Unit Three Higher, Faster, Stronger
Huoshan Vocational High School Han Bangjun
Good morning, everyone. I’m Han Bangjun. I’m an English teacher. Now I’ll say Unit Three in Book Three. I’ll prepare to say the lesson from five parts.
Part One Analysis of the Teaching Material
(一) STATUS AND FUNCTION
1. This is an important lesson in Book Five. From this lesson, students learn interesting facts about the Olympics and the interesting English that describe them. The students use this language to complete the unit project." a classroom Olympics". It has articles about Chinese athletes, designed to interest Chinese students. To attain “four skills” request of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Therefore this lesson is in the important position of the teaching material.
2. This lesson is the first one of Unit 1.So if the Ss can learn it well, it will be helpful to make the Ss learn the rest of this unit.
3. Such a topic is related to daily life, so it is helpful to raise learning interests of students and it will be also helpful to improve their spoken English.
(二)TEACHING AIMS AND DEMANDS
The teaching aim's basis is established according to Junior School English syllabus' provision.
1. Knowledge objects
(1) To study the new words “modern, gold, record, event, twentieth,” and the phrases “win a gold medal, break the world record”.
(2) Know about: ancient, Athens, medal, shooting, athlete, silver, bronze, sprint.
2. Ability objects
(1) To develop the Ss’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
(2) To train the Ss’ ability of working in pairs.
(3) To develop the Ss’ abilities of communication by learning the useful structures.
3. Moral objects
(1) Through different teaching methods to make students be interested in study.
(2) Dare to express their opinions in English.
(3) Love to know more knowledge about Olympic Games. Make an effort to contribute to Beijing Olympics.
(三)TEACHING KEYS AND DIFFICULT POINTS
The teaching key and difficult points’ basis is established according to Lesson One in the teaching material's position and function.
1. Key points:
(1).Be able to express words,phrases and sentences in English.
(2). Know about the history of the Olympics and amazing Olympic athletes.
2. Difficult points:
Be able to talk about Olympics in oral English.
Part Two The Teaching Methods
1. Communicative teaching method 2. Audio-visual teaching method
3. Task-based teaching method 4. Classified teaching method
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 and “Classified” teaching method. That is to say, I’ll let the Ss to get a better understanding of the key structures. I’ll give the Ss some tasks and arrange some kinds of activities: talking, guessing games, watching CAI .
Part Three Studying ways
1. Teach the Ss how to be successful language learners.
2. Make situation and provide meaningful duty, encourage the students to study the text by themselves.
3. The courseware collect image sound writing in a body, make the course content to be more lively.
Part Four Teaching steps
I’ll finish this lesson in six steps.
Step1 Warm-up
Play a song about Olympics, lead in class. Talk about the title “Higher, Faster, Stronger.”
Free talk about questions:
Have you watched the Olympics on TV? What’s your favorite Olympic sport?
Do you think the Olympics are important? Why or why not?
Purpose of my designing: Draws out this class study content with the song, stimulates the students’ study interest.
Step2. Presentation
Learn new words in groups:
Places:
Time: ancient, modern, BC, AD
Medals: gold, silver, bronze
Sports and events: race, sprint, long jumping, shooting.
I’ll use CAI to present the whole text. I’ll write the key points on the Bb while they are watching. After watching, I’ll teach them to read the words and sentences on the Bb. Make sure they can read them well.
Purpose of my designing: To present the text by CAI is much easier for the Ss to learn and grasp the meanings. CAI can provide a real situation with its sound and picture and it makes the relationships between the Ss better.
Step3. Practice
First play the tape recorder. Let the Ss listen and imitate the text. Pay attention to their pronunciation and intonation. Then finish the exercises on the computer.
Purpose of my designing: This step is employed to make the Ss get the general idea of the text. At the same time let the Ss have a chance to practise their listening and spoken ability.
Step4. Play a guessing game.
Divide the class into several large groups. In each group students will take turns miming a sports activity and the other students will take turns guessing. Instruct the groups to choose a timekeeper and scorekeeper. Answers should be specific and both give the name of the game and describe the action.
Purpose of my designing: I think it is important to form a better English learning surrounding for the Ss by imitating and at the same time it is necessary to provide situations to review learned knowledge.
Step5. Knowledge development
The 2008 Olympics had been successfully held in Beijing. What do you know about the emblem of Beijing Olympics? What does it stand for?
Show CAI and watching.
The emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The emblem has a single Chinese character on a red seal and means "Chinese seal-dancing Beijing. "Below it, there are the words "Beijing 2008."The character in the emblem is "Beijing." It means "capital" of
Purpose of my designing: Raises student's feeling of national pride.
Step6. Homework:
Give the homework with the song 《阳光体育之歌》 playing.
(1). Search for more information of the Olympics on the Internet.
(2). If you’re a volunteer of Beijing Olympics. What can you do for our country?
Purpose of my designing: Realizes the textbook and the life link, develops student's study space.