Teaching Plan
Unit 3 I’m more outgoing than my sister.
(Period 1:Section A 1a-1c)
Teaching Objectives
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1. Knowledge objectives
1) spell, read and recognize the following words (mainly about personal traits) and use them appropriately in speaking: outgoing, both, better, loudly, quietly;
review and master the following words: tall, short, long, thin, heavy, hair, sing friendly.
2) learn and grasp the following sentence structures :
1 That’s Tara, isn’t it No, it isn’t.
2 Tina is taller than Tara.
3 And she also sings more loudly than Tara.
2. Ability objectives
1) learn and know the rules of comparatives of adjectives/ adverbs and use them to talk about personal traits.
2) role-play the conversation with correct and clear pronunciation.\
3. Emotional objectives
1) have further understanding of their friends or families.
2) find out the good traits of others.
Important Points and Difficult Points:
Important points: 1. Target language above.
2. Key words: outgoing, both, better, loudly, quietly
3. The changing rules of comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs.
Difficult points: 1. Compare people by using comparatives and target
language.
2. The changing rules of comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs.
Teaching Methods: Task-based Teaching Method, Situational Teaching Method, Interactive Teaching Method.
Learning Methods: Preview(self-study), Cooperative learning, Drilling.
Teaching Aids: multi-media, blackboard, text book
Teaching Steps:
Step1: Warming-up
Brainstorm:
Q1: Who is your idol
Q2: What does she/he look like
Q3: What is she/he like
Step1: Presentation
Task1: Guessing game
Students will guess who are my idols according to my description and do more descriptions, so the key sentence structure “A+be动词+形容词比较级+than+B” will be introduced.
More pairs of pictures will be presented and the opposite words will be learned:
Tall-short long hair-short hair heavy-thin quietly-loudly
At the same time, The comparative degree of these words will be presented:
Tall-taller Yao Ming is taller than Mr.Bean.
Short-shorter Mr. Bean is shorter than Yao Ming.
Long-longer She has longer hair than Coffee.
Heavy-heavier Alan is heavier than Ten.
Thin-thinner Ten is thinner than Alan.
Quietly-more quietly The first light music is more quietly than the second one.
Loudly-more loudly The second light music is more loudly than the first one.
Task2: Catch the ball
In order to practice the sentence structure, I will play a short video about my friends and let students practice their conversation with the following structures:
My ... is big.
A: My ... is friendly.
My ... is handsome
My ... is bigger than ...
B: My ... is friendlier than ...
My ...is more handsome than...
Task3: Read and Speak
Tall-taller short-shorter long-longer young-younger
Big-bigger thin-thinner fat-fatter
Heavy-heavier friendly-friendlier funny-funnier
Outgoing-more outgoing handsome-more handsome quietly-more quietly loudly-more loudly
Step3:Practice
Task 4: Pre-listening
Introduce some background information about listening material.
Task5: While-listening
Exercise1b: Listen and number the pairs of twins in the picture [1-3]
Listen again, fill in blanks and then act it out.
C1:
A: Is that Sam
B: No, that’s Tom. Sam has ___________ than Tom.And Sam plays the drums _______than Tom.
C2:
A:That'sTara,isn't it
B:No, it isn't. Tina is _____than Tara.And
she also sings ___________than Tara.
C3:
A: Is that Paul
B: No, that’s Peter. Peter is________than Paul. And Paul is________than Peter
Task6: Post-reading
Discuss in groups and find out your own idol in your group. And let other groups guess who she/he is.
- That's A, isn't it
- No, it isn’t. It is B. B …than A. He/she is also... than A. ... So we think he/she is the idol of our group!
Blackboard Design
Unit 3 I’m more outgoing than my sister.--- That’s Tara, isn’t it --- No, it isn’t.short shorter tall tallernice nicer cute cuterthin thinner heavy heavieroutgoing more outgoingquietlyloudly Group CompetitionG1:G2:G3:G4:G5: