Content: SEFC Student’s Book 1B Unit 17 Great women

Theoretical basic:

1. Aim structure of SEFC’s course

2. Task-based instruction

3. Co-operative learning

ⅠIntroduction of teaching material

1.Status and function:

The topic of this unit is “Great women”, including Helen Thayer who traveled alone to the North Pole, the story of Oprah Winfrey who is a successful TV personality in the US and so on. Language skills and language knowledge are all about this topic. Women from all nations have made outstanding contributions to the world; some of them are excellent scientists, artists, politicians or athletes. There’re so many great women in the world. Ss have learnt about many great women not only from schoolbooks, but also from other information. So Ss are familiar with this topic and it can stimulate their interest. This lesson is the first period of this unit. It has three parts: warming-up, listening and speaking.

Warming-up uses the pictures of four famous women from all over the world to lead to the topic of this unit--Great women. Through the discussion of three questions, a group of information about great women was formed in Ss’ mind. Ss can use it to understand the functions of women in society correctly. The part can activate Ss’ memories, obtain a good effect, and also improve Ss’ speaking ability.

Listening is a dialogue about a photograph. Alice introduces her old school friends to Lily. This part designs two exercises: filling the blanks and completing the table. The practice can improve Ss’ listening ability. From this part, Ss can find out some useful adjective words.

Speaking has two parts: the first one asks Ss to talk about three women in three pictures, practice how to use specific words to describe qualities of people, the positive words and negative words like a scaffold for Ss; the other one is a guessing game. Through this practice, Ss could grasp some useful words and expressions, and use them to describe different people, so as to improve their speaking ability.

2.Teaching important points:

1). Train the students’ listening ability

2). Master some words describing people and use them correctly

3.Teaching difficult points:

1). How to improve the students’ listening ability

2). How to carry out the task of speaking

ⅡTeaching aims and demands

1.Teaching aims:

1). Knowledge objects: Learn and master some adjectives and expressions

2). Ability objects: Train Ss’ listening and speaking ability

3). Moral objects: Train Ss’ co-operative learning ability, and make Ss know the fact that they will succeed as long as they work hard

2.Ss’ ability

ⅢTeaching methods:

1.Teaching methods

1). Communicative method

2). Aural-oral method

3). Heuristic method

2.Studying ways:

1). Co-operative learning

2). Happy learning

3.Teaching aids:

Computer; OHP (overhead projector); Software; PowerPoint; Tape recorder

ⅣTeaching Procedures:

Step1 Greetings & Lead-in

Show some pictures of great women to activate Ss’ memories and improve their interesting.

Step2 Warming up

1.Brainstroming about great women: Ask Ss to discuss the 4 pictures in small groups; improve Ss’ speaking ability and co-operative ability

2.More discussion about other Qs, let Ss know they’ll succeed if they work hard.

Step3 Listening

1.Listen to the tape for 3 times, ask Ss to finish the exercise. The training can improve Ss’ listening ability.

2.Ask Ss to find out some adjective words used to describe people from the answers.

Step4 Speaking

1.Learn some other positive and negative words.

2.Learn some expressions, make some sentences to describe the 3 women.

3.A guessing game, let Ss use the useful words freely.

Step5 Practice

Let Ss appreciate some pictures of great women with a piece of music, they would describe the women with the useful words and expressions one by one.

Step6 Summary & Homework

By Xu Han

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