Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city parks. (Grammar Focus—4c)
Period 1: Section A (Grammar Focus-4c)
I. The analysis of teaching material
The teaching material is the grammar part in this unit. The topic of this unit is The topic of this unit is volunteering and charity. The topic is very important to the student. Students should learn to protect environment in reality.
II. The analysis of the students
Most students from the rural school have an average English level, and they are not good at grammar. This unit is for the students who are from Grade1 in junior high school. As junior high school students, they may feel curious or worried about English learning, so I design different kinds of activities to help them to understand and learn the language points. That can not only help them to overcome their fear, but also can make them enjoy the success in English grammar. In this way, I think the students can learn more from my class and have lots of fun.
III. Teaching objectives
According to the curriculum standard of English, the teacher sets the following objectives.
A. Knowledge objectives:
1. 80% of the students can learn to use infinitives as object.
2. Through the explanation of some phrasal verbs, 90% of the students can use them correctly.
3. 80% of students can use the new words and sentence structure to make their own dialogues. And some lower students can modify the sentences by changing the key words.
New words: sick, raise, alone
New sentences:
I’d like to help homeless people.
You could ask hospitals to let you visit the kids and cheer them up.
B. Ability objectives:
After the learning of grammar and practicing the dialogue in pairs,
1. Students will be able to read those sentences in grammar focus fluently and correctly.
2. 80% of students will be able to use some phrasal verbs to make sentences.
3. Through the role play and the exercises, 70% of the students can learn how to use the grammar to talk about their plan to help others correctly. Meanwhile, through making conversations, most students can improve their ability to use English grammars.
C. Moral objectives:
Through the process of talking about volunteering and charity, students can learn to protect environment and help others in reality
IV. Key points & difficulties
A. Key points:
1. Students can pronounce the sentences in grammar focus fluently and correctly. Meanwhile, they can understand the meaning and usage of those sentences.
2. Students can use the sentence pattern “I hope to…”, “I’d like to…”and some phrasal verbs to express their ideas about helping others.
3. Students can improve their ability of understanding English grammar by making conversations.
B. Difficulties:
1. Students have difficulties in infinitives as object and could for suggestions.
2. Some middle level students can understand a little bit long conversations.
3. As the students have a limited vocabulary, so they may have some difficulties in communicating with others about helping others fluently and freely by using the grammar and some phrasal verbs.
V. Teaching method & aids
A. Teaching methods
(1) Task-based Language Teaching Approach (Through the activities, students will finish the tasks.)
(2) Communicative Approach (Through the pair work, students will be encouraged to communicate with the teacher and their partners.)
B. Teaching aids
Picture & PPT
VI. Teaching procedure
Step 1 Revision
1. Greeting to the class.
2. T: Let’s do a revision. What’s a volunteer?
【Purpose】This step is based on the Communicative Approach and Task-based Teaching Method. By greeting to the students, they can get ready in class quickly, and students can strengthen the memory of some sentences in last reading lesson by doing these reviewing tasks.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Could for suggestions
2. Give some examples.
【Purpose】This step can attract students’ attention, and students can be interested in this class and have a deep impression of some new words.
Step 3 Work on 4a
1. Students will fill in the blanks with the phrasal verbs in the box.
2. Students will some exercises appeared in exams.
3. Grammar: Infinitive
1) Students should know the concept of infinitives.
2) Show some infinitives collocations.
3) Students should do some exercises about it.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Task-based Teaching Method. Designing an activity just like 4a, students can fill in the blanks by using some phrasal verbs. And students can know the correct phrases collocation.
Step 4 Work on 4b
1. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in the box.
Most people today are only worried about getting good jobs ____ lots of money. In their free time, they think about what _____ for fun. However, few people think about what they can do ______others. There are many people who are less lucky than us. Volunteering our time to help these people is a good way _____our free time. For example, we can make plans ______ sick children in the hospital or raise money for homeless people. Some people even stop doing their jobs for a few months or a year _____ to another place, like one of the countries in Africa, and help people there.
【Purpose】This step is based on Task-based Teaching Method. Students need to choose right phrasal verbs to fill in the blanks after learning the grammar , so they can further practice the grammar and learn how use it in some exercises.
Step 5 Work on 4c
1. Complete the sentences with your own ideas. Use infinitives.
1) I’d like to volunteer _____________________________.
2) At 12:00 midnight, I called my friend _______________.
3) I’m very busy but I could help_____________________.
4) Summer vacation is coming, and I want _____________.
5) I want to travel alone. My parents told me (not) _______.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Task-based Teaching Method. From completing the sentences with their own ideas, it will gradually help students to learn how to use infinitives and some phrasal verbs.
Step 6 Exercise
Do six exercises appeared in senior high school entrance examination.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Task-based Teaching Method. Students will do more exercises to practice the language points and grammar.
Step 7 Summary
1. Students should say what did they learned in this lesson.
2. Students summarize the important words and sentences by using the blackboard design.
【Purpose】This step is based on the Task-based Teaching Method. It can help students to improve their ability of summing up.
Step 8 Homework
1. Remember the sentences in grammar focus.
2. Finish the exercises in the workbook.
Level A students:1. Make two short dialogues based on the information in grammar focus.
2. Recite the grammar focus.
Level B students: 1. Copy the grammar focus and 4a.
2. Read the grammar focus fluently and correctly.
【Purpose】Reciting the language points is good for students to accumulate the expressions, and it’s necessary to do exercises to check if students understand the language of the class.
Blackboard design
Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city parks.
(Section A Grammar Focus-4c)
