、 Lead-in (9')

1. Show war logo, anti-war logo and peace logo to the students. (1')

Get two representatives of two groups to do presentations, talking about1) World War II2) the D-Day Landings. (6')

Summarize the D-Day glossary. (2')

Allies: Countries that fought against the Axis Powers.

Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF): under the command of General Eisenhower. Twelve nations supplied troops and material for it, including the United States , Canada , France , and the United Kingdom .

Axis Powers: The alliance of Germany , Italy , and Japan .

Operation Overlord: code name for the military operation in 1944 to invade France .

D-Day / H-Hour: The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which an attack or operation is to be launched. %26quot;D%26quot; for the day of the invasion and %26quot;H%26quot; for the hour the operation actually begins.

D-Day landings: D-Day Invasion or Invasion of Normandy

Step 2 、 Reading (26')

Passage 1 (10')

Listen to the tape with books closed (2')

Discuss with your partners and answer the questions about passage 1: (4')

What event started the Second World War?

What was the purpose of Operation Overlord?

What nationality were the troops taking part in the landing?

Where was the most dangerous place to land?

Show a map of the landings to the students. (4')

Passage 2 (9')

fast reading (2')

Choose the correct endings to the sentences. (2')

When the Germans started firing at the boats, _____ .

the boats were so far from the beach that they weren't hit.

The boat were one kilometer from the beach.

When Boat 5 was hit by a shell, ______ .

everyone was killed.

most of the men were rescued from the water.

The men from Boat 3 had problems in the water because ______ .

their backpacks were too heavy.

The water was too deep.

Six men tried to climb up the cliff and ______ .

some of them managed to reach the top