Listening and vocabulary第一课时教学设计

Teaching contents: Book One （外研版）

Word stress,Sentence stress and Pausing

Teaching objectives:Word stress, Sentence stress and Pausing Important points:Word stress ,The “Rubber-band hands” technique and Sentence stress

Difficult points: Word stress

The “Rubber-band hands” technique

Students:

As we all know English is a rhythmic language. In a word especially which has more than one syllables, one of which will be stressed and it will sound longer, louder and higher in pitch than the other unstressed syllables. It is the same with the words in a sentence, the content words of which will be stressed and will sound longer louder and higher than the functional words which will sound reduced. And if you pause wrongly in a sentence, the listeners may misunderstand what we say. Therefore; it is necessary for our students to learn and grasp something about Word Stress, Sentence Stress and Pausing.

Teaching aids: A blackboard, a projector and a computer for multimedia Teaching procedures Step 1

Greeting

Step 2

Show the topic and teaching aims Step 3

Lead -in (about 3 minutes) Step 4

Word Stress

The number of syllables in a word is equal to the number of vowel sounds.

Words that have more than one syllable, one of these syllables will be stressed.

The stressed syllable will sound longer,louder and higher in pitch than the other syllables. Step 5

Sentence Stress In a sentence, generally the content words will be stressed while the functional words will be unstressed.

Therefore, content words will sound louder,longer and higher in pitch.

Step 6 Pausing Where to pause in a sentence. 1. Right after an extended subject phrase. 2. Right after the object of the verb. 3. Right at the connector in a compound sentence. 4. At a comma or semicolon. Step 7 summary Step 8 homework