A Teaching Plan for Teaching goals
1. Get the students to talk about pictures.
2. Encourage the students to talk out what they know about the UK and Ireland.
3. Help the students learn to get information by listening.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
1．Lead-in
Group work:
Step 2 Listening
Step 3 Extension
1. Talk about our own timetable.
2. Have a discussion about the similarities of the timetables in our country and the UK and also tell the differences between them.
Step 4 Homework
Find more information in relation to the UK and Ireland on the Internet.
The second period Speaking
Teaching Goals
Train the students’ spoken English
Improve the students’ ability of imagination and debate
Practise expressing agreement and disagreement
Increase participation and learn from each other.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Talking about hot topics
Step2 Group theme debates
Step3 Tips on how to express agreement and disagreement
Step5 Homework
Preview the reading passage “The British Isles”
The third period Reading
Teaching goals
Get the students to know more about the British Isles and learn more new words and their usages.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Presentation
Step 2 Fast reading
Step 4 Discussion
Show the students some pictures of the three countries of the British Isles and then ask: If you have got the chance to visit one of the three countries of the British Isles, which country will you choose and why?
Imagine that you are going on a four-week trip through the UK. Make a travel plan in which you describe where you go, how long you will stay and why, and what clothes and things you will take.
Step 5 Homework
Write a short passage about the Dachen Isles.
大陳島位椒江區東南52公里海上，分上、下大陳二島。大陳島面積約14平方公里，島上氣候溫暖濕潤，冬暖夏涼，尤其盛夏時溫暑宜人，是避暑休閑的好去處，林木植物茂盛，森林覆蓋率達50~60%，1993年被批準為省級海上森林公園，海洋資源豐富，為臺州海上最繁榮的漁業集鎮，被譽為“東海明珠”。
The fourth period Grammar and Language study
Teaching goals
1. Learn about the appositive clause.
2. Identify noun clauses.
3. Enable students to use new words.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Review the vocabulary and complete the sentences.
Step 2 Brainstorming
Step 3 Grammar Explanation
Step 4 Tell the function of the following sentences.
Step 5 Consolidation
Consolidate what have been learned by doing further exercises.
The Fifth Period Integrative Skills
Teaching Goals:
1. Learn to describe the countryside, the cities, the people and their life by reading the passage.
2. Learn things about the city Salisbury.
3. Know more about Britain.
4. Cultivate the students’ abilities of concluding and reasoning.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Lead in
Step 2: Reading
Step 3 Extension
Step 4 Homework:
Now you know how to describe a city’s landscape, the people and their lives after reading this passage. And today’s homework:
1. Choose any place you know or you like and write a short passage about it.
2. With the help of the Internet, try to collect as much information as possible and make a PowerPoint presentation in the next period.