作为一位无私奉献的'人民教师，很有必要精心设计一份说课稿，通过说课稿可以很好地改正讲课缺点。怎样写说课稿才更能起到其作用呢？下面是整理的高中英语课说课稿（7篇），希望能够帮助到大家。
Part One —— Analysis of the Teaching Material One:
Status and Function
1. This unit tells us the improvement of traffic transportation and the related stories. Besides learning this, students will also learn some words, phrases and expressions of traffic, and so on. In Lesson 37, Danny will introduce a new type of transportation to us, it is imaginary.
2. To attain ―four skills‖ request of listening, speaking, reading and writing, I will have the students do some exercise about the text.
3. Such a topic is very important in this unit. I will lead the students to use their imagination and encourage them to be creative. For example, helping them use English to describe their imaginary transportation. So I think if the students can learn this lesson well, it will be helpful to make them learn the rest of this unit.
4. While teaching them, I will also encourage them to say something about what they think the future transportations will be like. In a way, from practising such a topic, it can be helpful to raise learning interests of students and it will be also helpful to improve their spoken language. Two: Teaching Aims and Demands
The teaching aims basis is established according to Junior School English syllabus provision.
Knowledge objects
(1) To study the new words ―fuel‖, ―oil‖ and ―coal‖.
(2) To learn and master the phrases ―think of, on the way to …, have fun‖, etc.
Ability objects
(1) To develop the students‘ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
(2) To train the students‘ ability of working in pairs
(3) To develop the students‘ abilities of communication by learning the useful structures.
3. Moral objects
(1) Through different teaching methods to make students be interested in study.
(2) Love to know more knowledge about transportation and dare to express their opinions in English.
(3) Encourage the students to be more creative and try to make contributions to making new inventions in the future.
Three: Teaching Keys and Difficult Points The teaching keys and difficult points‘ basis is established according to Lesson 37 in the teaching materials position and function.
1. Key points:
(1).Be able to express words, phrases and sentences in English.
(2). Know about the improvement of transportation and Danny‘s invention. 2. Difficult points: Be able to talk about their imaginary future transportation in oral English. Part Two —— The Teaching Methods 1. Communicative teaching method;
2. Audio-visual teaching method;
3. Task-based teaching method;
4. Classified teaching method. As we all know: the main instructional aims of learning English in the Middle School is to cultivate students‘ abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and their good sense of the English language. So in this lesson I‘ll mainly use ―Communicative‖ teaching method, ―Audio-visual‖ teaching method and ―Task-based‖ teaching method and ―Classified‖ teaching method. That is to say, I‘ll let the students get a better understanding of the key structures. I‘ll give the students some tasks and arrange some kinds of activities, like talking, watching CAI, and reading in roles. In a word, I want to make the students the real masters in class while the teacher himself acts as director. I also hope to combine the language structures with the language functions and let the students receive some moral education while they are learning the English language.
Part Three —— Studying ways
1. Teach the students how to be successful language learners.
2. Make situation and provide meaningful duty, encourage the students to study the text by themselves.
Part Four —— Teaching steps As this lesson plays an important part in the English teaching of this unit, I have decided the following steps to train their ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, especially reading and speaking ability. The entire steps are: Step1 Warm-up and Lead-in Show the students some pictures of common transportations, like car, bike, train and so on. Ask the students: What can you see from the picture? Is there another kind of transportation around us? Purpose of my designing: In this part, have the students say more about what they see or what they don‘t see. In this way, they will know today‘s lesson has something to do with their discussion. Step2 Presentation 1. Learn new words in groups. The new word in this lesson are fuel, oil and coal. Show them pictures of these things and teach them these new words.
Purpose of my designing:
1. After seeing the pictures, the students will know what they are and they can learn them quickly and easily.
2. Play the tape recorder. Let the students listen and imitate the text. Pay attention to their pronunciation and intonation. Then finish the exercises on the computer. Purpose of my designing: This step is employed to make the students get the general idea of the text. At the same time let the students have a chance to practise their listening and speaking ability.
3. Text Learning and a Quiz I‘ll use CAI to present the whole text. I‘ll write the key points on the blackboard while they are watching. After watching, I‘ll teach them to read the words and sentences on the Bb. Make sure they can read them well. After teaching them the whole text, including the meanings of new words, the use of similar expressions and so on. Get the students to try and say out some phrases on the screen, like I don‘t think so, have fun, a new kind of, on the way to school, and so on. Purpose of my designing: To present the text by CAI is much easier for the students to learn and grasp the meanings. CAI can provide a real situation with its sound and picture and it makes the relationships between the students better.
4. Key Structures and Difficult Points Learning First, I will divide the students into three groups and tell them to have a discussion about what they learn in this lesson. Then encourage them to try to understand the whole text, know what the difficult points are, and so on. At last, I will help them to master them all. For example, I teach the students know the differences between phrases think of, think about and think over. I will show them some sentences and get them to know the use of these phrases. Encourage them to do some exercise about these phrases. Purpose of my designing: By practising using these new words and similar phrases, the students will know how to use them in English and master the use of them better.
5. Read and Say Give the students two or three minutes to prepare, and then get them read the text together in three groups. Tell them to read aloud. Then help the students say something about the future transportation or their imaginary transportation. Encourage them to say more. Purpose of my designing: By reading the text and saying such things, get the students to practise their reading and speaking ability again.
Part Five —— Summarize and Homework Ask the students such questions:
What have we learned from this lesson? What does Danny say about his new kind / type of transportation? Do you like his idea? What new phrases have we learned today? Do you have enough confidence to finish these exercises? Now, let‘s try! Then show them some exercises and help them to finish them. At last, tell the students what today‘s homework is. While doing this, the teacher can have the boys and girls have a competition to see who are better.
Part Six —— Blackboard Designing Lesson 37 Flying Donuts Language points:
of认为，想起； think over仔细考虑； think out想出
the front of在……前面(部)/ in front of在……前面
the way to school在上学的路上/ on one‘s way home在回家路上
4. With用…… Purpose of my designing: Presents the text key content clearly on the blackboard, favors the students to knowledge grasping. OK. That’s all.
Thanks for listening to me and helping me.
Good morning, ladies and gentleman. Today, I feel honored to have the chance to share my ideas about how to teach reading.
In the reading process, I will focus on students’ long-term development and enable them to use proper reading skills and strategies. In other words, students are guided to read efficiently and independently.
My teaching plan will include 3 secti. They’re analysis of the reading material, identifying the teaching aims and teaching procedures.
Section 1 Analysis of the teaching materialThe selected teaching material is a magazine article taken from the Project section of Module 11, Unit 2 of Advance with English. The article is about British students who take a gap year, which is intended to develop the theme of the unit, that is, Getting a job. After analyzing it carefully, I find the article has two unique characteristics. First, it’s a long passage with 688 words, much more than the usual texts. Second, it deals with a new topic, that is, a gap year. The topic is unfamiliar to most students.
Section 2 Indentifying the teaching aims
Based on the analysis of the teaching material, I have chosen the following as the teaching aims of my lesson:
The 1st aim: Students learn the skills and strategies to read a prolonged text.
The 2nd aim: Students get a better understanding of what a gap year is.
The 3rd aim: Students are encouraged to figure out the implied meaning.
The 4th aim: Students are familiar with various expressi or approaches to express the same thing or idea.
Section 3 Teaching procedures
In order to achieve the teaching aims mentioned above, I decide to choose guided reading and Task-Based Teaching as the main teaching approach. With the teaching methods, I can guide students to use effective reading strategies to comprehend the text, solve problems and complete different tasks. The teaching procedures include four parts. They’re getting ready, focusing on main facts, reading between the lines and responding the text.
Part 1. Getting ready
Reading begins before a book is opened. It’s important to activate students’ existing background knowledge and draw their attention to the topic of the text. In this part, I will use the pre-reading activities to increase students’ concentration, arouse their curiosities, fire their imagination and give them a purpose for reading. The part cists of two tasks:
Task 1: A time machine. I start my lesson by asking senior 3 students what the date is. Then, I go on to show a picture of a time machine. I tell students that the machine with a magic power will bring them to their graduation from high school, which is 1 year away. At that point, I get them to imagine where they are and what they are doing.
After it, I give a summary of their presentati as follows: After leaving high school, most of Chinese students go straight to , at this time next year, most of you will be studying in a university.
（With the task, I inspire students’ former knowledge and imagination about graduating from high school and going to college, which can draw their attention to the theme of the reading material and get them ready for the following reading.）Task 2: Brainstorming. After the summary, I go on to show some more pictures of British students fresh from high schools, and tell students that more and more students in the UK are doing something different instead of going straight to university. After that, I play the tape of and get students to catch the answer to the question: They will travel or work on projects for up to a year before entering university.
（With the task, I excite students’ desire to know more about what their British equivalents will do before going to college. With the question in mind, students will definitely be eager to listen to the tape to find the answer. ）
Good morning, everyone! I’m glad to be here to give my lesson plan presentation. The lesson plan I am going to talk about is the reading part of Unit 4 Wildlife Protection in the book NSEFC BOOK1. Now I’ll explain my lesson plan from the following aspects——analysis of teaching material, learning condition, teaching objectives, important and difficult points, teaching methods, teaching procure and blackboard design.
Analysis of teaching material and learning condition
First, let’s come to the analysis of teaching material. The reading material is entitled How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife. It talks about how Daisy learned the importance of wildlife protection through her communication with some animals in her dream. It is closely connected with this unit’s topic——the importance of wildlife protection. The passage is clearly organized by Daisy’s 3 trips in which she communicates with several endangered animals, and there are not so much new words in this passage
Now let’s move on to the analysis of learning condition, students must be very familiar with the topic and interested in all kinds of animals. Students have acquired the basic reading skills, such as skimming, scanning, etc to deal with different reading tasks, and they can do some discussion in English. However, they are not familiar with the organization WWF mentioned in the passage, not clear with the author’s purposes of writing some sentences, and they may find it difficult to deal with some real problems by themselves concerning with wildlife protection.
Teaching objectives
Based on the analyses of the teaching material and the learning condition, I will show you the teaching objectives.
(1) Language Skills:
1. Students can get the needed information about Daisy’s trip by applying different reading skills.
2. Students can summarize the main ideas of each paragraph through skimming.
3. Students can analyze the author’s purpose of writing sentences like “No rainforest, no animals, no drugs” and “And there are always WWF.”
(2) Language Knowledge:
1. Students can know more about why some animals are in danger and how to protect them.
2. Students can know how to use the new words, such as mercy, importance, contain, etc.
(3) Affective objectives:Students can realize the importance of wildlife protection.
(4) Culture awareness:Students can know something about the organization WWF.
(5) Learning strategy:
1. Students can improve their communication strategy by discussing with classmates about protecting animals.
2. Students can refer to the Internet to know more about wildlife protection.
Key point and difficult points:
Key points:
(1) Students can improve their reading skills, such as summarizing, skimming, scanning, etc.
（2）Students can get the main idea of the passage.
(3) Students can know how to use the new words in the passage.
Difficult Points:
1. Students can summarize the main ideas of each paragraph.
2. Students can get the implied meaning of some sentences in the passage.
Teaching methods
As for teaching methods, I’ll follow the interactive model to deal with the reading material and communicative approach to put what the students have learned into use.
Teaching procedure:
Then I’ll talk about the most important part of my presentation——teaching procedure.
Warming-up
The first step is warming-up. It will cost 3 minutes. First, I’ll show my students a short clip of video about the endangered wildlife. Then, I’ll ask the students to name the endangered animals in it together with me and list more. This step is aimed to arise the students’ interest and get the students familiar with the topic——wildlife.
Pre-reading
The second step is pre-reading. It will cost about 5 minutes with 2 activities. In the first activity, I’ll introduce something about the organization WWF to the students. The second activity is to ask students to give their reasons to the question “Why are some animals in danger?”。 The purpose of these activities is to let students have the background knowledge of the passage and get interested in reading the passage. And it is also in this step some new words like fur, protect, affect will be taught.
While-reading
The third step is while-reading. It consists of 3 activities which will be finished in 20 minutes.
The first activity is skimming. It will cost about 5 minutes. I’ll ask the students to skim the passage and work out the main ideas of each paragraph by themselves. It is the difficult point for the students, so I’ll give them hints such as key words or some answers to choose when necessary to help them to do the summarization. The purpose is the improve students’ reading ability——skimming and let them get the main ideas of the passage.
The second activity is scanning. It will cost about 3 minutes. I’ll ask the students to read fast and do some True or False questions. The purpose of it is to get students know the detailed information about Daisy’s trip and wildlife protection and improve their scanning ability.
The third activity is close reading. It will cost about 12 minutes. Students will be asked to read the passage paragraph by paragraph and fill in the form the needed information——name of the animals in Daisy’s trips, their situation, and result. Then I’ll ask the students questions: “What does the author want to tell us from the first paragraph?”, “How the government help protect the elephants?”, and “How do you understand the sentences ‘No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.’ and ‘and there was always WWF.’?”。 These 3 questions involve some implied meanings which may be difficult for students to work out, so I’ll give some key words as hints for them or ask some other related questions to guide them to work out the answers. The purpose of this activity is to make the students fully understand the reading material and try to analyze the author’s purpose of writing some sentences. And in these 3 activities, I can also teach students some new words like carpet, respond, powerful, etc.
Post-reading
The fourth step is post-reading. It will cost about 10 minutes. I’ll ask the students to form groups of 4 and do the discussion based on the questions on page 27, and they can refer to the reading material to work out these answers. After the discussion, I’ll ask some students to report their answers, especially how to protect the endangered animals.
Homework
The last step is homework. It will take about 2 minutes. The homework is to write a short passage entitled “How to Protect Wildlife”。 They can surf the internet and try to find more ways about wildlife protection.
Well, this is the blackboard design. In the middle, it’s the form for students to fill in, and on the 2 sides, there are the new words in the passage. Some of them, as I’ve mentioned, are taught in pre-reading. Most of them is taught in third-step while-reading.
That’s all for my lesson plan presentation. Thank you for your attention. Thank you!
Unit 4 How Daisy Learned to Help Wildlife
protect Animal Situation Result carpet
fur Para 1 antelope being hunt decrease powerful
affect Para 2 respond
in relief Para 3 importance
mosquitoes appreciate
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen . I’m xx. I’m from xx High School. Today, I feel honored to have the chance to share my ideas with you. In the reading process, I will focus on students’ long –term development and enable them to use reading strategies to read efficiently and independently.
My teaching plan will include 4 sections. They’re analysis of the teaching material,. Teaching aims , teaching methods and teaching procedures.
Section1 . Analysis of the teaching material.
The selected teaching material is a magazine aritcle taken from the reading of Module 2 , Unit3 . It is about the curse of the mummy ,which deals with an amazing man who devoted most of his time making discoveries in Egypt and strange things that happened after his finding the tomb of king Tutankhamun.
Section 2 Identifying the teaching aims.
Based on the analysis of the teaching material, I have chosen the following as the teaching aims,The 1st aim: Train the students’ reading ability reading skills- predicting information.
The 2nd aim: Learn some useful words and expressions.
The 3rd aim: Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Section3 Teaching methods and aids.
1. Enjoyment of a short film before reading to make the students interested in what they’ll learn.
2. Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
3. Careful reading to answer some detailed questions4. Multi-media
Section4 Teaching procedures.
Part1 Lead-in
Help the students to recall the well –known film TITANNIC by showing them a short flash of the film. The purpose of this activity is to arouse the students’ interest and curiosity to read the passage. （on the screen ）
Part 2 Reading comprehension- fast reading and careful reading
1. Reading strategy – predicting information in advance.
Before asking the students to skim the passage, direct their attention to reading strategy first. Conduct the activity as follows .（on the screen）
2. Skimming
Ask the students to skim the passage and complete the three questions of Part A on page 42.
3. Reread the passage
Ask the students to reread the passage and identify which statements are true and which are false. Have the students complete Part C1 individually. Check the answer as a class. Statements in Part C2 are summaries of the paragraphs. Ask the students to match the statements with the paragraphs. Check the answer as a class.
4. Listening for detailed information
Evaluate the students’ comprehension by asking them to identify the relationships between these characters. （on the screen）
5. structure reading
Ask the students to divide the text into a few parts according to the general idea of each paragraph .（on the screen）According to the diagram,I let the students make a summary of the text or let students fill in the blanks .（on the screen）
Part 3 Consolidation
Ask the students to complete Part D and E individually . I can adapt Part D as the example shows . After completing Part D, the students are required to read the article in Part E and then fill in the missing words, check the exercises as a class.
Part 4 Post –reading activities
1. Ask the students to express their opinions on the following questions .（on the screen）
2. Ask the students to write a summary about Howard Carter.
3. Ask the students to focus on Part F and make up a dialogue as the example show. Make sure that all the students participate in the discussion.
Ok , So much for my teaching plan ,Thank you for your careful attention.
Good afternoon,teachers. It’s my great pleasure to be here sharing my teaching ideas I’ll begin the lesson from the following four parts:
Analyzing teaching material
The teaching methods
The studying methods
The teaching procedures
and while presenting these parts I will do the blackboard writing properly. Ok now I am going to start from the first part “Analyzing teaching material”
This unit is about It is made up of paragraphs.
The teaching aim of this lesson is to help students to understand and master the words, phrases and sentence patterns on the basis of understanding the text.
The ability aim is to improve the students’ organizing and using skills of English and to retell the whole text in their own words.
The emotional aim is to help students understand and to develop
students’ sense of cooperative learning.
Then the teaching key points is to help the students get a general idea of the whole
And the teaching difficult points is to make students use their own words to express
According to the analysis above, I’ll try my best to carry out the following theories
while dealing with this lesson:
To make students the real masters of the class while I just act as a director.
To combine the language structure with the language functions.
And to make students receive some moral education while they are learning language. In order to achieve my goal, I will use the following teaching methods:
The first teaching method I will use is communicative approach, since language is
used for communication. Communicative approach is learner-centered and emphasizes communication and real-life situations.
The second teaching method I would like to use is task-based approach. A task
resembles activities which our students or other people carry out in everyday life.
Learners should be given opportunities to reflect on what they have learned and how well they are doing.
The third teaching method I want to use is computer assisted language teaching.
Computer plays an important role to make the materials attractive. It can also help the learners to understand the language and then produce comprehensible output.
And in order to practice my teaching methods better, the following teaching aids will be used:
A projector, a tape recorder, multimedia and of course the blackboard.
And then, I would like to talk about the studying methods. As students are poor in
cooperative learning skill, many students are not active in English class, and even
some of them don’t like English. Therefore, I will have the students learn English in a much more relaxed atmosphere. The learning process of students is from seeing,
thinking, and speaking. So, to make the students get the knowledge actively,
cooperative learning and task-based learning will be used.
Next, I will talk about the teaching procedure. To train the students’ ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, I have designed the following steps.
Step 1 Lead-in
At the very beginning of the class, I will make the students have a free talk about and then discuss the questions in pre-reading on page . The purpose of this step is to arouse the students’ learning interest. After a discussion about the questions,
the students will be eager to know something about and it’s the very time to naturally lead the class into
Step 2 Listening comprehensions
In this step, I will write several questions before listening to the text:
And then I will make the students answer the questions after listening to the tape. The purpose of this step is to train and improve the students’ listening ability .
Step 3 skimming and scanning
In this step, I will give the students two tasks . The first task is to get the general idea, the task is to develop the students’ reading skill by making prediction and to encourage the students to express their own thoughts in English. The second task is to get the main idea of each paragraph. I will divide the whole class into several groups to skim the whole text and get the main idea of each paragraph. The purpose of this task is to improve the students’ fast reading skill and cooperate with each then guide Ss to read the material carefully and take some important notes, then answer the following questions in P.
Step 4 Retelling the passage
Language is learned by communicating. It’s my job to creat an atmosphere for students to use the language. The students discuss in their group and then choose a reporter to share to the whole class.
Step 7 Consolidation
In this activity, I will ask some students to read each paragraph, and then do the exercise following the text.
Step 8 make a summary
I will go through the important points and difficult points of this lesson with the students once again. And of course, the language points on the blackboard will be mentioned as well.
And now let’s move to the last step
Step 9 Homework
1. Read the passage as frequently as you can
2. Find out some words and sentences you think are beautiful and recite them.
Purpose of my design: Homework is so important and necessary for to master the knowledge they learned after class. It will check whether the Ss achieve the teaching aims.
That’s all of my teaching ideas about this lesson. Thanking you for your listening.
新课程标准的三维教学观，具体到英语学科就是要整合发展学生语言技能、语言知识、情感态度、学习策略和文化意识五个方面的素养，培养学生综合运用语言的能力。指出：“教师在教学才过程中应与学生积极互动、共同发展。教师应尊重学生的人格，关注个体差异，满足不同学生的学习需要，创设能引导学生主动参与的教育环境，激发学生的学习积极性，培养学生掌握和运用知识的态度和能力，使每个学生都能得到充分的发展。因此，本课的设计重点是：帮助学生形成自主、合作、探究的学习模式，掌握阅读的一些基本技巧，让每个学生在原有的基础上都学有所得。
二、说教材
（一） 教材地位和教学内容分析 本课是高一必修模块1第4单元的阅读课型，这单元围绕earthquakes这一主题开展听、说、读、写多种教学活动。Reading设计为本单元的第2课时。本课型是单元整体教学的重要环节，为学生的语言学习、语法学习提供了载体，并且是学生获取信息的主要来源。“Reading――― A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP” 具体描写1976年唐山大地震的震前、震中和震后。本篇文章词汇量大，运用了大量的动词、复杂的数字，出现许多定语从句，篇幅较长，并且采用一些修辞手法，对学生的语言阅读能力提出了更高的要求。但文章的结构较明显，较容易归纳出各部分的中心词。
（二）教学目标
1. 语言知识目标：
a)使学生了解自然灾害的相关词汇，并掌握复杂数字的表达法。
b)学习掌握与地震相关的词汇，如：shake,well,rise,smelly,pond,pipe,burst,canal,steam,ruin,injure,destroy,brick,dam,useless,steel,shock,quake,rescue,electricity,disaster,army,organize,bury,coal,mine,shelter,fresh,percent等，以及 right away, at an end, dig out, give out, thousands of以及一些优美句子的赏析。
2. 语言技能目标：
a)阅读技能的训练：让学生学会克服生词障碍，通过略读，归纳出文章的大意；通过细读，理清文章的总体框架与脉络，归纳出各部分的中心词；通过查读，捕捉文章的重要细节，培养学生获取、处理信息的能力。
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I’m XXX from High School. I’m very glad to present my lesson plan here. It is from Unit1 Module 2 NSEFC, Using language, reading, listening and speaking, the fourth period.
I. Analysis of the teaching material and learners
The content of the material is about how the Amber Room got lost, which is also the clue of the whole lesson. The reading passage is about the definition of fact and opinion. There is an old miner’s story about what happened to the Amber Room for students to decide whether he gives facts or opinions. In the listening part, there are two pieces of narration about how the Amber Room got lost. Students will listen and then fill in two tables with some information missing, which is difficult for them. In the speaking section, discussions will be carried out by using the expressions from the table as the output.
My students are familiar with the Amber Room now because they have learnt about it in the previous lessons. They have learnt many useful words for describing the Amber Room, which can make listening easier. Their scanning skill, even though it is not well-developed, plays efficient role in getting the required information in the limited time. However, the students’ listening skill of note-taking is poor and the listening passage is long and difficult for them, and they have no idea about how the great treasure got lost, so finishing the table will be a difficulty. In order to make it easier for them to fulfill the listening task, some key words from the listening are given to students. Before the blank-filling, some multiple choices will be given in order to help students get the general idea of the passage.
II. Learning objectives
According to the above analysis, I set the following learning objectives. Firstly, find out the differences between a fact and an opinion by scanning. Secondly, predict the content of listening by studying the key words that may appear in the listening content. Next, take notes of the key words from listening to get some information to fill in the tables and understand the main idea as well. Finally, learn the following words and expressions (trial, evidence, explode, entrance, sink, etc). by heart.
Among all the objectives, Finding out the differences between a fact and an opinion by scanning in reading process and knowing how to tell a fact from an opinion as well as give opinions are essential for the students. It is one of the focuses of this lesson. And in this lesson, the listening practice will take up most of the time because it is important for students to know how to take notes while they are listening. So this is another focus. The skill of note-taking is vitally important for the students during the whole process of English study, but it is also a difficult skill for them at present.
III. Teaching procedure
We will spend 17 minutes on reading and 28 minutes on listening and speaking.
The first two steps are for the reading part. Step 1 is pre-reading. There are two activities. Activity 1 is reviewing. I will show students a passage about the summary of the reading passage In Search of the Amber Room. Students will fill in the blanks with the relative words of attributive clause. Blank filling with the relative words aims to check whether the students can use the grammatical rules learnt last period in another context. The last three sentences mainly talk about the loss of the Amber Room, which function as the topic for the next activity. Activity 2 is discussing. I will lead the students to discuss what information is the fact and what information is the opinion about the Amber Room from the summary. As one of the language focuses, the difference between fact and opinion will be paid much attention to in this step, which can make preparations for the following steps.
Step 2 is while-reading. There are two activities. Activity 1 is scanning to find out the definitions of fact and opinion, which is the foundation of this lesson. Activity 2 is also scanning. Students will be asked to read the story told by Jan and then fill in the table. After that, they will discuss whether the event Jan saw is a fact or an opinion by using the expressions in the table (slide). This activity offers students the chance to make judgment in a real life situation according to the definitions. They will use some expressions they know to give opinions by answering “why” questions.
Next comes the listening. There are two parts, Part A and Part B. Step 3 is pre-listening for part A. I will show students some key words and expressions from the listening material. I will explain them. The students will guess what they are going to listen from the newly learnt words and phrases. Step 4 is while-listening for Part A. I will give students two chances. After the first listening, the students will finish four multiple choices. Based on the four questions, the students will know the main idea of Part A. For the second listening, the students will be asked to take notes down, and then fill in the blanks according to the notes taken. After that, they will check the answers with their partners’. Step 5 and Step 6 are designed to deal with Part B. It will be done just as part A. Firstly, the students will study the key words from the listening and predict the content as the pre-listening activity. Then, for the first listening, listen for answers to four multiple choices to get the main idea of the listening. Lastly, for the second listening, the students will take down key words to fill in the table. Predicting with the key words may lessen the students’ difficulty in getting the information. Multiple choice exercises are for the preparation to get a general idea of the listening material, which can be helpful in the blank filling activity. The listening is the foundation for the next step.
Here comes Step 7, post-listening. There are two activities. Activity 1 is pair discussion. Based on the reading passage and the listening material, the students will be asked to decide who told the truth about the missing of the Amber Room and give the best evidence by using some functional items to ask for and give opinions in pairs. Activity 2 is a group discussion. I will create a real life situation. I will say that Shanghai Expo is a great success. The students will work in groups of four and have a discussion about whether it is the best exposition ever. During the discussion they can refer to more expressions of asking for and giving opinions in the textbook. Based on all these activities, students have got enough input. Now, it is quite natural for them to give a valid output in Step 8. After knowing what fact and opinion are and know how to give and ask for opinions, students may have less difficulty in doing this.
The class will end up with an exciting discussion. Then I will ask students to write five sentences as evidence to support their opinion that Shanghai Expo is best ever. This is the homework.
IV. Blackboard notes
These are my blackboard notes. On the left, definitions of fact, opinion and evidence are given, which can help the students understand the key point in class. In the middle are key words from the first story in listening and on the right are the key words from the second story. Those words can be helpful for the students to get the general idea and easy to write down notes while they are listening.
V. Reflection
To sum up, there is enough input from reading and listening material, which provide the students with essential knowledge about the concepts of fact, opinion and evidence necessary for students to distinguish facts from opinions for later speaking activities at output stage. This lesson can be viewed as a typical integration of reading, listening and speaking. Reading for the definitions of fact, opinion and evidence functions as the input before using the knowledge to make judgment on the facts and opinions after listening.
That’s all for my presentation. Thank you for listening.