Unit 12 Which is your favorite? I.Analysis of students
In the teaching program, the partners are Grade eight students who are about 14 years old.After one years` learning, some of them gained a lot of basic knowledge and became more confident, but a few of them seems could not follow their step and they lost their confidence in the cla.So, it is very important to ask them to do preview.Junior students always full of energy and they are eager to know more things and want to expre themselves ,so if teachers can apply interesting and appropriate ways in claes and encourage them at most of time, especially in the listening and speaking cla, students will be more interested in English and more confident than before.II.Teaching objectives
A.Knowledge Objectives: 1.By the end of the cla, students will be a master of the following words and expreions:
favorite January February March April May June July August September October November December
2.By the end of the cla, students will be able to use the following sentence patterns:
a.what’s your favorite…
b.I like … best of all.
c.I like….,I like…., but my favorite is..
d.what’s date is it today?
e.what day is it today?
3.By the end of the cla, students will be able to
B.Ability Objectives:
1.By the end of the cla, students will be able to talk about what’s their favorite food or sports.
2.By the end of the cla, students will know the pronounce and the spelling of each month.
3.By the end of the cla, students will be able to use the right form of verb in different situations.
4.By the end of the cla, students will be able to use some common words of our daily life.C.Emotion Objectives: By the end of the cla, students will know what are their favorite and insist on it.III.Teaching Key Points and Difficulties 1.Teaching Key Points:
a.learn to talk about what are their favorite b.the words of each month c.past tense of verbs and plural form of nouns 2.Teaching Difficulties: a. learn to talk about what are their favorite b. the words of each month and pronounce
c.
past tense of verbs and plural form of nouns
IV.Teaching Procedures: Step1.Lead-in (4miutes) Purpose: The lead-in part is the prelude of this leon.Daily greeting turn students` attention to the English cla and create a pleasant atmosphere in which students are able to be involved in English learning.And the following questions lead in the topic.(Do you like basketball? Do you like football? Do you like pingpang? But what’s your favorite? Lead in the topic.) Activity1: Daily Greeting.Purpose: Give students the information that cla is begin, draw their attention to the cla, also, it can reduce the distance between I and students, so that make the teaching proce going smoothly.In this part, I will greet all the students, and the students will response.Activity2: I love words Purpose: Check students` learning situation about new words of this unit.Before learning new contents, we should be familiar with the new word, so that the teaching activities can go smoothly.In this part, I will ask students play the word chant.Activity3: Answer questions Purpose: Lead in today’s topic In this part, firstly, I will ask students “Do you like basketball? Do you like football? Do you like pingpang? But what do you like best?”, and after students replied, I will say“so … is your favorite, the same as: … is your favorite sports.”and explain the meaning and use of favorite and let students follow my sentence, in this way, I can lead in this cla succefully.Step2.Presentation (8 minutes) Purpose: The presentation part is used to introduce the topic and give the students clear instructions on what they will study. Activity1.How to ask the day? Purpose: present a picture which have twelve words of each month and I will read for them also explain the meaning of each word and ask them follow me to read, and after students replied, I will teach them a phase “ what’s the date is it today?”, and show the difference with “what day is it today ?”and also teach them the representation method of the date .(give an example :December 1st 1997, December 1 1997, Dec.1,1997.1st December,1997)And especially tell them: before the date, we should use a “the”.Activity2.Teach sentences.Purpose: still follow today’s central contents.In this part, I will teach students the following sentences:
I have a meeting this afternoon
She has a meeting this afternoon
I am having a meeting now
I had a meeting last night
After doing this, I will ask a question that “can you tell me the difference and the relations of these four sentence? You may find answers and more example on our text book, so, let’s read the statements in 4a and circle it together”.In this way, I can guide students into the next activities naturally.Activity3.Read the statement in 1a and circle it.Purpose: Present new key pints: do does did doing In this part, I require students read these sentences on 4a with me, they will find the new key points.And during the reading, students can make a deep impreion on the new, and can find the usage of the new expreions.I explain the meaning and teach them the past tense of verbs, third person singular form of verbs, and the present form of verbs.Then follow this way go on the other 5 sentences.After this, students can generally use this expreion.Activity4.Read the six sentences again.Purpose: Deepen the impreion.Step 3: Speaking Practice (16 minutes) Purpose: The core purpose is to train students’ speaking ability under the guidance of CTL.As we all know, the most important reason to learn language is to be able to communicate with other people.Most of these communications happened in the form of spoken language.So speaking practice part in this cla is crucial to improve the students’ oral language. Activity1.Make a list Purpose: Make a prelude for next activity In this part, I will ask students make a list of things they like to do best and their birthday.The list is prepared for the next speaking practice.Activitiy2.Speak out your list Purpose: Encourage students open their mouse, so that cultivate students` speaking ability.In this part, I will ask students discu their list in groups, 2 guys a group, and use the phrase “what’ your favorite things? and what’s the date is your birthday ”.When students sharing with their partner, they will be more relax and they can practice the phrase.Activity3.Show your list Purpose: Give chance to students to perform and also check their learning situation.In this part, I will let 2 group of student show their conversation, admire their good performance also correct the mistakes they made in their conversation.Step 4: Listening Practice (6 minutes) Purpose: The listening practice is used to enhance their listening competence through the proce of completing a succeion of tasks. Activity1.listen to the type and work on 4b Purpose: Check the listening competence of students.In this part, firstly I will let students read these sentences in 4b, then, let them listening to Mike and his mother’s talking and finish 4b.after they do it, I will check the answer with them.
Step 5: Pair-work (8 minutes) Purpose: This part is to consolidation, it will help students have a review of today’s content especially the key points and difficult points.Activity1.Pairwork Purpose: Practice make perfect, through this proce, students will have a review of today` content especially the key points and difficult points.In this part, I will ask them look at the statement in 4c and 2 guys a group make conversations, use the phrases in the box below.When students are making conversations, I walking on the claroom listen.Activity2.Show your sentence.Purpose: Give students opportunity to show their conversation, also can check how much the mast of today’s contents.In this part, I will point 2 groups of students to show their conversation.Step 6: Homework (3 minutes) Activity1.Share a word
Purpose: The cla not only teaches student knowledge but also some principles In this part, I will show a sentence-Rules like an umbrella, protect every one of us on my PPT, and ask volunteers to tell me It’s meaning, which aim to students can gained something in this word.Activity2.Show the homework on the ppt.Purpose: Practice make perfect, homework is the complement of the teaching proce, and it’s very useful for students to review what they have learnt in the cla.Desired Effect: This leon is designed in accordance with the above steps.Students are expected to be actively involved in a series of tasks that the teacher prepared before cla.By means of accomplishing these activities, students can ask the date in English and use the English to describe the date and expre what is their favorite thing fluently both in oral and written English and improve their integrated competence, especially listening and speaking skills.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to take this opportunity to expre my heartfelt gratitude towards all people who helped me during the writing of this thesis.A special acknowledgement should be shown to Profeor Qin, from whose lectures I benefited greatly.I am also particularly indebted to my roommate Mr.wang, who gave me kind encouragement and useful instructions all through my writing.Finally I wish to extend my thanks to the library aistants who supplied me with reference materials of great value.
