Using LanguageⅠ教学目标设计

Unit 4 Learning efficiently

Period 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language (HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?) Aims To help students read the passage HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?

To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures I. Warming up by learning about how to learn English ⒈Motivation: Become a person who likes to learn English.

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Dictionary: Get a good English dictionary.

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No mistakes: Avoid mistakes. Try to use correct English from the beginning.

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Pronunciation: Learn to pronounce English sounds. Learn to understand phonetic transcription and the phonetic alphabet.

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Input: Get English into your head by reading and listening to lots of English sentences.

Reading

Movies

Adventure games

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SuperMemo is a computer program that you can use to learn English. We have used it for 8 years and it has helped us a lot. II. Reading for forms and for the meaning Read the text HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?

on page 36 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.

HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?

Take this quiz to find out what kind of learner/ you are. Tick only the statements/ that you think

resemble your situation. 1.

I would rather hear a book/ on a cassette/ than read it. 2.

When I am doing my homework, I like to hear music/ in the background. 3.

When I go shopping, I would rather rely on a written list/ than on my memory.

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I like playing sports/ more than watching them. 5.

It is a struggle/ for me to keep my room/or desk tidy. 6.

I know most of the words /to the songs /I listen to.

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I tend to see pictures /in my mind /when I am reading /or listening.

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I like reading

stories /more than listening to them. 9.

When I am spelling words, I try to “see” the words /in my mind.

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I like talking on the phone. 11.

I love working with my hands/ to build things. 12.

I often draw /when I am on the phone. 13.

I can express myself /more easily/ when I talk/ than when I write. 14.

I find it hard to concentrate/ when there are a lot of people /talking near me. 15.

I like to follow a map /rather than written/ or spoken directions. 16.

I often know what I want to say /but have trouble expressing it /in words. 17.

I read /as little as possible. 18.

When I remember something /that happened in the past, I often see pictures of it /in my mind. 19.

I learn about something best /when someone explains it to me. 20.

I find it hard to concentrate /when people are moving around me /or things are messy. 21.

When I am spelling difficult words, I often write them down/ to see if they “look

right”.

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I find

it tiresome/ to sit /and concentrate on anything /for a long time. I prefer

to keep changing activities. 23.

I usually remember

people’s names/ but I often forget their faces. 24.

I usually remember

people’s faces /but I am often vague about their names. 25.

I remember things /in a list /best /if I say them to myself. 26.

I prefer to be shown what to do/ rather than be told. 27.

When I am giving

directions, I have

a tendency /to move my body/ and / or hands/ as I speak. 28.

When I am spelling difficult words, I often sound them out /as I write them down. 29.

I like art /more than music. 30.

I enjoy reading. 31.

When I am trying to solve a problem, I like to consult someone else /about it. 32.

When I am learning to spell words, I write them down/ again and again /until I know them. Now /follow the instructions below /to find out what kind of learner/ you are. In the table/ circle the numbers /that match the statements /you ticked. Then/ add up the number of circles/ in each column. The column /with the most circles is probably your preferred learning style. You may find

/you have more than one strong learning style, which is a bonus /because being able to learn/ in more than one style increases your chances of finding activities/ that suit you.

Visual

3 7 Auditory 1 2 Tactile 4 5

8 9 15 18 20 24 26 29 30 6 10 13 14 19 23 25 28 31 10 11 12 16 17 21 22 27 32 Now/ turn the page/ to find out more about how you learn/ best. Read the descriptions below /of three kinds /of learners. Visual learners

learn best /when they can see /or watch something. They like to read/ or look at pictures, and diagrams. Auditory learners

learn best/ when there is an oral component/ to the material /they are learning. They prefer to listen to explanations/ or instructions/ rather than read them. Tactile learners

learn best/ through concrete experiences; that is, when they can touch /or feel real objects, do experiments /or make things. III. Copying expressions and making sentences take a quiz, find out…, what kind of…, would rather do, hear a book on a cassette,

do one’s homework, like to hear music, in the background, go shopping, rely on…, a written list, on my memory, like playing sports, keep one’s room tidy, tend to do, see pictures in my mind, like reading stories, talk on the phone, love working with…, express oneself, find it…to do…, have trouble doing sth., learn about sth., write sth. down, concentrate on sth., for a long time, prefer to do…, have a tendency to…,

sound sth. out, enjoy doing, add up, do experiments, make things

IV. Listening about learning styles Learning styles are different ways that a person can learn. It's commonly believed that most people favor some particular method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli or information. Psychologists have proposed several complementary taxonomies of learning styles. But neuroscientists have doubts about the scientific basis for some learning style theories and a major report published in 2004 cast doubt on most of the main tests used to identify an individual's learning style. Now turn to page 38 and do the three listening and discussing exercises. V. Discussing difficulties learning English

What is the most difficult part about learning English? Spelling? Listening? Pronunciation? Grammar in general?

Grammar - Word order? Grammar – Prepositions? Grammar - Phrasal Verbs? Grammar - Verb Tenses? Different Regional Accents? Vocabulary? Reading? Other - Please specify? VI. Discussing education quotes and proverbs Education Quotes and Proverbs Unknown If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. Unknown The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. Mark Twain There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. W. B. Yeats Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Wendell Phillips The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. B.B. King The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. Angela Schwindt While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. Henry Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. James Baldwin A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Alec Bourne It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Henry Peter Broughan Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Epictetus

Only the educated are free. Malcolm Forbes Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. John Ruskin Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. Horace Mann Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Henry B. Adams A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. Richard Bach Learning is finding out what you already know Michael Faraday The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Ben Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Galileo

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Kahlil Gibran I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Robert F. Goheen If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. Joseph Joubert To teach is to learn twice. Laurence Lee The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Galileo Galilei I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Hellen Keller College isn't the place to go for ideas. VII. Reading and writing Read the short email on page 39 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.

An email Hi,

Congratulations /on your great English mark. I’m proud of you. I wish /I were doing as well/ in my English class. I try really hard /but I just don’t seem to get any better. For example, we have to learn 40 new words/ every week/ and the teacher tests us /on Mondays. I spend half an hour /every afternoon /learning the words, but I still get only about 20 /out of 40 correct /in the test. And I’m

not much better /at reading. I read the passage/ and half the time/ it doesn’t

make

sense. It takes me ages/ to read /because I have to keep looking up words /in the dictionary. Then /I usually forget what I’ve read. Have you got any suggestions? I need HELP: -( Best wishes, Donghua ongratulations on one’s great English mark, be proud of…, do well in…, try hard to do, get any better, spend…doing…, get about…out of…, in the test, make sense,

keep doing…,look up words in the dictionary, get any suggestions, need help, best wishes,