Learning about Language教学设计实例

Unit1 Friendship 教学设计

Period 1

warming up and vocabulary 教学内容: 高一新课标必修1 Unit 1 Friendship-Warning up and vocabulary 教学设计理念：

英语课标指出，本单元的话题是“朋友和友谊”。“热身”部分设计了一份调查问卷，都是日常生活中经常发生的真实问题。本课在制定教学目标、设计教学过程时尊重学生个性差异，注重突出学生为主体的思想，努力让学生在对话，分组练习中学习语言、运用语言，激发他们对学习英语的兴趣，培养他们综合语言运用能力，帮助他们了解友谊在我们日常生活的作用，培养学生关心他人的意识，树立起健康的人生观。通过学习词汇，能够熟练掌握重点单词和词组的用法，学生遣词造句。

Teaching goals：

Knowledge aims：

1. Let the students learn the following new words and expressions: survey

add

point

upset

ignore

calm

concern

loose

cheat

add up

calm down

have got to

be

concerned about

walk the dog 2. Get the students to learn to express attitudes. Ability aims：

1. Enable the students to describe their friends in English 2. Encourage the students to think and talk about friends and friendship by using some phrases

Emotional aims: Cultivate the students to form the good habit of learning English in Senior Middle School. Teaching important points: !. Use the given adjective and sentence structures to describe one of their friends. 2. Learn to evaluate friends and friendship。

3. Learn to use the new words and expressions to make sentences. Teaching difficult points: 1. Work together with partners and describe one of their good friends 2. Discuss with partners and find out ways to solve the problems. Teaching procedures：

Step 1 Lead-in and Warming-up

1. Ss listen to an English song AULD LANG SYNE. Before the lesson, the teacher can arouse the students’ interests by showing a video of Auld Lang Syne. Listing to music and then ask the students what is friendship. 2. Discuss with each other and show their opinion about what does each letter in friendship stand for. This step can make students have a further understanding of the importance of friendship. Step2. Debate. This activity aims to improve their oral English and enable them to express themselves freely. They were divided into four groups to discuss whether they have e-pals or not. Give a brief description of one of your friends. The following phrases and structures may be helpful:

Sample answers: Yes, I think so./No, I don’t think so. I agree…because we can …/ I don’t agree because …/ In my opinion / I think, believe, feel that it’s bad for us to…

Step3. Make a survey

1. List some qualities of a good friend or your ideal friend. Have the students get into groups of four to find out what each has listed.

Tell your partner your standards of good friends by using the following structure:

I think a good friend should (not) be……

In my opinion, a good friend is someone who……

1. Have a member of each group report on what their lists have in common and list them on the board.

2. Ask the class whether or not they agree with all the qualities listed.

3. Then have the students do the survey in the textbook.

4. Have the students score their survey according to the scoring sheet on page 8.

5. The teacher ask some students how many points they got for the survey and assess their values of friendship:

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4~7 points: You are not a good friend. You either neglect your friend’s needs or just do what he/she wants you to do. You should think more about what a good friend needs to do.

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8~12 points: You are a good friend but you sometimes let your friendship become too important, or you fail to show enough concern for your friend’s needs and feelings. Try to strike a balance between your friend’s needs and your own responsibilities.

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13+ points: You are an excellent friend who recognizes that to be a good friend you need balance your needs and your friend’s. Well done.

(You may also show your students the results above and let themselves self-reflect upon their own values of friendship)

Step 4 explain the words and useful expressions

1. add v. 加, 做加法; 增添

Eg. If you add five and (to) five, you get ten. Please add more sugar to my coffee. 请在我的咖啡中再加点糖。

His schooling added up to no more than two years.

他受的学校教育加起来还不到两年。

近义词: increase

put together

反义词: subtract

减去, 减

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add up: 把……加起来

add up to: 总共是, 总计是

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add to: 使增加, 使扩大

add A to B: 增加, 添加A到B中

1)_______ all the numbers and you will see how much you owe me. 2) All the numbers __________ exactly 900. 3) The bad weather only _________ our difficulties. 4) Don’t ____ fuel ____ the flames.

2.

upset (vt.&vi.) 打翻; 使不安; 使心烦(upset-upset / upsetting) Eg. A strong wind upset the house.

Don’t upset yourself.

adj. 不安的; 心烦意乱的

He was upset at not being invited. Hearing the news, he feels upset. 3.

ignore vt. 不理睬; 忽视

I said hello to her, but she ignored me completely. I can’t ignore his rudeness any longer.

You can’t ignore the fact that many criminals never go to prison.

He ________ the doctor’s advice and goes on smoking. n. ignorance 无知, 愚昧, 不学无术

His ignorance is surprising. I was in complete ignorance of his intentions. adj. ignorant 无知识的, 不知道的, 愚昧的, 幼稚的

4. calm

①vi. (人等)变平静; (风等) 变宁息

这个激动的女孩子很快变得平静了. The excited girl quickly calmed down. ②vt. 使平静, 使镇定下来

当朋友生气时, 你应劝劝他. When your friend is angry, you should calm him down. 5.

have got to = have to

不得不; 必须(客观) .haven’t got to/don’t have to

Eg. Without machines, all the work had to be done by hand. 否定: haven’t got to/don’t have to

must: 必须

(主观). You must come back before 9 o’clock.

6. concern vt. 使担忧, 涉及, 关系到

Eg. That doesn’t concern us.

What concerns me is our lack of preparation n. 利害关系; 担心; 关注

I have no concern with the accident.

7. go through

经历, 经受

Eg. The country has gone through too many wars. I’d like to have you go through the book.

Mother went through the drawer looking for the sweater.

8. set down 放下; 记下; 登记

Eg. Why don’t you set your ideas down on paper? 你怎么不把你的想法写在纸上呢? I will set down the story as it was told tome. 我要把这听来的故事原原本本地记下来。

I set down everything that happened then. You should set down the key language points in your notebook. 9. series (单复同形) Eg.There is a television series on this channel every night. a television series: 电视连续剧

a series of + n (pl) 一连串的;

一系列; 一套

10. outdoors adv. 在户外;在野外

Eg. Children usually prefer playing outdoors.

I love to be in the great outdoors. outdoor adj. 户外的, 野外的(置于名词前) e.g. an outdoor sport / game 户外运动

indoor

a. 屋内的,室内的(置于n之前)

e.g. indoor flowers

室内花卉

11. on purpose 故意

Eg.They have come here on purpose to see you．他们特意来看望你。

She broke the vase on purpose．她故意把花瓶打碎。

purpose

n. 目的, 意图carry out the purpose

实现目标

cover one’s true purpose 掩盖真实意图fit sb’s purpose 符合某人的意图

Will this answer fit your purpose? 这将符合你的意图吗? 12. in order to

为了(做什么事) Eg.He works very hard in order to support his family.他努力工作是为了养家糊口。

He got up very early in order to catch the first bus.他起的很早是为了赶上头班车。

13. at dusk 黄昏, 傍晚

The street lights go on at dusk.

街灯在黄昏时分亮起来。

14. thunder n. 雷; 雷声

thunder and lightning vi. 打雷; 雷鸣

The sky grew dark and it started to thunder. 15. face to face

面对面地

(在句中作状语)

face-to-face

a. 面对面的

(作定语) E.g. We are talking face to face. 类似的还有:

hand in hand

side by side

arm in arm

step by step

one by one 16. get on / along ( well/nicely/badly/)

with sth.

进展, 与某人相处

He doesn’t get along well with his classmates.

他与同学相处不好。

17. fall in love with sb. 爱上某个人

Eg. They havebeen in love with each other for 30 years

Step 5 Group work (output)

The teacher can give each group one of these questions below to talk about. Then let the class share their ideas. It’s better to stimulate the students to express their own opinions about these questions.

1. Do you think it is a good idea to borrow money from your friend?

Why and Why not?

2. What factors may cause the breakdown of a good friendship?

3. What can be your unusual friend besides human beings? And why?

Step 6

Homework

1. Write down a short passage about your ideas /the factors/your unusual friends.

2. Prepare for the new lesson.