初中英语外研版 (新标准)九年级上册Module 2 Public holidaysUnit 1 My family always go somewhere interesting as soon a

Teaching content

Unit 1 My family always go somewhere interesting as soon as the holiday begins

Lesson type

Listening＆Speaking

Time

 45 minutes

Analysis of material

1. The main content

This lesson is chosen from NSE English book the first semester of grade nine module 2 unit 1. The theme are holidays, festivals and celebrations. The reading material is a dialogue between Tony, Lingling, Daming and Betty, The dialogue is they talking about the National Day together. They respectively introduced the origin of the Nation Day in China and the United States, different ways of celebrating it and the arrangement of their families’ holiday activities. The text mainly lets the students learn the expression way of date, the composition of ordinal number and the way of reading.

2. The type of the text

 The language of the text is a little difficult for students because the dialogue involves the expression of dates.

3. The purpose of the text

(1) Students can understand the speaker’s intention and the main idea of the passage through intonation and stress.

(2)Then students can express the dates correctly in daily conversation.

(3)Meanwhile, let students willing to contact foreign culture, enhance the awareness of the motherland.

(4)What’s more, students can pay attention to and reflect on their own progress and shortcomings in English learning.

(5)At last, students can talk about important festival customs and differences between China and foreign counties.

Analysis of students

1. After two years of English learning, students have a certain foundation of English, most of them are at an intermediate level and dare to express themselves, a few of them are shy and reluctant to express themselves, very few students are not interested in English and are absent-minded in class.

2. Coping strategies

①So the teacher needs to design fun and varied game activities to attract students to participate in learning and increase their interest in English.

② teacher should use communication activities to encourage students who are good at expressing themselves to stick to themselves.

Teaching objectives

After the class, students will be able to:

Language competences:

1. Express the dates correctly in daily communication.
2. Get the key information and understand the speaker’s intention through intonation and stress.

Thinking quality:

Willing to contact foreign culture, enhance the awareness of the motherland.

Cultural awareness:

Have a preliminary understanding of festival customs and differences between China and foreign counties.

Learning strategies:

Pay attention to and reflect on their own progress and shortcomings in English learning.

Key points

1. To summarize and express the dialogue.
2. Be able to recognize dates.

Difficult points

Talk about the Chinese festival customs, dates and holiday in English.

Teaching method/ model

Communicative Language Teaching

PWP Model

Teaching aids

multimedia

Teaching procedure

Stage/

Time

Purpose

Teacher Activity

Student Activity

Interaction Pattern

Aids

Stage1 Lead-in ( 4mins)

Step 1

( 4mins)

To lead in the content of this lesson and arouse students’ interest in learning

Play a game: Guess the festival

Teacher explained the rules of the game.

Students guess the content about the festival according to the prompts given.

IW

PPT

Stage 2 Pre-listening( 9mins)

Step1

(5mins)

To strengthen students’ understanding of the differences between Chinese and foreign festivals.

Compare the festival:

Show foreign and Chinese festivals and ask the questions:

What are the dates of these festivals?

Students answer the question.

CW

PPT

Step3

(4min)

To train the students to read and recognize dates.

Say the dates:

Show the dates.

Listen and repeat:

Look at the dates and speak out the dates in English.

CW

PPT

Stage 3 While-listening( 16mins)

Step 1

(5mins)

To train the ability to obtain the key information and train oral English ability.

Plays the recording and asks students to summarize the listening content.

Listen to the recording and read the listening content after the recording

IW

PPT

Step 2

 (5mins)

To check students’ ability to obtain information.

Plays the recording again and asks students to complete the table:

Students listen the recording again and complete the table according to what they hear.

IW

PPT

Step3

(3mins)

To check the students’ understanding of the text.

True or False: Gives some sentences:

1.The people's Republic of China was founded in 1949.

2.Independence Day have two day off.

3.Independence Day is on 4th July.

3.The UK  have a national day.

Students complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.

IW

PPT

Step3

(3mins)

To improve the oral English ability and deepen the impression of the text

Plays the record.

Students read the text  after the recording.

CW

PPT

Stage 4 Post-reading(15mins)

Step2

(5min)

To improve students’ ability to read the dates and the understanding of China public festival.

Shows some questions and Asks students work in pairs:

1. -When is your birthday?

  -The tenth of September.

2. -When is the Spring festival?

......

3When is the Dragon Boat festival?

Students work in pairs and ask and answer questions about important dates.

PW

Step3

(6mins)

To train the student’s ability to organize language and spoken language.

Ask students talk about Chinese festival(include the dates, holiday and so on)

Example:

The Mid-Autumn Festival is usually in September or early October. We have one day holiday.Family members usually get together. We eat  mooncakes while we are enjoying the full moon.

Students work in group and ask representative to present their content of the festival.

GW

Step4

(4mins)

To consolidate the content of this lesson.

Teacher combine students four parts and asks students to play roles.

Students do the role play .

GW

Stage 5Assigning homework ( 1min)

1.Remember how to read the dates learned today.

2.Search the Internet to find some information about the Public holidays of China or the USA.

Purpose:1. To consolidate the key points in this lesson.

        2.To prepare for the next lesson.

Note: IW=Individual Work  GW=Group Work  PW=Pair Work  CW=Class Work