Go For It 7A Unit 8 Section B 1a-3c
Analysis of teaching material What:The material mainly talks about school events. It includes a school notice and some listening practice about John’s calendar. Why: This material is set to make students learn month names, talk about yourself and ask people's birthdays. It helps students to cultivate the skill of using ordinals to express date and to place great importance on managing time and engaging school activities for students. How: The material sets a situation in school where has many evens and activities, and a boy and a girl make a conversation of John’s calendars. In the conversation, they can use ordinals to express date and place great importance on managing time.
Teaching objectives By the end of the session, most students will be able to Know some common expressions of school activities, and be able to ask about the date. Be able to understand and listen to the listening materials on the topic of school activities and obtain relevant information. Be able to read short articles about activities organized by the school and obtain relevant information. Master the following words: school trip, party, basketball game, term month, busy and so on.
Teaching focus Listening and talking: Talk about the events and arrange time reasonably . Vocabulary: school trip, party, basketball game, term month, busy and so on.
Anticipated difficulties Students can read short articles about the activities organized by the school and get relevant information to improve students' reading ability.
Teaching Object1: leading and listening Activity 1 quickly answer in whole class 1.1 Review the cardinal numbers together. Count from first to thirty-first. 1.2 Play a date game: T: I will show special days on the screen, you say the date in English quickly. e.g.T: When is Children’s Day S2: June first. Activity 2 show new vocabularies with pictures 2.1 Show some school activities on the screen. Teach Students the school activities. (basketball game, English test, school trip, School Day, Sports Day, party) 2.2 Ss read and try to remember the activities 2.3 Look at the activities 1a. Then look at the pictures below. Match the pictures with the events. 2.4 Ss work on 1a. Then check the answer by asking students. Activity 3 listen and fill blanks T: My friend John is very busy, he has to participate many activities. Now, let's listen to the tape to know about his calendar and circle the events you hear in 1a. (Play the recording for the first time. Ss listen and circle the events they hear in 1a.) Check the answers. Let some Ss read the answers.1b This time let's listen and fill in John's calendar. Write the proper activity in the right date chart in 1c. (Ss listen and write the proper activity in the right date chart.) Teaching Object2: reading and talking Activity 4 check answers in pairs Play the recording again for the Ss and after that Ss can check the answers with partners by asking questions like S1: “When is Sally’s birthday party ” S2: “It's on October 5th.”...... (Then exchange roles. S2 ask S1 about John's calendar again.)1d Teaching Object3: transferring and creating Activity 5 free talk 5.1 Lead to read the words from 2a. Ask the students to check the activities in 2a and talk about the dates with partners if they have at their school. (Many schools have all kinds of activities from time to time to enrich students,daily life. What activities do you have at school ) 5.2 Read 2b and finish the table. T: This is a school notice of our school. It tells you about the main events in this term. Now scanning the notice and finish the table. (Ss read the notice and finish the table. Let some Ss say their answers by asking “What activity do you have in our school ” “when is xxx ” to check the answers ) 5.3 free talk in group of 4 and ask two Ss to share What activities from 2b do you like What other activities do you like 5.4 Complete the note with the words in the box (3a). Activity 6 summary Today we have learned many activities in school. If our school will hold a Sports meeting, would you like to invite your friends (3b) Ok, lets try to write a note to invite your friends. Introductions Activity 1:Awaken the student's existing schema and revise the knowledge. Activity 2:Remove vocabulary barriers for listening. Activity 3:Ss can improve their listening skill on catch the information of time and develop the communicative skill through talk with partners. Activity 4:Students can change ideas freely and improve their speaking English Activity 5: Students can learn to schedule and activate their school activities through reading and talking, and improve the reading skill of scanning. The free talk can let Ss know each other better. Activity 6: Summarize and review, and apply knowledge to practice.
Homework Write your own note to a friend. Invite him/her to an activity in your school.Use the questions to help you.① What is your friend's name ② What does she like to do ③ What activity do you have in your school ④ When is the party
Blackboard design Unit8 Section B When is your birthday vocabulary : speech,contest, trip, party, event, art, festival, 句型: When is Sally's birthday party -It's on October fifth. When is xxx -It's ... What events do you have at your school When is it
Reflection Some transition can be more fluent from one activity to another activity. It is a good choice to let students evaluate each other and get scores in competition to raise their interest. It will be better if teacher can give more positive comments to students’ performance.