中学英语教学设计习题作业-Assigning homework

Tasks for out-of-class study

1. The following is a homework assigned by a student teacher for Module 5 My School Day Unit 1 I Love History,to a group of junior grade 1 students. Do you find any problems with it? How can you improve it?

Homework:

Draw a timetable of your class and stick it onto your desk.

2. Try to give different types of homework assignment to students, based on a class you’ve observed. Then present them to your group members and discuss whether the assignments are effective or not.

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Task 1

1. There are principles for assigning homework:

•Make sure the assignment length and difficulty is appropriate for the age of your students.

•Teach study skills so that your students can complete their work with less anxiety.

•Think about the objective of each homework assignment

•Assign homework involved in various skills.

•Don’t wait until the last few seconds of class to assign homework.

2. According to above principles, we can see that the main problem is no clear objective, and it involves in writing skill only.

3. A possible version:

Please draw a new timetable of your lessons and talk about it with your desk-mate as follow: A: What time is your … lesson?

B: I have … at…

A: Do you have… lesson at …?

B: No, I don’t have …. But I have … at….

Task 2

Sample homework assignments for Unit 4: Body language (reading), from new senior English for China Student’s Book 4

Sample 1:

Homework:

Surf the internet to collect more information about body language in different countries and share it with your classmates next period.

Note:This is an extension homework. While doing this homework,students can get more knowledge about body language in different countries by surfing the internet or by exchanging the information with each other. Besides, the students have more freedom to decide what information

about body language they would like to collect.

Sample 2

Homework:

Summarize how people from different countries behave when they greet people, according to the information from the passage, and then report it to your desk-mate tomorrow morning. You may begin your summary like this:

People greet differently in different countries. In Colombia, people will touch each other’s shoulders and kiss…. While in Japan, ….

Note: This is a writing-speaking assignment. While doing this homework, students can not only consolidate the newly-learnt cultural knowledge,but also learn how to summarize the information and report it to others. What’s more, the given beginning of the summary may help to reduce the difficulty of the task for the lower-level students.