Teaching Plan for Unit 4 Seasons
Reading
Teaching Objectives
Words and sentence patterns about weather in each season.
Words and sentence patterns about some activities in the four seasons.
Reading skills of getting the key information.
Important Points
Words and sentence patterns describing the four seasons.
Difficult Points
Describe the four seasons in their own words
Learning Strategies
Communicative Teaching Method
Activity-based way (class work; individual work; group work)
Teaching Aids
Multi-media PowerPoint
Teaching Procedures
Steps
Teacher activities
Student activities
Purpose
Step1
Greeting and Leading in
Play a recording of a song and ask the students to find out the missing words of the songs
Listen to the song and enjoy it .
Try to find the missing words of the song.
Sing the song together.
Leading in the topic “seasons”.
Inspire students’ interest.
Step2
Simple words about the four seasons
Ask students how many seasons there are in a year.
Answer the questions.
Spell and remember the words on seasons.
Get ready for the further discussion.
Step 3
A guessing game
Ask four students to read four short paragraphs of a poem and let students guess what season it is.
Guess which season it is according to some key words in the poem.
Discuss how you get the answer.
Get general ideas of the four seasons
Step 4
Skimming
Let students skim the text and fill in the three graphs
Skim the text.
Fill in the graphs
Practise the sentence patterns in pairs.
Let the students get the general idea of the text and improve their fast reading ability.
Step 5
Listen and write
Play the recording of the text.
Listen to the recording of the text and fill in the table.
Get more detailed information of the seasons.
Improve the listening skills.
Step 6
The summary of the text
Give a short passage to students and ask them to finish the blanks.
Fill in the blanks and read the passage.
Review the text and reinforce the students’ understanding of the text.
Step 7
Group work and report
Lead the Ss to talk about their favourite season
Choose their favourite season
Give a report
Train the students’ ability to cooperate.
Improve the speaking ability.
Step 8
A rhyme about seasons
Ask students to read the rhyme.
Read the rhyme.
End the class in a happy way.