Module 5, Unit 13 People
Personalities and National Types
Teaching Plan
Shunde No.1 Middle School Zhang Yuanlin
About Culture Corner: According to the New English Curriculum Standard, it is beneficial to experience the culture of English-speaking countries in enhancing understanding and using English, in further understanding one’s native culture, in cultivating global awareness, and in developing cross-cultural communicative ability.
Culture Corner is a corner which can best demonstrate this idea.
Ⅰ. Analysis on the Teaching Material
1. About this topic: it covers such useful themes as different national types, and the links between personalities and nationalities .
2 .Teaching aims and demands
Knowledge objectives:
1) to guide the students to get informed of personalities and national types.
2) to enrich their background knowledge of different cultures.
Ability objectives:
to enhance the students’ reading skills.
to encourage the students to express their own ideas.
Moral objectives:
◆ to challenge the students to improve their personalities.
4. Teaching Key Points:
1) Make the students grasp the main idea of the reading passage.
2) Carry out communicative activities to further their understanding:
5. Teaching Difficult Points:
◆Enable students to express their own opinions through the communicative activities, like talking about the necessity of learning about different national types.
Ⅱ. Teaching approaches
◆Task-based principle, communicative method and situational approaches
◆ Methods of enlightening students divergence thinking
Ⅲ. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Talk about personalities
Get the students to talk about the teacher and an old lady.
Get the students informed of some words used to describe people’s personalities.
Get the students to talk about their own personalities in pairs.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Talk about people from different countries
Listen to the interview about communication in different cultures
Use the scale to classify people from Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States.
Listen to check the answers.
Step 3 While-reading
1. Go through the text to get a general idea of the text.
2. Read the text again to fill in the table.
People
Personalities and National Types
Italian and Spanish
?
British
Americans
?
Chinese
?
Australians
?
Germans
?
Deal with difficult sentences
1) Germans are sometimes accused of not having a sense of humour.
2) But at the end of the day, people are themselves, no matter where they come from.
4. Discuss the following questions
1) What do you think of the writer’s description of the Chinese people?
2) Are you a typical Chinese?
Step 4 Post-reading
Design a perfect person and describe it.
Appreciate a man and a woman with perfect appearances.
Voice your opinion
Is it necessary for us to learn about different national types? Why or why not?
Summary
Homework
Write a short passage to describe one national type which is not mentioned in the text in five sentences.
Ⅳ. Self Comment
1. “learning to conduct oneself，learning to acquire knowledge” is two of our school motto ,“Four Know-hows”. Learning to acquire knowledge is very important, while learning to conduct oneself is more important. In this lesson I fully embodied this idea. For example, the task “Design a Perfect Person” gets the students to improve their personalities .
2. These principles are the basis of my design for this lesson : student orientation, interaction between teacher and student, interaction between students themselves.
3. I attach importance to encouraging the students to express themselves and lay emphasis on emotional communication with the students.
课件28张PPT。Personalities and National TypesTeaching PlanShunde No. 1 Middle School
Zhang Yuanlin English Corner According to the New English Curriculum
Standard, it is beneficial to experience the culture
of English-speaking countries in enhancing
understanding and using English, in further
understanding one’s native culture, in cultivating
global awareness, and in developing cross-cultural
communicative ability.
Culture Corner is a corner which can best
demonstrate this idea. About Culture CornerⅠ.Analysis on the Teaching MaterialⅡ. Teaching approaches Ⅲ. Teaching Procedures Ⅰ. Analysis on the Teaching MaterialⅣ. Self Comment Outline of the Teaching Plan ◆Task-based principle, communicative
method and situational approaches
◆ Methods of enlightening students
divergence thinking Ⅳ. Self Comment Ⅱ. Teaching approaches Ⅲ. Teaching Procedure ● About this topic ● Teaching aims and demands ● Teaching Key Points● Teaching Difficult Points Homework ●About the topic
It covers such useful themes as
different national types, and the links
between personalities and nationalities. Back● Teaching aims and demands Knowledge objectives:
1. to guide the students to get informed of personalities and national types.
2. to enrich their background knowledge of different cultures.
Ability objectives:
to enhance the students’ reading skills.
to encourage the students to express their own ideas.
Moral objectives:
◆ to challenge the students to improve their personalities.Back● Teaching Key Points
1) Make the students grasp the main idea of the reading passage.
2) Carry out communicative activities to further their understanding:● Teaching Difficult Points
Enable students to express their own opinions through the communicative activities, like talking about the necessity of learning about different national types.BackBackathletic, organized, creative,
generous, outgoing, motivated Complete each sentence with a word from the Key Words box.Someone is good at producing new ideas and good ideas.
2. Someone likes to meet and talk to new people.
3. people like to exercise and are good at sports.
4.An person is good at putting everything in order.
5. Someone is always ready to give (money) freely.
6. A person is active in different activities.outgoingAthleticorganizedgenerousmotivatedcreative Give a brief description of yourself.
(Choose some adjectives that describe you best. The following words may help you.)
athletic, outgoing, creative, motivated ，reliable, generous,
careful, shy, independent ,helpful, hard-working, intelligent, lazy, kind, cheerful, patient, selfish, confident…
Words for describing one’s personalitiesUse the scale to classify people from these cultures.
Italy , Japan, Britain,
the United StatesSHOWING A LOT OF FEELINGSSHOWING NO FEELINGSCultures that
show everything
they feelCultures that are
in betweenCultures that don’t
show their feelingsItaly , Japan, Britain,
the United States Listen to the interview about communication
in different cultures. Compare what the expert
says with your answers.Don’t worry if you can’t understand everything. Listen for important words and phrases.SHOWING A LOT OF FEELINGSSHOWING NO FEELINGSCultures that
show everything
they feelCultures that are
in betweenCultures that don’t
show their feelingsItalyJapanBritainthe United StatesBackWhat does the writer mainly want to tell us? ( )
A. Some people believe that nationality can influence personality.
B. Not every person from a certain country has the same personality.
C. People of the same nationality sometimes share certain personality characteristics.
D. Nationalities may influence personalities, but at the end of the day, people are themselves, no matter where they come from.DRead the passage quickly and answer
the following question.Read the passage again and fill in the following table:outgoing, friendly, a great love for life, excellent singers and dancers, lovers of food and wineloud, friendly, outgoing, confident and securereserved, cold, firm and bravefriendly, hardworking, motivated, polite, concerned about face-savingmerry, casual, cheerful, loud, rudeserious, rigid, hardworking, careful, punctual, lack of humour Germans are sometimes accused of
not having a sense of humour.Difficult sentencesBut when everything is taken into consideration,
different people have different personalities, no matter where they come from.He was falsely accused of murder.
She accused Andrew of lying to her.Accuse: to say that someone has done something wrong, is guilty (of sth.) or has broken the law.
Accuse sb. ( of sth.)2. But at the end of the day, people are themselves, no matter where they come from.Understanding What do you think of the writer’s description of the Chinese people?
Are you a typical Chinese? BackDesign a perfect person ( for example, with perfect personalities and appearances) and describe him/ her Design a perfect person Perfect man and woman designed by German psychologist, Blaun and othersVoice your opinionIs it necessary to learn different national types? Why or why not?★We can get along and cooperate well with different people.
★ We are language learners. We need to know different cultures.
...Fulfillment(成就) of brains greatly
depends on the advantages in personality.
—Albert Einstein Cultivation(播种) of personality, gain of fortune（命运）. Different personalities and national types make up a colorful world.SummaryBackHomework
Write a short passage to describe one national type which is not mentioned in the text in five sentences.
BackⅣ. Self Comment
“learning to conduct oneself，learning to acquire knowledge” is two of our school motto, “Four Know-hows”. Learning to acquire knowledge is very important, while learning to conduct oneself is more important. In this lesson I fully embodied this idea. For example, the task “Design a Perfect Person” gets the students to improve their personalities .2. These principles are the basis of my design
for this lesson : student orientation,
interaction between teacher and student,
interaction between students themselves.
3. I attach importance to encouraging the
students to express themselves and lay
emphasis on emotional communication with
my students.Thank you
