Module1MyFirstDayatSeniorHigh

Module One My First Day at Senior HighI. Teaching Goals1.Knowledge and Skills(1)Enable the students to master the important words and expressions,understand the passage and learn something about the school.(2)Master some adjectives ending in -ingand -ed and the differences between these two kinds of adjectives. 2. Abilities (1)Improve Ss abilities to listen, speak, read and write.3.Emotion and ValuesStudents should love their new schools,new classes, their classmates and their teachersThey also can attend all kinds of English activities and have right attitude to language study.Process and Methods(1)Learn independently and learn something about the school guided by the teacher.(2)Inquiry and activity.Students should know how to describe their schools and try to know something about the school systems home and abroad.(3)Thinking practice is helpful for the students to have a right attitude to language study.Teaching Important PointsTo learn something about school systems,master important words and phrases,improve reading and writing abilities.Teaching Difficult Point How to improve Ss ability to listen and speak.Teaching Aids the multimedia the blackboard.The TimeSeven periodsThe First Period：Introduction, Everyday English and FunctionThe Second and Third Period:Reading and VocabularyThe Forth Period:Grammar 1,Listening and VocabularyThe Fifth Period:Grammar 2,Pronunciation The Sixth Period:Writing The Seventh Period:Cultural Corner, Period OneTeaching content1. Introduction 2. Everyday English and function Teaching Aims1.Review the following words about subjects:biology, chemistry, English, Japanese, geography, Russian, history, IT(Information Technology),Chinese,mathematics,physics,PE(Physical Education)2.Improve the students ability to speak by describing their school life.Teaching Important PointMake the students free to talk in and after class about their school life. Teaching Difficult PointHow to finish the task of speaking.Teaching Aidthe multimediaTeaching methods a) speaking b) discussing c) pair-work & group-workTeaching ProceduresStep 1 Greeting and LeadinT: Good morning/afternoon,everyone.S: Good morning/afternoon,Mr/Ms.T: Sit down please. Today were going to begin to learn English for senior high students. Module One is My First Day at Senior High. But you have learned here for two weeks.Whats your feeling now?Are you excited to be a high school student?S: This is the first day of my high school life.I feel very excited and surprised. All the things in this school are new to me.I think I will study hard and work here.T: Good. High school is very important in ones life.It is a period full of creation, dreams,discovery and hard work.I hope all of you will make good use of it.But also I want to know something about your senior high study. Step 2 SpeakingT: You can look at the words in the box on P.1 in your textbooks. Lets read these words and check their meanings.biology,chemistry,English,Japanese,geography,Russian,history,Chinese,IT(Information Technology),mathematics,physics,PE(Physical Education)T: First lets group subjects together. Science subjects:biology,chemistry,IT,mathematics,physics Languages:English,Japanese,Russian,Chinese Arts subjects: geography, history.T: Now you can say something about your school study according to the following questions.Dialogue (pair-work) T: How many subjects are science subjects? S: T: How many of them are languages? S: T: Which languages do you study at our school? S: . T: Which subjects do you like best? Why? S: Ask the students to imitate the dialogue to get which subject their partner like and why by using the following drills. Which subject do you like best? Why? Which subject do you like better between .and ? Why? I like because I think is important because I would like to study/learn because In my opinion is so I . Ask some of them to show their dialogues to Ss. Sa: Which subject do you like best? Sb: English. Sa: Why? Sb: Because in English class I can learn many interesting cultures,customs and stories about Englishspeaking countries.I can talk to foreigners in English. I feel wonderful. Sa: In my opinion, physics is more important.Sb: Why?Sa: Because learning physics well can deal with many things in our everyday life.Step 3 Everyday English and Function(I) T: After we have talked about the favorite subjects you like best, now lets turn to another part. Every day when we have a break between classes we may meet some old friends, you may talk about your classes , now please turn to P8 , lets learn the dialogue in Everyday English and Function . Ask the students to listen to the tape ,then to read the dialogue in pairs. (explain some difficult words and teach ask them to pronounce them by looking up them in the dictionary)Ask the students to read and analyze these sentences.1 How are you doing?2 Oh really?3 Is that right?(II) Work in pairs. Make a conversation about one of your classes . Use the conversation in activity 1 to help. Ask some of them to report and act their dialogue out. Step 4 Summary and Homework1.The teacher summary the whole class for the students and tell them what they should do to improve .2. Review the drills we learned in this class.3. Preview Reading and vocabulary & Cultural corner.The Second PeriodTeaching content Reading and vocabularyTeaching Aims1. Improve the students reading ability.2. Master some useful words and expressions.Teaching Important Points1. Get the students to grasp the main idea of the passage and help them understand the passage better.2. Learn and master the important words and phrases.Teaching Difficult Points1. How to improve the students reading ability.2. How to help the students master the important language points in this passage.Teaching Methods1. Listening, reading, speaking and practicing.2. Fast and careful reading to make the students understand the passage better.3. Discussion to help the students finish the concerned exercises.4. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work.Teaching Aids1. the blackboard2. the multimediaTeaching ProceduresStep 1 Revision and Lead-in (Greet the whole class as usual.)T: In the last period, you talked about yourselves, your previous schools, your school life and your feelings about your new school. You all did a good job, I think. Do you want to know another students thoughts about his school? Lets see what he/she is talking about.Step 2 Pre-readingT: Before reading the passage, lets deal with three questions. The first one, what are the main differences between Junior High school and Senior High school? This question is a little difficult; you can discuss it with your partner and then stand up to answer it voluntarily, understand?Ss: Yes.(Students discuss it.)S: I think students at Senior High school work harder than those at Junior High school and they all have a hope to go to university.S: At Senior High, students have more space and freedom to study by themselves because they are old enough to do it like this, while in the Junior High school they are often asked even forbidden to study.S: The period of Senior High school is more important than the one in Junior High school in learning knowledge, developing interest and growing.S: There are more work, more students and teachers at Senior High school.T: OK. Quite good. From what you said, we know that this period is full of hard work, development, great hope and great achievements. So grasp every chance to develop yourselves and realize your dreams. Now what about the next two questions?(Students answer them together.)Step 3 ReadingT: Now we will learn the passage about Li Kangs first day at Senior High. In the text you may meet some new words, lets look at them in the box on P2 in your textbooks. attitudeenthusiasticbehaviorcomprehension handwritinginstructionmethodphotographspellingtextbook T: Do you know the meanings of the words? Try to guess according to the following sentences.1. Whats your attitude to studying English. Are you (a) enthusiastic? (b) interested?(c) not very interested?2. Describe the general behavior of your Junior High class in English lessons: Do you all (a) work hard in class? (b)behave in a serious and polite manners?(c) sometimes get noisy?3. Give an example of your English teachers teaching method. Does he/she (a) tell stories?(b) explain grammar?(c) write new words on the blackboard? 4. What do you find most difficult about English? (a) Reading comprehension. (b) Speaking. (c)Spelling.(d)Understanding instructions.5. Whats the difference between this textbook and the one you used at Junior High? Think about (a) difficulty (b)photographs (c) reading texts.T: Just now you all answered the questions but I dont know your ideas so now it is your turn to show your answers with a short passage.S: I am very enthusiastic for English. My English teacher at Senior High is a beautiful girl who often tells stories in class. She always has many ways to make her lessons lovely and interesting. I have some difficulties in learning grammar. I think I will learn it well this term.S: I am not very interested in English, because it is difficult to remember the words. In the English class sometimes we dont behave in serious and polite manners. I think I will try my best to improve my English.T: OK. After talking about yourselves, lets move to the passage. Read the passage quickly and try to find the answers to these questions on the screen.1. What is something different about this Senior High school?2. What are the two things that Li Kangs teacher thinks important to do in class?3. What are the two things that the English teacher wants to improve? (Teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and collects their answers.)Possible answers: 1. The teaching method, classrooms, students. 2. Reading comprehension and speaking. 3. Spelling and handwriting.T: Now lets read the passage carefully and loudly and try to get the main idea of each paragraph. What about the first one?Ss: Li Kang introduces himself.T: Good. We can use only one word “self-introduction ”.Is it proper?Ss: Yes.T: What about the next paragraph? Suggested answers:Paragraph 1Self-introductionParagraph 2Description of the school.Paragraph 3Teaching method. Paragraph 4What the students did in the first English lesson.Paragraph 5Two skills that need improving.Paragraph 6Description of the class.T: After fast reading you know the general idea of the whole passage. Now arrange the following sentences in the right order according to the text.(The teacher write the sentences on the blackboard.)1. My new school is very good and I can see why.2. The English class is really interesting.3. My name is Li Kang.4. Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting.5. The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing.6. There are sixty-five students in my classmore than my previous class in Junior High.7. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.8. I like her attitude very much. The right order:31527486T: Maybe you have understood the passage better. Close the books and just listen to me carefully. Ill read some sentences for you and then you should explain these sentences with your own words according to your understanding, are you clear?Ss: Yes.(The teacher reads the following sentences and students explain them one by one.)1. Ms Shens method of teaching is nothing but like that of the teachers at my Junior High School. 2. I dont think I will be bored in Ms Shens class. 3. Some students were embarrassed at first. 4. Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves.T: What you have done is very good. Please turn to Page 3 and finish Exercise 4 quickly. Lets speak out the answers.Ss:1.b2.a3.a4.bStep 4 ConsolidationFill in the blanks according to the passage.Li Kang 1 in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei. He writes down his 2 about his first day at Senior High School. He thinks that his new school is very good. The teachers are 3 and 4 and the classroom are 5 .Each room has a computer with a special 6,on which everything 7 on the computer will 8.Ms Shen, his English teacher, always makes her class really 9.Her 10 of teaching is different from other teachers. Ms Shen pays more attention to 11 and 12 in her class. She wants to improve the students 13 and handwriting. The students can do this in a funny way with spelling games and other14,so Li Kang and his classmates all like Ms Shens 15.In Li Kangs class, there are sixty-five students and everyone is 16.Answers:1.lives2.thoughts 3.enthusiastic 4.friendly5.amazing6.screen 7.written 8.appear 9.interesting 10.method11.reading comprehension12.speaking 13.spelling 14.activities 15.attitude16.hardworkingStep 5 Summary and Homework1. Today we have learned some new words,read the whole passage and got the main idea of Li Kangs Senior High School.We know that he is full of hope,surprise and selfconfidence,just like us.After class you should try to remember the new words and read the text again to find some difficult sentences.2. Do Ex.1 , Ex.2 in Vocabulary Study part on P1 and the Ex.- Sequence of Ideas on P2 in your Learners Guidance Books.The Third PeriodTeaching content1. reading 2. language points.Teaching Aims1. Review the words and phrases learned in the last two periods.2. Improve the students reading ability.3. Master some important language points.Teaching Important Points1. How to understand the passage better.2. Master some important language points.Teaching Difficult PointHow to use some useful words and phrases correctly and reasonably.Teaching Methods1. Revision method to consolidate the words.2. Explanation and practice methods to make the students master the words, expressions and some sentences.Teaching Aids1. the blackboard2. the multimediaTeaching Procedures Step 1 Greetings and Revision 1. Greet the whole class as usual.2. Review the new words in this unit. Give the students Chinese meanings and let them pronounce and spell the words.Step 2 PresentationT: Yesterday, we read the passage and knew something about Li Kangs school, his English lesson and his class. Today we will read the text carefully and analyze some important sentences. First of all, let me check your exercise.Step 3 ReadingT: Now please open your textbooks at P4 and look through the the words in the box above and then listen to the whole passage carefully. While listening you should tick the words that appear in the text.amazedamazingboredboringbrilliantembarrassedembarrassingenthusiasticexcitinghard-workinginterestedinteresting (Students listen to the tape and tick the words.)Possible answers: amazingboredbrilliantembarrassedenthusiastichard-working T: Now turn to P2 and read the passage carefully again, then finish the Ex-Artistic Conception Online on P2 in your learners guidance books and then Ill check your answers. T: All right. Please turn your textbooks to Page 4, Ex 6, and find out Li Kangs opinion about his new school. T: Now please look at the screen or the blackboard. I will explain something to you. (Show the following on the screen or on the blackboard and ask Ss to try to find out their meanings and Teacher explains them briefly. Then let Ss make an independent inquiry or an cooperative inquiry into the language points in Section Four-Difficult Point Analysis in their Learners Guidance Books While Teacher goes around, helping Ss with their problems. ) 1. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. _2. Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. _3.The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen. _4. Ms Shens method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior high school._5. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. _6. For our homework tonight, we have to write a description of the street where we live. _ 7. Im looking forward to doing it! _Step 4 Summary and Homework1. In this lesson, we read the passage again and have understood it well. We all have learned a lot of important words and expressions, such as nothing like, by oneself, look forward to. After class you should try to remember them and use them freely.2. Please finish the exercise-Phrase Fill-in on P2 and the exercise-Multiple-Choice On P6 in your Learners Guidance Books.The Fourth Period Teaching