Teaching Context
Analysis of teaching material:
This is alistening and speaking lesson.The erience, aiming at letting students grasp the present perfect tense structure”have been to ……”.The topic of this unit is closelyrelated tostudents’real life, and in accord with studentscognitivelevel, thus can make students learn meaningfully andbuildstudents a confidence of English learning.
This lessonmainlyconsists ofwarming up,listening andspeaking parts. The firstwarming-uppart mainly is intended to teach new words with the help of video clip and vivid pictures so as to build in students’mind a structure of new knowledge.Then the second listening sectionaimsat providing students with initial input of the language structure”have been to ……”by way of listening and the linguistic expressions to talk about past experience subconsciously.Finally, the third speaking sessionmainly consists of memory game, role play andreportingtaskstargets atimproving students’ability of language output, and thus realizing the goal ofcommunicative teaching.
Aims of ability:
(1) be able to get correct information from listening material.
(2) master some relevant listening skills including extensive listening, intensive listening as well as focused listening .
Analysis of students:
Theobjects of this lesson arestudents in Grade 8.Students in this phase hasalreadylearned some tenses such as simple past tense, present progressive tense, thus they must have mastered some skills of tense-learning and fully prepared to learn the lesson cognitively.
(3) be capable of talking about past experience
(4) be able to ask about others’past experience
Aims of emotion:
(1)taste thehappinessof communicating in English.
(2)build confidence towards listening, whichisgenerallyconsidered as thedifficultpoints of English learning.
(3)be active and cooperativein team work, enjoy the sense of achievement in cooperation.
Therefore, the three sections of this unit, abiding by the“output after input”sequentialprinciple in teaching,progressstep by step, andproceedfrom experience to exploration and finally to language application. All these can effectively realise the objectives of improving students’comprehensivelanguagecompetence.
Aimsof strategy:
(1)master some methods of independent study.
This is alistening and speaking lessonwhich aims to develop students’ability in talking about past experience.Meanwhile, students’linguistic and cultural knowledge is expected to be enriched through listening and speaking activities.In this lesson I mainly employedTask-based Teaching Method,Natural Approach as well as theCommunicative Language Teaching Methodto create certain scene and ask students to complete relevant tasks, assist them to learn in a relaxedatmosphereand build a confidence towards listening, thus forming the habit of active learning and improving theircomprehensivelanguage competence.
However, junior students lack the ability of systematic autonomous language learning and some students have on confidence of English learning.Therefore, it requires teachers to set up the tasks from easy to the advanced to guide them.
Teaching Aims
Aimsofknowledge:
(1) master and use someimportantwords, such as:amusement park, space museum, aquarium, zoo and so on.
(2) be able to use the present perfect tense structure”have been to ……”.
First of all, drawing on theNatural Approach, the lesson willstarta real-life conversation to lead in the topic and showing avideoclip of amusement park to arouse students’curiosity.Then I will show some pictures featuring the new words (amusement park, space museum, aquarium, zoo) to impress students the key words so as to make preparation for the following listening session.In the third section, I mainly useTask-based Teaching Method by setting three tasks of extensive listening, intensive listening, as well as focused listening to assist students to fully understand the listening materials and grasp the method of talking aboutpast experience subconsciously.With the former three sections, students will receive a large amount of input of the present perfect tense structure”have been to ……”,thenin the next section I designed a memory game to train students’ability of transforming input into output through speaking.Finally, I will ask students to role play and report. This section is an evaluation of students’command of present perfect tense structure”have been to ……”and their ability of talking about past experience. Therefore, this section is employed asa reinforcement of students’comprehensive language competence.