A Teaching plan for Unit3 Celebration
Lesson 3 Weddings
Teaching goals
1.target language
a. Key words and phrases
bride; bridegroom; best man; entrance; invitation; even if; ceremony; attend; Indonesian; ought; contribute; Greek; crown; ribbon; link
b. Key sentences
①. If you are a man, you ought to wear a tie.
②. You don’t have to contribute a lot of money.
③. You ought not to go to the ceremony because it is only for close family.
④. There is a lot of eating, drinking and dancing, including the famous Greek circle dance, where everyone joins in.
⑤. On the day of Greek wedding ceremony, the bridegroom has to ask the bride’s father for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
⑥. A long silk ribbon that links the crowns is a symbol of a long and happy life for the couple.
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to know two typical weddings.
Develop students’ ability of basic reading strategies of bottom-up and top-down.
3. Learning ability goals
To read a text for specific information.
To read a text for new information.
By using the strategies of bottom-up and top-down, students will learn to generalize and collect information.
Teaching important points
To practice reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.
Important words and phrases.
Teaching difficult points
Guide the students to pick out the main clue of the passage and the development method of the text.
Students may mistakes with the use of the infinitive with or without to.
Teaching methods
1. Team work learning.
2. Task-based learning.
Teaching aids
A projector and some slides.
Teaching procedures
Step Ⅰ Revision
Task one: check words and expressions
T: Let’s check the homework.
Step Ⅱ Lead-in
Task one: T: In this unit, we’re learning a lot about celebration. And this lesson, we’re going to read two passages about weddings. The first has been adapted from a website giving advice to English-speaking people working in Indonesia. And the second is about weddings in Greece.
Step Ⅲ Pre-reading
Task one: Background information input.
T: Now please turn to Page40 and look at Before you start and Exercise1.
Encourage students to talk about weddings they have been to. Use the opportunity to elicit or present useful vocabulary for the topic, e.g. reception, bride, bridegroom, ceremony.
Task two: Exercise2. Students look at the words and see if they can guess the meanings of some of the words from their knowledge of other words in English.
Step Ⅳ While-reading
Task one: Read to learn
Exercise3. Ask students if they have tried to find information about customs (not necessarily) in other countries on the Internet-If so, what did they find out?
Students read the statements first and predict what the answers will be.
Then they read the texts and find out if their predictions were correct.
Step Ⅴ Post-reading
Task one: Questions and Answers
T: Now let’s check the answers.
When checking students’ answers, ask them to read out the section of text that gives the information and to correct the false statements.
Task two: Pair work
In pairs, students study the text again and write down three “true/false” statements of their own. All the students then close their books and, in turn, say one of their statements and the rest of the class says whether it is true or false. (1.F 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.F 6.T)
Step Ⅵ Discussion
Task one: Read and discuss
Get students to read the text and discuss in pairs.
Task two: Discuss and explore
Ask students to discuss the main idea and what they’ve learnt from the text.
Step Ⅶ Homework
1. Go over the words and phrases.
2. Finish off the exercises in Language Power.
Writing on the blackboard
1. the entrance key answer invitation to…..;
2. attend a meeting a wedding school church;
3. contribute ideas food; contribute to a better understanding; make a contribution to
4. even if though--
5. marry sb mary sb to sb; be married to sb; got married to sb;
6. ought to do ; ought not to do;
7. books for children; a good for camp