Listening and vocabulary教案设计

Book 6 Module1

Small Talk --- Reading

Learning Aims:

Aim to the knowledge:

1. Learn some words, phrases and sentence patterns related to small talk. ( yawn, sigh, social rules, look away from, keep good eye contact, think of…

) 2. Enable the

students know how to do small talk well and remember the good social skills 3. Learn to practice small talk. Activity goal：

1. Learn to find out the main idea and detail information from the key words, phrases and sentences. Emotion goal :

1 Foster the students to know more about social skills which can be useful in their real life 2

Develop the students’s awareness of cross-cultural communication. 3

Make the students be more confident and interested in English

Teaching importance:

1. Let students master the skills of having small talk. Teaching difficult points:

1. Guide students to master the skills of having small talk. 2. Guide students to practice the skills of having small talk in daily life. Teaching methods:

1. Communicative teaching method 2. Audio-visual teaching method 3. Task-based teaching method Teaching aids:

Multi-media computer Teaching Procedures:

Stage1 :lead in（2mins）

1. Greetings & warming up. 2 ask and answer :

When you are at school , what do you usually

do when you are in your spare time? Stage2: Reading

Task 1: Pre-reading (Guessing & thinking) ( 4mins)

1.

Students enjoy some pictures about “Small Talk”

2.

Students guess the meaning of “Small Talk”. 3.

Teacher guides Students to understand the definition of “Small Talk”.

4.

Students read aloud the feature “Small Talk and the places it happens

5.

Review some words and phrases of this passage

Task 2: While –reading

(Fast-reading) (4 mins )

1. Students Read the first three paragraphs of the passage. Decide what kind of book the passage is from. (Ask students to pay more attention to the title, the subtitles, and the last sentences of the first three paragraphs.) Eg. ①

an English teaching book

②

a business course

③a book which tells you what to do at social events

④a book to help you prepare for a speaking examination.

2. Students show their answers. 3. Teacher guides Students to master the reading skill of finding the answer. (Careful-reading 1 ) (8mins)

1.

Students read the part “Learn how to do small talk”, and remember

we should/shouldn’t talk about. (Ask

students to pay attention to the key sentences -----“4 Think of…”) and then

answer one

question

Which of the following topics should

you not choose? A a story about a film star or sports star

B things about your studies

C your political opinions

D other people’s ages and salaries

2. Students show their answers. 3. Teacher guides Students to master the reading skill of finding the answer. (Careful-reading2)

(8mins )

1: Students read the part “Develop your listening skills”

and decide what they should and shouldn’t do while listening. (Ask students to pay more attention the key words -----“Do…”, “Don’t…”) 2. Studets watch the video, and

find some mistakes during the conversation, 3. Ss show their answers E.g. (Should they …during communication?

①

look at the watch

②

look away

③

yawn or sign

④.change the subject or finish other people’s sentences 4. Teacher guides Students to master the reading skill of finding the answer. (Careful-reading3)

( 7 mins )

1. Students read the part “Learn the rules”

2: Students do one question: Which of the following social skills is wrong? A you should arrive on time at a party in some places B you

should pay attention to the color of the

flowers you bring

C you can stay at a party as long as you like D you

needn’t take gifts

in some countries

3. Teacher add some other social rules in other countries and try to remember them. Stage3: Post-reading

Task 3: Discussion (9mins )

1.

Students chose one of the following topics’

dialogues of small talk to imitate a short dialogue by

themselves. (Use the social skills you have learnt while communicating. )

①You meet an English-speaking

foreigner in the street who needs

help in finding his/ her way

②

Congratulate on your friends ’

good results of exam

③

Praise your friends’

new hairstyle

2

Students show their performance in groups and the whole class evaluate their performances with teacher. Task 4: Summary ( 2 mins )

1.

Ss summarize what they have learnt in the class. Stage4: Homework: （1min）

Suppose your

friend Amy is going to visit our headmaster (校长) next week. Please write a letter to give her some advices on “what she should or shouldn’t talk about in small talk, and tell her some listening skills while having communication”.