REALIZING YOUR POTENTIAL

Yilin Press C1 U1
Reading
CONTENT ：
 analysis of teaching material
 analysis of students
 teaching objectives
 teaching methods
 teaching procedure
Analysis of teaching material

 It is a principal's opening speech

to help students quickly adapt to
high school life and find their own
goals.
Analysis of the students

 Students know at least 1500

words.
 Students are filled with curiosity,
anticipation, and anxiety about
high school life
Teaching objectives
Language ability Thinking capacity
understand what potential is adopt a positive attitude towards
and how they can develop it. the lives in senior high school.

Cultural awareness Learning ability

know about the structure, the master the reading skills such as
language style and the purpose prediction, skimming and
of the speech. scanning.
Teaching methods

 For achieving these teaching objectives, I will use the following teaching
methods.

 1. Task-based Language Teaching

 2. Communicative Language Teaching
 3. Presentation, Practice and Production model
Teaching procedures
Lead in(3mins)
pre-reading(5 mins)
Teaching procedures
Prediction(2mins)

Skimming(8mins)
while-
reading(28mins)
Scanning(20mins)

Group
post- discussion(10mins)
reading(12mins)
Homework (2mins)
 PRE-READING
LEAD IN(3MINS)

1. How do you think senior high school will be different from

junior high school?
2. What is your potential?

Justification:
These two questions are closely related to students' daily lives and can
quickly stimulate their enthusiasm and interest, helping to concentrate their
attention.
Predict from the title
What is our potential?
Why should we realize our potential?
How can we realize our potential?
PREDICTION
Justification ： (2MINS)
Using the article title as a clue for prediction
can effectively assist students in their future
reading of the article.
WHILE-READING
SKIMMING(8MINS)
 Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph and summarize the
structure of the passage.
Para1. Welcome to senior high school!

Para2. I can't wait to describe to you what senior high school life is like.

Para3. Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough.

Para4. To fully realize your potential, it is important for you to make the most of our school resources.

Para5. Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude.

Para6. You alone are responsible for realizing your great potential.
 SKIMMING(8MINS)
Main idea Structure

Para1. Welcome the audience Beginning

Para2. Describe what senior high school life is like Description of school life

Para3. What is potential Definition of potential

Para4. How to realize your potential

Advice on realizing potential
Para5. How to realize your potential

Para6. Encouragement and expectation Ending

Justification: In this part, students will notice that topic sentences play an important role, for it
tells the main idea of the paragraph, and it usually at the beginning of the paragraph.
SCANNING(20MINS)
For example:

1. What canread
 Activity1. wethe
learn from
passage paragraph
carefully 2? the detailed information
and find
• A. The new journey is not difficult to make.
• B. Overcoming the challenges will bring about new chances.
• C. Meeting challenges will help you acquire knowledge rather than personal growth.
• D. Their potential in a new environment will surely be reached.

2. To fully realize your potential, you are expected to ______.

• A. Rise to the challenges unconditionally
• B. Have confidence in your abilities
• C. Make good use of your school resource
• D. Discover your potential during the three-year journey

Justification: This way, students can quickly familiarize themselves with the
text and have a more specific grasp of the article.
 Activity2. Understand the characteristics of speech as a genre

Interesting
stories/ask
questions

Keep the audience

A good speech Quotations( 引语 ) Metaphor( 暗喻 )
interested

Rhetorical
devices( 修辞手 Repetition( 反复 )
法)

Parallelism( 排
比)
What rhetorical devices does the principal use? Find
examples from the speech.
 Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a
promising future.
Metaphor
Exercises: Time is money.

Life is a journey.

All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
 Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a
promising future.
Repetition

Exercise:
Today is the first day of our new beginning, the first day of being a senior high
school student, and the first day to pursue our beautiful dreams.

Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create, what medical advances
you will make or what amazing technologies you will develop!
Parallelism

Exercise:
I have confidence in your ability to make a difference to your family, to your
community and to your country.
POST-READING
DISCUSSION(10MINS)
 Discuss in groups, what else ways does the principal use to keep his audience
interested? Find examples from the speech.
HOMEWORK(2MINS)
 Suppose you were the representative of Grade 1 new students, and you were asked
to deliver a speech titled “Realizing our potential” at the flag-raising ceremony. (80-
100 words)
 A suggested structure:
Part 1 Opening paragraph----welcome your audience
Part 2 Body paragraph
1 What is senior high school like in your opinion?
2 What challenges will you encounter in this period?
3 What positive attitude should you develop?
4 What methods can you use to handle these problems to be a better person?
Part 3 Ending paragraph---encourage your fellows and express thanks
Thank you for your listening!