Go For It Starter Unit 3 4a-4c
Analysis of teaching material What: a keyboard where 26 letters are placed. A chart board about the specific pronunciation of the letters. Two songs about the alphabet. Why: To help students better memorize alphabets and distinguish the pronunciation of the specific letter in different words How: all the objectives are achieved via a alphabetic song, a chart board about the pronunciation of the letter, a keyboard on which the 26 letter are placed. Students learn the songs and better grasp the the writing and pronunciation of the letters.
Teaching objectives By the end of the session, most students will be able to write the 26 letter fluently and accurately, singing the alphabet songs, distinguish the specific pronunciation of the letter in different words. This will be achieved by: 1. teaching students to write the small letter beside the bigger letter on the purple keyboard 2. teaching students to sing a alphabet song 3. teaching students to listen the tape and distinguish the different pronunciation in different words by the employment of the minimal pairs in phonology. 4.teaching students to listen and chant a song about minimal pairs
Teaching focus Writing: students can fluently and accurately write down 26 letters both its small and big forms without making mistake. Pronunciation: students can try to distinguish the different pronunciations of some letter in different words.
Anticipated difficulties Students may feel it difficult to memorize the whole alphabet immediately. Additionally, they presumably find it difficult to distinguish the changing pronunciation of the letters.
Teaching procedure Learning and understanding Teaching objective: Students develop great interests in learning English. students can distinguish between the big letter and small letters. students can write the alphabet fluently and accurately. Students can figure out the pronunciation of the specific letter in a given word. They can also speak out the 26 letters with fluency. Learning activity: First and foremost, students are presented with some riddles with regard to the 26 letters. For instance, what letter is an animal and what letter stands for the ocean. By asking students to brainstorm the answer, their enthusiasm in English will be strikingly evoked. Students will be asked to write down the small letters beside the big letters that have been provided in the purple chart. By practicing this, the capability of writing the letters will be boosted. Therefore, it induces the accuracy and fluency of writing. Students will be presented with a English songs concerning 26 English letters. By singing the song, students will better memorize the 26 English letters. Introduce the different pronunciations of a specific letter. For instance, the teacher introduce students the two distinct pronunciations of A letter in apple and date respectively. Result assessment Teacher pay more attention to students’ class performance, including their response, air contact. Then, teacher makes some adaption to the class procedure. Teacher observes whether students can come up the answer of the riddle. If not, teacher can give them some clues to help them guess. In this process, students can better learn and understand the English letters. Applying and practicing Teaching objective Students can apply what they’ve learned with regard to the two different pronunciations of letter A to figure out other words’ pronunciation. For instance, by learning date, students learn the pronunciation of sake, for the reason that date and sake share the same A pronunciation. Students can write the 26 English letter fluently. Learning activity: Teacher presents students with other words with A letter. For instance, since the prior learning of date and sake, teacher gives them other words such as make, gate, lake, lack, sack, mad. Ask students to distinguish the different pronunciation of A letter in these words. By learning A letter, teacher further introduces E and I letters’ pronunciations. Then, give them words include yellow, eye, yes, young, lake, like, sell , goal, ball. By doing this, students can apply the learning method of A letter to the learning of other letters. Teacher asks students to write down the small letters beside the big letters in their textbooks. By doing this, students practice the writing of the letters. Result assessment Teacher pay attention to students’ response in the class. After introducing the A letter in different words, teacher then observes whether students can apply the same method in learning other letters such as B and C. If students find it hard to make application, teacher can guide them to figure out the difference of the pronunciation. Teacher check students’ writing answer on the textbook. If students can write the letter fluently and accurately, teacher bewares that students have a good command of the 26 English letters. Teacher observes if students can successfully apply what they have learned in A letter’s pronunciation to other vowels including E ,I ,O and U. Transferring and creating Teaching objective Students can transfer they’ve learned with regard to the pronunciation of the letter A in different words to figure out other minimal pairs. Students can create minimal pairs of the five vowels. For instance, when it comes to the letter E,students can write down minimal pair such as goal and evening and red. Learning activity Teacher asks students to write down the minimal pairs of a given letter. For instance, teacher gives students a vowel O and students answer with dot and boat, since the pronunciation of O in these two words are distinct. Teacher asks students to read the words of which the phoneme of the vowel is provided for them. For instance, teacher shows a minimal pair bet and delay with the specific phonemes provided. Students can speak out the words depending on the phonemes. Result assessment If students can successfully come up with some minimal pairs of a specific vowel,such as I, it is a sound testimony that students have a good command of the knowledge of this class. They are good at transferring and creating.If not, teacher asks students what perplexes them in understanding the minimal pairs and furthermore adjust his or her teaching procedure. 2)If students can successfully speak out the correct pronunciation of the given minimal pairs, it manifests that students have a good command of the phoneme of the vowels.. Introductions At the very beginning of the class, a interesting riddle regarding the English letters is presented to spur students’ enthusiasm and creates a learning atmosphere. In the midst of the class, an melodious English song is shared with the purpose of evoking students’ learning interests and enhance their class involvement since songs are what students keen on. Teacher initially introduce the A letter’s phonemes to lay a solid foundation in boosting their applying and practicing abilities. It is beyond dispute that the segment revolving transferring and creating new things require students great learning competence. Therefore, it is likely that some students find it difficult to come up with the corresponding minimal pairs of a given vowel.
Homework Practice singing the songs of alphabet. 2. cope the 26 English letter both in its big and small forms. Review the different pronunciation of the five vowels in different words.
Blackboard design Go For it Starter Unite 3 4a-4c A: Dale Grace Frank thanks jacket map black A in Dale A in Grace E: Evening Helen pen red yellow E in evening E in green I : hi fine white quilt in dirty sick I in hi I in white O: look book do orange dot boat O in OK O in book U: blue due cup but duck luck U in ruler U in blue
Reflection In contents, Generally speaking, the class arrangement conforms to the basic requirement of a standard English Class. The Teaching contents is suitable for students to learn and understand In teaching form, the class primarily employs the heuristics method. The merits of this method is that it helps evoke students thought and make them more focused in the class In activity, the class incorporate a constellation of interesting activities, including singing songs, guessing the riddles, brainstorming.