1、Unit2 one How do you study for a testTeaching methodsTask-based teaching method, the Situational Communicative Approach, etc. Teaching aidsTape recorder, pictures, objects, slide projector etc. Teaching aims(1) Knowledge Objects In this unit, students learn to talk about how to study for a test and
2、give advice to those who have diffi-culty in studying. (2) Ability Objects To train students listening, speak-ing, reading and writing skills using the target language. To train students communicative com-petence. (3) Moral Objects Everyone learns a different way. The best one is to do. That is, no
3、pains, no gains. Language FunctionTalk about how to study. Teach students how to be successful language learners.Difficulties How do you study for a test?B:I study by working with a group.A: Have you ever studied with a group? B:Yes, I have. Ive learned a lot that way. 3. make a list study for a tes
4、t, ask the teacher for help.Period 2 Teaching procedures : Step 1 Leading in 1) Revise the target language presented in previous classes by making up conversations. 2) Check homework. Get several students to read their sentences aloud to the class. Then collect the writing and write a comment on eac
5、h paper before returning them. 3) Show the key words on the screen by a projector. Say the words and have the students repeat again and again until they can pronounce the words fluently and accurately. Step 2 Activity 3aCall attention to the article. Explain to the students that they will read the a
6、rticle and then write in the chart the ways of learning English that are unsuccessful, OK and successful for the students Lillian Li, Wei Ming and Liu Chang. Help the students find the information in the reading. Say, Read the article again and complete the chart on your own. Write the correct answe
7、rs on the blackboard so that students can check the spelling and other details of their answers.Step 3 Activity 3bRead the instructions to the class. Ask students to find partners and decide who is student A and who is student B. Point out the uncompleted sample conversation. Invite two more advance
8、d students to say and complete the sample conversation. Ask students to make up conversations using information from Activity 3 a. A few minutes later, change them round so that both students have the opportunity to interview the other. Ask several pairs of students to say their conversations to the
9、 class. Step 4 Part 4 Interview Read the instructions to the class. Get students to check what they do to learn English. Remind the students of the differences among often, sometimes and never. Invite a pair of students to say the sample conversation to the class. Write the conversation on the black
10、board. Say, Work in pairs. Interview your partner and fill in the chart. Step 5 SummaryIn this class, weve learned some key vocabulary words and the target language. Weve also done a lot of listening, speaking, reading and writing practice using the target language. Step 6 Homework 1. Review Section
11、 A. 2. Ask students to collect information and write an article about how to learn to do something new. The article may be about how to learn to swim, how to learn to play soccer and so forth. 3. Finish off the exercises on pages 1-2 of the workbook. 4. Preview Section B. Blackboard Design Unit 1 Ho
12、w do you study for a test?Section APeriod 21. Answers to Activity 3a: Ways of learning EnglishNot successful OK successfulLillian Listudying grammarmemorizing the words of pop songsreading English magazinesWei MingWatching English moviesStudying grammarLiu Changhaving conversations with friendsJoini
13、ng the English club2. A: Do you write vocabulary lists? B: Oh, yes. I do it often.Period 3 Teaching procedures: Step 1 Leading in 1. Check homework. Get some students to read out their writings about how to do something new. Collect their writings and help correct any errors. Display the writings on
14、 the back wall of the classroom.2. Brainstorm ways of learning English. Ask, How do you study for a test? Collect answers from students.S1: I study by working with a group.S2: I study by listening to cassettes.S3: .Step 2 Activity laRead the list of problems students have when learning English . Sho
15、w students the meaning of each item. Say, please check the statements that are true for you. Write the list of problems on the blackboard. After they have finished checking the ways, discuss which gives students the most trouble.Step 3 Activity 1bInvite a student to read out the sample answer to the
16、 class. Say, And now please add other problems you sometimes have when learning English. Ask one or two students to write their answers on the blackboard. Choose the problems that many students have. Step 4 Activity 2aPoint to the list of challenges in the box. Set a time limit of one minute. Studen
17、ts read them through silently. Say, Some of the things are difficult for Paul. Listen to the conversation and check the learning challenges that Paul talks about. Play the recording. Students listen and check the learning challenges Paul talks about. Check the answers with the whole class. (Answers
18、Checked items; 1,2,3,5) Step 5 Activity 2bPoint to the list of solutions in the box. Set a time limit of one minute. Students read them through silently. Point to the checked challenges in Activity 2a. Say, You will listen to the conversation again and write the number of each challenge in Activity
19、2 a in front of the correct solution in Activity 2b. Play the recording again. Students write the numbers in the blanks. Check the answers (Answers a. 2 b.5 c.l d.3) Step 6 Activity 2cInvite a pair of students to read the sample conversation to the class. Write the sample conversation on the blackbo
20、ard. Say, Please make conversations using information from the earlier activities in pairs. Ask pairs to come to the front of the classroom and say their conversations to the class.Step 7 SummarySay, In this class, weve mainly talked about how to solve problems you meet with while learning English.
21、Step 8 Homework1. Review what weve learnt today.2. Each student chooses a way of learning English he/she thinks the most helpful. Then find a partner who is not successful in this method and teach him/her how to use the method effectively.3. Preview the rest of Section B.Blackboard DesignUnit 1 How
22、do you study for a test?Section BPeriod 31. Learning problems: I cant pronounce some of the words. 13 I cant understand spoken English. 28 I read very slowly. 10 I cant spell some English words. 11 I make mistakes in Grammar. 25 2. A: I dont have a partner to practice English with. B: Maybe you shou
23、ld join an English language club. Period 4 Teaching procedures: Step 1 Leading in 1. Check homework. See if students have taught their partners how to learn English effectively. Say, Check your partners progress regularly and offer as much help as you can.2. Show the key vocabulary words on the scre
24、en by a projector. Say the words and have students repeat again and again until they can pronounce the words fluently and accurately.Step 2 Activity 3a Explain to the class that they will read the article and then write T or F after each statement. Ask students to do the activity individually. Check
25、 the answers(1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. T 7.T) Ask, Why are the false sentences false? Help students find relevant information in the reading. 1. she ( the teacher) spoke too quickly,.2. . I thought my classmates might laugh at me.3. I think that doing lots of listening practice is.Step 3 Activity
26、3bSay, Please complete the letter on your own. Say, you should look back at Activity 2b. Check the answers by having a student write his/her work on the blackboard. Step 4 Activity 3cRead the instructions to the class. Ask students to take turns suggesting things that have been the most helpful. Mak
27、e a list of ideas on the blackboard. Say, Write an article about the things that have helped you the most. Use these suggestions on the blackboard with your own ideas to write your article. You may also use the article in Activity 3a as a model. Ask students to read their letters to a partner. Step
28、5 Part 4 InterviewRead the instructions to the class. Demonstrate how to fill in the information in the chart.T: Wei Ming, what isnt easy about learning English?W: Grammar.T: What do you do about this?W: I take lots of grammar notes in class.T: What is your favourite way to learn more English?W: Lis
29、tening to English songs. Wei Ming Name NameQuestion 1 grammer Question 2 take lots of grammar notes in class Question 3 listening English songs Ask students to interview three students and fill in the chart. Get a couple of students to tell the class about one of the people they interviewed. Step 6
30、SummaryIn this class, weve mainly done much reading and writing practice.Step 7 Homework1. Review Section B2. Finish off the article in Activity 3c.3. Write about one of the people interviewed in Activity 4.4. Prewiew Selfcheck in this unit.Blackboard DesignUnit 1 How do you study for a test?Section
31、 BPeriod 41. A sample letter to Activity 3b:Dear Wei Ming. I know it isnt easy to Learn English, but I have. , not every word. You also said that you often forgot a lot of new words. Well, try writing the new words in your note book and studying at home. That helps a lot. If you keep on doing this,
32、you will get good grades in English. Yours,Liu Chang2. The most helpful ideas: listening to English songs, reading English newspaperPeriod 5 Teaching procedures: Step 1 Leading in 1. Check homework. 2. Ask some students to read their writings about one of the people interviewed in Activity 4. Collec
33、t their writings and help correct any errors before returning them. Step 2 Part 1 Invite a student to read the vocabulary words at the top. Say, You are to fill in the blanks with the words. In some cases, you may need to use another form of the word. Check the answers. Five students each reads a se
34、ntence, filling in the blanks. The rest of students check their work. Answers: 1. write down 2. spell 3. join 4. found 5. feels Ask students to make their own sentences with the words. Step 3 Part 2 Ask students to look at the Notes on Xu Zheng and Notes on Xu Zhengs essay. Elicit how to convert the
35、 notes into sentences in an article. E.g. Xu Zheng likes writing notes, watching movies and listening to pop songs. He thinks most people speak English as a second language. Ask students to complete the work individually. Say, the order of information will vary but should contain all the points in t
36、he notes. Step 4 Just for Fun! Ask all the students to read the conversation. Ask, What is funny about this cartoon story? Help students to answer. The alien thinks he can learn English by eating an English book. Invite pairs of students to present this conversation to the rest of the class.Step 5 S
37、ummaryWeve reviewed some vocabulary words presented in the unit. And weve also made up sentences using some words.Step 6 Homework1. Review all the language points presented in this unit.2. Finish off the exercises on pages 3-4 of the workbook.3. Preview the words of Unit 2Period 6Reading: How do we
38、deal with our problems?Teaching Procedures Step 1 Key Vocabulary Show the following vocabulary on the screen by a projector. Say the words and have students repeat several times until they can pronounce them fluently and accurately. Step 2 Section 1 1. For 1a, say, My son had a fever the other day.
39、After taking some medicine, he went to bed early. The teacher criticized him for not doing his homework the next day. Could you give him some ways to deal with his problem? Encourage the students to give advice. Can you think of any problems you have had recently? Please work in pairs and tell your
40、partner how you dealt with them. . 2. For 1b, tell the students to have a quick look at the words in the box. Say, Please look up the meaning of each word in the box in a dictionary. Step 3 Section 2 1. Read the title of the reading along with the class and ask the students to look at the picture. A
41、sk, What do you think the text is about? (The reading is about some ways of dealing with our problems.) 2. Say, Please read the text silently and find out the answers to the questions. How many ways of dealing with our problems are mentioned in the text? What are they? Check the answers. Step 4 Sect
42、ion 3 1. For 3a, let the students look at the words from 1b again. Check the words that were used differently from the definition they found in the dictionary. Say, Dictionaries are useful learning tools, but many English words have different meanings and usages. We need to make sure that the defini
43、tions we find in dictionaries match the context. 2. For 3b, ask the students to look up the words in the box in a dictionary and write out the example given for the context used in the reading.Write the sample answers on the blackboard. 3. For 3c, invite a student to read the sentences in the box to
44、 the class. Say, Please scan the reading, and check the ways of dealing with problems that are mentioned. Check the answers.Step 5 Section 4 Allow them some time to discuss which way of dealing with problems is the best. Later, tell them to write about a time when they dealt with a problem this way.
45、 Invite a couple of students to read their passages to the class. Step 6 SummaryThis class provides us with a lot of reading as well as writing practice. And we know how to deal with our problems positively. Step 7 Homework1. Review Unit 1.2. Think of another way of dealing with problems. And tell a
46、 partner about this.3. Preview the new words of Unit 2.Blackboard DesignUnit 2 How do you study for a test?Period 6Reading; How do we deal with ourproblems?Sample answers to 3b smart (adj.) The dolphin is a smart animal. solve (v.) He finally solved the difficulty of transportation. regard (v.) I regard you as a friend. instead (adv.) He is tired. Let me go instead.学;优-中- 考，网
