Learning about Language多媒体教学设计及其点评

Book 8

Unit 5

Learning about Language Teaching Plan Li Dian

Wuhan No. 19 Senior High

Teaching Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students should be able to: 1.

use the words, phrases that have been learnt in this unit to describe the archaeological findings. 2.

understand and make appropriate use of different verb tenses.

3.

be more creative and imaginative. 4.

do group work. Learning Strategies:

Individual and Cooperative Work Teaching Process: Step 1.

Warming Up Time (40’) 4’

Interaction Pattern whole class Skills Students’ Activity Teacher’s Activity Purpose of Design vocabulary 

Choose the correct words with the 

Show students pictures and 

Get students warmed up with the help of the hints on the lantern check their answers. new words that are learnt in the slide. 

Listen and give comments. previous lesson.

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Draw students’

attention to the topic of this unit and make them prepared for the later group work.

vocabulary 

Read the dialogue①

and fill in the 

blanks with the new words.

Grammar 

2. Revision 6’

whole class whole class Offer help where needed. 

Review the important new words in the reading. 3. 8’

Discovering useful structures 4. Watching and Learning 5. Practising 6. 6’

Pay special attention to the verb 

Guide the students to discover 

Help students understand and make tenses in the dialogue and observe the the differences between the two appropriate use of the two verb tenses. differences between the Present Perfect tenses. Tense and the Present Perfect Continuous Tense Watch the video and try to 

Play the video to the class.(The 

Impresee students with some understand some basic facts about the video should be recorded before important facts about the present perfect present continuous tense. the lesson is given.) tense. 

Throw light on the difference between the two time tenses. Read the dialogue and correct the 

mistakes concerned with time tense Offer help where needed. 

whole class Grammar 

4’

12’

whole class Group Grammar Speaking, 

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Help students understand and make appropriate use of the two verb tenses. students get a better Work in groups of four and make a 

Provide students with some 

Help

Speaking work vocabulary and grammar report as the curator of a museum to introduce your recent findings .

(Try to complete the dialogue with the offered sentence structures②

and the present perfect continuous tense.) 

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Do the report orally to your 

sentence patterns that will

probably be used when introducing an archaeological discovery. Offer help where needed. Listen and give comments. understanding of the verb tenses and put them into practise. 

Get students to review what they have learnt about primitive people. 

Encourage students to make public speeches and work in groups.

classmates. ①

R----Hey Nemo I haven't seen you all day. Where did you go? N----Oh Robin I went to the Zhoukoudian Caves today. R----Really? Fantastic! I haven been planning a visit there but I never really get a chance to go.

N----We are so lucky today to have an archaeologist along with us during the visit, from whom I have learnt a lot about the primitive people. I felt very sorry for interrupting him many times during his interpretation!

R----Wow, the caves must be amazing! N----Absolutely! They have been excavating the caves for ten years! I used to assume that the primitive people were at the mercy of the cruel nature, but they invented different tools which enabled them to survive regardless of the cold and starvation!

R---Of course! It is the talent of making tools that makes human beings different from other creatures!

N----That' s right! The archaeologist showed us a special object and it took me a long time to identify that it was a needle! And there were also sharpened stone tools which were used to cut up animals! We even saw a well-preserved necklace!

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Describing the features 

It is in the shape of... 

It is twice as long as...

Making summary of recent work: 

We have been excavating...

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We have been studying...

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We have been working on/ to... 

Our group has been collecting... 

We have been looking for... 

We have conducted/ carried out a research on...

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We have found that...

Making assumptions: 

It is reasonable to assume that... 

The research results... 

It may be used as/ for... 

It seems likely/ unlikely that... 

It could be made from...

Making conclusions: 

Our evidence suggests that... 

It suggests that...