Teaching Plan (simple)
Topic:
The Vincent Van Gogh exhibition
Students:
Senior One.
Duration:
40minutes
Teaching aims:
By the end of this class, students will have ① recalled and enriched their knowledge about
Van Gogh’s life and work ②learned some words and expressions about the topic ③learned to
describe a person from several aspects ④ learned to select and organize facts to serve the
purpose of an article through Text Reading, outlining, sharing and discussing etc. with the help
of the teacher’s instruction and the aid of audio-visual resources.
Key points and difficulty:
To guide students to outline the text and expand their outline.
To understand Van Gogh’s personality mainly through his jobs, paintings and behavior.
Teaching procedures:
Steps Students’ activities Purposes
One Watch a movie trailer (video1) of To lead students to the topic.
Loving Vincent.
Two Talk about anything they have known
about Vincent Van Gogh.
To check students’ background and lexical
knowledge.
Three Scan the text and work out the outline
of the text and share.
To cultivate students’ Text Reading
abilities.
Four Talk about Van Gogh’s life, family and
reputation briefly.
To get some basic information about Van
Gogh.
Five Read Carefully and expand the outline
with facts and details and share.
To teach students to find supporting facts
and details.
Six Learn about Van Gogh’s jobs, paintings
and behavior respectively through
reading, group discussing and
watching videos(2,3,4) and pictures.
To provide students with more resources
and help them understand Van Gogh better.
Seven Think and discuss about three
questions?
1). What kind of person is Van Gogh?
2). What’s the purpose of the passage?
3).Will you go to Van Gogh’s
exhibition?(Video 5)
To guide students to think about the
purpose of an article.
To guide students to think critically about
what they have read.
Eight Assignment: To encourage students to use what they
Recommend a classmate to the
Students Union as a candidate for
Chairman.
Requirements:
1) Introduce several aspects about
him or her;
2) Use facts, stories, or details to
describe him or her.
learn in class.