Unit 2 Lesson 8 Why Are Plants Important？说课稿

Interpretation of Lesson 8(Why Are Plants Important)
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s my great honor and pleasure to be here sharing my lesson with you.
I have been ready to begin this representation with five parts. analysis of the teaching material, the teaching strategies, the learning methods, the teaching procedure and the blackboard design.
Part 1 Teaching Material
1. The position of the teaching material
The content of my lesson is Lesson 8 of Unit2, Book4, New Junior English for China, published by Heibei Education Press. The topic of this lesson is Why Are Plants Important. By studying this lesson, we know that the number of the plants is quickly decreasing in recent years, and the environment is worse and worse, so it is our responsibility to do something to protect the environment. Protecting environment is important to people and animals. Therefore, this lesson is in the important position of protecting the environment.
2. Teaching Aims
According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus and after studying the teaching material, the teaching aims are as the following:
First, I’d like to enable the students to master some words and expressions about plants and plants protecting and help them understand the content of this lesson. (That’s my knowledge object.)
Second, I’d like to guide the students to analyze the structure of the whole text, develop their abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing , especially their reading ability and set up their effective studying strategies by training the Ss’ abilities of studying by themselves and cooperating. (This is my ability object)
As for the moral object, I’d like to get the students to be aware of the importance of plants, and try to find good ways to protect environment. Meanwhile, I’ll pay more attention to increasing the students’ interest in learning and setting up their self-confidence by completing the task.
3. The Important and Difficult Points
Based on the requirement of the syllabus, the important point that I’m going to deal with is to guide the students to get the structure of the whole lesson and find some sentences to support the main idea of each paragraph. As for the difficult point, what I’m going to do is to get the students to work in groups, flying their imagination and try to find good ways to talk about the importance of plants.
Part 2 Teaching strategies
As is known to us all, good teaching strategies require that the teacher should not only help the Ss develop good sense of the English language, but also create a good language atmosphere to stimulate the students’ interest in learning. For achieving these teaching goals, I will use the following strategies:
1. Communicative Approach
2. Task-based Language Teaching Approach
3. Situational Teaching Approach
4. Group Cooperating Teaching Approach
5.CAI (CAI can provide a real situation with its sound and picture, it can develop the Ss creativity in learning English.)
Part 3 Learning methods
According to the new standard curriculum, I’d like to creative a student- centered class and offer the students opportunities to participate in class in groups to share and exchange their ideas with the group members and learn to use English actively and creatively, which will make them experience and explore in the situation, and at the same time develop their sense of cooperation and competition.
Part 4 Teaching procedure
Step1 Pre-reading (Lead-in)
I’d like to show pictures of different plants to learn about
Importance of plants, and tell the students that people and animals can use plants in different ways
The purpose of my lead-in is to attract the students’ attention for them to think more about how to use the plant so as to arouse the Ss’ interest in learning.
Step2 :While-reading
Task 1: Skimming
Doing fast reading is a good way to train the students’ ability of reading comprehension, so the first thing I’d like to do is to ask the students to look through the passage and find the main items mentioned in the lesson within very short time.
Task 2: Scanning
In order to help the students understand the passages better, I’d like to get the students to read the passages again and find out the sentences to support the main idea. “Task-based” teaching method is used here to develop the Ss’ ability of communication and also their ability of co-operation will be well trained.
Step3. Post-reading(Discussing)
As the students know the whole reading passage, I’d like to get them to work in groups to have a discussion about the importance of the plants and then give a report about why plants important. After the students’ discussion, a representative from each group may present their report to the class. This is a good way to train the students’ ability of team work.
Step4. Summary
At the end of the class, I’d like to give a summary that plants are important to people and animals, each of us has the responsibility to protect plants. There is a saying “One world, one dream”, but here I’d like to say “One world, one home”. Let’s work together to build a beautiful home for the animals and people to create a harmonious world.
Step5 Homework
My homework in this lesson is to get the students to write a report about the importance of plants. Homework is important and necessary for the students to master the knowledge they have learned. Also it is a good way to cultivate the students' comprehensive ability.
Part 5 Blackboard Design
While teaching, I will use a mind map to show the structure of the text so that the students may get a clue of the text and have a better understanding of the whole text.
In a word, as a teacher, what I should do in teaching is to act as a guider, an organizer and a director who play a role to help the students to become more independent and successful learners.
That is all for my interpretation about this lesson. Thank you for listening.