Unit1_How_do_you_study_for_a_test教案人教新目标九年级上

Unit 1 How do you study for a test?
Part 1: Teaching design (第一部分：教学设计)
Structures: verb＋by with gerund
Target language:
How do you study for test?
Well, I study by working with my classmates.
Have you ever studied with a group?
Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
I don’t have a partner to practice English with.
Maybe you should join an English club.
Vocabulary: flashcard, take notes, frustrating, memorize, aloud, comma, make mistakes, pronunciation, be afraid to, What about…? Why don’t you…?
Learning strategies: Personalizing, Role playing
Section A
Goals
●To talk about how to study
●To read about how to study
Procedures
Warming up by greeting
Hello, everyone!
From now on you are a ninth grader. Congratulations to you and I
wish you a great success in your studies!
Today we shall take up the first unit in this new term, Unit 1 How
do you study for a test?
Look at the blackboard and read after me the target language for this unit. When you read pay attention to the structure of the sentence.
▲How do you study for test?
▼Well, I study by working with my classmates.
▲Have you ever studied with a group?
▼Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
▲I don’t have a partner to practice English with.
▼Maybe you should join an English club.
Learning to Learn is very important. And learning to pass a test is also very important to you.
Learning couldn’t be easier!
If you have not developed good ways or methods to study for a test, talk to your classmates about it, your parents, or the teacher like me if you are brave enough. You should be brave enough to talk to others about your problems with your studies.
Next I’d like to give you some useful practical advice about studying for a test and also ask you questions to make you think about things such as:
▲motivation
▲how to learn your lessons in the ninth grade year
▲different modes of teaching you may meet
▲how to develop particular skills, such as note-taking in class
1A: Checking the ways you study
I study for a test___
By reading to the tape; By underlining the expressions; By reading beyond
the text; By doing used exam papers; By going over exercises books; By
copying down the text; By learning the text by heart; By speaking with classmates
the added ways on the blackboard.
1b Listening and writing
Listen to understand how these people in the picture on page 2 study for a test. Write letters from the pictures. While listening, pay attention to the structures of the sentences.
Section A 1b Tapescript
Boy1:Hey, gang. There’s a big test on Tuesday. I really need some help. Can you tell me how you study for a big test?
Voices: Sure! Yes. Sure we will.
Boy1:You did really well on the last English test, didn’t you,
Mei?
Girl1: Yeah, I did OK.
Boy1: Well, how did you study？
Girl1:By making flashcards.
Boy1:Maybe I’ll try that. How did you study, Pierre?
Boy2: By asking the teacher for help. She was really happy I asked.
Boy1:That’s interesting. How do you study, Antonio?
Boy3: I like to study by listening to cassettes. But sometimes my mot her thinks I’m listening to music. And then she gets mad.
Boy1:Oh, well…
A: How do you study for a test?
B: I study by working with a group.
C: I study by listening to English.
D. I study by playing games with my classmates.
E. I study by doing actions such as coloring, matching.
F. I study by singing English songs.
G. I study by writing letters and emails.
H. I study by acting out simple dialogues.
I. I study by listening to and understanding stories.
J. I study by writing simple sentences.
K. I study by imitating from the recording.
L. I study by speaking out words or phrases.
M. I study by doing simple role plays.
N. I study by reading and understanding simple stories.
O. I study by using daily expressions.
P. I study by performing short plays.
Q. I study by performing simple rhymes.
R. I study by writing sentences for pictures.
S. I study by writing out simple poems.
T. I study by reading aloud correctly.
U. I study by playing text plays.
V. I study by working with classmates.
W. I study by going over the text before class.
X. I study by copying words and expressions.
Y. I study by looking and saying.
Z. I study by asking others questions.
2a Listening and checking
Now let’s go to page 3. Listen to the tape and check the questions you ask.
While listening, pay attention to the structures of the sentences.
Section A 2a, 2b Tapescript
Girl1:Welcome to the English club. Today we’re going to talk about the best ways to learn English. Who has an idea?
Boy1: Do you learn English by watching English-language videos?
Girl2:No. It’s too hard to understand the voices.
Boy1: What about keeping a diary in English? Do you learn English that way?
Girl2:I think so. It helps to write English every day.
Girl3: Have you ever studied with a group?
Girl2:Yes, I have! I’ve learned a lot that way.
Girl1: Do you ever practice conversations with a friend?
Girl2:Oh, yes. It improves my speaking skills.
Boy1: What about reading aloud to practice pronunciation?
Girl3: I do that sometimes. I think it helps.
Boy2: I do too. And I always look up new words in a dictionary.
Girl3:That’s a great idea!
2b Listening and matching
Listen again and match each question from 2a with an answer in the box on page 3.
2c Doing a pairwork
Next we are going to make a conversation in pairs using the information from activities 2a and 2b.
A: Have you ever studied with a group?
B: Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
A: Have you ever learned English by watching videos?
B:Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
A: Have you ever practiced conversations with friends?
B:Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
A: Have you ever listened to tapes?
B:Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
A: Have you ever read aloud to practice pronunciation?
B:Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
1.Reading to the tape
We are going to read the article on page 4. First we shall read
to the tape together. That is, we start reading aloud as the
recorder goes, and we stop reading aloud as the recorder
stops. While reading, let’s pay enough attention to the pauses,
the pronunciation and the intonation of the native reader.
M ake our reading aloud as the same as the reader’s.
2.Reading and dividing the article into parts
Next we are going to read aloud the article slowly and clearly. We will try to divide it into thought groups.
3.Reading and underlining
This week/ we asked students/ at New Star High School/ about the best ways/ to learn more English. Many said/ they learnt/ by using English. Some students had more specific suggestions. Lillian Li, for example, said/ the best way/ to learn new words/ was by reading English magazines. She said that/ memorizing the words of pop songs/ also helped/ a little. When we asked about studying grammar/ she said, “I never study grammar. It's too boring.”
Wei Ming feels differently. He's been learning English/ for six years/ and really loves it. He thinks/ studying grammar /is a great way/ to learn a language. He also thinks that/ watching English movies/ isn't a bad way/ because he can watch the actors/ say the words. Sometimes, however, he finds watching movies/ frustrating/ because the people speak too quickly.
Lin Chang said that/ joining the English club/ at school/ was the
best way/ to improve her English. Students get lots of practice/ and
they also have fun. She added that/ having conversations/ with
friends/ was not helpful/ at all. "We get excited/ about something/
and then/ end up speaking/ in Chinese,” she said.
Ways of learning English
Not successful OK Successful
Lillian Li Studying
grammar memorizing the
words of pop songs
reading English
magazines
Wei Ming watching movies watching English studying grammar
movies
Liu Chang having
conversations/ with
friends joining the English club
Silence, please! We are going to have a role play in pairs. One of the pair is to be one Zhao: Excuse me, Li Hong. Could you help me with my English?
Li: Yes, please. What’s the matter?
Zhao: I have difficulty studying grammar.
Li: Grammar? I never studying grammar. I study English mostly by memorizing the words of pop songs.
Zhao: No grammar at all?
Li:Yes, I did study grammar. But I study it by reading English magazines. I put grammar learning into reading articles. That is the best way to understand English grammar.
Turn to page 4 to check √what you do to learn English in the box.
Closing down by asking and answering—How did you learn English?
＊I listened to English them every day.
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＊I learned many English songs by heart.
＊I sang the English songs to myself.
＊I learned every new English word in the text.
＊I learn English by going to English classes.
＊I do English homework at school.
＊I read English textbooks in the evening.
＊I speak English very slowly.
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＊I read a lot of English sentences in the morning.
＊I do well in class English tests.
＊I get a lot of good advice on learning English from my teacher.
＊I discuss English problems with my classmates.
＊I follow the advice from my father.
＊I learn English sounds from the tape.
＊I use English-English dictionaries.
＊I listen to recordings and English-language TV.
＊I talk to native speakers every chance I got.
＊I read books in English, mostly novels.
＊I learn a lot of new words from English books.
＊I write more and more e-mail in English.
＊I use English more than my first language.
＊Most of my reading (websites and books) is in English.
Section B
Goals
●To listen about learning English
●To talk about learning English
●To read about learning English
Procedures
Warming up by reading to the recording
Hello, everyone. To begin with, let’s listen and read to the recording of the text HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST? That is, read aloud to the tape, as fast as the tape goes, as clearly as the native reader reads. OK? Here we go!
My cat speaks English.
Sometimes my cat comes to me and tells me that she is hungry. Or that her leg hurts. How does my cat tell me these things? I don't speak pussy-cat language.
1a Reading and checking
Learning English can be both easy and difficult. What
things are easy for you? And what things are difficult for
you? Now turn to page 5, read the list on the top and check
√the statements that are true for you.
1b Making a list
You have read and checked the statements true for you.
Now think and make a list of other things difficult for you,
too.
I don’t know how to…!
1. I don’t know how to use commas.
2. I don’t know how to work with others.
3. I don’t know how to make flashcards.
4. I don’t know how to read the textbook.
5. I don’t know how to make vocabulary lists.
6. I don’t know how to listen to tape.
7. I don’t know how to ask the teacher for help.
8. I don’t know how to study for a test.
9. I don’t know how to work with a group.
10. I don’t know how to watch English videos.
11. I don’t know how to practice conversations with friends.
12. I don’t know how to read aloud to practice pronunciation.
13. I don’t know how to learn by using English.
14. I don’t know how to get more specific sug gestions.
15. I don’t know how to read English magazines.
16. I don’t know how to learn new words.
17. I don’t know how to memorize the words.
18. I don’t know how to studying grammar
19. I don’t know how to watching English movies
20. I don’t know how to joining the English club
21. I don’t know how to improve her English
22. I don’t know how to get lots of practice
13. I don’t know how to ask teachers about the best ways to learn more English.
2a Listening and checking
Paul is a nice boy. He works hard at his English, but still has many learning challenges. Now listen to find out what challenges he has and check them in the box on page 5.
Challenges to Paul at learning English
1._____ can’t get the pronunciation right.
2._____ forget a lot of new words.
3._____ can’t understand when people talk to me.
4._____ can’t understand the words in magazines.
5._____ don’t get much writing practices.
2b Listening and matching
Now listen again to Paul talking about his challenges at learning English and match them with the solutions listed in the box on page 5. While listening, pay attention to the structures of the sentences.
Tapescript
Teacher:You look worried, Paul.
Boy:I am, Ms Mitchell. I’m having trouble learning English.
Teacher:You said you liked English. What’s the problem?
Boy:I can’t get the pronunciation right.
Teacher:Well, listening can help. Why don’t you borrow the
teacher’s tapes? You can listen to them at home and repeat
the sentences that are difficult for you.
Boy:That’s a good idea. But what about all the new words? I forget a lot of new words.
Teacher:You can always write the new words in your notebook and study them at home. You can even study in the train on the way to school.
Boy: That might really help! Thanks.
Teacher:Can you understand when people talk to you?
Boy:Well, no. Not always. Sometimes I just don’t understand what people are saying. Teacher:Why don’t you join an English language club to practice speaking English?
The English club meets after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Boy:Maybe I’ll go. The only other problem I have is that I don’t get much writing practice.
Teacher:Maybe you should find a pen pal.
Boy: That sounds like a fun way to practice writing. Thanks, Ms Mitchell.
2c Doing pairwork
IN pairs we are going to role play conversations using the information from activities 2a and 2b.
I don’t have a partner to practice English with. Maybe you should join an English language club.
I can’t get the pronunciation right.Listening can help.
I forget a lot of new words. Write the new words on cards and study
them daily.
I can’t understand when people talk to me. You can join an English club to talk to people more in English.
I can’t understand the words in
magazines.
You can look them up in a dictionary.
I don’t get much writing practices.Start writing an English diary every day.
I read very slowly. You should read to the recording of the
text.
I make mistakes in grammar. Why don’t study the basic sentence
patterns
3a Reading and cutting
We are going to read the text again to study the form and function of
all the predicate verbs.
How I learned to learn English
Last year/ my English class/ was difficult/ for me. First of all, it wasn't easy/ for me/ to understand the teacher/ when she talked to the class. To begin with, she spoke/ too quickly, and I couldn't understand every word. Later on, I realized that/ it doesn't matter/ if you don’t understand/every word. Also/ I was afraid to speak/ in class, because/ I thought/ my classmates/ might laugh at me. I couldn't always make complete sentences, either. Then/ I started to watch English-language TV. It helped/ a lot. I think that/ doing lots of listening practice/ is of the secrets of becoming a good language learner. Another thing/ that I found/ very difficult/ was English grammar. So/ I decided to take lots of grammar notes/ in every class. Then/ I started to write my own original sentences/ using the grammar/(that) I was learning. It’s amazing/ how much/ this helped. Now/ I am enjoying learning English/ and I got an A/ this term. My teacher is very impressed.
Now you may read the statements in the box on page 6 following the text. Write “T” or “F” beside each statement.
3b Writing a letter
Dear Lin Feng,
I know it isn’t easy to learn English, but I have some ideas that may help. You said you couldn’t understand people who talked fast. Well, you can
try to listen for the most important words, not every word. It is
difficult to understand by listening what you have not read or
what you can’t understand well by reading. To listen well you
have to read well. So keep on reading English. Listening and
reading to the recording of the text is very important, too. Every
text, after being read, should be listened to and read aloud to the tape. At first you may find it difficult to follow the reader reading aloud the text. Don’t worry. If you keep practicing you will be able to read aloud as fast as the native reader from the tape. And then you can understand people who talk fast in English.
Yours,
Tai Zuo
4 Doing an interview
Next we shall do an interview in groups of four. Ask the three group mates about learning English. Take notes of what they say. Tomorrow you shall stand to tell the Q. What isn’t easy about learning
English?
A. Reading is not easy.
Q. What do you do about this? A. I try to cut the sentences into thought
groups.
Q. What is your favorite way to learn more English? I read and read aloud a lot. These are the best way.
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Johnny
Wants to play.
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again.
SELF CHECK
1.Filling in the blank
We shall make a check on our use of expressions first. Turn to page 7 and fill in each blank with the correct word given. Change the form of the word if necessary. Then
Complete the sentences Make your sentences
1. You should write down new English
words in a vocabulary list.
Don’t trust your memory. Write it down.
2. If you don’t know how to spell new
words, look them up in a dictionary.
I don’t know how to spell your name.
3. The best way to improve your English
is to join an English club.
I’d like to join the school football tea.
4. Another thing that he find very difficult
was English grammar.
I find it easy to learn English.
5. This kind of paper feels very soft. Do you feel cold?
Turn to page 7 and write an article about Xu Zheng using the notes on Xu and his essay.
As English is learned mostly through reading in China, we shall now turn to page 8 to learn to read the article entitled: How do we deal with our problem?
Before reading,please go over the vocabulary list for reading on page 146. Get yourself familiarized with all the words and expressions to be found in the article.
Tips for Beginners
You are like a new baby
Babies learn their language slowly.
First they learn to listen.
Then they learn to talk.
Finally, they can read and write.
Listen to English every day
Listen to English radio.
Watch English TV.
Go to English movies.
Use online lessons.
Make an English/ESL friend
Make up conversations.
Practice dialogues.
Use beginner textbooks.
Read English stories
Start with children's storybooks.
Try ESL readers.
Read advertisements, signs and labels.
Write down new words
Start a vocabulary (new word) notebook. Write words in alphabetical order (A...B...C...). Make example sentences.
Always use an English-English dictionary first. Keep an English diary
Start with one sentence.
How do you feel?
How is the weather?
What did you do today?
Write another sentence tomorrow. Visit an English speaking country Learn English more quickly. Stay with an English family. Hear native speakers talk.
Have a fun experience.。