英语教学设计teaching plan -- ways to communicate

Subject

English

Teacher

Sofia

Teaching Object

19 BE 1

Class Type

Reading

Period

1

Major

Business English

1. Teaching material analysis

The material is taken from book Business English, published by Higher Education Press, which selectsthe most typical scenes in daily lifefor business students after the completion of basic English learning. This lesson is about “ways to communicate”, the reading part (part D) of unit 3.

2. Teaching objectives

Knowledge objective

Students can know different ways to communicate

Ability objective

1) Students can improve their ability to catch the key and detailed information of the passage by applying skimming and scanning reading skills.

2) Students can use different ways to communicate in their daily life.

Emotion objective

Students will get the awareness to overcome communication difficulties that if one way doesn’t work try another.

3. Teaching key points & difficult points

Key points:

Students practice and improve skimming and scanning reading skills to catch the key and detailed information of the passage.

Difficult points:

Students know how to use skimming and scanning reading skills to catch the key and detailed information of the passage correctly.

4. Students analysis

Students are in Grade 2 of secondary vocational school, majoring business English. They are at different English levels. They prefer learning through activities.

5. Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods: task-based teaching method, communicative language teaching method

Learning methods: cooperative learning, exploratory learning

Teaching media: handout / pictures, PPT

6. Teaching process

Time

Steps

Process

Purpose

Teacher’sactivities

Students’activities

0

Before class

Prepare hand-out for role-play activity: 8 pictures of shops and another 8 pictures showing items to be bought in the shop respectively.

3’

Step 1

Pre-reading

(Lead-in)

3’

1) Ask students the question: How do you communicate with others?

2) Invite 3 students to share their answers

3) Summarize answers by showing pictures on PPT

1) Answer the question

To attract students’attention and arouse their interests via question closely related to their real life

23’

Step 2

While-reading

Step 2.1 skimming

3’

1) Ask students to skim the text in 2 minutes, and find itsmain idea

2) Invite 1 student to share his / her answer

Skim the text in 2 minutes, and find itsmain idea

To practice skimming reading skill to find main idea

Step 2

While-reading

Step 2.2 scanning

20’

1）ask students to scan the text in 5 minutes, and check their understanding with the following T/F questions.

①When you put up your hand in class, that means you are giving a message to your teacher.

②A sign at the bus stop tells us what to do.

③Sometimes you can know someone is happy from his face.

④If you think someone is right, you nod.

⑤People can get messages from newspapers and films, but not from books or drawings.

Ø Remind students to use scanning skills. Attention to be paid to key words and their context.

Scan the text in 5 minutes, and answer theT/F questions.

To practice scanning reading skill to find detailed information

2）Ask students to check their understanding with desk mate, in 2 minutes

Check T/F answers with desk mate

Work in pairs for peer evaluation

3) Check and discuss the answers of T/F questions together with student, demonstrating how to use scanning skills to find key information and understand their context

Check and discuss the answers with teacher

Review the application of scanning reading skill

10’

Step 3

Post-reading

Summarize the communication ways by asking and answering the question : What communicating ways have we discussed?

Recall different communication ways

Summarize what have learned to provide basic information for next step

1) Divide students into 8 groups, with 4 members for each group

2) Hand out materials and explain directions of role-play activity:

There are a lot of shops around Guangzhou Railway Station. Many foreigners love to go shopping there.

For each group,

2 members as shop worker, selling different commodities, speaking Chinese but not English

2 members as foreign customer, to buy one commodity, speaking English but not Chinese

What to do?

Buyers need to describe the item and ask for the price;

Sellers need to figure out the item and tell them the price.

3) Comments on students’performance

Role play in group of 4

1) Practice and learn how to use different ways to communicate if one way doesn’t work

2) Practice comprehensive English abilities in a certain situation

2’

Step 4

Summary

1’

List what have learned together with students

Summarize what have learned

Recall and summarize

2’

Step 5

Assignment

2’

1) Ask students tosum up the difficulties during role-play activity.

2) Ask students to well prepare for next session

1) Sum up the difficulties during role-play activity.

2) Prepare a show of 3-5 minutes for next session

Practice and enjoy

7. Teaching reflection

1) Strong points

① The whole process combines self-study, pair work and role-play together.

② Lead-in question and role-play activity are closely related to their real life.

2) Weak points

① Teaching media are not diversified and modern enough.

② Means of teaching evaluation are not diversified.