Using LanguageⅠ教学设计实例

Using language教学设计

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Ability goals能力目标

Enable students to listen for key words. Enable students to listen for the main idea.

2. Learning ability goals学能目标

Help students learn how to master two basic listening skills: listen for key words and listen for main idea.

Teaching methods教学方法

Listening and discussion

Teaching aids教具设备

A recorder, a tape, a projector and some slides and pictures. Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式

Step I Listening (P41) Talk about “dam” and the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam.

Show pictures of dam to students. T: What are these things called in English? S1: dam. T: Why do people build dams? Or in another word, what is the function of dam? S2: Dams are built to stop the water from flowing, especially in order to make a lake or produce electricity. T: Now discuss with your partner about the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam. I’ll give you 3 minutes. Now please begin!

About three minutes later T: OK, which pair would like to show your discussion? How about you two? S1: OK, just as you say, building a dam can provide electricity for its people and control a great river. This is its advantages, but the dam can also cause many problems, just as when our country built the Three Gorges Dam. Many villages had to leave their hometown, and many cultural relics faced being damaged. Our government had to spend large amounts of money to settle the problem.

T: Good idea! Anything else? S2: Maybe the dam can make difficulty to the living things in the river. T: You are right. Perhaps the scientists who designed the dam would think of the problem and made a good design. OK, now will have a listening about a dam in Egypt. When the dam was built, it faced the same problem more than three decades ago. You will hear the key words in 2. Listen and number them.

Play the tape for the students, and ask them to find out what happened when a dam was built in Egypt. Number the key words as they hear them.

Deal with Exercise 3 in the same way.

Finally play Part A and B as a whole and then let students answer the questions in 4.

Step II Listening Task (P44) This activity provides listening practice with a cultural relic in China, the Forbidden City.

First let students discuss the questions about Forbidden City in 1.

Some useful information about the Forbidden City: 

Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong, in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is to the north of Tiananmen Square.

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It is the world's largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares.

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Surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9,999 buildings.

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The wall has a gate on each side. Opposite the Tiananmen Gate, to the north is the Gate of Devine Might (Shenwumen), which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 meters, while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters.

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The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The southern section or the Outer Court was where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation. The northern section, or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family.

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Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the Inner Court, fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here.

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Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries, it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities. Listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987, the Palace Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions world wide. 

Construction of the palace complex began in 1407, the 5th year of the Yongle reign of the third emperor of the Ming dynasty. It was completed fourteen years later in 1420. It was said that a million workers including one hundred thousand artisans were driven into the long-term hard labor. 

Since yellow is the symbol of the royal family, it is the dominant color in the Forbidden City. Roofs are built with yellow glazed tiles; decorations in the palace are painted yellow; even the bricks on the ground are made yellow by a special process. However, there is one exception. Wenyuange, the royal library, has a black roof. The reason is that it was believed black represented water then and could extinguish fire. 

Nowadays, the Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum is open to tourists from home and abroad. Splendid painted decoration on these royal architectural wonders, the grand and deluxe halls, with their surprisingly magnificent treasures will certainly satisfy "modern civilians". Listen to the dialogue for the first time and summarize the main idea in one sentence. Listen to Part A again and fill in the chart with details. Then do the same with Part B. Step III Homework 1.

Collect some information about the cultural relics that are in danger. 2.

Write your opinions on how to protect the cultural relics.