Lesson plan
江苏省连云港市东海县安峰初级中学 卜延宁
Background information:
Students: 46 junior high school students, Grade 1 Lesson duration: 45 mins
Teaching contents: 7B Unit 1 Dream Homes----Welcome to the unit New vocabulary: dream, palace, capital New structure: Would you like to…? I’d like to…
Which is your favorite? The capital of … is… Teaching objects:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. Talk about their dream homes in English. 2. Recognize the landmarks in different countries. 3. Express different countries and capitals in English. Teaching aids: tapes, blackboard, chalks, PPT, pictures Type of the lesson: vocabulary, speaking, listening
Teaching methods: communicative approach, Task-based Language Teaching Teaching procedures: Step 1: warm-up
a) Ask a question ‘How many countries are there in the world?’.
b) Students work in groups of four and write the names of the countries they already know on paper.
c) Students volunteer to present their answers.
d) Teacher summarizes and writes the words on the blackboard. Step 2: presentation
a) Use pictures to introduce the words. Use the structure: This is Mount Fuji. It’s in Japan.
b) Students learn to say the words after the teacher with the help of pictures. c) Students finish P7, A. d) Check the answers. Step 3 production
a) Pair-work. Ask and answer: A: What is this? B: It’s Mount Fuji. A: Where is Mount Fuji? B: it’s in Japan. b) Students volunteer to perform their dialogues In front of the whole class. Step 4 presentation
a) Show students a photo of Tiananmen Square to introduce the sentence structure ‘the capital of china is Beijing’.
b) Students learn the new word ’capital’ and the structure ‘the capital of… is…’. c) Use the structure to learn more capitals.
d) Students finish P7, B and read the sentences together. Step 5 practice
a) Students do a matching game: France Japan The USA Thailand Russia The UK
b) Teacher checks the answers.
c) Students use the answers to do ‘ask and answer’. A: which city is the capital of France? B: the capital of France is Paris. d) Divide students into two groups and role-play the dialogue. Step 6 presentation
a) Show some questions: where do princes live? Where do travelers live?
b) Show a picture of a palace and a picture of a restaurant. Teach the word ‘palace’. c) Students talk about where they want to live and guess where Eddie wants to live. Step 6 reading
Moscow Bangkok Washington DC London Tokyo Paris
a) Students listen to the dialogue between Eddie and hobo and try to find out: which is Eddie’s favorite restaurant?
b) Play the tape again, students listen and repeat. c) Students clear their mind and try to recite the dialogue. Step 7 performing
a) Students read and remember the dialogue in pairs. b) Students volunteer to act the dialogue out. Step 8 summarizing
a) Recall what has been taught this lesson. Optional activities and homework:
Optional activities: students work in groups of four and write down the words and sentence patterns they have learned today. Homework:
1. Review the newly-learned language points. 2. Translate some sentences: a) 你想住在宫殿里吗？ b) 英国的首都是伦敦。 c) 艾迪想住在饭店旁边。
After class reflection: (to be written immediately after the lesson). 附：图片