Communication Workshop

Teaching Aims:

①. Learn to use the linking words to make an anecdote more compact.

②. Learn to paraphrase words and phrases in the passage.

③. Get some knowledge about the novel and the writer

Teaching Important and Difficult Points:

To understand the story and master the linking words

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warm up

Enjoy some pictures and introduce the plot and the writer of the novel

Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput.

Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag.

Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdrib, Luggnag and Japan.

Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.

Summary of Gulliver's Travels

Pt. I: Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is shipwrecked at Lilliput where the inhabitants are six inches tall, except their emperor who is taller by almost the "breadth of my nail" than...

Pt. II: In Brobdingnag, the natives are as tall in proportion to Gulliver as the Lilliputians were short. He engages in lengthy discussions with...

Pt. III: In Laputa, men abandon all common sense and concern themselves with speculative...

Pt. IV: Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, where intelligent horses are the masters and the...

Ⅱ. Reading

Task 1: Read the story and match the headings (1-8) with the Paragraphs (A-G). There is one extra heading.

A 2 B 4 C 8 D 1

E 6 F7 G 3