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Teaching plan for M5Unit 13 Lesson 4 First Impressions by Linhuiqun林慧群

from Tianhe Foreign Language School

Analysis of the Teaching Material

The lesson is from unit 13 People Module 5, the version of Beijing Normal University. Module 5 is the transition from Grade 1 to Grade 2.As the last part of the first unit of Module 5, First Impressions is the highlight of the unit. The topic is about an embarrassing story of two good friends meeting for the first time. By describing the story, students can know how to deal with people in a friendly and forgiving way. So it not only embodies the theme of the whole unit, but also gives students emotional and cultural education.

Knowledge aims: 1)

Ss are supposed to grasp the main idea of the text; 2)

Ss are supposed to master important words, sentence patterns;

3)

Ss are supposed to retell the story and talk about their own story about first impressions. Ability aims:

1)

Ss are supposed to develop the predicting and skimming, scanning skills. 2)

Ss are supposed to develop the ability to cooperate with others. Emotional aims:

1)

Ss are expected to learn to respect and be forgiving to people; 2)

Ss are expected to shape good personalities.

Key points and difficult points

1.Key points: 1)

Understand the passage and the changes of Jane’s feeling.

2)

Master the important words and expressions in this lesson. 2. Difficult points: 1)

Analyze the characters of Jane and Jenny and the relationship between their characters and behavior.

2)

Express their thoughts by using what they have learnt. Learning methods:

Task-based method; Communicative method; Cooperative method Information about the Ss:

1)

They have known something about the topic through the first three lessons in this unit.

2)

It is the first time for me to have a lesson with the students in Foshan No. 1 Middle school.

3）

The students are supposed to be intermediate in English learning

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Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Self –introduction to the students. Ask Ss’ first impressions on me

Purpose: to have an ice-break with the students, to stimulate Ss’ interest.

Step 2 Pre-reading

Show a picture to students and ask them to predict the main idea and characters and the place of the story.

Purpose: to develop Ss’ ability of predicting according to the title and pictures of the story.

Step 3 Fast reading: skimming

Get students to read the passage quickly and find out “ where did the story happen”

Get students to summarize the story orally.

Suggested answer: The passage tells us an embarrassing story between Jane and Jenny. Jane was very angry at Jenny’s disturbing by singing in the library, but became thankful to Jenny for her kind behavior later. At last they became good friends. It tells us we should deal with people in a friendly and forgiving way.

Purpose: to develop Ss’ ability of skimming and summarizing the main idea.

Step 4: Careful reading: Scanning

1.Scan the story and circle the words showing Jane's feeling and fill in the blanks. Where In the library

When

was preparing for an exam

Kept disturbing

heard someone singing

thought she was selfish

feelings

At home

realized ...left… behind

after receiving Jenny's phone

In convenience store

recognized Jenny

now

Purpose: to develop Ss’ ability of scanning, to understand how to make the description vividly-by using noun phrases, verb phrases and adjectives.

2. Ss practice making sentences by using when and feelings in pairs.

Purpose: to make students grasp the changes of Jane’s feeling, and also give more chance for ss to practice oral English.

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3. Explain some difficult words, expressions and sentence structures in the textbook.

the last straw, steam coming out of one’s ears, she was glad to see I had left my glare in the library, if Jenny hadn’t been a kind person who was willing to forgive my shortcomings, I would never have experienced such true friendship. (Subjunctive mood) Purpose: to understand some key sentences better and learn how to analyze a person’s characters by reading between lines.

Step 5: Further understanding What is Jane’s first impressions on Jenny?

What is Jane’s last impressions on Jenny? Why did Jane have different impressions on Jenny?

Draw a conclusion: what kind of person should we become？

Step 6: Speaking 1.Story retelling according to the pictures

Suppose this is an oral English test for college entrance exam. Work in pairs . Student A acts as a computer giving the instruction of beginning and ending.

Student

B acts as a student taking the test.

Retelling time should be within 2 mins.

Retell the story by adding more details- words about Jane’s feeling

2. Speak about your own experience of meeting someone for the first time.

Step 7 Summarizing ♠

Improved our reading skills –prediction and skimming and scanning. ♠

Learned about the changes of the writer’s feeling with vivid description

♠

learned how to analyze the characters of Jane and Jenny.

♠

Practiced speaking about our first impressions when we met sb. 附上学生学案：

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Unit 13 Lesson 4 First Impressions by Annie Lin huiqun

Step 1 Skimming

Skim the story and answer " Where did the story happen? "

What’s the main idea of the story?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Step 2 scanning

Scan the story and circle the words showing Jane's feeling and fill in the blanks.

where

When

feelings In the library

Preparing for exam

Kept disturbing

Someone singing

Thinking she is selfish At home

Realize ...left behind

After receiving Jenny's phone

In convenience store

Recognize Jenny

Now

Step 3 Discussion

What is Jane’s first impressions on Jenny?

What is Jane’s last impressions on Jenny?

Why did Jane have different impressions on Jenny?

Step 4 Story retelling according to the pictures Suppose this is an oral English test for college entrance exam. Work in pairs . Student A acts as a computer giving the instruction of beginning and ending.

Student B acts as a student taking the test.

Retelling time should be within 2 mins.

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