1、Instructional design 1.Overall Design This is a listening and speaking lesson. In this lesson I mainly employed Task-based Teaching Method, Natural Approach as well as the Communicative Language Teaching Method aims at improving students comprehensive language competence. First of all, drawing on th
2、e Natural Approach, the lesson will start a real-life conversation and explaining the competition between the teacher and the students to arouse students curiosity. Then I will play a game with the students to impress students the key words and background knowledge of April Fools Day so as to make p
3、reparation for the following listening session. In the third section, I mainly use Task-based Teaching Method to assist students to fully understand the listening materials and grasp the method of talking about past experience subconsciously. With the former three sections, students will receive a l
4、arge amount of input of the narration of the past events, then in the next section I designed a speaking task to train students ability of transforming input into output. Finally, I will ask students to tell their own stories. This section is an evaluation of students command of simple past tense an
5、d their ability of talking about past experience. Therefore, this section is employed as a reinforcement of studentscomprehensive language competence. 2.Teaching Context This is a listening and speaking lesson. The lesson focuses on talking about past experience, aiming at letting students narrate p
6、ast events. It mainly consists of warming up, listening and speaking parts. The first warming-up part mainly is intended to lead the students to the class and arouse their interest in the topic. Then the second listening section aims at providing students with initial input of the linguistic express
7、ions to talk about past experience subconsciously. Finally, the third speaking session mainly targets at improving students ability of language output, and thus realizing the goal of communicative teaching. Therefore, the three sections of this unit, abiding by the “output after input” sequential pr
8、inciple in teaching, progress step by step, and proceed from experience to exploration and finally to language application. All these can effectively realize the objectives of improving students comprehensive language competence. The objects of this lesson are students in Grade 9. Students in this p
9、hase has already learned some tenses such as simple past tense. However, junior students lack the ability of systematic autonomous language learning and some students have no confidence of English learning. Therefore, it requires teachers to set up the tasks from easy to the advanced to guide them.
10、Whats more, junior students tend to focus on image thinking because of the absence of the mature, abstract, and logical thinking, thus teachers should design various interesting, fun and relaxing activities to sustain studentsinterests and attention. 3.TeachingAims Aims of knowledge: (1) master and
11、use some important words, such as: costume, embarrassed, fool, realize, show up, get dressed, go off (2) be able to narrate past events Aims of ability: (1) be able to get correct information from listening material. (2) be capable of talking about past experience Aims of emotion: (1) taste the happ
12、iness of communicating in English. (2) build confidence towards listening, which is generally considered as the difficult points of English learning. (3) be active and cooperative in team work, enjoy the sense of achievement in cooperation. Aims of strategy: (1) master some methods of independent st
13、udy (2) develop the ability of transforming input to output 4.Key Points and Difficult Points Key points: 1). mastering of the key words. 2). narrating the past events Difficult points: 1). getting the correct information from the listening material. 2). be able to narrate the past events 5.Teaching
14、 Methods 1).Task-based Teaching Method 2).the Communicative Language Teaching Method 3).Computer-assisted Instruction 6.Teaching Aids 1). text book 2). power point 3). video clips 4). listening recording 7.Teaching Procedure Step 1：Warming- up Greetings The purpose of my design: (1) to catch student
15、sattention and arouse their interests. (2) to liven up the lesson and lead in the topic Step 2:Aguessing game & a competition 1.words and phrases 2.background knowledge ofApril Fools Day The purpose of my design: (1) to impress students the key words by a guessing game. (2) to reinforce studentsimpr
16、ession ofApril Fools Day by a competition Step 3: Listening 1 Dave, Nick and Joe are talking about April Fools Day. Listen and write each persons name under the correct picture. The purpose of my design: (1) to enable students to grasp the main idea（2） Meanwhile, it is an excellent way to examine if
17、 students had a good command of the words they have had learned in the pre-listening part. Step 4: Listening2 Listen again and write down the key words or phrases under each picture. The purpose of my design: to make students understand the details of the listening tape. Based on the information tha
18、t students got in extensive listening, the main purpose of this section is to grasp the key words of the listening material. Step 5: Retelling Retell their stories according to the key words and phrases that you have written down. The purpose of my design: this section aims at training studentsabili
19、ty of transforming what they have heard into an oral composition and grasp the methods of talking about past experience. Step 6: Speaking1 Have you ever played jokes on others, especially on April Fools Day? Have you ever been fooled by others. Tell your story to your partner.（at least 6 sentences）
20、The purpose of my design: the retelling session aims at training students ability of talking about past experience. It is a preeminent way to examine students ability of transforming the input through listening into the output by speaking. Step 7：Speaking2 Discussion: Should we celebrate April Fools
21、 Day by fooling others? Why or why not? The purpose of my design: fooling others is the normal way to celebrate April Fools Day. However, as time passes by, is it still the proper or only way to spend the holiday? Through the discussion, the students will get their own opinions on it. And it is a go
22、od way to cultivate the students critical thinking. Step 8: Homework: Designing a party forApril Fools Day and make a poster for the party The purpose of my design: this section is aimed at guiding students to reinforce what they have learned in the class. And it is also a preparation for the next r
23、eading class aboutApril Fools Day. 8. Teaching Evaluation Evaluation content： 1). knowledge aboutApril Fools Day 2). mastery of the relevant skills of listening. 3). students ability in oral communication. Evaluation approaches： The teaching and learning activities of this lesson will be assessed as it progresses. Five methods are adopted: 1). observation 2). questioning 3). groupwork 4). demonstration 5). assignment
