Unit 5 What are the shirts made of?
Section B (1a-2d)
Period 1: Listening and speaking
Ⅰ. The analysis of teaching material.
The lesson is the lesson of unit5. The type of this lesson is listening and speaking. The topic of this unit is about what the shirts made of, which is close to students’ interest in learning easily. The function of this lesson is about what the shirt made of. And the structure of this lesson is made of, the teacher will let students learn to talk about their shirts made of , at the same time, students can learn the key sentences and phrases.
In this lesson, by learning about the topic of what the shirt made of, students can learn and understand the basic sentence pattern of what are the shirts made of.
Ⅱ. The analysis of learning Condition
The students are from a junior middle school in the countryside. They are in Grade 9. Most of the students are in the medium level of English and they are not good at listening and speaking. The topic of this lesson is “What are the shirts made of”, before this lesson, students have learned some words about raw material which lays the foundation for this lesson, but the new words and sentence patterns such as The shirts made of...may be a little difficult for students. Since the topic of this unit is closely related to students daily life and students are interest in learning, this lesson will not be difficult for students. In class, the teacher will use a variety of teaching methods to help students to learn the words and sentences of what your material made of. According to the characteristics of Grade 9 students, we all know that their cognition is high, and this lesson will be closed to the real life. Thus, students will be more easy to learn the new knowledge.
Ⅲ. Teaching Objectives：
According to the key points and difficult points in this unit, combining with the learning situation of students in this class, and referring to the New Curriculum Standard of English, the teacher sets the following objectives.
A. Knowledge objectives：
1) Students can say and recognize the following words:
Key words： chopsticks, coin, fork, blouse, silver, glass, cotton, steel, grass, leaf, produce, widely, be known for, process, pack
2) Students can understand the following key phrase：
a bird kite, a dragon kite, a butterfly kite
B. Ability objectives：
①Students can describe and inquire about the materials of the articles in English.
②Students can understand the usage and sentence structure of passive voice.
C. Emotional objectives：
①Students can understand the materials of some daily necessities;
②Students can increase common sense of life, develop good living habits;
③Students can understand the production process and materials of some local famous products or traditional artworks, and cultivate students' national pride and patriotism.
Ⅳ. Key points and difficulties
A. Key points：
1)Key words： chopsticks, coin, fork, blouse, silver, glass, cotton, steel, grass, leaf, produce, widely, be known for, process, pack
2) Key sentences：
① —This ring looks nice. Is it made of silver?
—Yes, and it was made in Thailand.
② What is it made of/from?
③ China is famous for tea, right?
④ Where is tea produced in China?
B. Difficulties：
Students can understand the usage and sentence structure of passive voice correctly.
Ⅴ. Teaching method & aids
A. Teaching methods
1. Task-based Language Teaching Approach (Teachers assign different tasks to students in different stages of listening and ask students to practice with questions, which will make it easier for students to learn words and sentence patterns.)
2. Communicative Approach (Through the pair work, students will be encouraged to communicate with the teacher and their partners.)
3. Audio-lingual Method (Listen to the tape several times, complete the exercises and try to retell the listening content. Then students try to imitate the dialogue. Students will improve their skills of listening and speaking. )
B. Teaching aids
Pictures & PPT
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Warming up
1. Present the sentence structure, using the pictures on the big screen:
Q: Do you know what festival is it?
It’s Wei Fang International Kite Festival.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Communicative Approach.Students by watching the picture to get the students’ attention. Students can make full preparation for the following study.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show some pictures on the big screen. Try to guess what are kites made of.
2. Finish 1a.
Check the answers with the Ss.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Communicative Approach and Task-based Language Teaching Approach. Through presenting the new words and sentences with pictures, students can learn the new words and sentences in an interesting way.
Step 3 Listening
Work on 1b
1.Laura is trying to find out more about:
A. what Zheng Yun did on his vacation.
B. what Zheng Yun thinks about Weifang.
2. Zheng Yun tells Laura about:
A. a kite festival.
B. how to make a kite.
Work on 1c
1.___went on a vacation to Weifang.
2.___wants to know more about the kite festival.
3.___saw many different kinds of kites at the festival.
4.___didn’t know that kite flying could be so exciting.
5.___wants to learn to fly a kite.
Step 4 Role play
Read the conversation in the box.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Communicative Approach and Task-based Language Teaching Approach.Through doing pair work and pair work, students can practice the pronunciation and intonation.
Step 5 Language points
1. The international kite festival is held in Weifang every year. 国际风筝节每年在潍坊举行。
(1) international (connected with or involving two or more
countries) 形容词，意为“国际的”。
► The UN is an international organization.
联合国是一个国际组织。
(2) hold (to have a meeting, competition, conversation,
etc.) 意为“举行”。其过去式和过去分词都是held。
► We are going to hold a
meeting tomorrow.
我们打算举行一次会议。
【Purpose】This step is based on Task-based Language Teaching Approach. By listening to the key information of the material, students will learn how to grasp key words while listening. And by doing more listening practice, students can further master the words and sentence patterns of this lesson.
Step 6 Free Talk
1.The international kite festival is held _____________ and _____________
The kites are made of ________,_____, ______,______, _______. They are very __________.
2.Fill in the blanks.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Communicative Approach. Through presenting the new words and sentences with pictures, students can learn the new words and sentences in an interesting way.
Step 7 Summary
Teacher will ask students to make conclusion about what they have learned in this lesson. And guide students to understand the important about this lesson.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Communicative Approach. After the learning has done, students need to recall the key points, and try to remember them in the class.
Step 8 Homework
1.Read after the listening materials after class.
2.Search information about traditional Chinese art works.
【Purpose】The teacher asks students to recite the conversation in order to help students to memorize the sentences pattern easily. It can help students consolidate what they have learned in this lesson and lay the foundation for the next lesson.
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