Go For It 7A Unit 9 Section B 1a-1d
Analysis of teaching material What: This lesson is a daily dialogue for middle school students. The content revolves around students asking others about their favorite subjects and the reasons for them. After Eric finds out that David is unhappy, he learns that it is because there is a too difficult math subject that David does not like today on Tuesday, and then asks to know that David's favorite subject is interesting Chinese, as well as the time of language classes and the classes he has on Tuesday. Finally, the two meet up to see each other in music class. Why: Through the dialogue between Eric and David asking about their favorite subjects and the reasons, students are asked to think about their favorite subjects and the reasons, and are guided to name and deepen their understanding of the subjects. How: The dialogue is more typical of students' daily life, involving vocabulary of subjects, days of the week, preferences, including “relaxing, boring, interesting, difficult, favorite, subject, lesson,science, music, math, Chinese, geography, history, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday”;the core language used in a favorite subject,like “What is your favorite subject ”“Why do you like... Because it’s...”“When is the class It’s on...” The dialogue uses the general present tense when expressing their favorite subject. Students have been exposed to and learned this tense and some of the sentence patterns in the previous lessons, and the dialogue is simple, easy to understand, relevant and educational, and ready for the next reading lesson.
Teaching objectives By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1. acquire and sort out David's favorite subject in the dialogue and the reasons for it in the activities of looking, listening and speaking; (Learning and understanding) 2. use sentence patterns and organize words to ask others about their favorite subjects and the reasons for them; (Applying and practicing) 3. design their favorite schedule and demonstrate it to others, explaining the reasons. (Transferring and creating)
Teaching focus Listening and speaking: Ask others about their favorite subjects and the reasons, and tell them about your own favorite subjects and the reasons. Vocabulary: favorite, subject, lesson,science, music, math, Chinese, geography, history, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and so on.
Anticipated difficulties Students may feel it difficult to use the sentence patterns to ask other’s favorite subjects and the reasons.
Teaching objectives acquire and sort out David's favorite subject in the dialogue and the reasons for it in the activities of looking, listening and speaking; (Learning and understanding) Teaching procedure 1. Based on the pictures and what they have learned, students, with the teacher's guidance, list words from various subjects such as "science, music, math, Chinese, geography, history", etc. 2. Based on the emoji and what they have learned, students, with the teacher's guidance, list the adjectives and their antonyms to describe the subject, such as "boring, interesting, fun, cool, difficult, easy, busy, free". 3. After briefly looking at David's schedule, students listened to the recording for the first time to understand the general idea of the dialogue: Eric learned through questioning that the reason for David's bad mood was the math class he didn't like. 4. Students listen to the recording again and understand the details of the conversation, such as "Why doesn't David like math What subject does David like Why does David like it ” Get familiar with the sentence patterns for asking about favorite subjects and the reasons for them. Students listen to the recording and follow along, reading the dialogue aloud in roles, paying attention to pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, etc. Introductions This stage of learning activities is to guide students to review the vocabulary related to the topic learned in previous lessons, stimulate their memory, and prepare them for the listening content of this lesson. Teacher helps students to understand the dialogue step by step from the general idea to the details in the context and to master the vocabulary and core language in the dialogue. Students are allowed to further understand the dialogue by following and reading aloud in character, laying the foundation for language output.
use sentence patterns and organize words to ask others about their favorite subjects and the reasons for them; (Applying and practicing) Students, with the teacher's guidance, sort out and summarize the core language of the dialogues, and conduct group question-and-answer activities and role plays based on the sentence scaffolds on the board. Sentence scaffolds: What’s your favorite subject Why do you like... Because it’s... When is the class It’s on... Fill out the survey form based on the Q&A and students report their group's findings to the class. This stage of learning activities guides students to use language based on summarizing and organizing core language, promoting language internalization, and preparing them for authentic expression later on.
3. design their favorite schedule and demonstrate it to others, explaining the reasons. (Transferring and creating) 8. After group discussion, students design their favorite schedule. 9. Students share with the class the schedule they designed and explain the reasons for their design. 10. Discuss and summarize how to ask other’s favorite subject and the reasons. This stage of learning activity helps students use the language they have learned creatively in a transferable context to communicate their favorite lesson and share their design and reasons for it to the class. In the process, language skills are developed and knowledge of the subject is deepened.
Homework Refine the design of your favorite class schedule and expand it into a paragraph.
Blackboard design Unit 9 My favorite subject is science. My favorite schedule time\ subjectMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaymorningafternoon
What’s your favorite subject Why do you like... Because it’s... When is the class It’s on...
Reflection The lesson is designed to focus on connecting with the content before and after, so activities are arranged to review and pave the way for activating students' prior knowledge and experience and laying the groundwork for more in-depth content. In order to be consistent with the New Curriculum Standards, the lesson plan adopts an activity-based approach, creating authentic situations through different activities that prompt students to talk about their favorite or disliked subject and design their favorite schedule. It also adheres to the student-centered principle, allowing students to use their language knowledge through independent, cooperative, and inquiry-based learning. However, due to the limitations of the short length of the original text and the repetition of the course content before and after, the design of the activities may be slightly lacking in new ideas.