Teaching contents: This lesson is from middle school, and it mainly talks about the where they are from and how old they are.
Teaching Objectives:
(1) Knowledge objectives
① Students can master the basic knowledge of the speaking material.
② Students can master the structure: where are you from? I’m from ... . I’m a/an ... .How old are you? I’m...
(2) Ability objective:
Students can improve their speaking abilities by class work.
(3) Emotional objective:
Students can foster the interest and desire of learning English, and can be fond of taking part in class activities.
Teaching key and difficult points:
Teaching key point:
How to help students understand and use the basic knowledge of the speaking material.
Teaching difficult point:
How to help students foster the interest in learning English.
Teaching Procedures:
Step1: Leading in (2 min)
Teacher will show students a picture about the first day of new school life and ask students to guess what this passage will mainly talk about? After several minutes, invite two students to share their answers with all of students.
(Justification: Pictures can create a more real situation for students, this will arouse students’ learning interest and help students predict what they will learn today.)
Step2: Presentation (8min)
Ask students to listen to the conversation to get the main idea of the conversation. And then ask students to read the conversation together to fill in the chart.
(Justification: Through this table, students will find the information and master the new sentence patterns by reading the dialogue.)
Step3: Practice (5 minutes)
Ask students to read the conversation in the group, four students in one group. And invite several group to show the conversation in the front of the classroom.
Then Ask students to fill in the survey. After 3 minutes, invite several representatives to make a report for the whole class.
(Justification: Survey can make students to practice the main structure and better understand the main information of the conversation that they have just learnt.)
Step4: Production (5 min)
Ask students to go different groups to introduce themselves. And then ask some of them to show their practice.
(Justification: Students can use the words and structure they have learned to express their ideas, and they can get the interest of expressing themselves in English.)