初中英语Celebrating Me教案

初中英语

Celebrating Me

教案

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 57 to Lesson 63.

Oral wo rds and expressions from Lesson 57 to Lesson 63.

Te aching Aims:

1. Learn the foreign festivals and culture.

2. Cultivate the students’ interests of learning English.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Improve the students’ abilities of comprehension.

2. Finish one project in groups and correct compositions with the help of the teacher.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Use some words and expressions: talent, confident, decorate…

Teaching Preparation: flashcards

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards

Type of lesson: review lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. PROJECT: “All About Me” Report

Type: group discussion, individual work

Lesson time: 15 minutes

Description:

The

students

write

and

illustrate

a

report

about

themselves.

First,

they

plan

the

Lesson 64: Unit Review

report. In small groups, they share, di scuss and revise their plans, and then they each write a

report based on their plan.

Objective: To learn vocabulary for personal description.

Resources

needed:

The

students

can

illustrate

their

reports

with

photographs,

drawings

or

magazines cutouts.

Step2. Practice

The students exchange their reports and correct the mistakes with the help of the teacher. After

finishing, return them to their owners. Then let the owners check the reports that changed just

now. Does it still have mistakes? Check it correctly.

Step3. Play a game

One

student

says

a

festival;

the

others

say

when,

where

and

how

it

celebrates.

How

many

festivals can they display? Put all the information about one festival together. Now the students

can understand a festival easily. The students can search the Internet before the class.

Step4.

Do

the

exercises

on

Page

79

and

80.

The

teacher

walks

around

in

the

classroom.

Help

them if necessary.

Step5.

Collect

some

problems

that

most

of

the

students

don’t

understand

and

explain

them on the blackboard in detail.

Step6. Have a further discussion about the exercises.

Step7. 1. Finish off the activity book.

the song “You Are You”.

Summary:

The review lesson can’t be boring. The teacher must make it interesting and lively. At the

same time, practice the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The

students can have a good use of the things at hand.

Lesson 63: Christmas Is Coming!

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: decorate, without, put up, by the way

Oral words and expressions: decoration, Germany, in the 1600s

Teaching Aims:

Know about the foreign festivals and the differences between Chinese and Western countries.

Teaching Important Points:

Know about the main festivals in Western countries and how do they celebrate them.

Teaching Difficult Points:

How to celebrate Christmas?

Teaching Preparation: flashcards

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Discuss the Christmas and New Year in western countries. Discuss in groups. After a while,

present their answers to the class.

Step2. Listen to the tape with the following questions:

1. When is Christmas?

2. When is New Year?

3. Where do people put up their Christmas tree?

4. What goes under the tree?

5. What do people usually do before Christmas?

6. What are the differences between the Western Christmas and the Chinese Spring Festival?

7. How do you greet people during the Christmas season or during the Chinese Spring Festival?

Step3.

Read

the

text

silently

and

check

the

answers.

Then

read

the

text

loudly

in

class.

The

teacher walks around and finds the mistakes to correct.

Step4. Help the students to retell the story but not word for word.

Step5. Listen to the tape again and repeat after it until they can read it correctly and fluently.

Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Make a Christmas card!

1. Fold a piece of paper in half. Draw a Christmas picture on the front of the card. Here are some

ideas for Christmas pic tures: a star, a Christmas tree, Santa, toys, a candy cane, a winter scene

with snow or Christmas gifts.

2. Write a greeting on the inside of the card. This should be written on the right

-

hand side of the

card. The greeting will say:

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

Step7.1. Finish off the activity book.

on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

Christmas is more familiar to the students than the Western New Year. Introduce the Western

New Year to the students in detail. The Western New Year’s celebration is quite different

from the Chinese New Year’s celebration. It is a minor holiday festival in comparison. It

lasts only two days: December 31, New Year’s Eve, and January 1, New Year’s Day.

Lesson 62: Confidence

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: finger, both, himself, because of

Oral words and expressions: spelling, be confident of, have confident in

Teaching Aims:

1. Cultivate the ability of learning by oneself.

2. Learn the foreign culture.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Guess the main ideas of the text according to the pictures.

2. Correct a composition with the help of the teacher.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Some words and expressions: because, because of, correct the mistakes

Teaching Preparation: flashcards

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Let the students talk about the topic “Why you are unique” in the class. Ask some

students to speak in front of the class.

Step2. Present this riddle to the class: What is black and white and red (read) all over?

Step3. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.

What words do you think are hard to spell? Why are these words so difficult?

Divide

the

class

into

several

groups

and

discuss

the

two

questions

together.

Write

the

words

down

and

share

them

with

the

others

in

your

group.

The

teacher

sums

the

words.

Let

every

group write their answers on the blackboard.

Step4. Listen to the tape with the following questions:

1. Why is Peter not good at English?

2. What mistakes does Peter make? Can you make examples?

3. What does Miss Martin say in order to encourage Peter?

Step5. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read it loudly in class.

Step6. Read the text in roles. Let some students act it our in front of the class.

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Finish the task in groups with three or four students in one class. When the students are talking,

the teacher walks around the class. Let the students speak English as often as possible. When

they can’t express themselves, the teacher can help them.

Step8. 1. Finish off the activity book.

3. Go on the nest reading in t he student book.

Summary:

Discussing

in

groups

is

a

usual

technique

that

the

teacher

often

uses.

When

the

students

are

talking, the teacher asks them to speak English. “Practice makes perfect”. We believe the p

roverb and give the students more time to spe ak English in class.

Lesson 61: I Am a Good Person

Teaching Content:[

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Mastery words and expressions: excellent, do well in

Oral words and expressions: confident