Unit 9 My favorite subject is science
Period 2
Teaching design
湛江师范学院外国语学院 09英教3班蔡广娣 教学对象：七年级
单元课题名称：My favorite subject is science
教学版本：人教版新目标
课型：综合应用课
授课时间：45分钟
Ⅰ Analysis of the teaching material
This unit mainly talk about school subjects and will be divided into five periods. This is the second period of this unit. It will continue to talk about the students’ favorite subjects and the reasons. It will review what have learned in the last period and focus on the usage of the special questions contain what, who, why, and when. Important sentence patterns are presented and flexible teaching methods are used to help students master the grammar.
ⅡTeaching objectives
1. Knowledge objectives
(1)To study the special questions contain what, who, why and when.
(2) To use the key sentence patterns to ask and answer questions.
2. Ability objectives:
(1) To develop the ability of speaking and writing.
(2) To use the special questions to talk about their favorite subjects freely.
3. Moral objectives:
(1) To increase students’ interest and develop their self-confidence in speaking English.
(2) To enhance the students’ friendship between each other.
Ⅲ Focal points and difficult points:
To enable students to understand the usage of the special questions.
To enable students to use the special questions to ask and answer questions.
ⅣTeaching aids: Multi-media
ⅤTeaching procedures: Period-2
Teaching steps Purpose Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Methods
Step1 Revision and lead-in
1. Review what have learned.
Lead-in the new language point. Ask some of the students what’s your favorite subject? and why do you like the...? Who’s your...teacher?What’s (his, her, Bob’s...) favorite subject; Why does Bob like...? When is your...class?
Ss: Answer questions use the sentence patterns: My favorite subject is...; because it is...; My...teacher is ...; Her/ his favorite subject is...; It’s on Monday. .
Step2 Grammar focus
Guide students to understand how to use what, who, why, and when to ask questions and how to answer the question including what, why, how, and when.
Ask students to summarize the usage of what, who, why, and when. .
Ss: Summarize the usage of what, who, why and when.
Step3 Guessing game
Show some pictures of the students in the class and ask other students to guess their favorite subjects.
Ask students to use what, why, who, and when to ask and answer questions.
Ss: 1.Guess the favorite subjects of the students in the pictures.
2. Ask and answer questions. Communicative
Step4 Pair work
Ask students to make dialogues with their partners use the sentence patterns: What’s your favorite subject? My favorite subject is...Why do you like...? Because it is... Who is your...teacher? My...teacher is... When is your...class? It is on...
Ss:1.Discuss and make dialogues with their partners
2. Show their dialogues to the class.
Step5 Fill in the blanks
Guide students to do the exercise in 3a and 3b
Check the answers.
Ss:1. Do the exercise carefully
2. Exchange their answers with their partners to make sure the answers are correct.
Step6 Interview and report
Guide the students to do the interview in 3c. The students are divided into several groups. Then give the survey to the students to discuss and show an example for them how to fill out the survey and do a report.
Ask students to find out the one who has the same favorite subject.
Ss:1.Do the survey in their group
Name Favorite subject Reason Teacher
and then the group leader should make a report in front of the class.
2. Find out those who has the same favorite subject.
Summary Consolidate what have learned in the class today.
Ss:Summarize the sentence patterns have learned. Listen carefully and answer the teacher’s questions.
Step7 Homework: Write a short passage about my favorite subject.
Blackboard design
Unit 9 My favorite subject is science
What’s your favorite subject? My favorite subject is...
Why does Bob like...? Because it is...
Who is your...teacher? My...teacher is...
When is your...class? It is on...