Lesson Plan for Integrating Skills Lesson of Unit 8 Senior Book 1 2003

Department of English Language and Literature Central China Normal University

. Objectives 1. Get the students to have a good comprehension of the reading context and obtain the information of the profile 2. Get the students to master the new words and expressions and be able to use them 3. Get the students to know the way to introduce a sports star 4. Get the students to recall the grammar: the future passive voice

. Target students Senior High school, Grade 1 students

. Teaching contents 1. For reading (1) The main idea and information details of the profile (2) Words and expressions: Profile, position, superstar, point, skill, more than, live ones dream 2. For writing The basic aspects in introducing a sports star 3. For grammar A brief review of the future passive voice

. Aids PPT, Multi-media

. Time Allocation (30 minutes) Step1 Lead-in (1 minute)

Step2 Introduction Step3 Listening Step4 Reading Step5 Writing Step6 Grammar Step7 Review Step8 Assignment

(2 minutes) (4 minutes) (10 minutes) (9 minutes) (2 minutes) (1 minute) (1 minute)

. Procedures Step 1 Lead-in (1 minute) Begin the lesson with a picture of Yao Ming. Ask student whether they know him very Well. Then lead to the topic for this lesson Rationale: This activity is designed to arouse the students interests towards this

famous Chinese player. Step 2 Introduction (2 minutes) 1. Provide some background information about basketball and the important match NBA. 2. Show more pictures about Yao Ming and his club with explanations indeed. This activity is designed to make students get extra knowledge besides the

textbook, which also help them understand the text better.

Step 3 Listening

(4 minutes)

Activity 1 is designed for the students to practice listening and improve their ability to catch the main idea and have the short-time memory for the details. Activities 2 and 3 are designed for the students to practice their oral English,

1. Ask the students to listen to the recording of the test and pay attention to the following two questions: (1) Whats the main idea of this text? (2) What information can we get from it? 2. After listening, make the students form group of four and have a short discussion. 3. Ask several students to answer these two

questions.

share and complete the information they get. Then the teacher can move to the reading part naturally for checking out the answers together.

Step 4 Reading

(10 minutes)

Activity 1 is designed to help the students to read each sentence correctly, also help teacher to find out which part they are not familiar with so as to spend the time properly on the difficult points.

1. Ask each student to read the sentences in the text one by one. After reading one sentence, ask them whether there is anything they do not understand clearly.

2. Explain the import words and phrases with helpful examples.

Activity 2 is designed for the mastery of the new words and expressions.

3. Focus on explaining the hard sentenceYao Ming has more than just size in this text. Show a picture to help the students guess its meaning, and also guide them to guess its meaning according to the context. After the guess, translate the whole sentence both in English and Chinese, and then provide more examples including the useful phrasemore than and make each of its meaning clearly.

Activity 3 is designed to analyze the most difficult sentence in this text, help the students develop the skills that they can use when they encounter new words and phrases. Provide more examples for students to enlarge the use of this phrase.

Step 5 Writing

(9 minutes)

Activity 1 is designed to activate the students minds and give them opportunity to express their good ideas. Activity 2 is designed to help the students know the important information in

1. Let the students to think about their own sports star. Ask them what they want to talk about for the introduction of him or her. 2. See the helpful questions for introducing a sports star: (1) When and where was he or she born? (2) How much does he or she weigh? (3) What titles has he or she won? (4) How tall is he or she? (5) When did he or she turn professional? (6) What makes him or her great in your eyes? First explain the new words in these questions. Then mention the sixth question. Ask the students to think it more carefully and form their own opinions. 3. Homework: write a short paragraph to introduce a sports star.

introducing the sports star. Also encourage them to express their thoughts

beside the basic information of the sports star.

Activity 3 is designed for the students to practice writing, using the ways they have learned in the class.

4. Provide the following questions for the students to examine and improve their texts after finishing writing. (1) Did I write about a real person? (2) Did I use the tenses correctly (the past tense, the present tense, present perfect tense, etc)? (3) Did I write complete sentences in the whole

Activity 4 is designed to help students know the importance and ways to revise their writings by themselves first.

paragraph? (4) Did I use any new words and expressions in this unit in the writing? (5) Did I have anything to improve?

Step 6 Grammar

(2 minutes) Activity 1 is to help the students to recall the

1. Ask the students the content of grammar in this unit. Write on the blackboard the structure of the future passive voice: will + be + p.p.

important grammar for the checkpoint.

2. Ask the students to do the blank-filling exercise together, and check the answers.

Activity 2 is to consolidate this grammar by exercises based on the content of the reading passage. Also the teacher can see whether the students have mastered this grammar well from their Step 7 Review (1 minute) feed back. Ask the students to speak out the new words and expressions learned in this lesson. The teacher lists them on the blackboard: profile, position, superstar, point, skill, professional, title, more than. Step 8 Assignment (1 minute) 1. Mention the homework again, ask the students to pay attention to include some of their own opinions towards the sports star in their writings. 2. Ask the students to go over Unit 8 after class. This activity is to review the language Help the points briefly. to

students

remember when well and also for the teacher to check the tutoring purpose. Activity 1 is for the writing purpose.

Activity 2 is the preparation for the review of the whole unit in the next class.

. Self-evaluation: This lesson plan is based on the English competence of Grade 1 students of senior high school. It includes the integrating skills and checkpoint part of the unit: During this lesson, students will have a good comprehension of the reading profile, both by listening to the recording and the text analysis from the teacher. They will get the useful information; learn new words and expressions in this text. After reading, students are guided to think about the sports star of their own. They are required to speak out what aspects of information they can talk about. And the teacher will show some helpful questions for the introduction. Then the homework is designed to develop their writing skills on introducing a sports star, also the teacher will tell the students the methods to revise their paragraphs. Finishing the writing purpose, the short review of grammar and language points is a conclusion of this lesson and preparation for the teaching in the next class. This lesson focuses on the integrating skills. It well connects the reading and writing; helps the students to use what they have learned from the reading in their own writing.