I. Teaching objects
The second grade of senior high school.
II. Teaching aims
A. To develop students’ basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Reading is the focus in this lesson. Reading skills for students include (predicting, skimming, scanning and digesting.);
B. To encourage students to practice, participate, and co-operate in the classroom activities;
C. To get students to grasp the important language points: subjects and verbs;
D. To master more words describing weather;
E. To make students master making introductions and suggestions.
III. Teaching approaches
Communicative approach and Computer-Assisted Instruction are to be used in the course of this lesson.And teacher should limit teacher’s talking time and increase student’s talking time.
During this lessons, emphasis are to be laid on:
A. Teaching vocabulary through pantomiming, realia and other visuals;
B. Teaching grammar by using an inductive approach (i.e. having learners find out rules through the presentation of adequate linguistic forms in the target language);
C. Centrality of spoken language (including a native-like pronunciation);
D. Focus on question-answer patterns.
IV. Teaching important and difficult points
A. To enable the students to infer general meaning from the tile and context and predict the meaning of special words from context.
B. To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills by activities.
C. To master the grammar about “subjects” and “verbs”;
D. To master the grammar about attributive clauses(that/which) and adverbial clause of time;
E. To understand the grammar about passive voice;
F. To teach students how to express their own opinions in English freely.
V. Learning method
A. Self-study method
Firstly, ask students to prepare before each period, look up new vocabulary in a dictionary, preview the new text and bring forward questions they don’t understand in the class;
Secondly, after each period, students should review new vocabulary and grammar they study in the class;
Thirdly, students must finish their homework by their own.
B. cooperation study method
Firstly, in the self-study stage, students have any questions they can’t solve by themselves, they can discuss with classmates or ask teacher;
Secondly, in the class, some activities can be finished by group or pair work.
Period I
Introduction & Reading and Vocabulary (1)
Step 1:Warm up and lead-in(Pre-reading)
A:Teach students to read the new words in P151 from (1) to (3).
B:Show some pictures and videos to students and to get them know about Antarctic such as plants, animals, and the land initially, and then finish the activity 1 in P1 together.
Step 2: Reading (Skimming)
A: Ask students to read the activity 2 in the P2.
B: Students are required to go through the whole passage quickly to get the general idea and pay special attention to the first or last paragraph of the article (or the first sentence or the last sentence of each Para). And then finish the activity 1 and 2 in P2.
C: Ask some students to say out their answers about activity 1 and 2, and then check their answers.
D: Encourage students to read the article again and find out they don’t understand; invite students to put up their hands and tell teacher what they don’t understand, and then teacher explain the word that students don’t understand and important vocabulary.
E: Ask students finish activity 3 in P3 and activity 4 in P4, and check their answers.
Homework
Write a composition to introduce your hometown or someplace about 120 words. Include information about:
A: The weather and natural environment;
B: Custom;
C: What are the suggestions you want to give if someone goes there.
Period Ⅱ
Grammar(1) &Reading and vocabulary(2)
Step 1: Review(dictation)
The teacher give the pupils dictation about word studied in the last period to the whole class and invite two students to write on blackboard.
Step 2:Ask students to finish the activity 1 in P5 in pairs, and then ask some students to answer the questions in activity 2. But teacher don’t say the right answer until finish the step 3.
Step 3:Review of subjects.
A: Teacher firstly make sentences in Chinese to explain what are the subjects.
B: Teacher use some examples to explain what structures can be used as subjects.
C: Check the answers about activity 1.
Step 4: Work in pairs. Check the structures that can be used as subjects.
Step 5: Warm up and lead in (Pre-reading)
Ask students to read the advertisement in the activity 1 and say why they would/wouldn’t reply to it.
Step 6: Reading
A: Skimming
Students are required to go through the whole passage quickly to get the general idea and pay special attention to the first or last Paragraph of the article (or the first sentence or the last sentence of each Paragraph.) and then finish the activity 2 and 4 in P6.
B: Study new vocabulary and review important grammar structure in the article together, give students about eight minutes to finish activity 5 and 6, and then ask some students to answer the questions.
Homework
Recite the 5th paragraph of How Failure Became Success.
Period Ⅲ
Listening & writing
Step 1: Ask about 8 students to recite the 5th paragraph of How failure Became Success(Firstly, ask 5 students to recite of their own accord, and then ask 3 students who don’t put up their hands to recite).
Step 2: Listen the radio programme and ask students to answer the questions in P8 in activity 1.
Step 3: Listen again and ask students to answer the questions in activity 2(teacher must find out what are questions and difficulties students have ).
Step 4: Ask students to listen the radio carefully and according to the students’ questions and difficulties, when the radio show important information teacher should stop the radio and ask students to repeat.
Step 5: Encourage one student to read his/her composition that is the first period’s homework in the class and teacher teach how to write a good composition according to the composition.
Homework
Prepare for Welcome to the South Poles before next period.Include:
A: The new vocabulary:
B: Grammar structure
C: Finish the activity 2 in P11 and activity 4 in P12.
Period Ⅳ
Grammar (2) & Reading practice
Step 1: Warm up and lead in(Pre-reading)
Ask students to look at the title of the passage in P11 and write down a question which you hope the writer will answer according to they learning before this period. And then invite students to put up their hand and say what questions they have.
Step 2: Reading(intensive reading)
A: Ask students to read the article paragraph by paragraph. And correct students’ pronunciation.
B: After students reading, teacher teach the language and grammar points in detail(during this step, teacher put questions to students, such as the meaning of the new word to check wether they prepare for this article.).
Step 3: Ask students to answer the questions in the activity 2 in P11 and activity 4 in P12.
Step 4: Ask students to find the topic sentences in each paragraph. Put the table that is not complete on the screen(PPT) and ask students to fill the table completely.
Step 5: Review of Verbs
Ask students to finish the activity 1 and 2 in P9 and teacher will check their answers.
Homework
Finish the practice test(after class, teacher ask subject representative to hand out to classmates) and teacher collects this test next week and corrects.(In Appendix Ⅲ)