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What should I do?
Teaching aim:
Language Aim: Students can understand the text.
Skill Aim: Students can practise their oral English.
Emotional Aim: Students are encouraged to make proper decisions and have a
clear conscience.
Teaching Aids: Multi-media
Keypoints and difficulties: 1. understand the story 2. analyze and make proper
decisions
Teaching Obstacles: unfamiliarity between students and the lesson practitioner
Grade: Senior One
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming-up: some lead-in questions.
Have you ever done anything that you regret? If so, have you thought of doing
something to make up for it? If you don’t know how to deal with a problem, who do
you turn to for advice?
Ⅱ. A student’s experience (Letter 3 --- A Mistake at the Supermarket)
Ⅲ. Help students to understand the letter
Some facts to be considered:
1. Is the checkout assistant always polite and helpful?
2. Why was she grumbling?
3. Why did my student go back to the checkout assistant?
4. Did my student hesitate to return the money? How do you know? What kind of
person do you think he is?
5. When my student tried to tell the checkout assistant about the extra change, she
barked, “Can’t you see there is a queue? Go to the end and wait your turn.” From the
word ‘bark ’, what kind of person do you think she is?
6. Why did my student leave without returning the money?
Ⅳ. Questions for consideration
1. Who is to blame for this situation, the check-out assistant or my student?
2. Do you agree with the action of him? Is there anything else you can think of that he
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could have done?
3. Did he do anything wrong?
4. Are there any other questions you should consider?
5. What action would you advise my student to do?
Ⅴ. Group discussion
Topic: Please help me to give some advice to my student. What do you think he
should do? And why? Opinion One: keep the money Opinion two: return the
money Opinion three: …
After discussion, students should give reports like this:
Here are our conclusions and advice. It was right/wrong of … to …, because …We
therefore advise him to …
Ⅵ. My own story: a clear/guilty conscience
When I was in the primary school, I was a good student and monitor of my class.
One day I forgot to do my homework. Several students were asked to stand up in
front of the whole class, including me! Being monitor, I felt shy and shameful to admit
that I hadn’t done my homework either. So I lied that I had left my homework at home.
My class teacher thought I was a good student who was worth trusting, so I wasn’t
criticized or punished.
I knew I was wrong, but I wasn’t courageous enough to confess to my teacher.
However, I did have a guilty conscience.
Ⅶ. Conclusion
Sometimes in our life, it’s not easy to make the right decisions.
If you are happy with yourself, then others will be happy with you.
Let’s try to have a clear conscience!
Let’s try to do the right thing!
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