Using LanguageⅡppt专用说课稿内容

Unit 3

Learning about language Teaching aims:

Help the students learn how to write funny stories using the target language and according to the writing steps.

Key points:

Teach students to write according to the writing of the writing steps.

Difficult points:

Help students make up a dialogue, using the target language.

Teaching aid:

A projector

Teaching procedure:

Step 1. Revision

Check homework: Ask several students to read their funny stories in class.

Step 2. Writing ( page 23 )

Give students some instructions on writing a funny story.

1) Writing down your story in a logical order.

2) For each of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happing.

3) Then write out your story using these interesting words.

4) Read through your story.

5) Then show it to your partner. Let him/ her suggest some new and exciting words.

6) Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.

Give students enough time to finish the task and give them

enough help in the writing. Tell them to give the outline first, then finish the story.

Step 3. Talking

Task 1. Show students some pictures. Ask them to describe the pictures and explain what is happening, whether it is funny or not.

Task 2. Imagine you want to play a trick on someone, maybe an April Fool’s trick. Work with partners, think up a funny thing and share it with the class.

Step 4. Speaking and writing task

This is a chance for students to learn limericks. It has only five lines. Three of them are longer than the other two. The longer lines all rhyme with each other and the shorter ones rhyme with each other. When introducing the poems, teacher read them first, and let the students enjoy the beauty of the rhyme. And at the same time point out that there must be two sets of rhyming words in the same poem, so the students can grasp the main feature of the poem.

After reading, ask students to tell the rhyme of the first and the second poem. Let students read the poems several times and feel it. Find more limericks for students to enjoy.

Give students some instructions on how to write a poem, let them think of rhyming words before writing. They need two sets of rhyming words.

Step 5. Homework

1) Finish Exercise 5 on Page 20.

2) Make a summary about what has been learnt in this unit.