Using LanguageⅠ教学实录与评析

Teaching Design for “Using Language” of Unit 3 of NSEFC M9 Guangdong Shantou Overseas Chinese Middle School

Chen Xing Teaching objectives

Develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. 1.

Enable the students to listen to a dialogue and get information about camping in Australian. 2.

Enable the students to grasp some reading skills and get a general idea of Australis’ dangerous creatures. 3.

Enable the students to discuss the answers with a partnar, using the language learned before. 4.

Enable the students’ ability to get more information by themselves. 5.

Encourage the students to do self evalution and evalution of each other. Teaching important and difficult points

1. New words and phrases

shrink, talk…into…, limb, venomous, paralyze, sickness, recover, snatch, amongst, vinegar, unconscious

2. Functions:

Expressing prohibition:

You are not allowed …

You mustn’t…

SWIMMING PROHIBITED

NO SMOKING

Expressing warning:

Be careful!

Mind your step!

3. Grammar:

Reviewing the predicative:

It sounds dangerous.

That’s something you have to remember when walking in long grass.

What keeps me from going camping is that I am terrified of snakes.

Teaching methods 1.

Asking-and-answering activity to check the students understanding of the text. 2.

Individual and group work to finish each task. 3.

Listening & reading. 4.

Discussion and conclusion.

Teaching aids

A computer.

Teaching procedures & ways Step I Listening 1. Bob Martins invites Wei Ping to go camping, but Wei Ping is a little nervous about this. Ask the students to discuss what Wei Ping might be nervous about in a group of six.

Invite 3 students to report their results of discussion. Wei Ping may be worried about the weather. /What should they do if they get lost. / Wei Ping thinks it is dangerous and he is afraid of being bitten by snakes.

2. Ask the students to read the 3 questions and listen to the conversation to get the general idea and answer the 3 questions. Answers to Exercise 2: 1)

Wei Ping is worried about snakes. 2)

No, Bob is not worried because he doesn’t believe they are likely to see any and he knows what precautions to take against being bitten. 3)

He probably has talked him around because he assured Wei Ping that there was very little danger.

Also the fact that Wei Ping summarized the advice Bob gave him suggests that he has accepted Bob’s assurances.

3. Ask the students to listen to the conversation again and complete the poster on the right.

Check the answers.

How to avoid snake bites

When walking in long grass: 

wear boots and long trousers. 

Make a noise to frighten them away. 

Do not move any wood lying on the ground. 

If possible, avoid walking in long grass.

4. Ask the students to listen to the conversation for one more time and discuss the following questions with a partner.

1) Why did Wei Ping misunderstand Bob when he said “When we walk

through the bush…? Because Wei Ping may think the bush means wild and dangerous

land, but Australians use it to mean the countryside where there

aren’t any houses or farms or other signs of humans.

2) Why can’t Wei Ping make a snake run away?

Because snakes don’t have legs. (Bob is just making a joke.)

Step II Reading and discussing

1. Show the title and five pictures of Australia’s dangerous creatures on the screen and ask the students to discuss with their deskmates what they expect to read about in the text.

Then ask the students to skim the text and find the main idea.

Tell the students that surveying the text before reading it will give them some idea of the content and organizationn of the text and it will be easier for them to understand.

Discuss the students’ answers.

2. Ask the students to read the text in detail and underline important facts about each animal. Use red colour to show the most dangerous creature to human beings.

Ask the students to do Ex. 2. Tell the students that the headings show which sections the answer will be in and they have already underlined the relevant information while they were reading.

Answers:

1) 115 different kinds of snake nd most of the 2,000 different kinds of

spider. Only a few spiders and snakes are capable of killing humans.

2) Most jellyfish can cause severe pain to anyone who touches them but only the box jellyfish can kill a human.

3) 160 different kinds of shark but only 2 or 3 kinds are likely to attack humans.

4) The saltwater crocodile.

3. Divide the students into small groups of six and discuss the best ways

to protect themselves from each of the dangerous animals in the reading passage

according to the information of Ex. 3.

Get the students to make self-evaluation while group discussing. Things I can do. I can express myself in a group discussion. Australia. I can use the predicative in a context. reading purposes.

Then invide some students to report their discuss results.

How to Protect Yourself Crocodiles:

Keep a lookout for signs about crocodiles and stay away from rivers where these signs appear. Sharks:

Try to swim in places that have shark nets.

Get out of the water immediately if you hear a shark warning. Spiders:

Don’t put your hands into dark, dry places, under stones or amongst rubbish unless you are wearing gloves.

Go immediately to the hospital if you do get bitten. Jellyfish:

Don’t go in the water if you see jellyfish washed up on the beach.

Go immediately to the hospital if you are stung by a jellyfish and have trouble breathing.

Step III Language points 1. …Bob has talked Wei Ping into going camping…

talk sb. into doing sth.: to persuade sb. to do sth.

e.g. We finally talked our father into buying a car. 2. recover: v. to return to the usual state of health, or strength, etc

e.g. After a few days of fever, she began to recover. 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 I can use different reading methods to achieve different 5 5 I can name and describe some dangerous creatures in 5 Evaluation 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1

3. There are no more than a handful of shark attacks …

no more than: only

e.g. I have no more than 10 yuan with me. 4. Go over the predicative. Step IV Homework Search the web for more wild animals in Australia and prepare for tomorrow’s debating and writing.