Cultural corner +(WB P76) Listening and speaking
Teaching Objectives:
1.Grasp the words and expressions:
relationship, formal, discipline, relaxed, similarly, disturb, headmistress, extra help, timetable, behave badly, up to you
2.Develop reading, speaking and listening skills
3.Apply the learning strategies:
predicting ,obtaining information, analyzing and comparing
4.Foster the sense of cultural awareness:
Understand the differences in school systems and teacher-student relationship in varied countries.
Teaching aids: multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
Pre-reading activities
Introduce some colorful pictures about schools, teachers and students downloaded from the net. Ask the questions:
1. What do you think of the relationship between teachers and students?
2. How do you find the school?
Cultural corner
1. Scan the passage and find out the answers to the questions.
What kind of difference in schools does the passage describe?
What’s the difference between state schools and public schools?
2. Call back the answers from students.
Reading
1． Read the passage again and fill in the chart in pairs.
Countries
Relationship between
teachers and students state schools or
private schools
Northern Europe
France, Germany
Spain
Russia
America
Britain
China
2. Talk about the chart in pairs.
Match words and expressions with their definitions .
relationship be suitable for
formal like, the state of being like
discipline order, rules
relaxed connection, having sth. to do with
similarly in accordance with rules
be true of less tight or strict
Listening and speaking (P 76)
( Divide the class into A, B groups and have a competition .Make sure students understand how to compete. See which will get more points. Whoever loses will sing a song. )
Who will win, A or B ?
1. Revise some words and expressions in listening:
behave badly, disturb, headmistress, timetable, extra, up to you
That’s if it fits into our timetable.
2. Activity 10
Listen to Conversation 1 . Decide T or F of the statements( 1, 2, 4 ).
3. Activity 11
Go over the questions first. Listen again and choose the correct answers. Then call back the answers from class.
4. Activity 10
Listen to Conversation 2 and decide T or F of the statements (3,5).
5. Activity 12
Listen again and complete the sentences according to conversation 2.
Then report the answers to the class.
Homework:
Write a passage about the relationship between teachers and students in China.
点评：本课堂的教学利用现代多媒体教学设备，调动学生积极性，师生共同搜索相关资料并呈现于课堂，为学生在进行阅读活动之前，对国外的学校形成感性认识，以便学生更好地完成快速阅读的任务。阅读练习设置多样，也比较丰富，不仅考察了学生信息提取情况，也学习了一些新词，在听力练习前，一些词句做了适当的练习，也保证大部分同学能够较顺利地完成听力活动，如果能将这一听力热身活动与前一段的快速阅读相联系，做一个类似Talk的口语活动会让学生有更好的听前准备活动，比较顺利地完成听力任务的同时，也使口头表达得以训练。