Unit 21 She taught herself.
Teaching Plan
Tianjin Experimental High School
Xiejing/谢静
天津市实验中学 英语 学科课堂教学素质教育目标
章、节课 题 Unit 21 She taught herself.
教养性目标 基础知识 To master the following new words and phrases: Teach oneself, fall off, clever, yourselves, find out, piano, poor, afford, knock at, dim, pardon, to one’s surprise, blind, shine, bright, through, look up, silently, come along, return, cookie, leave…behind
学科能力 To master the following sentences: Did she learn all by herself? Could she swim when she was … years old?She didn’t hurt herself. He couldn’t buy himself many nice things. Did he enjoy himself? Help yourselves.To learn about compound sentences and reflexive pronouns.
思想方法 To use the language and fulfill the tasks of listening, speaking, writing and other exercises in the unit.
教育性目标 德育渗透 1. 通过贝多芬创作《月光奏鸣曲》的故事让学生学习盲人小姑娘身残志坚的精神和贝多芬谦虚而善良的品质。2. 通过富人与穷人的对比培养学生正确的金钱观和世界观。
发展性目标 良好心理素质的培养 1. 通过看图编对话培养学生举一反三的能力。2. 通过听《月光奏鸣曲》写感想培养学生的想象力与表达能力。3. 通过学习并列句和反身代词的用法培养学生的总结归纳能力。
Unit 21 She taught herself.
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss learn the new words and expressions in the unit and learn to use them.
2. The Ss learn to use the language and fulfill activities of listening, speaking and exercises.
3. Revise the use of reflexive pronouns and learn about compound sentences.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. fall off/down; of Lily/Lily’s; teach oneself/learn…by oneself; find out/find/look for; hear sb. do/doing; afford; to one’s surprise, lose oneself in; go on a trip; come along; for fun; it’s time for sb. to do/sb. did sth.; leave…behind; it’s getting late.
2. Reading the text “The Moonlight Sonata”.
3. Revise the use of reflexive pronouns and conclude the compound conjunctions.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
1. To get the Ss fulfill the tasks assigned by the teacher.
2. To encourage the Ss imagine as more conditions as they can to use reflexive pronouns.
3. To encourage the Ss conclude the use of compound conjunctions.
IV. Teaching Methods:
Group work, task-based learning, and reductive approach.
V. Teaching Media:
Tape, recorder, computer, multi-media sys. courseware.
VI. Time Allocation:
Period 1: Analysis of the Midterm Exam Paper; finish unit 20.
Period 2: About the Learning Goals and Assessment for Unit Study; Listening in WB and QTB(《质量监测》).
Period 3: Lesson 81 of TB, WB.
Period 4: Lesson 82 of TB, WB.
Period 5: Lesson 83 of TB, WB.
Period 6: Lesson 84 of TB, WB.
Period 7: QTB and English Weekly; assessment time.
Three Levels of Learning Goals
Contents of learning Basic Goals Higher Goals Top Goals
New Words I can spell them. I can use them. I can use them and their changed forms.
Useful Expressions in Checkpoint I can understand them. I can use them. I know other phrases related to them.
Dialogues I can understand them. I can recite some of them. I can recreate similar dialogues.
Text I can understand it. I can retell it with the help of key words. I can retell it and tell another related story.
Grammar I know what are compound sentences and reflexive pronouns. I know the use of all the compound conjunctions and reflexive pronouns. I know the differences between a compound sentence and a simple one.
Others I can understand what the teacher said about the unit. I can react to what the teacher said in class. I can fulfill all the tasks the teacher asks us to do.
Demands for Unit 21
1. Read all the dialogues and texts 3 times and have one of your parents sign his/her name. Group leader checks the next day.
2. Duty tasks: a. Prepare an English Song for your classmates to learn.
b. Prepare a dialogue and a written form according to Ex 2&3 on page 31.
c. Prepare a short monologue (独白) about “What I know about Beethoven”.
d. Prepare a dialogue discussing “What shall I do if I have lots of money”.
e. Act out what the passage about according to Ex 5 on page 101.
3. Copy the new words of this unit.
4. Group tasks: a. Prepare at least 3 photos or pictures for speaking in lesson 81.
b. Dictate the new words in group and the group leader report the result of the dictation to the assistant of English.
Period 1 Lesson 81
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss can read and act out the dialogues.
2. The Ss learn to use reflexive pronouns in different phrases.
II. Teaching Key Points:
The daily expressions about what they could or couldn’t do in their childhood.
The listening of lesson 81 on QTB.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
The Ss can use the language freely when making sentences according to the situations.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Tape, tape recorder, computer, flash-disc, multi-media sys.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. English Song learning (5min)
1. Duty task: group H from class 11 and group B from class 12.
Step2. Revision (2min)
1. Can you give some phrases learned before with a reflexive pronoun?
enjoy oneself help oneself to learn … by oneself teach oneself
Step3. Read and Act (10min)
1. Listen to the first dialogue and finish the listening exercise in QTB(《质量监测》).
2. Answer the questions:
What is in the first photo? Lily is falling off her bike.
Did she hurt herself? No, she didn’t.
What is in the second photo? Lily is swimming.
How did she learn swimming? She learn all by herself/taught herself.
3. Language points:
○1 fall off=fall down from
get on the bus à get off the bus
off adv.
She is off to Nanjing. We must be off now.
It’s warm. You’d better take off your sweater. The water is off now.
Turn off the light, please. We will have 6 days off during the May-day.
○2 She taught herself.
○3 photo of Lily 丽丽的照片，照片中是丽丽
photo of Lily’s 丽丽所拥有的照片
He is a friend of my father’s. This is a photo of my father.
Step4. Ask and answer(10min)
1. Read the sample dialogue and explain about the replacing task. Ask the Ss to work in groups and make dialogues using the words in the table.
2. Make dialogues according to the pictures. (No preparation.)
3. Explanation of the reflexive pronouns.
I taught myself. (Obj.)
She didn’t hurt herself. (Obj.)
He learnt English by himself. (Obj. of by)
The other two are Jim and myself. (Pred.)
He is not quite himself. (Pred.)
Chairman Mao himself met the students. (App.)
I gave the letter to him himself. (App.)
you’d better ask Jean herself about it. (App.)
4. Some in-class exercises.
Step5. Duty-task Representation (5min)
1. Language points: find out/find; play the piano
2. In-class exercises.
2. Check the exercises in WB：page93-97.
Step6. Homework (1min)
1. Prepare at least 3 photos or pictures for speaking in lesson 81. Talk about the photos and make a similar dialogue as the dialogue in the TB.
2. QTB: lesson 81.
3. Preview lesson 82.
4. Reading and Gap-filling book. 每天各一篇。
Period 2 Lesson 82
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss can retell the story and learn the spirit of Beethoven and the blind girl.
2. The Ss can learn and use the language used in the text.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1.Readubg comprehension of the text.
2. hear sb. doing/do; wish; afford; fun; dim; to one’s surprise; lose oneself in.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
The Ss can retell the story using the language they learned in the text.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Tape, tape recorder, computer, flash-disc, multi-media sys.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Enjoy the English Song
Duty group H of class 11, duty group B of class 12.
Step2. Pre-read
1. Duty task 3:
What do you know about Beethoven ? Let’s listen to what the student on duty say.
2. QTB: page84-listen and do the exercise.
3. Go over some of the new phrases in the text.
knock at/on the door; lose oneself in sth./doing sth.; be lost in sth./doing sth.
afford to do/sth.; poor; for fun; play the piano; moonlight shone brightly in through the window.
Step3. Read
1. Listen to the music silently and then discuss in group, write a short passage about the picture formed in your mind.
2. Ask one or two students read their group writing.
3. Read the text first by yourself. Look at the passage on the screen. Answer the questions.
○1 Past continuous tense + when(at that time) + simple past tense
e.g I was walking along the road when they stopped me.
He was just falling asleep when there was a laud knock at the door.
They were talking and laughing loudly when the teacher came in.
à be just about to do + when(at that time, suddenly) + simple past tense
e.g. He was just about to go out when a visitor came.
I was just about to go shopping when it started to rain.
○2 hear/see/find/watch/feel sb doing/do
e.g. He likes to hear her sing. Can you hear someone knocking at the door?
I heard someone knock at the door just now.
○3 The adverbial (Prep. phrase or adv.) + verb(single v. in simple present or simple past) + Sub. Fully Inversion
e.g. Behind the tree was a small house. Only when it was too late could he go to bed.
At the head of the queue was an old woman. Away went the monkey/boy.
Down came the rain.
○4 wish to do/ wish sb. to do/ wish sb did/ wish sb sth.
e.g. I wish to go home now. I wish I could go home now. I wish him to like the present.
I wish I could try it again. I wish I got more money.
I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I wish you a pleasant trip.
hope to do/ hope that sb do/ hope for sb. to do
e.g. I hope to meet you again. I hope you enjoy yourself.
I hope for him to pass the exam. I hope that you can come to my birthday party.
○5 afford sth/to do sth. = have the time or money to do or for sth.
e.g. I can’t afford a car now. I can’t afford to buy a car now.
He is so busy that he can’t afford a long vacation.
Who could afford to lose such a good chance?
○6 fun n. have fun/a lot of fun = enjoy oneself
e.g. I don’t see the fun of doing that. I think it is going to be fun.
It’s not good to make fun of the old.
Don’t believe him. He said that just for/in fun.
I am not a composer. I just wrote this piece of music for fun.
à funny adj. It’s a funny story.
○7 dim à bright; dark àbright
e.g. We couldn’t see clearly in the dim light of a candle.
It’s far more difficult to see in the dark moonless night.
○8 pardon/excuse me for doing sth.
○9 to one’s surprise/joy/anger, 主句
○10 by ear/hand
○11 look up/down/out (of)/in(to)/behind/around/about/ahead/left/right
○12 –ing phrase as adverbial for companionship
e.g. We stood there for an hour waiting for him.
They walked home, singing and laughing.
I am lying in bed, enjoying my favorite music.
Step4. In-class Exercise
1. True or false.
2. Gap-filling
3. Retelling the story with the help of the clue.
4. Other exercises.
Step5. Homework
1. Discuss about the question and finish the writing of your group.
2. Finish exercises in QTB.
3. Preview lesson 83 and 84.
Period 3 Lesson 83 & 84
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. The Ss can talk about the rich and the poor and learn the meaning of happiness.
2. The Ss learn about the language used in inviting people at table and the responses.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. Short passages about the rich man and the poor man.
2. Dialogues about inviting people, behaving at table and leaving.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
The Ss can practice and review the use of the language learned in the previous units and fulfill the tasks given by the teacher.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Tape, tape recorder, computer, flash-disc, multi-media sys.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Enjoy the English Song
Duty group H of class 11, duty group B of class 12.
Step2. Finishing Lesson82
1. Class 11 has retold the story in class and class 12 stopped at “through/over/across”.
through the years: mention about the song “I’ll stand beside you through the years”
2. Other in-class exercises.
3. Writing as a group: what shall we learn from Beethoven or the blind girl?
Step3. Read and Learn
1.(QTB: P85）Listen to the text and finish the form-Ex1.
2. (TB) Ask and answer these 8 questions and find out why Mr Little was happier than Mr More.
Representation: Happiness isn’t decided by how much money we have, but by how many friends we have.
3. Duty task representation: If I have a lot of money, I will…
Step4. Read and say
1. (QTB: P85) Listen to the tape of the text and fill in the blanks.
2. Language points:
a. come along = come together with
e.g. I will take my brother along when I go there. [adv.]
It’s about a hundred meters along/ahead on the road. [adv.]
The book shop is along that road. [prep.]
Walk along the river, you’ll find many beautiful flowers. [prep.]
à all along = all the time; get along with
e.g. He is new here but he is getting along well with his classmates soon.
They helped the old blind man all along.
3. next time
Other phrases with “time”: this time; last time; all the time; ahead of time; at a time; at the same time; at that time; at times = sometimes; every time; for the first time; in time; on time; from time to time; in no time = right away; many a time = often/ many times; once upon a time; take one’s time to = feel at ease when doing sth.
Step5. Lesson 84
1. Group discussion: What will you do if you want to have a party at home? Ask 1 or 2 groups to report their opinion.
2. Let’s find out ways to invite your friends to your party.
Would you like to come to my home for dinner?
Would you please have dinner with me?
Can I get you something to eat?
Help yourself to some fish.
3. Then how do we reponse?
Yes, I’d love to.
…But I’m afraid I can’t …
Thank you very much.
4. Listen to the dialogue and answer the two questions:
○1What would the twins like to have? ○2Why do they have to leave now?
5. Language points:
○1 Would you like a drink? = Would you like something to drink?
○2 get = go to bring ○3 it is time for sb. to do/ it is time sb did …
○4 I’m afraid so. so = We have to leave, which isn’t a pleasant thing for us, too.
○5 it is getting late get; become; turn
○6 leave … behind = forget to take/bring
○7 Thank you for doing
Step6. Practice in class
1. Ex 2 on page 34 of TB: fill up the dialogue.
2. More exercise by slides.
3. Listening practice. [check only once]
4. Ex 4 on page 35 of TB: Make up sentences quickly using “and”, “but”, “or” and “so”.
Compare the difference between simple sentence, compound sentence and complex sentence.
5. Quick writing: work in group.
6. Chant together. [if time provided]
Step7. Homework
1. 完成WB, QTB中二十一单元的内容。
2. 完成形成性练习和英语周报。
3. 预习下一单元。
4. 早自习对练习答案。（课代表提前到老师处对好。）
Period 5 Revision and Assessment of Unit 21
I. Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. Review the main points in the whole unit.
2. The Ss evaluate the study of unit 21.
II. Teaching Key Points:
1. Useful expressions in Checkpoints.
2. Exercises in WB, QTB and English Weekly.
3. Assessment form.
III. Teaching Difficulties:
1. Check the understanding by doing an in-class test.
2. Explain the difficult points in the QTB and English Weekly.
IV. Teaching Medias:
Tape, tape recorder, computer, flash-disc, multi-media sys.
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Enjoy the English Song
Duty group H of class 11, duty group B of class 12.
Step2. Exercise Checking
1. Listening test in English Weekly.