Unit 6 How long have you been collecting shells?

Book Ⅳ(新目標) Unit 6

How long have you been collecting shells ?

Objective:

By the end of the session, most students will be able to talk about their hobbies of collecting things. This will be achieved by

1. teaching students vocabulary of the collections and description.

2. teaching students to make monologs of their hobbies referring to a model:

I like collecting…because…

I have…of them now.

I have been collecting them for…

My favorite one is…the most….

Now I have a problem…

I’d like to …in the future.

Learning and teaching focus:

1. language structures: I have been collecting them for…

I have run out of…

2. vocabulary: a. names of collections like shells, dolls…

b. words to talk about hobbies of collection like collect, collector, store.

Anticipated difficulties:

Students may find it difficult to understand the meaning and talk about their hobbies by using the sentence structure: have been doing. They may also find it difficult to understand and use the phrase “run out of sth.” It may be difficult for the students to talk about their hobbies in all the aspects in the model.

Solution:

The sentence structure will be explained by simple past tense and present progressive tense and followed by relevant practice of this structure. The phrase “run out of” will explained by description and picture followed by relevant practice. As for making a monolog, the students are trained step by step. They are supposed to make a monolog including only “what/ why/ how many/ how long” in the middle of the teaching. At the end of the session, they are required to make a monolog of “what, why, how many, how long, problem, more information and plan”.

Teaching aids: PPT, one additional model of listening material

LEARNING & TEACHING ARRANGEMENT

Stages/

timing Activities Methodology

Leading in and present the task

(3mins) Step 1 Introduce myself

T: … You can call me Rita. I’m from Wenzhou Xiushan Middle school. Nice to meet you!

Step 2 Introduce my hobby of collecting things including “what/ why/ how many/ how long” and present the task for this session. Lead in the topic at the beginning.

Learning

(15mins) Step 3 After introducing my hobby of collecting things including “what/ why/ how many/ how long”

T: What do I like collecting?

Why do I like collecting them?... Because I like cartoons.

How many of them do I have? …I have 50 of them.

Introduce more of my hobby by presenting a monolog with some blanks. Ss fill in the blanks with the information of my hobby.

Lead to the sentence structure “have been doing”

Step 4 Input vocabulary and practice talking about hobbies in “what/why/how many/how long” aspects

T: What can we collect?

Why do you like them?

How many of them do you have?

How long have you been collecting them?

Lead in the first three aspects of the model and input the vocabulary of collection.

Present a monolog model of the teacher’s hobby of collecting things to impress the students how can we talk about hobbies.

Lead in the sentence structure. Explain by previous learned tense.

Input the vocabulary of collections with pictures and lead the students to talk about “what/ why/ how many/ how long” of a hobby by answering my questions

Step 5 Practice talking about hobby in “What/how many/how long” aspects

Practice talking about my hobby by answering my questions and make a short monolog talking about my hobby.

T: What do I like collecting?

S: You like collecting comic souvenirs.

T: How many cartoon souvenirs do I have?

S: You have 50 of them.

T: How long have I been collecting them?

S: You have been collecting them for 9 years.

Prepare the students to start practicing making a short monolog including “what/ how many/ how long” by talking about the teacher’s hobby.

Practice talking about Lily’s hobby after the model.

Lily likes collecting _______.

She has ______ of them.

She has been collecting them for ______.

Practice talking about the students’ own hobbies after the model.

I like collecting _______.

I have ______ of them now.

I have been collecting them for ______.

Sum up: what can we talk about our hobbies?

What / why/ how many/ how long Lead the students to make a short monolog after the model.

Lead the students to make a short monolog of students’ own hobbies after the model.

Practicing

(16mins) Step 6 Read the passage in the textbook to know more about what can we talk about our hobbies

Lead in “problem” in the monolog model.

Lead in “snow globe”

Listen to the passage in the textbook and answer questions:

How long has Ellen been collecting snow globes?

How many of them does she have?

Why does she have to stop?

Read the passage and answer questions:

What as Ellen’s first snow globe?

What does she want to do in the future?

Sum up: what aspects does Ellen talk about her hobby?

S: How long, how many, problem, more information and plan.

Review and consolidate

Read the passage about Ellen’s hobby and fill in the blanks.

Lead in new phrase “run out of” and new vocabulary “globe”

Present the model in the textbook. Use the questions to guide the students to pay attention to what can we talk in the monolog.

Input three new aspects of the model: problem, more information and plan.

Sum up the all the aspects on talking about a hobby.

Step 7 Present another monolog model of a hobby of collecting things

Listen to Lisa’s hobby and fill in the blanks.

Talk about Lisa’s hobby according to the information.

Step 8 Sum up what can we talk about out hobbies.

Mind map: what, why, how many, how long, problem, more information, plan, how… Impress the students again by present another monolog of hobby.

Practice making a complete monolog.

Sum up all the aspects of talking about hobbies.

Production

(12mins) Step 9 students make a monolog about their hobbies on “what, why, how many, how long, more information, plan”. Students make monologs of their hobbies after the model.

Homework Share your hobby of collecting things with your partner, and report your partner’s hobby to other classmates.

Go for it 八下 unit 6“以讀促說”閱讀課反思

現在回首這堂課的準備過程，發現自己一共改了12稿。這個過程中真的學到了太多，確實需要好好整理。

這次的收獲大致分兩個層面，教學理念和課堂操控。

首先講講教學理念。曹東老師最強調的就是一堂課的邏輯性，也就是說每個課堂環節與這堂課目標的相關性，每個環節的目的應該是很明確的。這節課的目標是大部分學生能就“收集物品”興趣做一個獨白。我原來備的課中有pairwork的操練環節，即讓學生就興趣進行問答。但是就本課目標來說，讓學生去詢問是不必要的，所以這個環節的價值就打了對折。所以將這個環節改為讓學生做一個簡單的小獨白。

第二個收獲的理念任務型教學。任務型教學對我來說并不陌生，但是平時的課堂上并沒有太多的利用，也不知道如何很好的應用。這節課的備課過程讓我充分感受了任務型教學的實際應用。這節課一開始就提出任務，讓學生明確自己在這節課的任務。中間結合3Ps具體教學方式，引導學生學習和操練基本語言要素，最終讓學生充分展示學習成果。任務型教學的最大缺點就是費時間，而一堂課的時間又有限，所以要和其他教學方法充分合理的結合。如何去結合是我在這堂課中最大的收獲。

第三個收獲是要讓學生充分的展示。學生最終展示出的成就就是教師在這節課中獲得的成就。所以課堂練習的各個環節不能占用過多時間，但又要練習到位，輸入不足會影響學生最終的輸出。

第四個收獲是課堂內容一定要貼近學生的生活。“收集物品”并不是每個學生都有的興趣，所以要讓學生在最終的輸出環節踴躍展示，就要在之前的環節充分調動學生的積極性。所以在這節課前我和學生交流、了解了他們喜歡的東西，并在自己的課件中展示，讓學生一開始就有耳目一新的感覺。以后的每節課都要用心地做課前準備。

接下來講講課堂操控層面的收獲。

第一個收獲是讓自己的指令簡介、清晰。原來我真的沒有太在意指令這一塊，感覺它很簡單。但是真正上過課才發現，要平衡簡介和清晰絕不是簡單的事情。一條清晰地指令一定要告訴學生“what to do” 和“how to do”。指令也并不一定都是用講的，可以呈現模板，可以示范，等等。

第二個收獲是在請學生回答時應選擇什么程度的學生。當一個環節的目的是檢測學生是否掌握時，應該邀請中等程度的學生；在請學生完成一個綜合展示或有點難度的任務時，應該先邀請優秀的學生，給其他同學做一個模板，慢慢過渡的中等學生，到后面可以請稍差的學生。邀請的覆蓋面一定要廣。

第三個是對學生的評價。評價要有導向性，引導其他學生向這個方向進行。 評價也要有適當的鼓動性，鼓勵被評價的學生更是鼓勵其他學生踴躍嘗試。

這次展示課讓我收獲太多。最重要的是讓我認識的教學理論的重要性，接下來我會多去看這方面的書，關注理論并嘗試在自己的課堂上去實踐。這堂課也讓我意識到，一堂備得再精彩的課也需要很好的課堂操控能力去演繹，否則這堂課將不能達到其目的。

這堂課的不足之處首先是詞匯教學方面。詞匯的呈現方式有點強加，應該是引導學生說出或選出這個詞匯。詞匯的操練也不夠，數量和形式上都有存在不足。其次是Teacher talking time偏多，students talking time偏少，這個是我一直在努力去改正但仍存在的問題，我會繼續探索。在作業布置上沒有體現出學生的差異，應該采用分層作業。還有課堂環節處理的一些細節，我會細細體會。

這節課引領我來到一個新的高度，我會保持并繼續前進。