Unit 3 What are you doing for vacation?
I will talk about my teaching idea from 6 aspects
Firstly ,let me talk about the analysis of the Teaching Material
The topic of this unit is about vacation plans. It is from the unit 3 of PEP English < go for it> the first semester of grade 8 .This is an interesting topic for students. So all the activities in this unit are helpful to raise students’ learning interest. This section including two periods. I will finish Part 1, Part 2 and Grammar Focus in this period .students will learn some words and the target language and know how to make vacation plans. Their integrating skills will be improved .The target language is the basic for Ss to learn the other contents of this unit. So it’s very important to learn this lesson well.
The teaching aims are established according to Junior School English syllabus' provision and the teaching material. As follows:
Knowledge Object :In this unit students learn to talk about future plans.and learn some key vocabulary: camping, visiting and so on . Use the Present progressive as future in the daily life .
Ability Object :To train the students’ ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing. and ability of making future plans.
Moral Object:students know the truth "You can’t work efficiently if you don’t have a good rest.""Making a good vacation plan can make your trip happy."
According to the teaching material and the students' characteristic,I think the key points are helping the students master the key vocabulary, understand and use the target language ,master the usage of the different forms of “be” in the target language.
The difficult points are helping the students use the target language to talk about the future activities
Secondly ,I will talk about the the students
The students have learnt English for more than one year. They know some English, but some of them didn’t learn it well. Especially, most of them are afraid to speak English. For this lesson, the students have known the pattern “be doing”. Half of them can use “be” correctly. Half of them can change a verb to “verb+ing” correctly. But they don’t know to use the pattern “be doing” as future. And this is what I teach in this lesson.
Thirdly ,I will talk about the teaching methods and learning methods
As we all know,the main instructional aims of learning English in the Middle School is to cultivate students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and their good sense of the English language. So in this lesson I’ll mainly use “Communicative” teaching method, “Audio-visual” teaching method and “Task-based” teaching method. That is to say, I’ll let the Ss to get a better understanding of the target language. I’ll give the Ss some tasks and arrange six kinds of activities: watching CAI, writing some activities, listening, make conversations, listening practice and group activities.
At the same time,the students will pass "Observation-Imitation-Practice" to study language,study English language by Communication.
During the teaching process , Multi-media computer, Tape recorder, ppt and school things will be needed.
Fourthly ,the important part is teaching procedure .according the theory of new curriculum standard ,I will present my teaching procedure in 5 steps.
Step 1. Lead in
This step revises the present continue tense. Students Ask and answer some questions ,such as "What are you doing?" "What is she/he doing? "in pairs.
Step 2. presentation
Show five pictures on the screen. These pictures show the students’ activities for the next vacation. I will point at the picture and say"What is she doing for vacation? She is camping." Then write “camping” on the Bb. Ask them guess the meaning of the word according to the picture.then learn and explain the word “babysit”.
Task 1: divide the students into four groups. Ask each group to discuss to write the other three activities on the Bb and add more using the “ing” form of verbs. Have a competition. The group which writes the most correctly and shows the most activities is the winner.This task introduces the key vocabulary and Ss start to touch Present progressive as future. The competition can raise Ss’ learning interest.
Step 3. practice
Task 2:Show three pictures and three activities on the screen. Ask Ss to listen to the tape to match the pictures with the activities. After they do them correctly, give them some praise. This task gives students listening practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.
Task 3:ask the students to work in pairs to talk about the five pictures. Ask Ss to use the different forms of verb “be” correctly.then some pairs act them out to check the pronunciation and the forms of verb “be”.This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Task 4:Ask Ss to open their books and turn to Page 14. Look at part 2a, Explain the chart and make sure the students understand the chart 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 chart. For the third time the Ss pay attention to the time that the activities in each conversation are done and write them down in the chart.Ask some Ss to write their answers on the Bb and check them.This task provides guided listening and writing practice using the target language.
Step 4. summary
First ask two students to read Grammar focus to the students. One reads the questions, and the other reads the answers. This can check their pronunciation and trains their reading ability.
By ask and answer some questions ,sum up the grammar point, get the conclusion that the present progressive tense can also be used to talk about the future activities.This task guides the Ss to study English by thinking hard and conclusion. After that they can have a rational knowledge to the target language.
Task 5: Ask the Ss to work in groups of four. Tell the students that if they don’t have a good rest, they can’t study efficiently and making a good vacation plan can make their trip happy. So they must arrange their vacation carefully. Write down their group mates’ answers in the chart in your book.
This task provides the Ss a chance to use English freely. They can say the conversation according to their thought using the target language. Of course, at the same time, it trains the Ss’ speaking ability. Also, it guides the Ss to study English by communication. Another, I change the parts’ order of the text book, because this part can be delayed to the end of the class. After class, they can continue to talk about it.
Step 5. Homework
write a passage talk about what you and your classmates are doing for your next vacation. The homework can help the students to consolidate the target language and train their writing ability.
Finally ,I will write the key words and sentence pattern on the blackboard ,students can know what they learnt in this class clearly.
That’s all. Thank you!