Task(1): Writing to a foreign friend: Skills building 1 and 2优质课教案

Unit2 What is happiness to you ? Task Write a website article to give advice Teaching aims: ⑴

Make students find Ma Jie’s problems quickly while reading and listening. Train students’ ability to get information through listening and reading.

⑵ Help Ma Jie solve problems in pairwork , in groupwork.. Encourage students to learn to cooperate with each other. ⑶

Train students’ writing ability.

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Improve the students’ cooperative abilities. Get the students to have positive attitudes to help others. Teaching method: Task-based teaching method. Difficult& important points: How to obtain correct information during listening and reading ? How to give advice ? A multimedia classroom . Teaching procedure: Step 1 Lead-in

Present some pictures on the screen and ask the students.

⑴What words do you think can describe the persons’ feelings in the pictures ?

⑵ Are these words negative or positive ? ⑶ What other negative emotional language can you think of ? Ask the students to give their answers and write on the Bb. Then ask them to read the skills building 1 to get more information. Step 2

Identifying

problems Ⅰ、Students read the letter from Ma Jie in Part A and underline the negative emotional language Ma Jie used to describe his problems. ﹙

Show answers on the screen﹚

Ⅱ、Students listen to the tape and find out more about Ma Jie’s problems. Complete the notes .

At school often feels ⑴__________________ Playing sometimes ⑵_________;doesn’t ⑶_______;thinking about basketballs ⑷_______; worried about ⑸____________ Wishes good at ⑹________and ⑺__________;do both things well From coach Ma Jie has a special ⑻______; should be ⑼_________to give up other things in life; should ⑽________ on playing basketball. From sports

cannot replace a good (11)______; could get parents (12)____;no gurantee to have a future like (13)_______;more (14)______ to study hard; prepare for a job in the (15)_______

Attitude

(16)________with both of them Ⅲ

、Ma Jie tells about some of the solutions he thought of and why these solutions did not work.. Listen to the tape and write down the reasons he gives to each possible solution.

Possible solutions Why this solution did not work 1 try harder at everything

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_________________________________

2 focus on school, play

basketball at the weekend

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3 study less

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____________________________________

4 quit basketball

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____________________________________

Step 3

Discussing solutions Ⅰ、The teacher asks: What do you think of Ma Jie’s problem?

﹙The teacher adds : It’s a bit difficult to answer the question because it is a big question. How can we break it into smaller ones? Please refer to the skills building 2 .﹚

Have the students go over the guidelines and ask them to read the big questions and smaller questions given in this part as an example. ﹙The teacher shows some other big questions on the screen. The students break them into smaller ones.﹚

Ⅱ、Have Ss work in pairs and try to divide the big question “What do you think of Ma Jie’s problem?” into smaller ones. Several students give smaller questions. Then continue: Students work in pairs, asking and answering. ﹙For the smaller questions,the students ask and answer in pairs.Several minutes later,several pairs present their conversations.﹚

Ⅲ、Imagine you are Ma Jie’s friend . After talking to Ma Jie, you decide to ask an older student from your school for advice. Role- play with a partner. ﹙You can use the two speech bubbles as guidlines﹚

A few pairs give their results.

Step 4 Giving advice The teacher shows guidelines on screen. ﹙These will help make the students’ advice clearer. ﹚

Guidelines

What to do Why avoid use positive, helpful language people want help but not judging

do not say, 'It's wrong for you judgment of their previous

to

behavior.

give mention a similar situation people will know how to use examples

where your advice works your advice.

be specific

give the advice that can help people can be helped to solve

people to solve their own their problems.

problem.

Step5 Writing Ⅰ、The teacher shows guidelines on screen:

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Ma Jie’s problems

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The possible solutions Ma Jie has thought of and the reasons why they didn’t work. ⑶ The advice you gave to Ma Jie. ⑷ The advice his parents, teachers and coach gave him and why it works. ⑸ Your opinion about the best way to solve problems that students have. Have the students work in groups of four to discuss them and list what they should write in the article. Then the teacher divide the article into four parts. Each member writes one part. Put the four parts together to form the article. Ⅱ、Present their articles. The teacher asks sevsral groups to present their articles to the whole class.The other students can correct mistakes. Step 6

Homework Hand out pieces of paper with letters on them. The students read the letter and try to reply to give her some advice.

Dear Sir or Madam, I feel no one cares about me. My father and mother are always busy with working, so I often stay at home by myself. I feel very lonely. As my parents work so much, I hve to clean the house and do all the shopping by myself. I am only a little happier at school when I stay with my classmates and friends. I feel bored all the time and I feel sorry for myself.

What should I do? I look forward to your advice .

Yours

Rose

板书设计：

Unit 2

Task

Negative languages

What do you think of Ma Jie’s problems?

Words:

Idioms: