七年级上册 Unit 9 My favorite subject is science Section A 1a-2c 教案

Go For It 7A Unit 9 Section A 1a-2c
Analysis of teaching material What: The listening material is a daily conversation for junior high school students and is based on how students feel on their first day at school. The two students, Linda and Anna, both say they like school because they are happy to see all their friends at school and the school classes are great. And they also asked each other about their favourite classes. Why:The text aims to help students describe their lives at school like school subjects and personal feelings in English and compare foreign students’ preferences towards subjects to theirs. By describing Linda and Anna’s love of school life, the author helps students foster a love of school life and have emotional resonance. How: This dialogue is typical of students’ daily school life, involving the vocabulary: subject, favorite, science, art, math, music and the core language used in their daily school life, “What’s your favorite subject ” Through asking and answering, students can clarify their preferences towards subjects. Also, this conversation uses many exclamatory sentences, which can strengthen their strong feelings to school and make the dialogue more real and vivid.
Teaching objectives By the end of the session, most students will be able to: Understand and gain some information from the dialogue through listening and speaking activities. (learning and understanding) Identify and recognize the three “wh-”questions such as what, why, who. (learning and understanding) Memorize and state the sentence patterns “What’s your favorite subject ” “My favorite subject is...” “Why do you like... ” “Because it’s...” “Who’s your P.E. teacher ” “Mr. Hu.” (learning and understanding) Use the sentence patterns in daily conversations and implement the sentence in a new situation. (applying and practicing) Distinguish the three “wh-” questions.(applying and practicing) Formulate a table to distinguish the three “wh-”questions. (transferring and creating) Investigate other students’ preferences to school subjects and give a report to the whole class with the help of the teacher. (transferring and creating) This will be achieved by: 1. teaching students vocabulary related to subjects such as P.E. art, science, music, math, Chinese, geography, history and some other words. 2. teaching students sentence structures “What’s your favorite subject ” “My favorite subject is...” “Why do you like... ” “Because it’s...” “Who’s your P.E. teacher ” “Mr. Hu.” to talk about their subject preferences and use it in daily conversations with their classmates. 3. letting students practice the sentence patterns in pairs. creating a new situation to let students talk about their favorite sports/fruits/colors and give reasons. 5. doing some matching games. 6. letting students differentiate the difference of the three “wh-” through fill in the table. 7. asking students to interview other students’ preferences to school subjects and make a report.
Teaching focus Listening: Understand the main idea of the dialogue. Vocabulary: P.E. art, science, music, math, Chinese, geography, history, subject, favorite, why, because and so on. Sentence structure: “What’s your favorite subject ” “My favorite subject is...” “Why do you like... ” “Because it’s...” “Who’s your P.E. teacher ” “Mr. Hu.”
Anticipated difficulties Students may feel it difficult to distinguish the “what question” , “why question” and “who question” properly.
Teaching procedure
Teaching objectives Learning activity Effect evaluation
Understand and gain some information from the dialogue through listening and speaking activities. Identify and recognize the three “wh-”questions such as what, why, who. Memorize and state the sentence patterns “What’s your favorite subject ” “My favorite subject is...” “Why do you like... ” “Because it’s...” “Who’s your P.E. teacher ” “Mr. Hu.” (learning and understanding) Step 1 Lead-in 1. Show some pictures of the P.E., Chinese, and science teachers and lead to the target language by asking students “who is he/she ” “ What’s your favorite subject ” “Do you like Chinese ” “ Why do you like Chinese ”... Step 2 Listening Section A 1b 1. Listen and circle the subjects. 2. Listen and put the conversation in order. 3. Listen and choose true or false. Step 3 Ask and answer in the following sentence pattern. A: What’s your favorite subject B: My favorite subject is... A: Why do you like... B: Because it’s... What about you ... Make the language preparations for students to let them have a impression of the topic and words. Improve students’ listening ability and teachers can observe students’ performance and accuracy, then give them instructions and feedback. Improve students’ speaking ability and teachers can give students some instructions towards their pronunciation and word usage.
Use the sentence patterns in daily conversations and implement the sentence in a new situation. Distinguish the three “wh-” questions. (applying and practicing) Step 4 Creating a new situation The teacher can ask students about their favorite sports/fruits/colors and ask them the reason. Step 5 Matching games The teacher show some sentences on the PPT and let students match. For example: What’s your favorite subject Miss. He. Who’s your English teacher Because it’s fun. Why do you like music My favorite subject is science. Help students apply old knowledge to a new situation to develop their applying skills. Strengthen and consolidate their knowledge.
Formulate a table to distinguish the three “wh-”questions. Investigate other students’ preferences to school subjects and give a report to the whole class with the help of the teacher. (transferring and creating) Step 6 Summary Make a table to distinguish the three “wh-” questions. 疑问代词MeaningRefer toAnswer what什么things...why为什么reasonBecause...who谁people...
Step 7 Group work The whole class are going to be divided into groups four and make a table like the following. Name Favorite SubjectFavorite TeacherReason
Help students form a systematic cognition towards “what, why, who” to better distinguish them. Develop students’ cooperation ability and foster their listening and speaking skills in a communicative situation.
Homework Must-do: Listen to the tape of Section A 1b and read after it three times to practice pronunciation and intonation. Optional: Write a short passage to introduce you and your friends’ favorite classes and give reasons.
Blackboard design Unit 9 My favorite subject is science.
Reflection Teachers should focus more on students’ performance and let students speak more. The class should be students-centered. And teachers should play the role of helper not the leader. Teachers should put more mechanical training for students to master the basic knowledge and then gradually increase the difficulty. We should first determine the teaching objectives according to my understanding and not rely to much on the textbook design, we can make some adjustments and supplements of the teaching material. And our teaching design should be closely related to our teaching objectives. Evaluations and feedback from the students is also important. We should make some adjustments according to students’ performance in class. And also let students do some practice in class to check their knowledge timely.