Shenzhen Foreign Languages School 教学设计 Teaching Reading &Speaking:Unit 4 More practice-English Grade Nine contents Time 20 min Teacher Xiaohong Ma,English Department,Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Students Grade Nine Analysis of the teaching material The article is about Aunt Linda's replies to the Internet posts on page 51.This article gives advice to four teenagers based on their problems in their daily life.The topic is very close to the students'life,and there is few new words in the material.Therefore,students can understand the material easily.What's more,the material can also arouse students'interest in thinking about how to deal with the problems.And also the students can form a positive attitude when they meet difficulties.Equally important,this article is well structured and well written,which can be employed to train students'reading ability.Besides,it can act as a good example for students to follow when they write a letter. Analysis of the students Comparatively speaking,the students in this class are more active than passive,but the students' language abilities vary.3/5of the students are willing to express themselves confidently,while 1/5of the students are always waiting for others'reaction,and the rest are always silent.So the students are divided into groups of four with different levels in order to help students get the main idea and locate the key information quickly as well as properly understand some difficult expressions according to the context.In that case,all the students may have a chance to take part in the class activities. Teaching Objectives Knowledge objective 1.Enable students to master some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to give advice. 2.Enable students to ask for and give advice in a suitable situation. Ability objective 1.Improve students'reading ability and help them to foster proper reading strategies. 2.Enable students to ask for and give advice in a suitable situation Emotional objective 1.Inspire students to have a positive attitude in solving problems and giving advice. 2.Cultivate students'spirit of helping others
1 1 Shenzhen Foreign Languages School 教学设计 Teaching contents Reading &Speaking: Unit 4 More practice —English Grade Nine Time 20 min Teacher Xiaohong Ma, English Department, Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Students Grade Nine Analysis of the teaching material The article is about Aunt Linda’s replies to the Internet posts on page 51. This article gives advice to four teenagers based on their problems in their daily life. The topic is very close to the students’ life, and there is few new words in the material. Therefore, students can understand the material easily. What’s more, the material can also arouse students’ interest in thinking about how to deal with the problems. And also the students can form a positive attitude when they meet difficulties. Equally important, this article is well structured and well written, which can be employed to train students’ reading ability. Besides, it can act as a good example for students to follow when they write a letter. Analysis of the students Comparatively speaking, the students in this class are more active than passive, but the students’ language abilities vary. 3/5of the students are willing to express themselves confidently, while 1/5of the students are always waiting for others’ reaction, and the rest are always silent. So the students are divided into groups of four with different levels in order to help students get the main idea and locate the key information quickly as well as properly understand some difficult expressions according to the context. In that case, all the students may have a chance to take part in the class activities. Teaching Objectives Knowledge objective 1. Enable students to master some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to give advice. 2. Enable students to ask for and give advice in a suitable situation. Ability objective 1. Improve students’ reading ability and help them to foster proper reading strategies. 2. Enable students to ask for and give advice in a suitable situation Emotional objective 1. Inspire students to have a positive attitude in solving problems and giving advice. 2. Cultivate students’spirit of helping others
Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Teaching key points and difficult points Key points: 1.Students know some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to give advice. 2.Students ask for and give advice in a suitable situation. Difficult points: Students ask for and give advice in a suitable situation. Teaching methods Elicitation Task-based Teaching Cooperative learning Teaching procedures Teaching steps Teacher's activities Students'activities Aims 1.Lead students to recall their memories and think about Review the four the four teenagers'problems. teenagers'problems Write down the word and talk freely about the To get the class warmed advice/suggestions'” up and lead in the topic questions raised by the Step 1 2. Ask a series of questions giving advice”. teacher. Warming-up related to each teenager's problems to help students give advice. 1.Guide students to work in To elicit students'prior groups of four and give their knowledge related to the advice based on the Brainstorm some advice topic and to get students questions listed in the table. fully prepared for the reading part. 1.To help students have Let's get to know what advice Aunt Linda will give to each Find out and write a general idea of the article. Step2 teenager. down the proper advice 2.To enhance students' First Reading Ask students to go through the in the table by passage quickly and find out the themselves. ability to locate key information through sentences which can best reading. illustrate the proper advice. 2
2 2 Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Teaching key points and difficult points Key points： 1. Students know some useful expressions and sentence patterns used to give advice. 2. Students ask for and give advice in a suitable situation. Difficult points： Students ask for and give advice in a suitable situation. Teaching methods Elicitation Task-based Teaching Cooperative learning Teaching procedures Teaching steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims Step 1 Warming-up 1. Lead students to recall their memories and think about the four teenagers’ problems. Write down the word ‘advice/suggestions”. 2. Ask a series of questions related to each teenager’s problems to help students give advice. Review the four teenagers’ problems and talk freely about the questions raised by the teacher. To get the class warmed up and lead in the topic “giving advice”. 1. Guide students to work in groups of four and give their advice based on the questions listed in the table. Brainstorm some advice To elicit students’ prior knowledge related to the topic and to get students fully prepared for the reading part. Step 2 First Reading Let’s get to know what advice Aunt Linda will give to each teenager. Ask students to go through the passage quickly and find out the sentences which can best illustrate the proper advice. Find out and write down the proper advice in the table by themselves. 1. To help students have a general idea of the article. 2. To enhance students’ ability to locate key information through reading
Shenzhen Foreign Languages School 1.To enhance students reading ability 1.Ask students to work in through focusing on groups of four and find out details. the exact sentences used to 1.Be active to find out 2.To improve students' give advice. the sentence cooperative ability 2.Ask students to share the patterns in the through sharing Step3 notes. Second Reading notes with group members reading and try to make up the 2.Be brave to share 3.To help students to missing part. notes with the other extract the important 3. Ask students to summarize group members. sentence patterns the useful sentence patterns used to give advice used to give advice. according to the article. 1.Each student needs 1.Ask students to work in pairs to know the to think about more useful sentence patterns, sentence patterns used to so they need to To help students to Step4 give advice. prepare and master more materials. In that case.the students Activity 1 2. Write some hints on the cooperate with each blackboard to help students. other. may give advice more 3. 2.Each student needs confidently. Organize the students to practice in pairs. to present their work. 1. Ask students to work in a group of four to think about To help students sort out the proper advice based on Cooperate with group what has been learnt and Step5 the situation they choose. members to finish the get them prepared for Activity 2 2. They need to combine the activity. giving advice useful sentence patterns with confidently. the situation. Ask students to summarize what has been talked about in this To help students comb Step6 through what has been lesson and then give students Summarize the Summary learnt and get them (orally) some help on how to finish the knowledge homework,mainly including prepared for the homework. how to finish the mind map. Homework 1.Read the text three times. 2.Summarize the sentence patterns we've learned to give advice with the help of the mind map. Blackboard Design
3 3 Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Step 3 Second Reading 1. Ask students to work in groups of four and find out the exact sentences used to give advice. 2. Ask students to share the notes with group members and try to make up the missing part. 3. Ask students to summarize the useful sentence patterns used to give advice. 1. Be active to find out the sentence patterns in the reading. 2. Be brave to share notes with the other group members. 1. To enhance students’ reading ability through focusing on details. 2. To improve students’ cooperative ability through sharing notes. 3. To help students to extract the important sentence patterns used to give advice according to the article. Step 4 Activity 1 1. Ask students to work in pairs to think about more useful sentence patterns used to give advice. 2. Write some hints on the blackboard to help students. 3. Organize the students to practice in pairs. 1. Each student needs to know the sentence patterns, so they need to prepare and cooperate with each other. 2. Each student needs to present their work. To help students to master more materials. In that case, the students may give advice more confidently. Step 5 Activity 2 1. Ask students to work in a group of four to think about the proper advice based on the situation they choose. 2. They need to combine the useful sentence patterns with the situation. Cooperate with group members to finish the activity. To help students sort out what has been learnt and get them prepared for giving advice confidently. Step 6 Summary (orally) Ask students to summarize what has been talked about in this lesson and then give students some help on how to finish the homework, mainly including how to finish the mind map. Summarize the knowledge To help students comb through what has been learnt and get them prepared for the homework. Homework 1. Read the text three times. 2. Summarize the sentence patterns we’ve learned to give advice with the help of the mind map. Blackboard Design
Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Giving advice/suggestions Sentence structures: ·You should.. ·You shouldn't. ·Ask her to do.. ·Let her do. ·Try doing. I suggest that you(should)... ·How about..? ·What about.? ·Why don'tyou..? ·Why not..? ·You ought to.. ·You'd better.. ·I advise you to.. ·I think you need to. Reflections
4 4 Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Giving advice/suggestions Sentence structures: ·You should …. ·You shouldn’t … ·Ask her to do … ·Let her do… ·Try doing … ·I suggest that you (should)… ·How about ….? ·What about …? ·Why don’t you …? ·Why not …? ·You ought to … ·You’d better… ·I advise you to … · I think you need to … Reflections