Teaching Plan Teaching Grammar:Using it as the empty subject contents Time 20 mins Teacher Ye Ting,Shenzhen Hongling Middle School Students Grade 3,Junior High School Teaching Objectives Knowledge objective Enable students to know the usages of it as the empty subject. Ability objective 1.Improve students'learning ability and develop language strategies to communicate in English 2.Enable students to know how to use it as the empty subject correctly. Emotional objective Raise students'awareness of protecting the ocean. Teaching key points and difficult points Key points: 1.Students know how to use it as the empty subject of a sentence to replace a to-infinitive. 2.Students know different sentence patterns with it as the empty subject. Difficult points: Students may have difficulty distinguishing the similar sentence structures-"it is adj.for sb.to do sth." and“it is adj.ofsb.to do sth.” Teaching methods Self-study,pair work Teaching procedures Teaching steps Teacher's activities Students'activities Aims Show the video Nature is To arouse students' Step 1 speaking-Ocean.Show some Enjoy the video Nature is speaking-Ocean.Think interest and recall Leading-in sentences from the video and ask the knowledge (2 min) students about the usage of it in about the usage of it in the they've learned sentences. them about it before. Show some sentences and ask Look at some sentences and students to find out what the word it find out what the word it To enable students Step2 refers to in each sentence.Then refers to in each sentence. to know that it can Grammar help students to work out the rule. Then work out the rule. be used as the empty learning--Usage subject to refer to One Show the exercises in Part A and Try to finish the exercises in time,season, (4 min) Part B from the textbook.Ask Part A and Part B from the weather,distance students to finish them. textbook. and temperature.Teaching Plan Teaching contents Grammar: Using it as the empty subject Time 20 mins Teacher Ye Ting, Shenzhen Hongling Middle School Students Grade 3, Junior High School Teaching Objectives Knowledge objective Enable students to know the usages of it as the empty subject. Ability objective 1. Improve students’ learning ability and develop language strategies to communicate in English. 2. Enable students to know how to use it as the empty subject correctly. Emotional objective Raise students’ awareness of protecting the ocean. Teaching key points and difficult points Key points： 1. Students know how to use it as the empty subject of a sentence to replace a to-infinitive. 2. Students know different sentence patterns with it as the empty subject. Difficult points： Students may have difficulty distinguishing the similar sentence structures – “it is adj. for sb. to do sth.” and “it is adj. of sb. to do sth.” Teaching methods Self-study, pair work Teaching procedures Teaching steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims Step 1 Leading-in (2 min) Show the video Nature is speaking-Ocean. Show some sentences from the video and ask students about the usage of it in them. Enjoy the video Nature is speaking-Ocean. Think about the usage of it in the sentences. To arouse students’ interest and recall the knowledge they’ve learned about it before. Step 2 Grammar learning--Usage One (4 min) Show some sentences and ask students to find out what the word it refers to in each sentence. Then help students to work out the rule. Look at some sentences and find out what the word it refers to in each sentence. Then work out the rule. To enable students to know that it can be used as the empty subject to refer to time, season, weather, distance and temperature. Show the exercises in Part A and Part B from the textbook. Ask students to finish them. Try to finish the exercises in Part A and Part B from the textbook