8A Chapter 3 Dealing with trouble

Teaching Design

According to the teaching goals of this chapter, I’ll mainly train students’ comprehension abilities and change original teaching order in this lesson. Stress the importance of English as a tool for study and developing the students’ abilities about how to deal with trouble. I divide the structure into seven parts: Analysis of teaching material, analysis of students, analysis of teaching approach, analysis of learning method, teaching procedure, blackboard design and teaching evaluation and reflection.

Analysis of teaching material

◆ Status Function

This is an important lesson in this book, the purpose is to know about how to help someone in trouble in an indirect way by calling the proper authorities quickly.That will be helpful for students’ study in four skills and what’s more, it will help them easily accept the key points. To be related to daily life, it’s good to raise learning interests and improve their spoken English.

◆ Teaching objectives

★ Knowledge objectives

a. Learn the new words by teaching and guessing

b. Help students understand the whole passage with the key words

c. How to write a diary with the simple past tense.

d. Describe an event that happened in our daily life.

★ Abilities objectives

a.To encourage the students to practice, participate and co-operate in the class activities.

b.To train the students’ comprehension abilities

c.To develop the students’ abilities of communication by learning the useful structures

★ Moral objectives

a. To enable the students to know about how to help others correctly.

b. Let students be warm-hearted.

c. Let them make a contribution to building an harmonious society and do something for the coming Olympic Games.

◆ Key Points and difficult Points

★ Key Points

Vocabulary : argument/argue, dial, steal, notice, robbery, railing, detail,

Phrases: hold out , in handcuffs, be afraid of ,go on ,shout at, stare at, run away,

Tense: the simple past tense

★ Difficult Points

This passage is based on real life, we should set up a good learning surrounding for the students so that they can study for application, use in study .Train them to master the abilities to solve the problems, show them the form of a diary, and use the knowledge of this lesson in real life .

Analysis of students

The students have learned English for over one year. They can understand the passage, communicate with others. But they aren’t on the same level. There are some students whose English are poor, Raise their interests to study English by telling stories and appreciating the beautiful pictures.

Analysis of teaching approach

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 I’ll mainly use Communicative teaching method,

Audio-visual teaching method and Task- based teaching method. I’ll try my best to

increase Student Talking Time, emphases are to be laid on learner-centered teaching , and activity-based teaching, they are: pair work, group work, class activity.

★ Special feature: General description ---making-up--- discuss and comment---inference Through this clue, students can be trained : information--- knowledge--- imagination---evaluation. Let the students communicate with each other and develop the students’ interests in English. Give them confidence. Students are the most important roles in the class, teacher can be a partner, an assistant even a director, help Ss solve the problem by using the target language.

Teaching Aids

Multi-media computer, some pictures and so on will be needed in this course.

Analysis of learning method

Cognitive strategy & Collaborative study & link method

To deal with all above, the students must have a good preview and they must take part

in the activities and co-operate the tasks by using target language. They can use the

link method, cognitive strategy and collaborative study to train their self-study, create

abilities. They can also discuss the main idea to consolidate the knowledge with the

help of teamwork

Teaching Procedure

In this course, I change the teaching order in this lesson. Reading is the basic part, the students learn to use the knowledge that they’ve mastered freely in daily life .Attain the goal: study while using, use while studying.

Teaching Procedure Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purpose Time

Warming up Show them a: commonweal advertisement video–《help others》, ask them some questions Say something about the questions Have students know about the topic of the class 2

Lead in Show them some pictures about people in trouble and ask them questions Say out the telephone numbers they should dial To be familiar with the target topic 2

Word study Play some pictures Learn the new words while enjoying the pictures Make word study easier and more interesting for the students and have them be well prepared for the reading in vocabulary 5

skimming Have students read the text for the first time ，find out the simple past forms of verbs and find the words’ meanings Read for some specific details . Study the spelling rules and answer the questions To train the students’ ability in acquiring the useful information, get the general idea 5

Scanning Explorative study Have students read the passage more carefully

Find out the main idea

Enrich the knowledge Answer the questions Fill in the blanks with the key words

Train their basic ability of sentence construction

To form their own learning strategies 8

Consolidation Show them a slide Give them a picture Retell the story in their own words To test the students’ whole understanding about the passage

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discussion Present them to discuss the topic:

“Father didn’t catch the robbers directly, do you agree ? ” Have a student from each group to summarize their talk . Train their ability in generalization.

Make students would better like to take part in and help each others 5

Debate Make the students debate an event in our daily life. Group discussion: collect evidence or facts to prove Develop students’ ability to use English to express their opinions in authentic surroundings and improve their spoken English 4

Talent show

Have a speech contest in one or two minutes: How to make a contribution to the coming Olympic Games Collect information and choose suitable ones to act out. To consolidate what they have learned

Make my class more active 4

summary sum up the key points of the passage Help them have a understanding of the main clue 1

Homework Write a diary with the simple past tense Consolidate the knowledge that they’ve learned 1

Blackboard design

Teaching evaluation and reflection

The students can learn the knowledge better because the tasks are designed well . Tasks must be close to their life. A free situation is a must, activities make their study more efficiently, teamwork is their new power to study. What I will do is to guide them to work out problems by themselves instead of telling them the answers directly. Change their thoughts from “I have to study.” to “I want to study.” Helping the students to form their own learning strategies is important and helpful for their lifelong study and I’ll make great efforts to help them to achieve the goals.

Teaching Design

Dealing with trouble