教师培训平台7
Unit 12 My favorite subject is science
1. About the teaching material
Task One: Learn to talk about preference and ask and talk about the subjects which Ss themselves and others like with the special questions that what, who lead.
Task Two: One-minute lecture. Let Ss give reasons about their favorite subjects and practice the special questions that why lead.
Task Three: Integrate application by writing a letter to consolidate and expand the knowledge learnt, foster Ss ability of arranging their work and rest time rationally.
2. Teaching aims
1) Aims of knowledge
? Words
Nouns of subjects: subject, math, science, history, P.E, biology
Nouns of week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Describing adjectives: fun, interesting, boring, difficult, relaxing
Others: because, teacher, Mr, Mrs, example, city, mom, dad, busy, strict, tired
? Sentences
i. What’s your/his/her/ favorite subject?
My/His/Her favorite subject is science.
What’s Ken’s favorite subject?
Science.
ii. Why do you like P.E.? Because it’s fun.
Why does he/she like math? Because it’s interesting.
iii. Who is your art teacher?
My art teacher is Mrs Jones.
iv. When do you have math?
I have math on Monday and Wednesday.
? The usage of personal pronouns and possessive pronouns
2) Aims of skill
? Talk about the subjects which Ss like and give reasons.
? Talk about other things as food, city, sport, movie…which Ss like and give reasons
? Tale about the arrangement of Ss’ work and rest time.
3) Aims of emotions
Make Ss understand to make progress in each subject rather than favor certain subjects and have a good time in their rich and colorful studying life. Stir up Ss affection emotions to their parents, their friends and everyone around them.
3. Teaching points
1) Main points
? Have a good grasp of the ways of expression about Ss’ favorite subjects.
? Master and make full use of some describing adjectives and talk about the reasons Ss like or not.
? Learn the nouns of week.
2) Difficult points
? The meaning and pronunciation of describing adjectives about subjects.
? The usage of personal pronouns and possessive pronouns.
? Practice the knowledge learnt skillfully and integratively.
4. Teaching steps
Period One: SectionA 1a-----1c
Period Two: SectionA 2a-----2d
Period Three SectionA 3a------4
Period Four SectionB 1a------2c
Period Five SectionB 3a-------Self-check
Period 1 (Section A 1a~1c)
?Topic My favorite subject is science.
?Structure What is your favorite subject?
?Task Talk about your favorite subject.
?Culture Know something about the subjects in the school.
?Vocabulary subject, math, science, history, P.E.
?Grammar What’s your favorite subject?
Teaching procedures:
Greetings
Step 1 Warming up
?Have to learn a chant. (This is the first period of new unit. To arouse Ss interest to enliven the class atmosphere.)
Let’s chant
What’s your favorite fruit?
What’s your favorite fruit?
Grapes are my favorite fruit.
Grapes are my favorite fruit.
Oranges are my favorite fruit.
Lemons are my favorite fruit.
Apples are my favorite fruit.
Step 2 Presentation
?Show Ss several pictures of their favorite colors, sports, foods, singers…
Colors: black, white, green, red, blue, yellow, purple, brown, pink…
Sports: basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, Ping-Pong, tennis…
Food: banana, apple, orange, tomato, hamburger, chicken, pear, strawberry…
Singers: popular stars
(Not only review the words of colors, sports and food but also practice the main sentence patterns in this unit “What’s your favorite…?”)
?Show Ss all kinds of subjects or cover pictures of some subjects and say: My favorite subject is English. Ask Ss “What’s your favorite subject?” and get Ss to answer: My favorite subject is English /math/ Chinese/ science/music.
?Learn other subjects by presenting the pictures and flashcards. Let Ss describe what Ss are doing in the pictures.
(doing exercises----P.E./ drawing pictures----art/ making experiments----chemistry—science)
(science---physics, chemistry, biology, sociology—history, politic, geography)
Step 3 Activities
?Match the words with the pictures. (SectionA 1a)
?Listen and number the things in the pictures when you hear them. (SectionA 1b)
?Pair work:
Talk about the pictures in the textbooks and make their own conversation.
?Game: Quick Mind
Look at the alphabet chart. What do the numbers spell?
A = 1 F = 6 K = 11 P = 16 U = 21 Z = 26
B = 2 G = 7 L = 12 Q = 17 V = 22
C = 3 H = 8 M = 13 R = 18 W = 23
D = 4 I = 9 N = 14 S = 19 X = 24
E = 5 J = 10 O = 15 T = 20 Y = 25
1, 18, 20 = __________ 13, 1, 20, 8 = _________
19, 3, 9, 5, 14, 3, 5 = __________ 13, 21, 19, 9, 3 = __________
19, 21, 2, 10, 5, 3, 20 = ____________ 16, 5 = __________
?Class work: Can you guess?
Q: Is your favourite subject…?
Homework: Make a survey
What’s your partner’s favorite subject/city/food/sport?
Period 2 (Section A 2a~2d)
?Topic My favorite subject is science.
?Structure What is your favorite subject?
Why do you like P.E.?
?Task Talk about your favorite subject.
?Culture Know something about the subjects in the school.
?Vocabulary subject, math, science, history, P.E., fun, interesting, boring, difficult, relaxing, because
?Grammar What’s your favorite subject?
Why do you like math?
Teaching procedures:
Greetings
Step 1 Revision
?Check homework
?Ask and answer in sequence. (My favorite … is … What’s your favorite…?)
Step 2 Lead-in
?Show Ss some pictures of describing adjectives. Help Ss describe their feelings after seeing these pictures.
(math questions------difficult
listening to the music------relaxing
reading English books------boring
roller coaster ------ exciting
playing computer games------interesting/fun)
?Invite several Ss to make performation about these words.
Step 3 Presentation
?Guess: What’s my favorite subject?
Show Ss a math book, and ask Ss “Why do I like math?”. (Answer) Because it’s very interesting.
?Get Ss to practice conversations and communicate with each other:
What’s your favorite subject?
My favorite subject is…
Why do you like …?
Because it’s …
Step 4 Experiences
?Play the tape of Activity 2a and get Ss to listen and adjust the conversation to finish the teaching task of Activity 2a.
?Play the tape of Activity 2b and get Ss to listen and complete the conversation and match the subjects with the describing adjectives to finish the teaching task of Activity 2b.
Step 5 Practice
?Get Ss to match the subjects with the describing adjectives in their opinion, finish the teaching task of Activity 2c.
?Get Ss to do pair work and finish the teaching task of oral intercourse of Activity 2d.
Step 6 Discuss
?Ask group members their favorite subjects and why.
Survey (Homework)
How well do you know your parents and your good friends?
Period 3 (Section A 3a~4)
?Topic What…? Who…?
?Structure What is his/her favorite subject?
Who is your P.E. teacher?
?Task One minute’s lecture
?Culture Know something about your friends/parents.
?Vocabulary teacher, …
?Grammar What’s his/her favorite subject?
Why does he/she like math?
Teaching procedures:
Greetings
Step 1 Revision
?Check homework
Step 2 Lead-in
?Read the short passage about my favorites.
My Favorites
My favorite color is orange.
My favorite sport is swimming.
My favorite number is 8.
My favorite food is meat. And my favorite fruit is apple.
Michael Jordan is my favorite basketball player.
My favorite singer is Rong Zuer.
?Tell me your favorites
What’s your favorite color/sports/ number/ food/fruit?
Step 3 Presentation
?Show Ss several pictures about sportsmen, sportswomen and some famous singers. Say Yao ming is my favorite basketball player. Ask Ss “Who is your favorite soccer ball player/ basketball player/ ping-pong player/ singer?
?Pair work: ask and answer
Who is your/ his/ her favorite…?
Step 4 Practice
?Get Ss to read the conversation and choose the right words to complete it from the box according to the cue and learn the target sentences Who is your science teacher? and so on, finish the teaching task of Activity 3a.
?Game: Memory challenge
What’s his/her favorite subject? His /Her favorite subject is…
Step 4 Activity
?Suppose your class have a new foreign teacher, Mr Green, he wants to know about your and your friend’s favorite subjects and teachers. Can you talk with him? Try your best!
A: Hello! Mr Green.
B: Hello! ……….
A: This is my friend……And this is our new teacher, Mr Green.
B: Nice to meet you.
C: Nice to meet you, too.
B: Excuse me! May I ask you a question?
A: Certainly.
B:
A:
B:
Step 5 Make a survey
name
Favorite subject
who
why
Period 4 (Section B 1a~2c)
?Topic When do you have math?
I have math on Monday and Friday.
?Structure Who is your art teacher?
What’s your mother’s favorite subject?
When do you have math?
?Task how to make order
?Culture the order of the days in a week
?Vocabulary Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, biology
?Grammar the possessive case of nouns
Teaching procedures:
Greetings
Step 1 Revision
?Check homework
?Review the following sentence patterns. What’s your favorite…? Why do you like…? Who is your… teacher?
Step 2 Warming up
Chant
English, English, it’s interesting.
Math, math, it’s relaxing.
Music, music, it’s fun.
Chinese, Chinese, it’s boring.
P.E. P.E. it’s exciting.
Science, science, it’s difficult.
Step 3 Presentation
?Show a calendar marked days of the week and get Ss to learn days of the week.
Today is Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday/ Saturday/ Sunday. We have math at 7: 45 on Monday. We have English at 9: 50 on Tuesday… What day is it today?
Get Ss to answer: It’s Monday/…
?Get Ss to number days of the week and dates in order to finish the teaching task of Activity 1a.
Step 4 Activity
?Task 1: Make one-week’s curriculum schedule
By using the words in the chart in Activity 1b and talk about the subjects they are having.
When do you have…? I have …on….
?Task2:Oral practice
My favorite day is Monday.
Because I have English on Monday.
Her favorite day is Monday.
Because she has English on Monday.
Step 5 Experience
?Play the tape of Activity 2a and get Ss to listen and write down the words about subjects, finish the teaching task of Activity 2a.
?Play the tape of Activity 2a again and get Ss to listen and fill in the chart according to the tape, finish the teaching task of Activity 2b.
Favorite subject
Why?
When?
Ming
history
fun
Friday
Selina
art
relaxing
Monday and
Wednesday
Ken
science
interesting
this afternoon
?Task 3: Oral practice
Eg: Ming’s favorite subject is history. Because it’s fun. She has history on Friday.
Homework: Design the studying life one day and make a report in next class.
Period 5 (Section B 3a~Self-check)
?Topic letter
?Task how to write a letter
?Culture the form of a letter
?Vocabulary busy, strict, tired
?Grammar the possessive case of nouns
Teaching procedures:
Greetings
Step 1 Revision
?Check homework to have a report
Step 2 Warming up
Chant
What’s your favorite subject?
English, English, it’s interesting.
What’s your favorite subject?
Math, math, it’s relaxing.
What’s your favorite subject?
Music, music, it’s fun.
What’s your favorite subject?
Chinese, Chinese, it’s boring.
What’s your favorite subject?
P.E. P.E. it’s exciting.
Step3 Reading (supplement)
Mary’s favorite day
It’s Friday today. I’m not very busy. At 8 o’clock in the morning I have English. The English teacher teaches me a nice song, it’s very relaxing. Next at 9:00 I have art. It is very interesting. At 10:00 I have math, the math teacher gives me a lot of homework. I don’t like math. It’s boring. So I don’t do it. At 11:00 I have P.E, I like it very much. That’s my favorite subject! In the afternoon, I have two classes, science and music. They are my favorite too. Tomorrow is Saturday, we are free. We are very happy.
?To make Mary’s curriculum schedule
Friday
morning
8:00
English
9:00
Art
10:00
Math
11:00
P.E
afternoon
2:00
Science
3:00
music
?Comprehension
Choose the best answer A,B,C or D to these questions about the passage.
- Why doesn’t she do math homework?
A. Because it’s very easy.
B. Because he doesn’t like math.
C. Because it’s his favourite.
D. Because it’s interesting.
- Why do I like English ?
A. Because it’s relaxing(轻松).
B. Because it is very difficult(困难).
C. Because he never reads it.
D. Because he likes English.
Step 4 Practice
?Practice reading of 3a, underline the things that Lin Mei likes and circle the things that she dislikes.
?According to the passage of 3a, complete Lin Mei’s schedule of her work and rest plan.
?Get Ss to practice writing and write down their favorite one—day arrangement of work and rest by using the target language.
Step 5 Reports
?Ask Ss first to make a survey about their favorite days and reasons, and then report to the class with the target knowledge.
Homework: Finish off the exercise