说起吉普赛人，你会想到什么？神秘的水晶球？预知未来的塔罗牌？四处漂泊的大篷车？随遇而安的流浪者？让我们一起走进枫叶高中Silvia老师的课堂，一起领略吉普赛人的那些点点滴滴。

Talking about gypsies, what would you think of? Crystal ball which is full of mystery? Tarot which can predict the future? Wagons which wander around the world? Rangers who settle their home wherever they feel comfortable? Let's come to Silvia’s class of Wuhan Maple Leaf International School to learn something about the Gypsies.

本节课的阅读材料是《吉普赛，一个濒危的文化》。Silvia老师在学生阅读材料之前，先简要介绍了一些吉普赛人的文化生活，让学生提前有了一些背景知识。之后，Silvia将学生进行了分组，并让学生带着问题和任务进行分组阅读。在学生们阅读的过程中，Silvia老师不断鼓励学生多多讨论，互相学习。

The theme of this reading class is Gypsies—an Endangered Culture. Before reading, Silvia gave a brief introduction covering the culture and lifestyle of the Gypsy, so that students can have some background knowledge in advance. After that, Silvia grouped the students and asked them to read the passage with questions and tasks. In the process of reading, Silvia constantly encouraged students to discuss and learn from each other.

在学生们完成了阅读任务之后，Silvia老师以小组为单位，邀请学生代表将本小组的答案写到白板上，同时设置附加问题，即用本节课的重点词汇造句。

After the students completed the reading task, Silvia invited one student of each group as the student representative to write down answers on the whiteboard. At the same time, Silvia also gave students some extra questions, that is, made sentences with the key words which will be learned in this lesson.

在介绍吉普赛这个民族的过程中，Silvia老师还穿插着进行了一些游戏环节。老师邀请了学生们通过描述猜中国的少数民族，这很好地扩充了学生的知识面，也锻炼了学生的口语和听力技能。

In the process of introducing the nationality of the gypsy, Silvia also interspersed with some guessing games. The teacher invited the students to guess some Chinese ethnic minorities through descriptive information, which played an active role in enriching students' knowledge, but also exercised the students' oral and listening skills.

在课堂的最后环节，老师带着学生复习了本节课的重点词汇。相信通过本堂课，学生对吉普赛民族有了基本的认识和了解，进一步扩充了学生的文化背景知识。

In the final part of the class, Silvia led students to go over the key words of this lesson. We believe that through this class, students have got a basic understanding about the Gypsy family, thus further expanding the students' cultural background knowledge.