Learning about Language教案1

EDINBURGH COLLEGE LESSON PLAN

Name…Nichole Yu……… Date…2017-2-21………

Level…senior one students……….. Length of Lesson …40 minutes……..

No of students …34……

LESSON FOCUS : consolidation on words in U1M3

LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of this lesson students should be able to: 1. understand more information about festivals. 2. be familiar with some important lexical trunks for different festivals 3. describe some kind of festivals orally （even in writing if time permitted）

MATERIALS USED : Reading text in Unit 1 Module 3 for senior students

ASSUMPTIONS: (students will already have covered…/ will be able to…)

Students have covered some of the words about festivals in the reading text but will need to be reminded and extended. Students have covered some customs about different kinds of festival while reading but will need to be reminded and organised for further output.

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS (linguistic, organisational, cultural, etc.) : Hard to express themselves freely on the topic of festival because of their poor command of proper expressions about customs. Lack confidence to speak in English.

PLANNED SOLUTIONS : Set tasks from easy to difficult, games to get Ss involved , sharing ideas, repetition to strengthen memory. PERSONAL AIMS : Timing, Keeping TTT to a minimum, Encouraging more STT, Improving my organisation of the board.

EDINBURGH COLLEGE LESSON PLAN

TIME 5

10

15

10

LESSON STAGE Lead-in

Review of lexical trunks

Oral practise

writing CLASS MAN Ladder Race T- Ss Teacher draw 6 ladders on the blackboard. Ss – Ss Team game- brainstorm 10 words about “festival”

as quickly as possible. Team members takes turns

to fill in the ladder. The team which climbs up to the

top first win the game.

Students are encouraged to put their lexical trunks T- Ss into different columns. Ss – T Students exchange their ideas in groups and Ss – Ss compare answers

Teacher checks with whole class.

“One Minute” game T- Ss Students are divided into 3 groups. Each group Ss – T chooses one festival to introduce to others. Ss – Ss Teacher provides an example on the topic of

“Dragon Boat Festival” and highlight some useful

expressions as help.

Students have 2 mins to prepare.

A competition will be held in groups.

Students are required to write a short passage about T- Ss Ss – T the festival just talked about.

(pay attention to the organization and sentence

pattern)

PROCEDURE OBJECTIVES To engage learners and review vocabulary.

To focus on the classification on information and get Ss familiar with lexical trunks for various festivals

To encourage students to apply words and lexical trunks orally. To improve their oral skills

To enrich students’ writing material. To strengthen students’ memory of words and lexical trunks they’ve learned.

EDINBURGH COLLEGE LESSON PLAN

TIME LESSON STAGE PROCEDURE CLASS MAN OBJECTIVES

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Post-reading Teacher highlights two expressions (I am “one in a million”. / My motto is: live one day at a time.) in the text and ask students to figure out the meaning based on the context.

In groups, students speak about what they think the tone of the text is and what the writer’s purpose in writing this article is. And then discuss about “How should we treat disabled people?”

(Discuss it in groups and choose one representative to report ideas, and teacher gives some patterns which may be helpful for students.)

Whole class feedback, followed by a delayed correction stage in which teacher elicits corrections or changes to some of the language heard during the speaking stage.

T- Ss Ss – T

T- Ss Ss – T Ss – Ss

To focus on the inferring skill (infer words’ meaning from context)

Free speaking To share ideas / opinions Practice taking down notes

Focus on language items to bring lesson to a close as well as to give students opportunity to get feedback.