Starter Unit 2 What’s this in English
(1a-2e)
Teaching Aims Language goals Learn the letters and identify things. Key words and phrases What, is, this, in, English, in English, map, cup, ruler, pen, orange, jacket, key, quilt, it, a, that Key sentences 1. —What's this in English —It's an orange. 2. —What's that in English —It's a jacket.
Teaching Difficulties Let Ss learn the letters and identify things.
Teaching Aids multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Lead in T shows the picture one by one and ask: What’s this in English Ss give the answer together. Answers: key, jacket, orange, pen, quilt Show the picture of 1a to Ss. Ask them to pair up and name the objects they can see in the picture. Suggested answers: map, key, jacket, quilt, cup, ruler, pen, orange
Step 2 Presentation & Practice (1a-1c)
1a Ask Ss to look for the small letters in the picture for their big letters. Check the ones they can find. After completing 1a, write the letters Aa-Rr on the board. Have Ss work in pairs to determine which letters are not in the picture. Look at the speech bubbles and the item labels to determine which letters are missing. Answers: The missing letters are b, d, f While-listening 1b Ask Ss to listen to the recording and repeat each sentence. Help Ss use full sentence answers. Start from one-word answers and add words. E.g. T: Pen. Gesture for Ss to repeat. T: A pen. Gesture for Ss to repeat. T: It’s a pen. Gesture for Ss to repeat. Show Ss picture on PPT P9 one by one and ask: What’s this / that in English Ss should answer the question using a complete sentence: It’s a / an ... Post-listening 1c T can use the items in the classroom to model 1c. Point at some objects and ask and answer questions about them. T: What’s this Gesture for Ss to repeat. T: It’s a pen. Gestures for Ss to repeat. Follow up by writing the names of the objects on the board and having Ss identify whether the words contain any of the letters Ii-Rr.
Step 3 Presentation & Practice (2a-2e)
Pre-listening Show PPT P12 to Ss, ask them the find the hidden letters Ii-Rr. While-listening 2a Ask Ss to listen and repeat the letters Ii-Rr. Before Ss do 2a, have them review the big and small letters Aa-Hh. Ask half of the Ss to write one big letter from A-H on a piece of paper. Then ask Ss to stand up and walk around to find their matching big/small letter partners. Have Ss stand next to their partners. Finally, give Ss a few minutes to form groups according to their letters. 2b Ask Ss to listen and number the letters they hear. After doing 2b, T can ask Ss to close their books. T writes letters Ii-Rr on the board, then point at each letter randomly and have Ss say the name of the letter. To make this more challenging, T should point to different letters more quickly. Answers: Top row (left to right): 4, 7, 9, 3, 1 Bottom row (left to right): 6, 8, 10, 2, 5 Show PPT P15, ask Ss to draw a line from “Ii” to “Rr”(finally to “I i”) using their point fingers. 2c Ask Ss to look and copy the letters Ii-Rr. After completion of 2c, have Ss compete to write all of the letters Ii-Rr as quickly as possible. Have Ss start the same time. When a S finished, the S should raise his/her hand. The first S to finish with legible writing is the winner. 2d Let Ss to write the missing big or small letter for each pair. After Ss have written the letters in 2d, have them number the letter from 1 to 10. Answers: To row (left to right): m, K, p, R, j Bottom row (left to right): q, L, o, N, i 2c Have Ss guess the meaning of the abbreviations in 2c. Answers: P: Parking (You see this on a road sign in a place near where you would park your car.) NBA: National Basketball Association (You see this on the clothing or on the advertisements for some American basketball teams.) Kg: kilogram (You see this on food packages. It shows the weight.)
Step 4 Language points learning
What’s this in English 这个用英语怎么说? 1) what 什么,What’s 是 What is 的缩写形式; 2) this 这个,常指离说话人较近的人或事物; 3) in English 用英语; 4) 该问句的答语为:It’s a / an … What’s that in English 那个用英语怎么说? 1) that 那个,常指离说话人较远的人或事物; 2) 该问句的答语为:It’s a / an … 在It’s an orange.这句话中,it 是第三人称单数形式,常代替上文中的单数可数名词或不可数名词,也可代指this或 that,it’s 是 it is 的缩写形式。a / an(用于单数可数名词前, 表示未曾提到的)一(人、事、物),a, an都是不定冠词,a用于以辅音音素开头的单词前;an用于以元音音素开头的单词前。
Step 5 Summary & Homework
Summary Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P23-25. Homework: Write the letters I-R from memory. Do the exercises in students’ book.
Teaching Reflection