Submitted by Xu Zhang
Objectives:
Content:
Students will:
- Use mental maps to review the map of the old city of Beijing;
- Use the map of Beijing's urban development to talk about the patterns of urbanization;
- Make sense of and talk about the statistics of urban development
Cultural:
Students will:
- Think objectively about the merits and drawbacks of urbanization from different perspectives;
- Understand the cultural reasons for the patterns of urbanization and people's feelings of this phenomenon.
Language: Content Obligatory
Students will:
- Use the following words and phrases (see Attachments, Word List Lesson 6, List 1)
- Use the following grammatical structures (see Attachments, Grammar List Lesson 6, List 1)
1. The Chinese comparative and superlative
2. The patternLanguage: Content Compatible
Students will:
- Use the following pattern to describe the chart (see Attachments, Grammar List Lesson 6, List 2)
Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Time Frame:
1.5 hour
Materials Needed:
- Blank sheets of paper or maps
- A map of urban development
- Segments of a urban development chart
- Recording of a monologue on urban development
Description of Assessment (Performance Project):
Context:
In their history and geography lessons the students should have learned how to read historical maps, human migration maps, and statistical charts.Pre-task:
The urban areas of the old city of Beijing. This is an individual/pair-whole class activity. The students (individually or in pairs) draw their own mental map of the old city of Beijing (which they learned and remembered from the previous lessons). They should mark out the city areas, the axial line, and the center of the city. When they finished, the teacher may select students to come to the frond and piece out their own correctly with the teacher and the whole class commenting. An alternative to this is to give students blank maps of the old city and make them fill in the districts. This is a short activity for activating the students' schemata and arousing interest.Task set-up:
The students are given a map of Beijing's urban development (pp133-134 Sit, 1995). In pairs they are to discuss: "what have you seen in the map? What does this indicate?". The teacher listens to each pair while they discuss. After the discussion, the pairs are to contribute their observations to the whole class. Teacher writes their answers on the chalkboard.During task:
Pair-group jigsaw presentation. The students are given a chart containing statistical information about Beijing's urban development (table 5.3, p128, Sit 1995). As what they have done in lesson 5, each pair gets a segment of the chart. The pairs are to find and present patterns of urbanization, trends, discuss what decisions by the city government that they think are good, and what problems they have found and why. Then the students are to come to the front and piece the chart together and present their discussion results. The in groups of 4 the students are to find out the cross cell/category patterns, trends, merits and problems, and to present them. The teacher is to evaluate their performance with the table shown in the attachment, Assessment Lesson 6, List 1.Post-task:
Listen to a native speaker talking about her feelings of urbanization. Students then answer the following questions on a piece of paper. The questions are provided in the attachment, Tasks Lesson 6, Category 1.After listening, each pair exchanges their answer sheets and does a peer evaluation as the teacher discusses the answers together with them. Teacher then collects the answer sheet.
Assessment:
Embedded in the tasks
References and Resources:
Sit, V. (1995). Beijing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: Chichester, NY, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore. (see the cover for a picture of Beijing's old city; p61 and p75 for the old city area of Beijing; pp133-134 for maps of urban development; and p128 for the table of planned urban expansion).
Marlene
audio files on urbanization: in folder "new_bj_urbanization", including 7 audio files "bj_urbanization" 1-7, and a word doc "Description Urbanization"
Attachments:
NOTE: some attachments are in PDF form (get Acrobat Reader)Word List Lesson 6.PDF (List 1)
Grammar List Lesson 6.PDF (List 1 and 2)
Tasks Lesson 6.PDF (Category 1)
Assessment Lesson 6.PDF (List 1)