The topic of this unit is about fruits and foods. The function of this unit is to talk about likes and dislikes. This is the first period of Unit 6. It is to help the students describe fruits in English and ask and answer the simple questions by using the fruits. What the students will be trained in this lesson is the abilities of both listening and speaking. This unit is closely related to students’ daily life. And the main tasks of this unit are to learn fruits and express preferences.
The analysis of the students
The students have learned English for almost five years. They have stimulated a certain amount of words and they have already known to answer questions with yes or no. It is a challenge for students to use the new words and sentence patterns flexibly and correctly. Most of the students are from the city have a good command of knowledge , and some of them are from the countryside, so they are a little poor in the former knowledge.
The students’ cognition and the ability of application are still based on the specific objects, so this lesson will be closed to the real life and create the real situation to help students consolidate key words and key sentences what they have learned. Thus, they will be easy to learn the new words and sentences.
Teaching
objectives
Based on New English Curriculum for Chinese Primary Schools and Junior Middle Schools(2011), according to the analysis of students , the teacher sets the following objectives.
A. Knowledge objectives:
1.Through the games and pair work, 80% of students can pronounce and recognize the new words & sentence patterns according to pictures. And at least 60% of students can make conversations by using the new words & sentence patterns.
2.More than half of students can use the sentence structure to make their own dialogues. And some lower-level students can express their likes or dislikes by using the key words and sentences.
Key structures: Do you like...? Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
B. Ability objectives:
After learning the new words and sentences and practicing listening and speaking in pairs:
1.90% of students can find out the key words while listening.
2.80% of students will be able to make short dialogues about fruits and foods.
3.The students can know the ways on how to express likes and dislikes.
C. Moral objectives:
1.Students will be interested in good co-operation and competition.
2.Students can learn to keep a balanced and healthy diet.
Teaching key points & difficulties
A. Key points:
1.The pronunciation of the new words and phrases: Students can pronounce the new words and phrases correctly.
2.The meaning and usage of the new words: Students can easily give examples with the new words.
3.The usage of the sentence pattern: Students can correctly use the sentence pattern to express their own likes and dislikes.
B. Difficulties:
1.The distinction of the new words and phrases: Students can distinguish the meanings of different words according to the pictures.
2.The ability of listening and speaking: Students can improve the ability of listening and speaking through playing games and making dialogues.
3.The usage of countable nouns: Students can correctly use the plural form of key words in their dialogue.
Teaching methods
1.Task-based Language Teaching (Through activities, students will finish the tasks.)
2.Communicative Approach (Through the pair work, students will be encouraged to communicate with the teacher and their partners.)
3.Situational Teaching Method (Through creating the real life situation, students will improve their abilities of listening and speaking.)
Teaching aids
In order to help the students to understand the lesson, the teacher will choose to use the multimedia devices, some pictures.
Teaching procedures
Teaching steps
Teacher’s behavior
Students’ behavior
Teaching purpose
Step 1
Lead-in
(3 minutes)
Teacher shows a picture of supermarket and invite her mom to go shopping with me for her mother’s birthday party.
Students answer the simple question by observing the pictures.
According to the teacher’s songs actions, students can raise interests in this unit and understand the theme of this lesson.
Step2
Presentation
(10minutes)
Present new words and sentence patterns with the real objects, pictures and PPT.
Teacher uses pictures to teach the new words: banana, orange, milk, ice cream, strawberry, bread.
Teacher teaches the new sentence patterns by asking and answering:
--Do you like...?
--Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
Learn the pronunciation and spelling of new words through the presentation of pictures and PPT.
This step mainly helps students learn the meaning of the new words and remember these key words and sentence patterns.
Step3
Practice
(15 minutes)
1.Teacher uses a game Who can say it quickly? to practice the words.
2.The teacher can provide listening materials to guide the students to listen, and solve the new word barrier before listening.
3.The teacher guides the students to play roles. Before the activity, the teacher imitates and finally organizes the students to start the activity.
4.Teacher will present the corresponding pictures and sentence patterns and guide the students to have their own dialogues.
1.Students quickly answer the words they see.
2.Students will match the words and the pictures.
3.Students listen and complete the corresponding exercises
4.Students show their dialogue practice and imitate the teacher's teacher before.
This step mainly develops students’ ability of self-learning and awareness of group cooperation . Based on cooperative learning, it meets the requirements of the New English Curriculum for Chinese Primary Schools and Junior Middle Schools.
Step4 Production
( 12minutes)
By creating the scene of Mike's birthday, teacher needs students to act as Mike's good friends and give Mike's birthday surprise.
The students will discuss for about 5 minutes on what birthday surprises should be prepared for Mike as his friends. Finally, they will present their discussion results on the stage.
This activity mainly develops students’ ability of listening and consolidates the key sentences they have just learned.
Through the training of this task, we can practice and output the knowledge of this class, consolidate the new contents learned by the students, and know how to use the knowledge in real life, so as to finally achieve the purpose of communication.
Step5
Summary
(3minutes)
The teacher shows the PPT summarizing this part and guides the students to summarize all the new contents learned today.
Students follow the teacher's footsteps to recall and say what they have learned today. Students will summarize the difficult contents by themselves.
This step can help students recall the key words and key sentences what we have learned
after class.
Step6
Homework
(2minutes)
The teacher will design the assignment related to this class in advance. In this activity, the teacher will show the assignment to the students, and the teacher must specify the time and form of the assignment.
Students are familiar with the assignment,know how to complete the corresponding work and submit it within the specified time.
By setting up two layered operations, from simple to difficult, step by step to the learning objectives and master the key and difficult points of this lesson.
Design concept and ideas
In order to achieve better teaching In order to achieve better teaching effection , the teacher designs this class as the following concepts: 1) Concept of Outcomes-based Education; 2) Concept of Students-centred in class ;3) Concept of Core Competence of English;4) Outlook of English Learning Activities.
Based on the concepts above , the teacher designs this class as the following ideas:
1)Through lead-in activity, the teacher and her mother go shopping for the birthday party and use the situational teaching method to introduce the key content of this class.
2) Through presentation activities ,the teacher create the situation to help students to recognize the new content, that is, the words about fruit, so that students can perceive and use language in the situation.
3) Through practice activities ,such as connection, asking and answering, rush answer, role play, listening and so on, the students can better use the
key words and patterns so as to improve their language ability.
4) Through production activity, teacher also designs Mike's birthday, invites the students to be Mike's friends, prepares surprise for Mike's birthday, go shopping in the supermarket and say what they want to buy, finally
conduct output orientation, and finally consolidate the key words and sentence patterns of this class, so as to achieve the teaching objectives of this class,
5) After presentation, practice and production,the teacher will also
lead the students to classify the food as healthy and unhealthy, guide the
students to eat more healthy food and stay away from unhealthy food,
which also infiltrates the emotional values here.
Teaching reflection
1) In this class, the three teaching objectives have been achieved on the
whole, and the ability objectives have not been achieved for a small number of students with weak foundation.
2)The design of the teaching process is highly coherent and logical.
The arrangement of activities is quite reasonable.
3)Teaching methods and means are more scientific. The use of multimedia teaching is in line with the characteristics of contemporary middle school students and improves their interest in English learning.
4) The interaction between teachers and students is generally good,
but some students can't keep up and don't have a good learning effect. In the future, the diversity and stratification of exercises can be considered in
the design of exercises, and the students with good foundation and slightly weak
foundation can be stratified to achieve the learning objectives.