How do you make a banana milk shake

Lesson Plan
Unit 7 How do you make a banana milk shake?
Background information
There are 35 students in the class. They are second year middle school students at the intermediate level. The lesson will last for 45 minutes.
Teaching aims
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
1) Understand, read, and use the important words: banana, watermelon, apple, orange, honey, yogurt; be familiar with these words: cup, teaspoon, knife.
2) Know the difference between countable and uncountable noun.
3) Use “how many”/ “how much” to ask question about quantity.
4) Talk about the procedure of making fruit salad with others in English.
5) Cooperate with others to finish the tasks, such as filling charts, making fruit salad, etc.
6) Express their love and gratitude to parents by making fruit salad for them.
Teaching content
1) vocabulary: banana, watermelon, apple, orange, cup, teaspoon, honey, yogurt, knife.
2) grammar: countable noun and uncountable noun;
how many...?/ how much...?
Teaching aids
PPT, video clip about making banana milk shake, materials (fruits, yogurt, honey) and tools (bowl, knife, teaspoon) to make fruit salad.
Teaching procedure
Stages Steps activities Interactio
n Patterns Tim e (min )
Ⅰ. Warm up and review. 1 Greeting with students. T → C 1
2 Warm-up: play a English song related to
fruit (Apple song).
3 Free talk: invite some of the students to
answer the question: What’s your
favorite fruit?
T → S 1
4 Guessing game: invite one student to act
then let others guess.
S → C 2
5 Review: through playing a video clip
about how to make banana milk shake,
help students recall what has been
learned last lesson.
T → C 3
Ⅱ. Learn the new knowledge and skills 6 New words learning: with the help of
pictures, let students learn the new
words in groups.
T → G 4
7 Repetition drill: read and repeat the new
words with teacher.
T → C 2
8 Grammar learning: students discuss the
using of “how much” and “how many”
in groups and fill chart together. After
that, let students find out the regular
pattern: how many + c ...? /how much +
u...?
T → G 5
9 Dialog practicing: students work in
pairs to practice the dialog: how many
apples do you have? / how many yogurt
do you have? Invite 3 pairs to present.
T → P 3
10 Exercise: let students do some single
choices about the grammar.
T → C 1
11 Listening practice: students listen and
finish the exercise on the textbook.
T → C 3
12 Role play: read and role-play the
listening material in pairs. Invite 2 pairs
to present.
T → P 3
13 Hand-on activities: teacher show the
process to make fruit salad with
students speak out the steps. Then let
students make fruit salad in groups.
Students taste and make some
comments on fruit salad. T → C
T → G
6
Ⅲ.
End-of-class summary 14 Summary: review what have been
learned: how many / how much.
T → C 3
15 Affect guide: high light the text value,
encouraging students to express their
love and gratitude to parents by making
fruit salad for them.
T → C 2
16 Ask students to clean the classroom
before they leave.
T → C 1
Optional activities
Guessing game: one student think of a kind of fruit, and let other students to ask he or she questions about the fruit while the student can only answer “yes” or “no”,
until they guess out what the fruit is.
Homework
1) Make fruit salad for parents and tell them “I love you, my dear parents.”
2) Write a short essay about how to make fruit salad in English.
After class reflection
1) Students were full of passion and took delight in the hand-on activities.
2) Teacher should pay more attention on time control.
3) Giving students chances to learn by themselves do help to them to master the knowledge well.。