Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案3

Appreciation of an English song

——by Zhou Yanping Teaching aims:

1. Let the students learn some beautiful and classical English songs. 2. Let the students talk about what English songs can help us and learn the usage of some phrases or sentences of the song. 3. Improve the students’ listening skills. 4. Help the students know more about western culture and make English learning more interesting. Teaching tools: Multi--media Teaching steps: Step1 Warming Up 1. A guessing game

Let Ss listen to eight classical English songs and guess their names. 2. Ask the students what English songs can help us. 3. Introduce the song –WAKA WAKA to Ss.

4. Enjoy the video of the song. Step 2. Careful listening (Part 1) There are three parts of the song. Let Ss appreciate them part by part. 1. Listen to part 1 and fill in the blanks. 2. Check the answers. 3. Comprehension: a. What does “soldier” refer to? b. What does “battles” refer to? c. What do the last three lines mean?

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d. What does “frontline” mean? e. What does “everyone” refer to? f. What makes us “get closer”? Step 3. Careful listening (part 2) 1. Listen to part 2 carefully and fill in the blanks. 2. Check the answers. 3. Comprehension: a. What pressure is it? b. What does “get up” mean? Step 4. Careful listening (part 3) 1. Listen to part 3 and fill in the blanks. 2. Check the answers. 3. Comprehension: a. What kind of expectations do people have? b. Why do “soldiers” never give up? Step 5. Discussion 1. Why do people love World Cup? 2. How are the spirits of World Cup shown in the lyrics of the song? Step 6. Let’s learn to sing the song.

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