Learning about Language公开课教案

Sun Studio Teaching design ZHAO Xiangyang NEW SENIOR ENGLISH FOR CHINA, STUDENTS’BOOK 9

Unit 1 Breaking records Learning about language: Discovering useful words and expressions

I. Teaching Aim

Develop students’ core competences:

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Language competence 1) Be able to understand the following words in contexts: accomplish, accomplished, accomplishment; adjust, adjustment, adjustable; approximate, approximately, approximation; devote, devoted, devotion motivate, motivated, motivation 2) Be able to learn to use the subject in a sentence and a passage. 

Learning ability Be able to learn to use new words and expressions and structures through contexts. 

Thinking literacy Improve students’ ways of thinking by completing tasks.

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Cultural awareness Learn some sayings by famous Western people. II. Teaching methods

Practice. III. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Discovering useful words and expressions This part is a consolidation of the words learnt in this unit.

1. Ask students to complete Exercise 1 on their own using the knowledge of word formation. They are allowed to refer to the dictionary.

This task is aimed at helping students to learn some suffixes/word formation. Ask individual students to write their words on the board. Verb approximate

adjust

accomplish devote motivate Noun approximation

adjustment accomplishment

devotion motivation Adjective approximate adjustable

accomplished

devoted

motivated

2. Ask students to complete Exercise 2. This task is intended for students to accurately understand words in concrete context.

Ask individual students to write their words on the board.

usual: conventional

spirit: soul

truth: reality

severe: tough

hard: tough

sacred: spiritual

begged: urged

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Sun Studio Teaching design ZHAO Xiangyang 3. Exercise 3

Group work: add as many words as they can to each box. Share theirs with other class. This exercise is designed for students to review the names of sporting events and adjectives that can be used to describe events. Events gymnastics

marathon triathlon

track and field swimming

boxing tennis

volleyball table tennis

basketball soccer

horse-racing yachting

springboard diving high jump

horse-vaulting parachute

heptathlon orienteering

The event is ... fascinating exciting eye-catching instructive encouraging appealing The training is ... tough tiring stressful demanding difficult hard arduous laborious

Step 2 Revising useful structures This part is designed for students to learn the usage of subject in sentences and passages.

1. To help students to understand the concept of subject, provide some simple examples to start with. Ask students to summarize the rules of how to use subject. 1) Our flight was delayed owing to bad weather. 2) Both were offered jobs immediately. 3) One third of the class are from the countryside. 4) Going hiking is one of my interests. 5) To act like that is childish. 6) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

7) Whether we will go for a picnic depends on the weather. 8) The young lead a happy life.

9) It is no use talking about it with him. 10) It is common knowledge that the whale is not a fish.

2. Practice: Exercise 1

Underline the subject in these sentences. In groups, check your answers. 1) Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. (Henry Van Dyke) 2) Some conceptions of a gentleman are these: a gentleman is always considerate for the feelings of others; he has tact - he knows how to say and to do the right thing at the right time. (Unknown) 3) To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. (Ernest Hemingway) 4) The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves, for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds. (William Makepeace Thayer) 5) Being happy is better than being king. (West African saying)

3. Practice: Exercise 2

Match the subjects on the left with the endings on the right to make the correct saying.

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Sun Studio Teaching design ZHAO Xiangyang This exercise is designed to further consolidate using the subject in sentences. 1) Worrying never did anyone any good. 担忧从来不会给人带来任何好处。

2) Two heads are better than one. 两人智慧胜一人。

3) Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 那些不从历史中汲取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。

4) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. 带着希望旅行（的过程）远胜于到达目的地（的那一刻）。

5) Failing to plan is planning to fail. 没有计划就是计划失败的。

6) A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. 会问问题的人当五分钟的傻子。

A man who never asks is a fool for life.

从不提问的人则当一辈子的傻子。

7) The one who understands does not speak. 智者知而不言，愚者言其不知。

The one who speaks does not understand. 8) What is done cannot be undone. 覆水难收。

Step 3 Assignment 1. Do Exx. 1 & 2 in USING WORDS AND EXPRSSIONS on Page 52-53. 2. Do Exx. 1 & 3 in USING STRUCTURE on Page 53-54.

My reflections:

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