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Lesson 4:The Spring City
一、 Instructional Analysis
1. Analysis of Teaching Content
This unit focus on weather and activities related to the spring season. Students will
learn to report on the weather, and discuss different topics and activities that relate to
spring. Lesson 4 teaches students how to describe the spring in their hometown.
2. Analysis of the Students
The students of Grade Eight have mastered certain vocabularies. Through the last
three lessons, they can talk about spring weather, activities, temperature, etc. But they
don’t know how to describe their hometown in a proper way. They are interested in
different kinds of activities in class like interviews and competitions.
二、 Teaching Aims
1. Knowledge Objects
1). To learn how to describe the spring in their hometown in a proper way.
2).To master new vocabularies: nearly, plenty
3). To master new phrases: long for/feel like / all year round/plenty of /because of
2. Ability Objects
1). To develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
2). To improve the Individual learning ability
3. Moral Objects
1).To cultivate the students’ interests of learning English.
2).To arouse students to love spring and their hometown
4. Learning Strategy
Individual learning、group-work and task-based learning
三、 Teaching Important and Difficult Points
1. Teaching Important Point:
To learn how to describe the spring in their hometowns in a proper way.
2. Teaching Difficult Point:
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To ask students to describe the spring in their hometown using what they’ve learned
in this lesson.
四、Teaching Aids:Multi-media, tape recorder;
五、Teaching Procedures
教学过程
Teaching Procedures
Step I:
Pre-reading
Warming-up (5’)
教师活动
Teacher’s Activities
1. At the beginning of
the class, say “hello” to
students.
2. Play a “guessing
game” .Let the students
watch the pictures and
the poems in English
about spring on the
screen carefully, then
say the Chinese poems.
学生活动
. Students’Activities
1. Say “hello” to the
teacher.
2. Guess the poem in
Chinese according
to the pictures and
the key points on
the screen.
设计意图
Purpose
1. Students have
guessed a poem
in Lesson 3.Let
them guess more
Chinese poems
about spring to
attract students’
attention.
2. Get ready for
the next step.
Step II:
Lead-in (8’)
1. Let the students talk
about the two questions
in “Think about it”
2. Use brainstorming to
help students focus
on the “topic spring”.
3. Instruct students to
master the new words.
1. Express their own
ideas about spring
like weather,
temperature,
colours, activities,
etc.
2. Learn the new
words and some
phrases.
1. Help students
remember
what they’ve
known about
sping actively
by using
brainstorm.
2. Lead into the
new lesson
and get the
class to know
about the new
words in a
natural way.
Step Ⅲ:
While reading
Task Reading(5’)
1. Ask students to read the
e-mail from my friend Li
Hong, and put the three
paragraphs into the right
order.
2. Check the answers.
3. Ask students to read the
passage again and finish the
chart.
Listen carefully and
finish the task.
1. Train the
ability of
reading.
2. Let the
students learn
about the
spring city by
themselves.
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Step IV:
Read for
knowledge (6’)
1. Ask students to read the
text aloud in groups.
2. Ask students to work out
their own problems about
the text with the help of
other group members and
the teacher.
3. Ask the students to learn
the important phrases by
heart.
4. Explain the problems
they can’t understand.
5. Let the students finish the
exercises.
1. Read the text aloud in
groups.
2. Discuss and work out
their own problems.
3. Help each other in
groups.
4. Master the important
phrases.
5. Finish the exercises.
Train students’
ability of
Individual and
cooperative
learning.
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Step V :
Post reading
Extension
1. Let students finish
“Let’s do it”No.2.
Listen to the tape
carefully and match the
names with the
sentences
2. Play the tape again and
check the answers
Listen carefully and
finish the task
1. Let the
students learn
more about
the spring in
other cities.
2. Train
students’
listening
ability.
Step VI: (4’)
The spring in my
hometown
1. Let students write a
short passage about the
spring in Tangshan.
2. Ask several students to
share their articles with
the class.
3. Let students think about
how to show their love
to their hometown
1. Write the article
about the spring in
Tangshan..
2. Share their articles
in class.
3. Talk about What
they can do to make
their hometown a
beautiful place
1. Train students
the ability of
speaking and
writing.
2. Arouse
students’ love to
their hometown.
Step Ⅶ :
Summary(2’)
1. Ask students to
summary what they’ve
learned in class.
2. Make a short speech
about the meaning of
spring.
Summarize what they
have learned in this
lesson by themselves.
1. Cultivate
students’ good
habits of
summarizing
after learning
something.
2. Make students
work hard for
their own
future.
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StepⅧ:
Homework (1’)
Let students make a poster
about how to make our
hometown a better place and
prepare to show it to class in
the next lesson.
Make a poster after
class.
Let students have
more chance to
show their ideas.
六、Blackboard Design
Unit 1 The spring is coming! Lesson 4 The Spring City
Groups Score
A
B spring
C
D
Let’s work together to make Tangshan a better place.
七、Teaching reflection
weather
colour
new lifenew start
clothes
activities