武進區橫林中學 高一英語組

Teaching aims and demands:

items

topics 1. talk about sports

2. talk about interests and hobbies

3. talk about the Olympic Games

4. write a sports star’s profile

functions Interests and hobbies

Which do you like…or…?

What’s your favorite sport?

Which sport do you like best?

Which do you prefer…or…?

What about…?

Are you interested in…?

Words and expressions Continent well-known athlete gold medal etc

grammar Future passive voice

Period 1

Step 1 Warming up(15points)

Ss know a lot about sports from everyday life and media, so I arrange such a task-discussion(group of 4):

Q: What do you know about sports?

During this process, if Ss can’t express themselves in English, Chinese is also all right. Besides, it is a good chance to present new words. If necessary ,I’ll make some complements, at the same time ,I’ll present them as many pictures as possible.

Possible response:

Sports meet:

school sports meeting

the National Games

the Asian Games

the Olympic Games

the World Cup

etc

Events of sports:

Ball games: volleyball, basketball, football, table tennis, tennis, golf, badminton, bowling, baseball, American football, ice hockey etc

track and field: relay race, long jump, high jump, pole jump, discus, shot, javelin etc

gymnastics: rings, double bar, high and low bar, horse, free exercise

swimming /shooting/skiing/ice sports/diving/aquatic sports, etc

Sports stars: Beckham, Mike Owen, Michael Jorden etc

(Purpose: This activity is designed to encourage students to think about sports and activate relevant vocabulary.)

Step 2 Speaking (15 points)

Task1(Pair work):

Talk about their favorite sports, favorite sports stars, and the reason why they like them, with the following expressions as a guide.(See SB p52)

Task2(Pair work): A survey about physical fitness.(See postscript1)

Task3(Group work): Add up their total scores and divide by the number of people. Then get their group’s average scores .Discuss their survey answers.

A) Do you think your group is doing well or not?

B) How can you become fitter?

(Purpose: The students will use the information from the above step to talk about their interests and hobbies and to practise giving reasons for their opinions.)

Step 3 listening (15 points)

Task1:Brainstorming(Encourage Ss to use as many words as about)

Basketball football table tennis

(Purpose: To work as a guide of listening part)

Task2:Listen to three sports reports and fill in the missing information.

(Purpose: In this activity, the students will hear three sports reports about basketball, football, and table tennis. It will help them learn to understand sports news report.)

Step4 Homework Assignment

Ask: Task: Find out some background information about the Olympics. T will offer them some websites as well: www. athen. Olympics. org/

www.beijing-2008.org

(Purpose: This activity is related to the reading material of next period. To encourage Ss to find out the information by themselves.)

Period 2

Step1 Lead-in(10 mins)

Task 1: Collect the information Ss have found, and this is a good chance to present new words. If necessary, warming up Ex can work as a guide. At the same time T will display some relevant pictures.

Five rings Asia Europe Africa America Oceania

IOC International Olympic Games

Headquater Lausanne Switzerland

Motto Swifter higher stronger

Present President Jac ques Rogge

Official language English French Spanish Russian German

Host city of 2000 Olympics Sydney, Australia

Host city of 2004 Olympics Athens, Greece

Host city of 2008 Olympics Beijing, China

Host city of the first Olympics Athens, Greece

Games Winter Olympic Summer Olympic

Purpose: To help Ss get as much background knowledge about the Olympics as possible.

Task 2: Group work to discuss either of the following questions:

1) Why do so many athletes want to take part in the Olympic Games?

2) Are the Olympic Games important to our society? Why or why not?

3)

Purpose: The activity is designed to get Ss to think about the Olympics as a preliminary activity related to the reading material.

Step 2 Reading (10 mins)

Task 1: Skimming to find out what is the reading material going to talk about.

Possible answer: the Olympics

Task 2: Scanning to find the topic words.

Possible answer: the Winter Olympics, the Summer Olympics, the ancient Olympics, the modern Olympics, the Olympic Motto, the 2008 Olympics

Purpose: To train Ss to glance through the passage quickly to get a general idea.

Task 3: Careful reading to find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Purpose: To train Ss how to find out the main idea of a paragraph.

Step3 Consolidation (10 mins)

Task 1: Play the passage through once and ask Ss to underline some words and phrases they think useful.

Task 2: Match the new words and their meanings. (See WB Ex)

Task 3: Fill in a form about the passage.

Olympics Year Location China’s gold medals Competitors

Old Greece No female competitors

The first in modern times

The twenty-third

2000

2008 ? ?

Purpose: To have a better understanding of the passage and note some useful words and phrase.

Step 4 Discussion (15 mins)

Task 1: Group work ( group of 4) to discuss the following topics and they can choose whichever they are interested in talking about.

Topic 1. What is the sprit of the Olympic Games? What can you learn from it?

Topic2. Do you agree that “ faster, higher, stronger” is a good motto not only for sports but also for life in general? Why?

Topic3. Is it important to win in a sports match? Why or why not?

Topic4. Discuss the causes and the effects of some serious problems of the Olympics and think of the possible solutions.

Task 2: Debate

Hosting the Olympic Games is a great honor and a great responsibility. Since China has won the bidding of hosting the 2008 Olympics, what will the Olympics bring to China, good or bad effects?

Good effects Bad effects

promote the economy cost a large of money

make China better known to the world cause disorder to our society

… …

Purpose: To have a further understanding about the Olympics.

Step 5 Homework Assignment

Write a report based on the debate carried out in class about the good effects and bad effects of the Olympics. And encourage Ss to express their own idea in the report.

Purpose: To cultivate them how to write discussed topics.

Period 3

Step 1 Extensive reading (WB) (15 mins)

Task 1: Read the passage and have a discussion about some related questions.

1.) What are some problems that unknown athletes have to deal with?

2.) Why are the Olympic Games so important to many athletes?

3.) Why do stars like Michael Jordan make more money than other athletes?

Task 2: Pair work compare the sports listed. Are they popular in China? Why or why not?

Sports Popular/not very popular Reason

Tennis

Soccer

Table tennis

Badminton

Purpose: To know more about sports and the Olympics.

Step 2 Speaking (5mins)

Task 1.China is going to host the 2008 Olympic Games. To make it the most wonderful and successful one, what will be done? If necessary, T can display two pictures for contrast.

Task 2.As for Ss, Chinese, what will they do for the 2008 Olympics?

Purpose: To make Ss note the use of Future Passive voice and Active Voice.

Step 3.Language focus (25 mins)

Task 1.Group work to get a conclusion of the Future Passive Voice and give T more examples.

Structure: Subject+will be done

Task 2:Show Ss a passage about the Olympics, and ask them to change it into passive voice. (see postscript 2)

Task 3: Pair work to ask questions about the passage with what , when, where, how, etc.

Task 4: T has left a note to you, asking you to write a note for the students using the Future Passive Voice. Work with your partners and write down the notice. Then report it to class orally.

Next week we are going to clear the school as follows:

Monday -----classroom Building No.1

Tuesday------Classroom Building No.2

Wednesday-----the computer center and language lab

Thursday ------the science labs

Friday -------the library

Purpose: to consolidate their understanding about the Future Passive Voice.

Step 4 Homework Assignment

Task 1: Finish some consolidation Ex of the future passive voice.

Task 2: Find out as much information as possible about their favorite sports stars.

Purpose: to encourage Ss to do what they are interested in.

Period 4

Step 1 Listening(5 mins)

Ss will hear something about some sports stars and make their own decision according to they have heard.

Step 2 Speaking(10 mins)

Guessing Games. Check out what Ss have got about their favorite sports stars. Ask some Ss to come up to the front to tell what they have found while others guess the names of the sports stars.

Purpose: To work as a preliminary step of writing

Step 3 Writing (30mins)

Task 1: Brainstorming. Ask Ss to think out information about Yao Ming as much as possible.

Yao Ming

Task 2: Read the profile about Yao Ming and find out what is the useful information for writing a profile.

Purpose: This activity is to let Ss find out how to write a profile by themselves.

Task 3: Write similar profiles about their favourite sports stars and check some typical ones in b class.

Step 4 Homework Assignment

Suppose the Chinese Olympic Committee is inviting applications for volunteer jobs for the 2008 Olympic Games and Ss want to apply for the job. Try to write a profile to introduce themselves.

Period 5

Step 1 Listening (10mins)

Complementary listening material: It is important to be able to recognize and understand numbers quickly when listening to spoken English. Many sports listening tasks involve numbers. Listen to the speakers and extract the numbers, which are needed to complete these tables.( See postscript 3)

Purpose: To make Ss get used to listening to English sports news in daily life.

Step2 Speaking(10 mins)

Imagine the world in the year 5,000. What will our life be like then? Make a list of the things that you will be done differently. Try to use the Pasive Voice as much as pissible.

Example sentences:

Eating food I think all food will be turned into juice and chopsticks won’t be used..

Drinking water

Wearing clothes

Building houses

Driving cars

Reading books

…

Purpose: To revise the language focus in this unit.

Step3 Reading (10mins)

Read a complementary reading material about sports and finish the relevant Ex.(See postscript 4)

Purpose: To offer Ss further information about sports so that they will have a better understanding.

Step4 Writing (15mins)

Task 1: Group work to talk about the sports as the sample. One member of the group writes down what they have got during their discussion and another reports what they have written down.

Sport: Soccer

Objective:

Shoot the ball into the other Team’s goal

Number of players:

Two teams of eleven players: ten outfields and a goalkeepers

Sports field:

Grass playing field

Equipment:

Football, two goals

Basic rules:

1. Players are not allowed to use their hands.

… ,.Sport: Table tennis

Objective:

Number of players:

Sports field:

Equipment:

Basic rules: Sport :

Objective:

Number of players:

Sports field:

Equipment:

Basic rules: Sport:

Objective:

Number of players:

Sports field:

Equipment:

Basic rules:

Task2: Write a short essay in which you compare two spors.

Step5 Homework Assignment

Task1: Since Ss have learned the whole unit, they must know more about sports. After class, ask Ss to find some scenes which have made them moved and give the reasons.

Purpuse: This activity is designed to check what Ss have learned from this unit.

Task2 Assessment

Purpose: To help Ss to reflect on how and what they have learned from this unit.

Through the whole unit a good many different kinds of assessment have been presented in the form of listening, speaking, reading and writing. But as a whole unit, I design such two forms to let Ss clearly know their own performances.

Form1: (total score5)

listening speaking reading writing

self assessment

pair assessment

teacher assessment

Form 2: set improvement goal

Your name Date

a. What were your goals for this unit?

b. Did you reach your goal?

c. What different ways of learning did you use?

d. Which did you like best?

e. What are you goals for the next unit?

f. How do you plan to reach them?

g. Will you ask some of your classmates for ideas and try new ways of learning?

Unit 9 Technology

橫林中學 高一英語組

Period 1

Sub Topic: New Uses of Things

Focus: Listening

Tasks: 1. Describe things and how they work

2. A Guessing Games

Teaching Aims:

1. To review the Simple Present Passive Voice.

It is used for…

They are made of (from)…

This thing can be put…

2. To develop the students’ listening skill by creating an information gap

and simulating their desire to discover things

Moral Focus: Creative Thinking

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Warming up:

1) Greetings

2) Stimulating the Ss’ interest

● Talk about something that is seemingly common and trigger the students to discover something unique by observing carefully and thinking lively.

Example: Observe the teacher carefully and identify something unique like a certain scar, the smoking habit, the left-handedness etc, and then talk about the possible causes.

● Create a proper learning environment and get the students geared for the oncoming classroom activities.

3) Brainstorming

● Present objects: a toothpick, a sock and a plastic bag

● Provoke the students’ thinking by encouraging them to think of the new uses of the above objects.

● Be ready to accept any answers offered.

● Try to involve as may students as possible.

Step 2 Pre-reading

1) Show pictures of some daily things including one or two but not all of the objeces that are to be described.

2) Prepare the students for the listening by encouraging them to discover what are being described.

Step 3 Listening and Identifying

1) Listen to the tape and identify what is being described.

2) Talk about the possible uses of the things described.

3) Ring a bell to the Simple Present Passive Voive.

Step 4 Talking and Guessing

Group work

● Divide the whole class into several groups.

● Think about the objects we use in our daily life.

● Describe two or where of the objects to the other groups and see if they can guess what you are describing.

● Remember not to make it too easy to guess.

● Take turns to do the describing and guessing.

● Use the following sentences and questions to help with the description and guessing.

It is used for… It can be found… It is often seen…

They are made of (from)… This thing can be put…

What does it look like? What is it used for? What is it made of?

Who usually uses it? How does it work? When is it used?

Where do you usually see it?

Step 5 A Discussion

1) Work in groups of six

2) Discuss about the good impact of one of these things.

3) Each group member contributes some notes to the reporter of the group

4) Report to the whole class

Step 6 Listening in WB

1) Listen to the tape and fill in the information chart below.

2) Compare the information with the partner.

Step 8 Pair Work

Work in pairs

1) Summarize the good impacts of all the things described and mentioned.

2) Think about the potential problems with the things and mentioned.

3) Suggest solutions to the problems.

Period 2

Sub Topic: Life in a Technological Era

Focus: Reading

Tasks: 1. Story Sharing

2. A Project: Design a New Model of Cell Phone

Teaching Aims: 1. To have a general understanding of how technology has changed the way people live.

2. To get a rough idea of the Present Continuous Passive Voice.

Words and images are being sent throughout the world.

They are being used as cameras and radios, and to sent e-mail or surf the Internet.

New functions are being added to the phones.

Moral Focus: Love&Caring

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Warming up

1) Greetings.

2) Students’ description of some new inventions accompanied with photos download from the Internet.

Step2 Story Sharing

1) Share the caring stories hailed by technology.

2) Comment on such stories

Step3 Presentation

1) Comments on the great impact brought by technology and life in a technological time.

2) Discuss these questions with a partner before reading:

Have you ever used a cell phone? Does any of your classmates have cell phones?

How is the way we live today different from life in the past?

How have inventions and new technology changed our way of life?

Why are things like cell phones, computers and TV so popular?

What invention do you think is the most important in the human history?

Step4 Pre-reading

1) Predicting

Read the headline and guess the meaning of “Life on the Go”.

What invention do you expect to find in the text?

2) Scanning

Which country does the girl in the passage come from? How do you know?

What is the other example that is being used to support the idea?

Step5 Reading

1) Read the first paragraph and answer the following questions:

What new invention is being discussed?

What kinds of people are being talked about in this passage?

2) Read the whole text for through understanding and fill out the outline of the text.

Outline of the text

Wang Mei is an example of Chinese teenagers who have cell phones.

Cell phones can be used for many things.

For example:

Cell phones also cause problems.

1. In school

2. At home

There are several reasons why teenagers like cell phones.

1.