Learning about Language第一课时教学设计

Information about the students in this class:

There are 50 students in Class1,senior grade 1. They are 15 or 16 years old. Their first language is Vigor. Most of them have been learning English for 7 years. Those students are the first year students coming from junior high school of Kuche county. They have ability to read short passage of English. Most like playing games and having competitions but some of them find it difficult to concentrate on listening and reading tasks.

Main aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to use the new vocabulary accurately in spoken form in the context of Anne’ best friend.

Subsidiary aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to read for gist, specific information in the context of Anne’ best friend.

Personal aim(s): Give students short and clear instructions. Ask instructions checking questions (ICQ) to make sure they understand my instructions.

Materials and their sources:

1. Handout1. Task 1(match the correct order about word and its meaning.) is designed by the teacher. 2. Handout2 has the reading passage ‘Anne’ s best friend’ and Task 2(choose the best main idea of this passage). The passage is adapted from a text in Senior English for China Student’s Book 1A ,page 2, published by PEP edition press. The task is written by the teacher. 2. Handout3 .Task3(Skim the passage and fill in the form below.) It is designed by the teacher. 3. The PPT is designed by the teacher. There are 16 slides. Slide 1 is the topic. Slide 2, 3 and 4 are pictures for lead-in. Slide 5 to 15 are pictures to convey new vocabulary meaning. Slide 16 is answer for task 3.

4. 15 word cards are made by the teacher. They are: go through, Netherlands, outdoors, German, on purpose, in order to, at dusk, thunder, entirely, power, face to face, curtains,

dusty, set down, a series of.

Form

All students know these words 1 Friend

2 Play

3 country

These words are new for almost all students:

1 German n.

2 in order to

3 face to face

4 power n.

5 on purpose

6 curtain n.

Language analysis

Meaning Anticipated problems teaching this language

New words anticipated questions:

New words meaning: 1 Some students may not pronounce German

accurately.

1 relating to Germany, its people

2 the aim to do sth

2 Some students might confuse with outdoors 3 involving close contact; confronting with outdoor each other

4 some ability that sb has

3 Some student might confuse that thunder is a

phenomenon or a sound . 5 have aim to do sth

6 a piece of hanging cloth that can be

Possible solutions

1 First, I will model the correct spoken form, then use choral drilling and individual drilling. Then, monitor during the activities, and correct the pronunciation if need be.

2. Stick the word card for ‘outdoors’ on the blackboard and point to it explain they have the same meaning when they are adjective.

3 Show them a picture of lightning and clouds on ppt and tell them thunder is a sound like

7 at dusk

8 go through

9 outdoors adj. 10 Netherlands n.

11 entirely adv.

12 dusty adj.

13 set down

14 a series of

15 thunder v.

pulled across to cover a window 7 towards evening

8 experience 9 out of doors, outside

10 a country in Western Europe on the North Sea 11 totally, all

12 covered with dust 13 write down

14 some 15 a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning

booming.

Skills and sub-skills

Reading for gist

Reading for specific information

Skills analysis

Tasks for developing skills Anticipated problems with these tasks

1 In task 2, students might read word by word to 1 Give students handout 2with the find the answer in the first reading or have reading passage ‘Anne’ s best friend’ and wrong answer. task 2( what’s the passage about).

2 Give students handout3 for task 3(Skim 2 In task 3, students might not find the place of the passage and fill in the form below). Ask the story correctly. students to read the passage again and do

task 3 and work in pairs to correct their

answers.

Possible solutions 1. In the constructions, remind students to read fast and set a time limit 1 minute, then use ICQs to check if they understand it. Then ,give a peer checking. 2. Ask 2 students

Stage aim lead in the topic of the lesson(friend). To review the words they know about describing a friend. T write the words they already know on blackboard.

To present the new words in textbook-first convey the meaning and then practice pronunciation. To check if they know the meaning of the words.

speak out the answer in class and ask others to check that they have the correct answer. Procedure Interaction pattern T-s,s--s 1 Stage no. and name

1.

Lead-in

2. Preview of old words they know .

3. Presentation of new words

4. Pair work

5. Reading 1

6. Time (min) Look at the pictures about friend in ppt and then tell teacher the topic they are watching. let them talk about the question,who is their friend? What they will do when they stay with friends? four students as a group. S-s, t-ss 3 Teacher shows the vocabulary cards that are new to T-ss students,explain meaning and spell them. Use CCQs to check if they know the general meaning. Use choral drilling and individual drilling to practice the pronunciation of new words. To give them cards of new words and their meaning, let S-s them match them with correct order. 15 3 To give students an opportunity to practice reading for gist. Give students handout 1 with the reading passage Ss ‘Annes best friend’ and task 1( what’s the passage about). Then ask students to read fast in 1 minute. Ask 3 students to speak out their answers in class and S-ss 1 To check students have correct 1

Feedback

7.

Reading 2

8. Peer checking

9. Feedback

10. Speaking practice 11. Feedback

answer.

To give students an opportunity to practice reading for specific information. To provide an opportunity to peer teaching and peer correction. To check students have correct answer. ask others to check if they have correct answer.

Give students handout 2 to finish task2(Skim the passage and fill in the form below.) read the passage again and do task 3. Let them work in pairs to check their answers.

S S-s

5 2 Ask 2 students to speak out their answers in class and ask others to check if they have correct answer. Then show the correct answer on ppt. S-ss, T-ss

2 To give students an opportunity to practice speaking with new words. To check students take part in the activity. To make sentences with new words with your deskmate S-s and speak to your partner. The 15 words should be divided into two parts. Ask 2 pairs of students to speak out their sentences in S-ss class 5 2