Period 1 Warming-up & Listening
Teaching aims:
1. To help the students talk about amusement parks and our experiences.
2. To help the students learn to express likes and dislikes about the amusing activities.
3. To help the students be able to listen for information and understanding.
4. To help the students practise giving directions.
5. To help the students enlarge expressions of asking the way and answering.
6. To cultivate the students’ ability of communication.
Teaching important and difficult points:
1. Talking about amusement parks and knowing something about theme parks.
2. Learning to use the expressions to ask and give directions.
Teaching Aids:
A blackboard; a tape recorder; a video CD
Students’ Activities
Group work; Pair work; Individual work
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming-up
Task 1 Talk about the topic and the word FUN
Have the students talk about fun things use adjectives to describe fun things.
Questions: What is fun? (snowing, sailing, hiking, rafting---)
What do fun things have in common?
Cooking is fun because it is challenging ( interesting, relaxing---).
Where can we have fun? ( cinemas, amusement parks, theme parks---
Fun is everywhere if we can enjoy it.)
Task 2 Talk about our own experiences
Questions: Have you ever been to an amusement park? What did you see?
Have you ever tried sitting in a roller coaster?
How did you feel?
Do you like it? Why?
Task 3 Watch pictures and talk about likes and dislikes
1. Look at the pictures and name the activities
Question: Do you like these activities? Why / Why not?
2. Do an interview to find others’ ideas (make up a dialogue).
Step2 Listening
Pre-listening:
Talk about the theme of the theme parks
Questions: If you are to build a theme park, what theme will you have? Why?
While-listening:
Listen and finish the exercises 1 and 2
Post-listening:
1. Fill in the following form.
Which of the parks do you think is better?
Name Theme Your reason and ideas
2. Act out and make decisions
Situation: Two presidents of different colleges in England come to China to try to persuade Chinese students to study in his college in England. Have two students prepare in advance and make a report in class. Other students listen to the report and make their own decisions.
(Students can also think up their own situations)
Step 3 Watching and listening
1. Have the students watch a short video show and answer some questions.
Where is Bob going? How to get there? ……
2. Get the students repeat the expressions to ask and give directions in the show.
Step 4 Speaking
Task Watch the map and find the way
Pre-speaking
T: Suppose we are at the main entrance of this theme park and we want to go to some places: the Ocean world, the History Land, the Bungee Jumping…
Please write about how we can get there, according to page 65.
While-speaking
Make up dialogues of asking for and giving directions.
Post-speaking
Give directions
Situation: Suppose you are at the main entrance of your theme park and you are introducing some attractions and the way to them to a group of tourists. Use the map you have drawn and show the way around.
Step 4 Consolidation
Work in groups and conclude some useful expressions of asking the way and giving directions.
Homework
1. Finish the Workbook Talking
2. Look for necessary information and write several sentences about theme parks
教学后记
这是一节听说课。现行的英语教材容量大，任务多，在这节课中我安排了听和说这两项能力训练内容，但学生对主题公园不太熟悉，真正体验过过山车、蹦极等游乐项目的学生很少，因此他们能谈的也不多，时间有些浪费。以前我要求学生预习的重要是他们不熟悉的话题和不具备的知识，这次因错误估计他们的人生体验而未布置具体的预习提纲，使得上课时气氛比较沉闷，不过学生在完成听和说的任务中表现得还是不错的。今后要对学生情况做详细调查。
另外，这课的话题是娱乐世界，与问路关系并不密切，在Listening 完毕进入到Speaking 时，尽管我安排了观看短片，但过渡仍然显得不流畅，如果要把听和说真正结合起来，其实应该从问路找公园开始，过渡到讨论公园的主要游乐项目到更自然些。今后应更全面地考虑教学内容的安排和实施方法。