1、Lesson planUnit 8 When is your birthday?Section B 1a - 1dTeaching ideologyThe current theory view listening and speaking as an interactive process which involves not only the teachers part but also the students reactions. Meanwhile, the teacher is responsible for students emotional development in cl
2、ass. In the interactive process,the role that the teacher plays is a learning guide and a heart guide. The students are the main characters who learn, speak and create. Based on the understanding of listening and speaking as an interactive process, this class is divided into four steps. The four ste
3、ps are pre-listening which includes leading -in, reviewing and vocabulary learning, while-listening, post-listening and emotional sublimation . They should be arranged gradually. Teaching material and learning conditionThe analysis of teaching materialThe teaching material is Module 3, Unit 8 from G
4、o For It , Book A for Grade 7. The topic of this unit is about date and events. This part mainly talks about the dates of some school events . The part consists of 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d. The part of 1a is a general introduction of four events in order to encourage students to think of more events. The l
5、istening part of 1b requires students to listen and circle the events after they listen to a dialogue. The listening part of 1c needs students to listen and fill in the calendar. The last part is designed to ask students to describe Johns calendar.The analysis of learning conditionThe students are f
6、rom Grade 7 in junior high school. As junior high school students in Grade 7，they have only achieved a small number of words and phrases and they only have the ability to use the limited number of sentences to talk about the dates or events. So it is very important for the teacher to input the targe
7、t language gradually and set enough examples for students to follow. They are familiar with the topic of the dates about birthday and know some events like ball games. But they may not know how to make their own calendars or even describe the events in their calendars before, especially use differen
8、t adjectives. Moreover, their vocabulary is limited so they may have difficulties in understanding some sentences. Event, trip, calendar are the new words in this part.According to such specific factors that students have great trouble in memorizing special days and they are unwilling to communicate
9、 more with their parents at the period of their ages, the reviewing part from pre - listening designed by the teacher is to help students pay more attention to the special days. The post - listening part encourages students to create and describe their own calendar by using the inputs they got in th
10、is class. Finally, the teacher try to recall their deep love by playing a video about mothers so that they have the eager to communicate more with their parents. Learning objectives1. Language skillsl At the beginning of the class, students can review the dates by chanting and answering the question
11、s.l Students can extend their old knowledge to learn similar new words and phrases like Lantern Festival, Christmas Party, volleyball game and so on by brainstorming. l Students can understand the main idea, circle the events and fill in the calendar step by step. l Students can describe the calenda
12、rs and create their own calendars after they get enough inputs by listening and repeating out loud the listening materials.2. Language knowledgel Students can review the dates and events which involve the words like first, fifth, ninth, twelfth, thirtieth, and events like Childrens Day, Womens Day.l
13、 Students can master the key words of the listening material, such as event, trip, test, calendar.l Students can use target sentences to talk about the events, which are “the . is on .” or “ on . we have .”l Students can use adjectives to describe events so as to get ready for the next period.3. Aff
14、ectsl Students will get to know more about their classmates and parents by having the awareness of memorizing their birthdays in mind, especially knowing that we are supposed to be thankful to our mothers.l Guide students to make a small gift for mothers on Mothers Day.4. Cultural awareness l Studen
15、ts will learn more about the school events by listening to a dialogue about calendar.5. Learning strategiesl Students will cultivate their abilities of individual learning and cooperative learning by answering questions independently and some in pairs and groups.l Students will communicate with each
16、 other in English while doing the group work.Language focuses and anticipated difficultiesLanguage focusesThis is a listening and speaking period so the focus is to cultivate the students listening skills and speaking skills. All the activities are designed to help students to train their listening
17、and speaking skills, such as chanting, asking and answering, listening and describing.It is also important for the students to master the new words and sentences and use them in daily talk.Anticipated difficultiesAs the Students have limited vocabulary, so they may have some difficulties in brainsto
18、rming or even pronouncing some long words or phrases. So the teacher will help them learn the new words and phrases by showing many pictures related to their own everyday school life and correcting some pronunciations.Teaching methodFive - step model: Based on the understanding of listening and spea
19、king as an interactive process, this class is divided into four steps. The four steps are pre-listening which includes leading -in, reviewing and vocabulary learning, while-listening, post-listening which involves reading, describing and creating and emotional sublimation . They should be arranged g
20、radually. Teaching aidsMultimedia devices and PPT documents: In order to help Students to fully understand the new words and the dialogue, I adopt Multimedia devices and PPT documents to bring the real-life pictures into the classroom. At the same time, I downloaded a moving video about mothers hard
21、 work which will make the hearts strongly touched.Teaching proceduresStep1. Pre-listening (9 min)Activity1. Greetings and chanting (1min)T leads students to review the important words about dates by asking students to listen and chant after the tape. T: Hello, boys and girls. I am Max. Nice to meet
22、you. Are you ready for class?(Students say hello to the teacher and get ready for class)T: First, lets listen to the chant.(Students listen to the chant for the first time.)T: Now, lets clap and chant after the tape.(Students clap and chant after the tape.)T: What is the chant about?(Students answer
23、 it is about date.)Activity2. Date-reviewing (2min)T asks a question and shows some pictures about dates and events to review and learn new words. After seeing the pictures, students are expected to brainstorm more events. T: Whats the date today?(One student answers: It is .)T: Shows some dates and
24、 ask: Whats the date? What is special on that day? ( Students answer one by one according to the pictures: It is . And it is .)Activity3. Ask about birthdays (3min)T: I will tell you a secret. My birthday is on Lantern Festival. So you know birthday is on January 15th. When is your birthday?(Two stu
25、dents answer the question.)T: Do you know his birthday? Ask him.(Students ask each other about their birthdays)T: You two.(Two students ask and answer the questions)T: Do you know your parents birthdays?(Students think about their parents birthdays and answer. If some students dont know, the teacher
26、 guides students to ask their parents after class.)Activity4. Pictures - talking (3min)T guides students to talk about the pictures in order to learn the new words and phrases.T: What do you do on your mothers birthday?(One or two students answer)T: Do you give her a birthday party? (One or two stud
27、ents answer)T: Look at the picture. What party is it? (Students answer: It is the New Years party. It is on January 1st.)T : What party is it? When is it?(One or two students answer: It is Christmas party. It is on December 25th.).T: What parties do you have?(Students brainstorm and answer)T: Christ
28、mas party, English party, they are all school events.How to read this word? (Students follow the teacher to learn the word “event”.)T: What event is it?(Students answer it is school trip.)T: What event is it? (Students answer it is a test. The teacher teaches students to read the word.)T: What event
29、 is it? What other ball games do you have? (Students answer it is a basketball game.)T: What other events do you have in our school?(Students answer .) l In this step,the teacher first leads students to review the dates,especially the important numbers like first, fifth, ninth, twelfth, thirtieth by
30、 asking students to listen and chant after the tape. In activity 2, the teacher guides students to review the special days. In activity 3, the teacher guide students to know about their parents birthday and get ready for the emotional sublimation part. And in activity 4, the teacher guides students
31、to learn the new words such as event, trip, test. At the same time, T guides students practice the target sentences.Step2. While-listening (16 min)Activity 1 in 1a. Match the picture with the events.(2 min)T: I have some pictures about school events, can you match them?(T asks students to read the e
32、vents and match them. )T: Picture d is the English test. Why do you think picture d is the English test?(Students answers the questions and express their own idea.)Activity 2 in 1b. Listen and circle the events the students hear in 1a. (2 min)T: Just now we talked about the school events. Two studen
33、ts are talking about their school events, listen and circle the events you hear in 1a. Ready? Lets listen.(The teacher play the tape, students listen and circle, then one student answers, after that the whole class read.) 1. English test 3. school trip 2. party 4. basketball gameActivity 3 in 1c. Li
34、sten again. Fill in Johns calendar. (6 min) T: What is this?(One student answer: It is a calendar. The teacher teaches students to learn calendar.)T:In the calendar, when is Sallys birthday party? (One student answer: It is on .)T: What other events can you hear? Now listen and fill in Johns calenda
35、r.Pay attention, if you have no time to write down the whole words, what will you do? You can write down the first few letters, or just the first letters. After listening, I will give you more time to finish them.(Students listen and finish the calendar)T: What are the events in September? (Students
36、 answer: .)T: When is the school trip? (One student answer:.).T: What are the events in October? (Students answer.)T: When is the ballgame? How about .? (Students answer.)Activity 4 Make a dialogue (3 min) T: So can you make a dialogue like this? So work in pairs.(Students work in pairs to make a di
37、alogue and represent.)A: When is ? B: A: How about ? B: Activity 5 Read after the tape (2 min)T: Pay attention to the intonation while reading after the tape.(The teacher plays the tape and guide students to read the listening material sentence by sentence.)Activity 6 Role - play the conversation (1
38、 min)T: Fill in the missing words and read aloud. Boys are John, girls are Sally. (Students role play the conversation.)l In this step, the students first listen and circle the events they hear. In 1c, students try to learn the strategies of how to write the key phrases. Read aloud and role - play i
39、n order to let students pay attention to the intonations of words and sentences. Meanwhile, they can have enough inputs.Step3. Post-listening (9 min)Activity1 Introduce Johns calendar (2 min)T: So now, you know about Johns calendar. Can you introduce Johns calendar like this:“In Johns calendar, the
40、school trip is on September 26th and 27th . It is relaxing. On September 29th, they have .”(Two or three students introduce Johns calendar.)Activity2 Design calendars. (7 min)T: Do you like Johns calendar? What events do you like in your calendar?( three or more students to answer)T: Ok, good. Now d
41、esign your own calender. Please discuss in groups and fill in your calendar. Then one introduces your calendar like this:We are . next two months. The . is on . We have .on .The other asks questions:When is .? How about.?(More than three groups come to the stage to give reports.) T: All the groups h
42、ave done a good job, let us clap for them. l In this step, the students first introduce Johns calendar. Then the teacher can make sure that the students have the ability to create their own calendar. Meanwhile, they can have enough outputs to feel the pleasure of creation.Step4. Emotional sublimatio
43、n (5min)T: Now, lets enjoy a short video.(Students watch the video and feel the greatness of mothers.)T: After the video, do you know what is the date today?(One student may answer: It is May 14th and it is Mothers Day) T: From the video, we know that mom does everything for us. What can we do for h
44、er? Here is my advice: Get to know your mothers birthdays and make a gift for her on Mothers Day or on her birthday.(Students agree and are willing to show their love to mothers)Step 5. Homework (1 min)1. Get to know your mothers birthdays and make a gift for her on Mothers Day or on her birthday.2.
45、 Find the real school calendar from your teacher,and give us a report next class. Teaching and learning reflectionsThe whole class can learn and handle the words, phrases and target sentences well. And students can be moved by the video so that they can take actions to show their love to their parents. However, the shortcoming is that not only the students but the teacher needs to practice more about their pronunciation. Whats more, if more students take part in the class, it will be better. Blackboard design
