闽教版六年级上册Unit 7 Thanksgiving Part A教学设计

               Unit 7 Thanksgiving Part A 说课稿

1. Teaching contents

This lesson talks about the holiday “Thanksgiving”. Students learn information about Thanksgiving, including its date and celebration way. And know how to thanks parents, teachers and friends on Thanksgiving after learning the lesson.

2. Teaching aims

a. Aims on the knowledge: Pupils will learn the new words “Thanksgiving, American, invite and join”, the sentences “What’s the date today? It’s…” and the song “ Happy Thanksgiving to You!”

b. Aims on the ability: To develop the ability about talking English names of holidays and their date, especially for Thanksgiving. And know how people celebrate these holidays.

c. Aims on the emotion: To develop pupils’ emotion about giving thanks to parents, teacher and friends by many ways.

3. Teaching procedures

At the beginning, teacher shows the calendar of today on PPT and the question “What’s the date today?” to encourage students to answer the sentence with “It’s November 2.”

Then, with the competition of “What holiday is it?” pupils’ passion is invoked. And the same time, the celebration ways f holidays of Tree Planting, Children’ s Day, Teachers’ Day, National Day and Christmas Day are reviewed.

 Next, by watching the video about origin of Thanksgiving, pupils get acquaintance with Thanksgiving. And by singing the song “Happy Thanksgiving to You!” pupils are happy and willing to learn the text.

In the text learning, three activities are designed. First, watch the video and then choose the correct words to fill in the blanks. Second, competition “See the picture and say the holiday and its’ date”. Third, make a role play.

   Finally, for extension, I put a discussion in this step. Pupil see the pictures about things parents, teachers, friends do for them and discuss “Our parents, teachers, friends do so much for us, what should we do to give thanks to them?” Students say many ways to give thanks such as making cards, send flowers, washing dishes and so on. This step is designed to develop pupils’ emotion and to encourage pupils to express their emotion in daily life.

    In a whole, the teaching of this lesson aims to develop not only the pupils’ language abilities but also pupils’ emotion express. For education, to teach students to be a grateful one is more important than a knowledgeable one.