初中英语外研版 (新标准)七年级下册Module 7 My past lifeUnit 1 I was born in a small village.教学设计及反思

Analysis of this unit:

The main topic of this unit is about life in the past. The grammar is about past tense. In Unit 1,the text introduces the past life of Betty, Lingling and Tony. After learning this unit, students should be able to talk about their past life correctly.

Analysis of the students:

Most of the students haven’t learnt the past tense before. So it will be not very easy for them to learn.

Teaching aims:

Aims of Basic Knowledge:

Key vocabulary:

born, be born, were, strict, nice, good, friendly,

primary, primary school, hey, difficult, US

Key structures:

Where were you born?

I was born in a small village.

What was he like? He was naughty.

What was the name of …?

Were you born in Shanghai?

Yes, I was. / No, I wasn’t. 

Aims of Abilities:

To understand conversations containing past simple be

To get information about someone’s past life from the listening and reading materials

To talk about one’s past life

Aims of Emotion:

Know more about their classmates.

Love life and love hometown.

Teaching key and difficult points

Past simple be

How to improve students’ listening and speaking abilities.

Lesson type

Listening and speaking

Learning methods:

Learn to communicate through interaction in the target language.

Teaching methods:

Task -based teaching method

Teaching aids

Multi-media

Teaching time:

45mins

Teaching procedures

Pre-listening Stage

Activities

Function

Warming up

1)       Greet the whole class

2)       Play a chant.

3)       Get the students to sing it with teacher

Enliven the atmosphere and learn some words about describing one’s character

Lead in and Presentation

1)       Use multi-media to show 2 photos of Obama :now and childhood                                     Introduce the way of asking for one’s character:

“What is Obama like?”

“What was Obama like in the past?”

2)       teach the way of describing one’s character

“He is …” “He was…”

3)       Ask some students about their character and let them talk about it.

“What are you like?”

“What were you like in the past?”

4)       Show some photos of some famous people with their personal information.

Ask: When/Where was he/she born?                        

Deal with new words and expressions

Pave the way for listening part      

Guessing game

Introduce the past life of two famous people and let them guess who they are.

Encourage ss to have more interests

Task

1)       Introduce Yao Ming’s past life and teacher’s own past life

2)       Let students talk about their own past life and make a report.

Encourage ss to use the new language

While-listening Stage

Activities

Function

Betty’s past life

1)       Have students close their books and lead them to listen to a conversation about Betty’s past life.

2)       Ask students to listen to the conversation and number the four questions in activity 1 as they hear them.

3)       Play the tape again and ask students to answer these questions

Develop ss’ listening ability

The past life about Lingling and Tony

1st listening

Play the tape of this conversation to the students and ask them to get the general idea.

Q1: Where was Lingling born?

Q2: What was Mrs Lane like?

2nd listening

Have students listen again and get the details

Complete the chart on the given worksheet

To get the general idea of the dialogue

To get specific information (deeper understanding ) of the dialogue

Task

1)       Ask students to read the dialogue in roles

2)       Give students some help and then help them to introduce Lingling’s and Tony’s past life in their own words.

Encourage students to use the past tense

post-listening Stage

Activities

Function

A real life task

Have students make an interview about their friend’s past life:

1)       Show them the chart for the interview

2)       Teacher make an example to show how to make the dialogue

3)       Invite some groups to act their dialogue and make a report

4)       Give comments and encouragement

Encourage ss to be active in class

Make ss use the new language in a collaborative way

Summary

Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.

Homework

Mother’s Day is coming. Prepare a presentation about“My mother’s past life”

Blackboard Design

Module 7 My past life

Unit 1 I was born in a small village.

Be born

Past tense:              

am is -----was

are ------were

Teaching

reflection