Unit 8 Have you read treasure island yet
一、Analyze the teaching material and learners
This lesson is chosen from the section A of unit 8,Book 8B ,PEP Junior English.The topic of this lesson is literature.The main task for ss it to talk about what literature works they have read recently and express their opinions on these works.By doing that ,ss can not only learn some knowledge about the literature works,but also increase their interest in the western culture.Ss may be not familiar with some works,so I’ll introduce some background knowledge and instruct them to leam the present perfect tense.
二、Teaching aims:
1.Knowledge aim.After this class,ss will get a preliminary idea of several literature works,understand the function of present prefect tense with yet and already and the basic meaning of new words,phrases and sentence structures ,such as treasure ,island ,be full of ,Have/Has sb read---yet sb’ve already---.
2.Abitity aim.By the end of lesson,ss will be better able to talk about recent events and experiences using present perfect tense.
3.Emotional aim.During the class ,ss’interest in western culture will be increased by talking about some literature works.
三、The key point and the difficult point
The key point is to get a preliminary idea of several literature works and understand the function of already and yet in present perfect tense.
To achieve the objectives above ,I’ll adopt audio-lingual approach,communicative approach and situational teaching method.And ss’ll learn through cooperation,communication and discussion.
As for the teaching preparation,I’ll divide the class into 6 groups before this class and each group will choose one from the 6 literature works of this unit.They’ll search information about their books and prepare to introduce the story-line.
四、Teaching procedure.
Step 1 Leading in.
At the beginning of the class,I’ll choose 2 groups to introduce the story-lines of Treasure lsand,Tom Sawyer and little woman so that ss can get a preliminary idea of these works.This activity can arouse ss interest and liad them to the topic naturally.
Step 2 Presentation
Based on the former activity,the other 2 groups will be asked:“I’ll elicit the positive and negative answers from ss. ”Thus,ss will learn the present perfect tense with yet and already here .And enough examples will be provided for ss to distinguish the present perfect tense from the simple past tense.This activity can help ss smooth the way for the listening.
Step3 Study grammar
To teach students “Present perfect tense”.
Step4 Listening
First,I’ll lead ss to rea the chart in 1b and then to 3 short conversations and fill in the chart .While ss listen for the first time,they need to find out what books they are talking about.As for the 2nd time,they will listen for who have read these books and what they think of these books .When they finish this chare,I’ll ask questions like.
“What book are Nick and Judy talking about Has Nick read the book yet What does he think of the book ” According to my example, ss will work in pairs to check their answers.
Now, ss’ve learned how to talk about what books they’ve read recently and what they think of these books.
Step 5 speaking
Here, ss will work in pairs to talk about the books in 1a after the conversation model in 1c.
Step 6 Listening 2a and 2b
Here ss’ll learn to talk about what books are about.
First, they’ll be led to a conversation between Tina and Mark. While listening for the first time, ss will listen for who has read these books. They need to circle the names and write down the adjectives Tina and Mark used to nd time, there are several statements for ss to decide to be T or F. At the last time, they will read after the recording and check the answers.
Step7 Pairwork
Ss will use the information in 2a and 2b to talk about the books.
Step8 Exercises
I’ll ask ss to do a survey according to the form I give them. They work in groups of 4. One st will interview the other 3 ss on the topic of Chinese literature works.
As for the homework, ss will work in pairs to make up a new conversation about some Chinese literature works. At last, I’d like to introduce my blackboard design.