A Teaching Plan for Teaching goals
1. Get the students to talk about pictures.
2. Encourage the students to talk out what they know about the UK and Ireland.
3. Help the students learn to get information by listening.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
1．Lead-in
Group work:
Step 2 Listening
Step 3 Extension
1. Talk about our own timetable.
2. Have a discussion about the similarities of the timetables in our country and the UK and also tell the differences between them.
Step 4 Homework
Find more information in relation to the UK and Ireland on the Internet.
The second period Speaking
Teaching Goals
Train the students’ spoken English
Improve the students’ ability of imagination and debate
Practise expressing agreement and disagreement
Increase participation and learn from each other.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Talking about hot topics
Step2 Group theme debates
Step3 Tips on how to express agreement and disagreement
Step5 Homework
Preview the reading passage “The British Isles”
The third period Reading
Teaching goals
Get the students to know more about the British Isles and learn more new words and their usages.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Presentation
Step 2 Fast reading
Step 4 Discussion
Show the students some pictures of the three countries of the British Isles and then ask: If you have got the chance to visit one of the three countries of the British Isles, which country will you choose and why?
Imagine that you are going on a four-week trip through the UK. Make a travel plan in which you describe where you go, how long you will stay and why, and what clothes and things you will take.
Step 5 Homework
Write a short passage about the Dachen Isles.
大陈岛位椒江区东南52公里海上，分上、下大陈二岛。大陈岛面积约14平方公里，岛上气候温暖湿润，冬暖夏凉，尤其盛夏时温暑宜人，是避暑休闲的好去处，林木植物茂盛，森林覆盖率达50~60%，1993年被批准为省级海上森林公园，海洋资源丰富，为台州海上最繁荣的渔业集镇，被誉为“东海明珠”。
The fourth period Grammar and Language study
Teaching goals
1. Learn about the appositive clause.
2. Identify noun clauses.
3. Enable students to use new words.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Review the vocabulary and complete the sentences.
Step 2 Brainstorming
Step 3 Grammar Explanation
Step 4 Tell the function of the following sentences.
Step 5 Consolidation
Consolidate what have been learned by doing further exercises.
The Fifth Period Integrative Skills
Teaching Goals:
1. Learn to describe the countryside, the cities, the people and their life by reading the passage.
2. Learn things about the city Salisbury.
3. Know more about Britain.
4. Cultivate the students’ abilities of concluding and reasoning.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Lead in
Step 2: Reading
Step 3 Extension
Step 4 Homework:
Now you know how to describe a city’s landscape, the people and their lives after reading this passage. And today’s homework:
1. Choose any place you know or you like and write a short passage about it.
2. With the help of the Internet, try to collect as much information as possible and make a PowerPoint presentation in the next period.