Teaching Plan
Date February 6th, 2022 Name
Unit Book 2 Unit 2 Let’s celebrate Title A festival invitation
Grade Type Listening and Speaking
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will …
listen to and understand the main idea and details of a dialogue of a festival invitation
grasp the useful expression and sentence patterns to extend and accept an invitation and introduce the Lantern Festival and the Double Ninth Festival
make a spoken invitation using modals and other expressions and sentence patterns learnt
watch and understand the main idea and details of a video introducing the Double Ninth Festival
Key points and / or difficult points
understanding the main idea and details of the dialogue and the video
make a spoken invitation using modals and other expressions and sentence patterns learnt
Methodology & Strategies
Communicative approach to teaching and learning, activity-based teaching and learning
Aids and / or Materials
PPT slides, a dialogue clip and a video clip
Discourse Analysis
主题语境(Theme):Human and society – Chinese and foreign cultural customs and traditional festival 语篇类型(Genre): video -- exposition, recording -- dialogue, and spoken invitation 文本分析(Discourse analysis):The recording material is a dialogue of extending and accepting an invitation for Thanksgiving, which shows students an informal spoken way to give and answer a festival invitation. Students can not only learn the useful expressions and sentence patterns for doing so, grasp the key information to pay attention to of a verbal invitation, but also approach the important western festival, Thanksgiving by getting to know some of its customs.The video clip is an exposition introducing the time reasons and ways to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival and also the traditional and current customs of the festival, in which detailed explanation and examples are given to fully display the picture of the special festival.
Analysis of Students
Since this is an online class resource open to all of the students in Shenzhen and even all over China, the content and difficulty of this class apply to average students of all ranges in Senior One.Since this is an online class for individual learning at home, students may not have peers or teachers to perform interactive activities. Therefore, the learning activities are mainly one-way individual ones.In the previous classes, students have accumulated certain vocabulary and sentence patterns about some Chinese and western festivals and have background knowledge of them, but they may lack the experience of extending or accepting a spoken festival invitation using their language and cultural knowledge. They may still lack some language support of the relevant details of traditional Chinese festivals.
Homework
1. Students need to review the way to extend and accept a spoken invitation.2. Students need to search for information and make up a conversation to extend and accept an invitation of Halloween.
Procedures
教学环节Steps 活动形式与步骤Activities 活动意图Activity goals 活动层次Activity Level
Lead-in T asks Ss 2 questions about written and spoken invitations and the time to arrive when visiting a friend. Then Ss find out the answers in the note on Page 19. T leads Ss to dig deeper into the culture knowledge and relate to themselves. To arouse Ss’ interest to find out the answer in the note.To help Ss acquire cultural and custom knowledge.To inspire Ss to think behind the customs. Perceiving and noticingAcquiring and sorting
Listening 1.Ss read the task of Activity 6 and listen to the recording to find out the answer.2.Ss read the task of Activity 7 and listen again and fill in the blanks.3.T asks Ss three questions and Ss try to answer them with their memory.4.T shows the culture knowledge of the Thanksgiving Parade. To train Ss’ ability of listening for main idea and details.To help Ss understand the key information to pay attention to in a spoken invitation.To train Ss’ listening and remembering skills by asking them questions without mentioning the questions before listening.To acquaint Ss with the western culture knowledge. Perceiving and noticingAcquiring and sorting
Retelling Ss retell the story with the help of the notes. To train Ss’ oral ability of retelling. Application and practice
Pre- speaking 1.T help Ss to sort out the sentence patterns of extending and accepting an invitation used in the dialogue.2.T inspires Ss to use the modals learnt before to make up sentences that could be used in a spoken invitation.3.T helps Ss to accumulate useful information and expressions to introduce the Lantern Festival and the Double Ninth Festival in English. To help Ss get language and content preparation for giving a spoken invitation.To activate Ss’ cultural and custom background knowledge.To help Ss accumulate expressions for the topic. Acquiring and sortingSummarizing and integrating
Speaking Ss give a spoken invitation of the Lantern Festival and the Double Ninth Festival to their foreign teacher Jackie. To train Ss’ ability of speaking.To consolidate the language knowledge they have learnt. Application and practice
Post- speaking (watching and listening) 1.T plays a video introducing the Double Ninth Festival and asks Ss six questions based on the details.2.T summarizes the useful expressions used in the video. To train Ss’ ability of listening to details (a challenging task).To enrich Ss’ cultural knowledge.To enlarge Ss’ vocabulary of the topic. Perceiving and noticingAcquiring and sortingApplication and practice
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