8A Unit One Main Task teaching plan
Zhong Pingping from Dafeng Middle School<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Teaching aims:
(1). Knowledge aims:
A. To make the Ss. master some new words about people’s personality. appearance and future plans.
B To let Ss understand the passage better.
(2). Ability aims:
A. To develop the Ss’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
B. To train the Ss’ ability of working in groups.
(3). Emotional aims:
A To enable the Ss to know what kind of friend is a true friend and how to make good friends.
B. To enable the Ss to communicate with each other
Teaching focuses: To help to train the students’ abilities of expressing themselves in English
A. To help the Ss to communicate with each other.
B. To enable the Ss to study in groups and co-operate skillfully.
C. To develop the Ss’ interest in English.
Teaching difficulties:
(1) How to describe a person.
(2) How to write a passage
Teaching Methods:
(1). Communicative teaching method
(2). “ Task-based” teaching method
Teaching Procedures
Step1 warm up
1. Free talk between T and Ss.
Such as: Fine weather, isn’t?
Do you like this kind of weather?
What will you do on such a find day?
Who do you want to do with?
Step2. revision
For example: What does your friend look like?
What kind of person is your friend/
What does your friend like?
What does your friend do or want to do in the future?
What made you become good friends?
2. let students practice in pairs.
Step3.presentation
1. show pictures of stars and let Ss say sth. about appearance and guess their personalities. let Ss work in pair to describe persons
2. play a game
I will let Ss describe a person in our class to ask other students guess.
Step4.listening and practice
1. play the tape recorder. Let the Ss listen and answer some questions. For example, Who is Daniel’s friend? Where does she live? What is she like? What would she like to do when she grows up?
2. play the tape again ask the student read aloud after the tape then fill a table. is employed to make the Ss grasp the main idea of the text. .
Step5.make a conclusion
How to write a passage:
Introduction: say who is your best friend is.
Main body: describe his/her appearance
describe his/her personality
Conclusion: describe his/her future plan
Step6discussion
I will say: we have learnt a lot about friends. If you choose a boy or a girl as your best friend, what will you thank about? Here are some questions for you to discussion.
•What is his/her name?
•What is he/she like? (appearance)
•What’s hi
s/her personalities, qualities and abilities?
•What does he/she like doing?
•What would he/she like to do in the future?
Then let them have a competition.
Then make a conclusion: a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Step7.Homework:
(1)Recite the words as many as possible after class.
(2) Write an article about your friend.