Unit 2 an adventure in Africa 说课 teaching design

T eaching Design of Unit 2 ReadingIntroduction:Good afternoon everyone,I’m glad and honored to be here to share my lesson with you. The content of my lesson is An adventure in Africa Module 2, from Advance with English.Class Description:My class are 30 senior high grade 1 students, average level, relatively high motivation; active and cooperative; but a bit weak in their language accuracyIntroduction of the unit and the text:The topic of the unit is concerned with the topic of travel. This lesson, as the1st lesson for this unit, is intended to talk about the preliminary plan of an adventure which are the preparation of a travel and the description of a coming travel. Thus, by learning this lesson, Ss will get prepared for planning a holiday and making a travel leaflet, which is quite beneficial to the Ss to learn the unit.This text, with a focus on a plan of an adventure, is a rich resource for the vocabulary which is about the tools or things that are used in an adventure and words to describe an adventure. And also it is an abundant resource for future continuous tense. This text also provides Ss with a good chance to learn how to describe their own adventure or other s’.According to the Ss’ learning background and the teaching materials, I’ll describe my teaching aims into 3 points.Teaching Objectives:As to knowledge objective1.Ss will be able to master the words about tools or things that are used in anadventure and words can describe an adventure or an adventurer and get familiar with the future tense;2.Ss will be able to describe their own adventure or others’ and make a plane of it;(skill objective)3.Ss’desire and curiosity for travelling around and exploring the foreign countieswill be increased. (emotional skill)Teaching Focus:My lesson aims to focus on Ss’ reading ability on how to read an informal letter and also improve their ability in skimming and scanning.Teaching Difficulty:My Ss may have difficulty in reporting an introduction of a place, and I think this problem can be solved by giving Ss examples of sentence patterns and my in-time guidance and advices.Teaching Material & Aids:In this lesson, a tape recorder, pictures, CAI will be needed.Now, I’m going to talk about the teaching procedure in details.Teaching Procedure:part, I aim to interest Ss, to create an English atmosphere and to present the new words about tools or things that are used in an adventure or in a travel. To interest Ss and create an English atmosphere, I will play a song from a film named Lion King which talks about the wild animals in Africa. The funny cartoon in the MTV can interest Ss easily and also the song itself creates an English atmosphere. To present the new words, I will continue to show Ss many beautiful and mysterious pictures of Africa so that Ss can be attracted. And then I will ask: Would you like to have a visit with me to beautiful and mysterious Africa? Ss will absolutely answer “yes”. Then I continue: “But before travelling, think about what should we do and take?”As, Ss are attracted by the pictures, they are willing to engage themselves to think about this question so that the new words will be taught in Ss’ needs, I aim to teach Ss how to read an informal letter effectively. To teach Ss to read an informal letter effectively, I will show the structure of an informal letter on the screen: the greeting part, main body and closing. And I will explain to them that the main idea may be in the greeting part. Detailed information must be in the main body. And asks Ss “which part is the most important in a letter?”In the while-reading part, I aim to improve Ss’reading and listening ability including reading for main idea and detailed information. Under the reading strategy that is taught in the lead-in part, Ss are required to skim Para.1 to find the main idea of the text. Then Ss are required to scan the main body of the letter to find the route that they will take and draw them on the map that will have been given to them before the class. As it is interesting to draw the route on a map they may have never seen before, Ss will be very willing to be engaged in scanning. Then to find more detailed information, I will help Ss go over the main body by Toby’s destination from destination. I will pick some Ss to read the paragraphs or read the paragraphs together with some questions that are related to the detailed information in the paragraphs. For Para.4-5, I will ask Ss to close their books and listen to the tape to complete the blank in the table so that their listening ability and information extraction ability will both be improved.In the post-reading part,I aim to help Ss review the text and learn the words can describe an adventure or an adventurer. To help Ss review the text, I design two steps. In the first step, I ask Ss Qs “I n all his destinations, which one do you think is the most amazing? Which part interests you most?”As this question is asked at the Ss’position, they will answer this question according to their own preference. And duringthe process of choosing which is my favorite part, Ss actually review the text unconsciously, which is also the preparation of the next step. In the second step, Ss are required to imagine themselves to be a guide in the local area and try to introduce one of the four destinations to the class. In this step, Ss’teamwork spirit and the ability of reorganizing information will be improved, which also helps Ss to review. As Ss have skimmed and scanned and review the text, so they can better understand what an adventure is and what kinds of quality should an adventure has. So it is the right time to learn the words can describe an adventure or an adventurer.Ss to travel and explore the outside world. I will write the sentence A dventure f avors r esponsible, i nterested, c ourageous a dolescents! to end this lesson.For Homework, Ss are required to write a letter to one of their best friends to tell him a plan of a summer holiday travel or adventure. The reason I design this homework is that Ss are exposed to the language of the letter which are concerned about a plan of adventure for a class time. Ss will have get familiar with the phrases and sentence patterns and this homework is not only a review of the phrases or the sentence patterns but also the production of their practice and language learning so that I can judge their learning condition of this class and make preparation for the next class.I’m going to graduate from USTS in June 2013. But I have n’t found a job as an English teacher yet, because the Teachers Authorized Exam in my district hasn’t begun. During these days, I am getting prepared to be a middle school teacher, whether in junior or senior high school. However, I’ve found it difficult to design an English class for senior high school students. I mean that it is really hard to design a class that can impress others.I’m puzzled and in a dilemma, to design an interesting and new-style class or just to observe the rules of some traditional classes’ design.Can anyone help me? Here is my QQ number 1831276769. I am sincere to share with others about how to teach.。