英语必修 第一册Unit 3 Sports and fitness教学设计

Designer

谭皓琦

Students to Be Taught

Senior one

Module / Unit to be taught

Unit 3 Sports and Fitness

Type of the Lesson

Reading

Materials

Analysis

The teaching content “Living legends” is from the unit 3 SPORT AND FITNESS, Reading and Thinking of the book PEP senior high school English compulsory 1.

The theme of the Listening and Speaking lesson is “ Invite a friend to a sport event”, which is about describing a sport event and make an invitation. Students will know lots of basic information of some sport event.

The theme of Reading and Thinking lesson is “ LIVING LEGENDS”. It’s about the experiences and achievements of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan. Students will learn the excellent qualities of these two successful person.

The grammar item of the Discovering Useful Structure lesson is the question and answer of General Question. by learning this section, students will have the ability to apply this grammar item.

The Listening and Thinking lesson is “Voice your opinion on sportsmanship”, which is about understanding other’s opinion on sportsmanship and expressing their own opinions.

The theme of the Reading for Writing lesson is “Write a page in a wellness book”. Students will learn the benefit of sports and cultivate the awareness to sports.

The contain of the Assessing Your Progress lesson is some exercises of the new words and grammar item in this unit. It can help students to strengthen the knowledge of this unit.

The theme of this unit is about sport of the thematic context “Man and Society”.

 This thematic context includes sports activities, large-scale, sports event, sport and health, sportsmanship.

This class mainly involves sport stars and sportsmanship which is closely related to students’ life.

Theme

Biographies about two famous sport stars Lang Ping and Michael Jordan posted on a journal.

Text type

Journal

Language knowledge

Since the text is about two famous sports stars, so the linguist items will be as follows:

1. New words

honour, medal, apart, captain, champion, strength, failures 

Cultural knowledge

Excellent qualities that students can learn from domestic and foreign athletes, such as never give up and do not be afraid of failure.

Language skills

1. Distinguish , analyze, and summarize the major opinions and facts in the text.
2. Identify the key content points of the text and the corresponding supporting arguments.

Learning strategies

1. Predict the main content of the text according to the text title and pictures.
2. Establish connections between old and new language knowledge.
3. Understand the general idea of the text by skimming.

Learner

Analysis

Students are senior students in grade one:

1.  Are interested in sports.
2.  Have already known about the topic of sports and some sport stars. Besides, they   have the ability of using English to obtain and analyze information and solve questions.

3. Do not know the details of Lang Ping and Jordan’s experience;

4. Should be able to use the new words to describe a person and use the skills of skimming and scanning in reading.

Teaching Objectives

By the end of this class, students will be able to:

1. Language ability objective

Identify the meaning of “living legends” and indicate who it refers to in the text.

Apply the new words in their language ability

2. Thinking capacity objective

Generalize the moral quality factors that make Lang Ping and Michael Jordan become legends.

3. Learning ability objective

    Predict the topic of the text by the title of the text.

4. Cultural awareness objective

Choose the good qualities from these two living legends to learn, such as never give up, not afraid of failure.

Teaching

Focus

Teaching Focus

Ways Out

Key point: Help students to clarify the passage, understand and tell the story of living legends.

A mind map is designed to help students generalize the story of the characters.

Difficult point: Help students to analyze the good qualities of living legends and learn from them.

A discussion was designed to help students learn better about the good qualities of the characters, which students need to illustrate based on their own experiences.

Teaching Methodology

My teaching philosophy:

1.  Learners as the center. Teach new words and article content in a way that is interesting and accessible to students, and design a series of student-centered teaching activities.
2. Scaffolding principle. From the new words to the main idea to the general content to the key information then to the good qualities of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan. Build a scaffolding for the students. Using the scaffolding principle, from the easy to the difficult. Make students gradually learn the language knowledge and emotional attitude of this class. 

Teaching methodology:

1. Task Based Language Teaching method. Teach the text content by setting a series of tasks to set an learning goal for students. 

Teaching Aids

PPT slides, blackboard, pictures

Teaching flowchart

Teaching procedures

Stages

Steps

Activities

Stage 1: Pre-reading

(7mins)

1. Lead-in

(5mins)

The teacher will introduce some examples of athletes of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games to the students, so that the students are familiar with the theme of this lesson, and also teach the new words: honour, medal, champion, strength, failure.

2.

Prediction

(2mins)

 Ask the students to look at the titles and pictures and guess ‘what the text is about?’ to make a prediction. And learn the text type.

Reasons for this stage:The above activities will help students be familiar to the context and theme of the passage. Besides, the new vocabulary they have learned will remove barriers for them to read.

Stage 2:

While-reading

(20mins)

3.

Skimming

(5mins)

The teacher will ask students to skim the text to gain the main idea of the text

—— It’s about the experiences and achievements of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan.

4.

Scanning

(8mins)

The teacher will give students 8 minutes to scan the text and finis the mind map of Lang Ping and Micheal Jordan.

5.

Careful reading

(7mins)

The teacher asks students to read the text carefully and finish the following exercise.

Reasons for this stage: Make students familiar with the deeds and excellent qualities of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan in the article, deepen their understanding of the content of the article, and have a preliminary understanding of the excellent qualities of Lang Ping and Jordan.

Stage 3:

Post-reading

(10mins)

6.

Group work

(10mins)

Students discuss with their group members about the reason why can Lang Ping and Micheal Jordan reach their success.

Reasons for this stage: By asked to discuss Lang Ping and Michael Jordan’s reason to their success students will gain a deeper understanding that the good qualities of these two people are the key to their success. Students can learn these qualities more actively.

Stage 4:

Summary

(2mins)

The teacher summarizes the good qualities of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan, such as never give up, working like a team, learning from failure.

Stage 5:

Homework

(1min)

The teacher assigns the following homework for students:

Reasons for this stage: Through the teacher's summary, students can have a deeper understanding of their excellent qualities and learn from them.

By asking students to do this homework can exercise their ability to integrate information and have a better understanding of the qualities that are necessary to one’s success.

Blackboard design