英语教学法教案

Theme of the class: Earthquake Kills Hundreds

Time of the class: 45 minutes

Target of the class: senior high school students

Type of the class: English vocabulary

Teaching Goals:

1. To make sure that students know the Chinese meaning and English explanation of the new words.

2. To introduce the different categories of the new words

3. To make sure that the students could know how to use these new words..

Key Point of Teaching: new words in a short reading text.

Teaching Methods: expository method, questioning method, discuss method. Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Pre-vocabulary teaching(5 minutes)

Warm up activity

Asking the students to listen to the song Earth Song, and fill in the blanks. There are five words missing in the lyrics. The song will be played once or twice according to the students’ requirements. Then, the teacher will ask all the students to say their answers to the song together and give them the correct answers. Then the teacher will ask one of the students to tell us the main idea of the song.

Therefore, the first step is a lead-in which helps to activate the atmosphere and enter into the next step coherently.

Step 2. While-vocabulary teaching (35 minutes)

Introducing the new words in the short reading context

After the lead-in part, the teacher will firstly ask the students to look at the ppt, and there are two lines in the ppt. There are ten new words in the left line and its Chinese meaning in the right line. The teacher will ask ten students to find the corresponding Chinese meaning for the ten new words in the left line.

When the first part has been finished, there comes the second part. In the second part, the teacher will divide the students into several teams, and each team involves four to five students. Then the students will be asked to sort out these words according to different categories. There will be noun, ed-participle, and adjective. After three minutes, the teacher will ask three representatives from three groups to give us their answers. Then the teacher will analyze these words in detail.

The ppt will present these words one by one. Then, the teacher will analyze these words from several points and analyze the sentences in the short reading passage with the ten words, and the teacher will ask the students to make a sentence with some of these words.

magnitude

Chinese meaning: 大小，震级，重要性

The quake, measuring 6.3 magnitude, came just minutes after a warning had been given by scientist. (from the reading text)

仅仅在科学家们发出警告之后的几分钟，6.3级大地震就发生了。

老师在学生的生活中非常重要。

Teachers are of great magnitude in students’ lives.

The teacher will explain this sentence in the text. The magnitude in the sentence means 震级. Then the teacher will ask the students to translate the sentence.

collapsed →collapse (original form )

Chinese meaning: 倒塌，瓦解, 晕倒

There are collapsed buildings everywhere.

到处都是倒塌的建筑物。

The teacher will tell the students its original form. Then explain the sentence in the text. And the teacher will tell the students the “collapsed”here is used as an adjective.

buried→bury