Cultural corner +(WB P76) Listening and speaking

Teaching Objectives:

1.Grasp the words and expressions:

relationship, formal, discipline, relaxed, similarly, disturb, headmistress, extra help, timetable, behave badly, up to you

2.Develop reading, speaking and listening skills

3.Apply the learning strategies:

predicting ,obtaining information, analyzing and comparing

4.Foster the sense of cultural awareness:

Understand the differences in school systems and teacher-student relationship in varied countries.

Teaching aids: multi-media

Teaching Procedures:

Pre-reading activities

Introduce some colorful pictures about schools, teachers and students downloaded from the net. Ask the questions:

1. What do you think of the relationship between teachers and students?

2. How do you find the school?

Cultural corner

1. Scan the passage and find out the answers to the questions.

What kind of difference in schools does the passage describe?

What’s the difference between state schools and public schools?

2. Call back the answers from students.

Reading

1． Read the passage again and fill in the chart in pairs.

Countries

Relationship between

teachers and students state schools or

private schools

Northern Europe

France, Germany

Spain

Russia

America

Britain

China

2. Talk about the chart in pairs.

Match words and expressions with their definitions .

relationship be suitable for

formal like, the state of being like

discipline order, rules

relaxed connection, having sth. to do with

similarly in accordance with rules

be true of less tight or strict

Listening and speaking (P 76)

( Divide the class into A, B groups and have a competition .Make sure students understand how to compete. See which will get more points. Whoever loses will sing a song. )

Who will win, A or B ?

1. Revise some words and expressions in listening:

behave badly, disturb, headmistress, timetable, extra, up to you

That’s if it fits into our timetable.

2. Activity 10

Listen to Conversation 1 . Decide T or F of the statements( 1, 2, 4 ).

3. Activity 11

Go over the questions first. Listen again and choose the correct answers. Then call back the answers from class.

4. Activity 10

Listen to Conversation 2 and decide T or F of the statements (3,5).

5. Activity 12

Listen again and complete the sentences according to conversation 2.

Then report the answers to the class.

Homework:

Write a passage about the relationship between teachers and students in China.

點評：本課堂的教學(xué)利用現(xiàn)代多媒體教學(xué)設(shè)備，調(diào)動學(xué)生積極性，師生共同搜索相關(guān)資料并呈現(xiàn)于課堂，為學(xué)生在進(jìn)行閱讀活動之前，對國外的學(xué)校形成感性認(rèn)識，以便學(xué)生更好地完成快速閱讀的任務(wù)。閱讀練習(xí)設(shè)置多樣，也比較豐富，不僅考察了學(xué)生信息提取情況，也學(xué)習(xí)了一些新詞，在聽力練習(xí)前，一些詞句做了適當(dāng)?shù)木毩?xí)，也保證大部分同學(xué)能夠較順利地完成聽力活動，如果能將這一聽力熱身活動與前一段的快速閱讀相聯(lián)系，做一個類似Talk的口語活動會讓學(xué)生有更好的聽前準(zhǔn)備活動，比較順利地完成聽力任務(wù)的同時，也使口頭表達(dá)得以訓(xùn)練。