A teaching plan
By Liu Yuan fu
School:_ Xuan Hua Middle school
Junior or Senior Section：Junior
Class：_six__ Grade : Seven_
Size: 65_students_ Time:_40 minutes
Materials: _Unit 10 Can you play the guitar?(section A 1a-1c)_ Date: _December 13th_ Type of lesson: __listening and speaking_ Aids: CAI, PPT
Contents:
1. Vocabulary：guitar, join, dance, swim, sing, chess, paint, s peak, play chess, speak English, play the guitar, want to join the music club, art club.
2. Structure: Can you play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---?
Yes, I can. No, I can’t. Bu t I can---.
Can he/she play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---?
Yes, he/she can. No, he/she can’t.Bu t he/she can---.
I want to join the art club.
3. Dialogue:1c.
4. listening: 1b.
Objectives:
1. Teaching Aims and Demands
(1) Instructional Objectives
Be able to use the new words and phrases: guitar, join, dance, swim, sing, chess, paint, s peak, play chess, speak English, play the guitar, want to join the music club, art club
Be able to use “can” and can’t.
(2) Ability Objectives
Be able to use listening skills to comprehend their dialogues, such as listen for specific information etc.
Be able to use what they learned to describe what they can do and give responses.
Be able to use the language they learned to finish a dialogue and a short passage.
(3)Educational Objectives
Arousing students’ interest and helping them learn by using pictures.
Building their confidence by step by step approach and careful scaffolding.
(4) Personal objectives
Teaching the new words in different stages of the whole process.
2. Teaching Importance
To master the key vocabulary
To understand and use the target language
To master the usage of t he different forms of “can” in the target language.
3. Teaching Difficulties
To enable the students to understand the sentence patterns to talk about the ability activities.
To enable the students to use the target language
The students learned the structure “can do sth”, So it’s difficult and important to let them understand it can also be used to talk about the ability activities.
4. Teaching Aids
Multi-media computer, Tape recorder and so on.
5. The Teaching Methods
(1) Communicative teaching method.
(2) Audio-visual teaching method.
(3)Task-based teaching method.
6. Studying Ways
(1)Let the Ss pass "Observation—Imitation—Practice" to study language.
(2)Let the Ss pay attention to the key information in listening practice.
(3)Enable the Ss to study English language by Communication.
(4)Let the Ss know that conclusions and being good at thinking are necessary to learn English well.
Procedures and Time Allotment:
Task1: Warming-up(2mins)
Before class, get Ss to enjoy an English song for about 2 minutes to warm them up.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to Interest the students Task 2:Lead-in(3mins)
1. Use the PPT to lead in the new lesson.. show some pictures and
teach the words and phrases: guitar, join, dance, swim, sing, chess, paint, s peak, play chess, speak English, play the guitar, want to join the music club, art club.
2. ask Ss read the words together.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to use real program to arise the students’ interests and students can easily understand the new words through watching the pictures.
Task3: Play a game(4mins)
1. Show some actions and let Ss guess what kind of actions they are. Ask the students to act out the actions in front of the class in ten seconds.
2. Match words with the people in 1a. Show the words and the pictures of the actions. Let the students do then check the answers.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to consolidate vocabulary Task 4: Presentation(8mins)
1. Show some actions and say I can play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---. Then ask the students: Can you play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---? Help the students answer: Yes, I can./ No, I can’t. Bu t I can---.
2. Show some pictures of the actions and ask the students to practice in pairs together in class. Finally invite some groups to act them out in front of the class.
3. Show some actions and say he/she can play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---. Then ask the students: Can he/she play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---? Help the students answer: Yes, he/she can./ No, h e/she can’t. Bu t he/she can---.
4. Show some pictures of the actions and ask the students to practice in pairs together in class. Finally invite some groups to act them out in front of the class.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to let the students learn to cooperate with each other and practice the language points, improve the students’ abilities of speaking.
Task5: Representations(5mins)
1. Show some pictures of the clubs and let the students tell what clubs they are. E g: A: Do you know the clubs? B: Yes, I do.
A: What kind of club is it? B: It is art/ music---club.
2. Show some pictures of the clubs, ask and answer:
A: What club do you want to join? B: I want to join the art club.
A; Can you paint? B: Yes, I can.
3. Pair work
Show some pictures of the actions and ask the students to practice in pairs together in class. Finally invite some groups to act them out in front of the class, using the following sentences:
A: What club do you want to join? B: I want to join the --- club.
A; Can you ---? B: Yes, I can. I can---.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to train their communication skills and grasp the expressions in this lesson.
Task 6. Listening(5mins)
1. Ask Ss to open their books and turn to Page 59. Look at part 1b, look at the conversations and make sure the students understand the conversations and what to do. Then play the tape for three times. For the
first time the students only listen to understand the whole general meaning of the conversations. For the second time the Ss pay attention to the activity in each conversation and write them in the blanks. For the third time the Ss pay attention to the time that the activities in each conversation are done and number the conversations (1-3). Ask some Ss to check their answers.
2. Practice the conversations in 1b. Then make your own conversations.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to practice listening and improve the students’ abilities of listening.
Task 7 . Make a survey(7mins)
Give the students several minutes to prepare the survey using the target language to ask and answer, next fill the form :
A: What club do you want to join? B: I want to join the --- club.
Finally ask two groups of the students to report their results. For example:
Tom can swim and paint, but he can’t sing. He wants to join the swimming club and the art club---.
The purpose of the task-based activities is to make everyone participate in the class and oral practice to improve students’ interest. It also can train their communication skills.
Task 8. Summary(4 mins)
Summarize the key language points in groups , and show them on the screen to help the Ss take notes.
The purpose is to teach students to learn absorption capacity
Task 9. Homework(2mins)
1.Consolidate and review the expressions of the lesson.
2.Write a short passage about the results of the survey.
Blackboard design。
