Module 2 My New Teachers
Period 1
Teaching content:
Introduction vocabulary and listening + SPEAKING + EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Teaching Aims and Demands
1.New words: amusing, energetic, funny, intelligent, lively, nervous, organized,
patient, popular, serious, shy, strict, stupid…
2.Speaking: Expressing preference
3.Everyday English: Have you got that? Take a look, kids.
That’s settled. It’s up to you.
Affection and attitudes
Understanding how to make a description of a new teacher in Senior High and forming positive attitudes towards the new teachers and their methods of teaching.
Learning Strategies
1.Learning the adjectives used to describe characters of people and forming the positive and negative attitudes.
2.Summing up more and more adjectives used to describe a person.
Cultural Awareness
Getting prepared for the descriptions of a teacher, and the relationship between teachers and students in China and other foreign countries.
Teaching Aids
Multi-media
Teaching designs
Teaching Procedures
I. Introduction vocabulary and listening
1. Revision
1) Brainstorming: Try to bring out as many adjectives used to describe a person as possible.
2) Help the Ss to use the adjectives to describe their favourite teachers, and then get the meaning of the positive adjectives or negative adjectives.
2.Lead in the study of the adjectives: Ask each of the groups to write down their positive adjectives and negative adjectives and check the answers themselves.
3.Activity 2
①Have a discussion about their own favourite teacher’s standard and tick or cross the following statements.
②What do you think of Alex’s about the statements? Now listen to the tape and tick or cross the statements.
③Compare yours with Alex’s and tell the reason why.
4.Go to Wb. Vocabulary p74. 5.
II. Speaking
1.Pre-task: Ask the Ss to describe their favourite teachers, using the adjectives they have just learned and tell the reasons why.
2.Pair work: Ask the Ss to talk about the parts of school life you enjoy most and why.
Guidance: I like… better than…, because I ….
3.Pair work: Make a dialogue, using the expressions of describing their likes:
I enjoy…, because….
I prefer…
I am not good at … because….
4.Exercises about the description of likes.
I’d prefer, I’d rather, you would prefer, would also prefer, would prefer
Jason: Hi, Mary. Do you have an English class this morning?
Mary: Oh, yes, Jason. This is our first English lesson. I hope that my new teacher is a young girl. (1) ________ to have a beautiful and lively English teacher.
Jason: Oh really? (2) _________ learn from an older teacher, because an older teacher is more intelligent I think.
Mary: No, I don’t think so. (3) _______ to talk with an energetic and amusing young girl, because I will become nervous if the teacher is strict. (4) ________ to have a relaxed class.
Jason: Perhaps you are right. I know Miss Li is a very popular teacher on this campus. Many students (5) ________ to learn from her. If she can teach us, (6) ________ learn from her.
Mary: But I think you (7) ________ to follow an older teacher?
Jason: Well, I guess that a popular teacher (8) ________ to teach popular students like me.
III. Everyday English
1.Revise the adjectives and the description of “I prefer…”.
2.Group work: Ask the Ss to complete the conversations with the expressions.
3.Ask the Ss to describe the meanings of the expressions, matching the following explanations with the expressions given.
have a look take a look
children kids
Have you been told about that? Have you got that?
several things a couple of things
It’s now decided that’s settled
4.Pair work:
Read the short dialogues aloud.
IV. Homework:
1.Make a description of the following pictures of teachers, using the adjectives used to describe a person and tell the reasons why.
點(diǎn)評(píng)：從課堂教學(xué)的策略來(lái)講，本堂課突出了語(yǔ)言交際能力的培訓(xùn)，并為接下來(lái)的課堂教學(xué)做好了詞匯方面的鋪墊。有一點(diǎn)遺漏就是聽(tīng)力活動(dòng)。從課堂教學(xué)活動(dòng)的組織來(lái)看,Everyday English 的教學(xué)活動(dòng)顯得不連貫。