Go For It 8A Unit 6 Section B 1a-5c
Analysis of teaching material What: The topic of this article is Human and Society. This lesson is a listening text that discusses New Year's resolutions. There are three speakers who talked about their New Year's resolutions and the ways to achieve their resolutions through questions and answers. Why: Teach students a useful structure to ask future plan and tell them that they can only achieve their plans by working hard and taking actions. How: Let students acquire information by listening to a dialogue and learn structures “what are you going to do ” I’m going to...” and “how are you going to do that ”
Teaching objectives By the end of the lesson, most students will be able to understand the listening material and tell others their New Year’s resolutions by using correct structures. This will be achieved by: inviting students to enjoy some pictures and teaching students phrases such as learn to play the piano, get good grades,make the soccer team and eat healthier food and so on. asking students to listen to the tape and understand the listening text as well as master some sentence structures “what are you going to do ” I’m going to...” and “how are you going to do that ”. 3. asking students to brainstorm some advice for my resolutions and making a conversation with partner.
Teaching focus 1.Listening: understand the New Year’s resolutions of speakers and how are they going to do it. 2.Vocabulary: get good grades, make the soccer team, eat healthier food, and so on. 3.Structure: understand and use the structure “what are you going to do ” I’m going to...” and “how are you going to do that ”
Anticipated difficulties Students may feel difficult to use the sentence structure to make a dialogue with partners.
Teaching procedure Step 1. Lead-in (8mins) 1. Talk about the following questions, and lead in the today’s topic of New Year’s resolution. What do you do to in the New Year Do you have a New Year’s resolution 2. Enjoy some pictures about resolutions, including learn to play the piano, get good grades, get lots of exercise and so on, and match them with the correct phrases. (Justification: This step can activate students prior knowledge about New Year and prepare themselves well before listening .) Step 2. Listening (15mins) 1. Listen to the tape for the first time, and answer the following questions: What is the text type of listening material Who are the speakers 2. Listen to the tape for the second time and circle the answers of “What are they going to do” 3. Listen to the tape for the third time and complete the table. How are they going to do it Lucy KimMike
(Justification: this step can help students improve their listening ability by listening to a general idea and detailed information, but also make them understand the importance of action.) Step3. Group work (12mins) 1. Discuss and brainstorm some ideas for helping teacher to achieve her resolutions. 2. Make a conversation in pairs. The conversation needs to contain the resolutions and the ways to make them come true. A: I want to be a teacher. B: How are you going to do that A: I’m going to study hard and get good grades. B: ...... (Justification: this step can improves students’ thinking ability and their speaking ability and consolidate the sentence structures.) Step4. Summary (3mins) 1. Ask students to summarize what they have learned today and teacher help to make supplement. (Justification: this step can help students consolidate the knowledge and sentence structure learned today.) Introductions Observing students’ s behavior while they are talking about their New Year, trying to activate students’ learning interest. Observing whether students could find the correct answers about the resolutions and whether they could listen to catch some detailed information about how to achieve the resolutions Activating students learning interest to give more suggestions about how to achieve the resolutions and evaluating students’ master degree through making a conversation. Evalusting and consolidating the knowledge students have learned today.
Homework (2mins) Must-do: Listen to the tape three times after the class. Write your resolutions and the way how to achieve them, then share them to your parents. Optional: Search more information about taking actions online and realize the importance of action.
Blackboard design Unit 6 Section B 1a-5c New Year’s resolutions Resolutions Actions learn to play the piano —What are you going to do take piano lessons. get good grades —I’m going to... study hard and do homework every day make the soccer team —How are you going to do that practice hard and go to a soccer camp
Reflection This listening text is a conversation. In instructional design, teacher tries to let students learn what a resolution means and how to achieve it by listening to conversations, so that students can understand the sentence structure and the importance of action. In this lesson, students start with their own experience of the New Year, which can attract students' attention, then grasp information through listening, and finally help teachers achieve New Year's resolutions by making suggestions. Teachers successfully apply teaching evaluation integration into practice, and students not only gain knowledge, but also appreciate the importance of practice.