Teaching goals教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
routine, teenager, memory, brochure, feature, architecture, location, slogan, make mistakes
b. 重点句式 P8
My first memory of school was...
My favorite activity / subject ... was...
My first teacher was called...
2. Ability goals能力目标
Enable the Ss to write an email to answer some questions about their school life of their first year at Senior High.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help the students learn how to write an email and a brochure about their school.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Get the Ss to learn how to write an email.
Teaching difficult points教学难点
Enable the Ss to prepare materials to write a brochure about their school.
Teaching methods教学方法
Task-based learning and discussion.
Teaching aids教具准备
A projector and a computer.
Teaching procedures && ways教学过程与方式
Step Ⅰ Revision
Check the homework. Ask the Ss to write a composition about their own after-school activities.
T: Now I’d like some of you to present your compositions about your own after-school activities.
A sample version:
My After-school Activities
As the students of modern times, we have colorful school life.
Everyday, we learn plenty of knowledge on different subjects in class. And our school organizes many extracurricular activities in order to help us put what we have learned into practice. After class, we take part in various activities, like playing football, basketball, badminton, etc. They are good for our health. Besides, we are able to join in the lectures organized by literature association, music group, art group, where you can enjoy famous works, learn to play instruments or draw pictures. Also, there are chances for us to use computers in the laboratory and talk with some foreign teachers about anything we are interested in at the English corner. Now, most of us may operate computers freely and have a good command of spoken English.
In addition to the after-class activities mentioned here, there are still many others such as sports meeting, debate, social investigation, etc. All those activities make our school life attractive and interesting. We will take advantages of the experience in the future.
Step Ⅱ Writing (I)
For Exercise 19 on page 71, ask the Ss to work in groups of 4 and answer the questions about the school life. Then get the Ss to read the email from a Canadian student on page 72 and decide which paragraphs talk about. Try to get more details about it and fill in the form. Check the answers with the whole class. Then read the tips of writing email and write a reply to the email, using the points in Exercise 19. At last, ask some of them to show their emails.
T: All right. Now let’s read this email from a Canadian student and decide what paragraphs talk about. Do Exercise 20 and try to get more details about it to fill in the form on the screen.
Show it on the screen.
Para.
Point
Time
Activity
1
before
school
routine
7 am
get up
have breakfast
7:30 am
leave home
take the bus
2
school
subjects
like
chemistry
dislike
maths
3
After-school
routine
until
11:30 pm
do homework
have dinner
watch TV
4
After-school
activity
Tuesdays
7 pm
train basketball
take the bus home
Let the Ss check the answers with each other.
T: Please read the tips of writing email.
Show the tips on the screen.
Writing an email message
An email is less formal than a letter, but there are still a few things to keep in mind.
1. Write the topic of your message on the subject line.
2. Keep your email as short as possible.
3. Answer the questions if you reply to an email.
4. Check your email for spelling errors and other mistakes.
5. Write your name at the end of your message.
T: Write a reply to the email, using the points in Exercise 19. Later I’ll ask some of you to show your emails.
After a few minutes.
T: I’ll ask some of you to show your emails on the screen.
A sample version:
Hi, Chris,
Thanks for asking me about my school life. I usually get up at 6 o’clock. After having my breakfast, I leave home at 7 o’clock. I usually go to school by bike. The journey takes about 10 minutes.
We learn many subjects, for example, Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, geography, history and so on. My favorite subjects are English and history. English is very important and history is the most interesting. But I don’t like to learn physics. I think it is too difficult for me to master it and it is boring.
The first lesson starts at 7:30, which is the time for individual study, reading Chinese or English loudly. After that, we have another four lessons in the morning. At 10 o’clock, we begin to do some morning exercises. School is over at 12 o’clock.
I usually have lunch at 12:30. After that, I usually have a nap. After school, I always do my homework first. After dinner, I often prepare for the next day’s lessons. Sometimes, I surf the Internet, reading the passages online. Sometimes I watch some TV programs, like sports news. I don’t go to bed until 11:00 pm.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I stay at school and go to football training given by the football club. I think it’s an exciting sport. I like it very much and I play in the school team twice a week. I think I have a busy, colorful and happy school life.
Best wishes,
Zhang Si
Step Ⅲ Writing (II)
Ask the Ss to read the email from an American student in tenth grade on page 8. Get them to discuss the questions she asked and fill in the form. Then write a reply, answering the questions in the given email. At last, ask some of them to show their emails.
T: Now let’s deal with another email. Please read the email from an American student in tenth grade on page 8. Get them to discuss the questions she asked and fill in the form.
Name
School
Friend
Activity
Teacher
T: Please write a reply, answering the questions in the given email.
After a few minutes.
T: Now I’ll ask some of you to show your emails.
A sample version:
Hello, my name is Wang Mei. I’m 15 years old and I live in Beijing. I’m also in tenth grade in Senior High school. My favorite subjects are English and Chinese. I like my new school very much.
I’ve received your email, in which you ask some questions about my memories of my first year at school. I’m very pleased to give you my answers.
My first memory of school was the fairly big building, the entrance of which was typically wide with some important pictures of historical figures. It was the place where I was most affected, since I re ally started to grow up there. It was like my second home, and I went through so many different emotions there.
My first best friend is one of my classmates called Wang Lin. He is sincere, kind, and sociable. We have a lot in common and we both have the same kind of humor. We always support each other. We usually study hard and discuss some questions together.
My favorite activity in first grade was playing ping-pong. The reason why I liked it was that it got me quite excited and made my reflection quick. Also, it was quite a creative game because the secret to playing it well was to use variety of strokes.
My first teacher was Miss Zhang Guoyan. She looked very ordinary except that she was beautiful inside. She was gentle and friendly. The influence she had on me was very powerful. She taught me that I could be very disciplined and hard working but still be very kind.
Step Ⅳ Task
Ask the Ss to collect the pictures and introductions and choose materials about their school. Finish the task to write a brochure about their school, including the best classroom, the best activity, some special features and a slogan.
A sample school brochure:
R I S H ENG
The School Motto
Preparation for Success
The School Spirit
Honesty Confidence
Diligence Creation
Risheng Senior High School is a civilian-run school. It is located in Haidian District in Beijing. There are 6 network microcomputer rooms and 46 multimedia classrooms in the school. It is the computer educational test school of the national primary and middle school. In our school, there are physical labs, chemical labs, biological labs, computer rooms, and multi-unctional rooms, all of which have met the international standards. Besides, we also have a large library, auditorium, gym and even campus TV station. The school engages foreign experts all the year round to offer spoken English lessons. Regularly the school holds English winter camp and summer camp, and organizes the Ss to go abroad to have a visit in order to help the Ss establish “world consciousness” and experience the brand-ew learning of English culture.
Our school combines humanist spirit with science spirit under the condition of boarding system. Our educational program provides individual growth and development. It emphasizes the basic skills needed in communication, problem solving, and informational learning. Flexibility in scheduling, interdisciplinary teaming, exploratory programs, guidance programs and intramural activities are offered at each grade level.
The “Spring-lossom class” have been living in our school for one year. During this year, great changes have taken place in them. They are growing up and becoming more and more mature. They will think and observe the world with more broad mind and keener vision. They will cope with difficulties and frustrations confronting them. They will meet challenges ahead. At the beginning of the school year, we’l make a collective pledge — resolve to be useful and repay the society.
Under the leadership of the school, the student union launches every entertainment, sports and other flourishing and upward, rich and colorful activities after class and social practice that are suitable for students’ characters. Such as the coffee bar featuring English conversation managed by the students, English talks and lectures, calisthenics, social dancing and all kinds of sports matches etc. The best activity is the basketball training. American Training System has been used, making the trainees so excited and interested that they enjoy their training and learn the skills in a short time. The school team has got several gold medals in various basketball matches.
It is thought that the object of education is the Ss in our school. We should follow the cognitive law of students of different ages and pay special attention to the individual differences of the object of education we make sure that every student will get overall education. Its connotation is as the following:
—Keeping human beings as the basis.
The “human beings” here can refer to either the students or the teachers and teaching staff. In the eyes of school, all of the managerial measures are intended to bring people’s initiative into play. In the eyes of teaching, all educations should be practiced around the students. We should always give consideration to the needs of the students and the needs of giving full play to the potentialities of the students in creating the teaching environment, designing every activity and completing every subject.
—Emotional education.
The school should be responsible for students’ lifetime success and harmonious development and should set up the ultimate care for every student. From the time the school was established, it began to give emotional education the same importance as cognitive education and put it through the various educations covering morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetic appreciation and labor to achieve concerted effects in function in order to realize the general aim of making every child learn to conduct himself, handle affairs, seek knowledge and build up his health.
—Personality cultivation.
Taking personality cultivation as the main line, the school should raise the students’ sensitiveness in analyzing questions, heighten their belief in and reliance on rational thinking and lay stress on the cultivation of the students’ independence in observing, thinking and solving of problems to see if the students have the custom and ability to examine issues of any forms and put up their ideas first and then ask others for advice.
To teach the students according to their different levels and turn passive study into active study in class teaching, we should adopt the principle of “let the principal take part in, teach the students according to their actual levels to gain best results, response quickly, encourage and appraise”, encourage the principal to take part in the whole teaching activity. We should do our best to gain the best results through teaching the students according to their different levels because there is a great difference in personality of human beings.
The system of research and advancement is to set up special courses for some students to bring into further play of their potentiality for study. Elective course and activity course will be offered to build up a stage for the students in specialty cultivation. All the courses from social science to natural science, from manual crafts to calligraphy and painting creation should be offered to provide the students channels to show themselves in a most probable way.
To reform the appraisal system, the school selects excellent students in a single field. The Ss who take part in every activity such as a test, a small show and a cleaning etc. are probably encouraged and honored. The self-confidence of students of medium and low level should be protected and gradually moved to classroom study. Thus, the students’ personality will be protected and cultivated and turn into power of progress.
We believe that there is only the unsuccessful education, but no unsuccessful students. The educator is required to care for every student’s progress, change the out-of date teaching method, protect the students’ personality and cultivate the spirit of creation to turn the passive study into active study.
The aim of our education is to make education penetrate into the utmost bottom of the students’ hearts as if it were a gold key that can open the door of wisdom and give full play to the students’ potentiality and creativity.
In recent 3 years, the rate of passing the entrance examination to colleges or universities is respectively as high as 96.8%, 98.3%, and 99.2%. The students have won 608 items in the contests of different subjects and the competitions of articles and essays. The superior leaders and the society have thought highly of the striking achievements. The school occupies a dominant position among the same level schools on the unified examinations in Beijing.
附 件
Ⅰ． 课文重点难点解析
1. I don’t think I will be bored in Ms Shen’s class!
我认为上沈老师的课我是不会感到厌烦的。
think表示意见和看法，其后的宾语从句中的否定词not被移到主句中，该现象被称为“否定转移” 。类似的动词还有：expect, believe, suppose, imagine等。例如：
I don’t suppose that he will be back until eight.
我猜想他不会在8点以前回来。
I don’t think we have finished the job yet.
我认为我们还没有完成任务。
I shall not expect you till I see you.
你愿意什么时候来都可以。
2. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys.
换句话说，女生人数是男生的三倍。
a. in other words 意为“换言之，换句话说，也就是说”。用来说明使用不同的表达形式，表示相同的含义。
b. three times as many girls as boys是比较结构 “倍数 + times + as + many + 复数可数名词 + as 从句”，意为“……是……的……倍”。其基本形式是“as + 形容词或副词原级 + as从句”。例如：
This classroom is as big as that one.
这个教室和那个教室一样大。
Mary runs as fast as Jenny.
玛丽和珍妮跑得一样快。
类似的结构还有“as + much + 不可数名词 + as从句”。例如：
He saved as much money as he could.
他尽最大努力攒了许多钱。
Ⅱ． 文化背景知识
The American School System
The education system in the United States is controlled by state and local governments. This is because the tenth amendment to the United States Constitution says that powers not given to the federal government are left to the states. So his federal government has no power to establish a national educational system. Federal agencies do not make education policy. These decisions are made at the state or local levels．
So you might expect education laws to be different in each state. But they are similar. For example, in all fifty states and six territories, all children must attend school from the age of six or seven to the age of sixteen. Public schools are free of charge for grades one to twelve. The schools receive money from the state government.
Private schools also operate in all states and territories. Some private schools are operated by churches and religious groups. Other private schools are not linked to any religious organization. Private schools must be approved by the state in which they operate. Most private schools do not receive government money. The parents of private school students pay the school.
American students generally attend school from the first to the twelfth grades. Students are in school from Monday to Friday. They attend classes from about eight in the morning until three in the afternoon.
The school year usually begins in September and continues until June. Most states require a school year of one-hundred eighty days. Some schools have changed this schedule and require the students to attend school throughout the year.
More than forty-six million students attend American public school. Another six million students attend private schools. More than one million students do not go to school at all. Their parents teach them at home. His home-schooling has become popular in the last fifteen years or so.
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