Unit 1 Where is your pen pal from? (Section A)
教案設計：李益華
[設計思想]
《英語課程標準》倡導“任務型”的教學途徑，其最終目的是培養學生綜合運用英語的能力。教師應注重設計貼近學生生活實際的教學活動，避免以單純傳授語言知識為目的的教學方法，吸引學生充分參與到課堂活動中來。 “讓學生做事”是設計課堂教學的主要原則，也是設計課堂任務的主要思路。本節課設計如下四個真實的任務，任務（一）：請學生根據自己已經擁有的地理知識，將城市與國家名稱貼在一起。任務（二）：已經掌握的國家名稱，觀看片段，猜一猜出現的國家。任務（三）根據自己的愛好及所收到的外國友人的相關信息，選擇自己滿意的筆友；任務（四）：根據自己所選定的筆友的情況，在完成聽力材料的基礎上，使用要求掌握的句型調查哪位同伴的筆友和自己的筆友來自同一個國家，并將調查結果進行匯報。這四個任務之間合理過度，采取選擇、確定、調查及匯報的授課方式，調動學生運用要求掌握的語言結構做事的積極性，引導學生在學習的過程中學會歸納和實踐等方法，重在側重對學生學習策略等方面能力的培養；小組活動形式的目的在于增強同學之間的團結，培養學生謙虛好學的精神，同時也提供給學生更多運用英語的機會。
此課是第13單元的起始課。
[實施方案]
教學目標：1.學會談論人們的國籍。
2.學會詢問并回答人們的居住城市。
學習策略：認知策略、交際策略、資源策略
主題詞表：
主題思維圖及任務型活動：
Teaching Plan：
Pre-task：Ask students to bring some thing that represents some country.
Step I. Task One
1. Match the cities and the map. (4 students a group)
2. Learn the new words with the pictures.
3. Listen and repeat. (1a)
4. Listen and circle. (1b)
Step II. Task Two - Guessing Game 1
1. Students watch the videos and then tell what countries they saw.
2. Ask students to show the things they brought, the other students will guess where they are from. If the students forgot to bring things to class, ask the students to do group work. They should say a sentence or a short paragraph and ask the other students to guess who she/he is. The other students can ask more questions.
For example:
Student A says: He can play basketball very well.
The others can ask: Where is she/he from? Where is he now?
Student A answers: He is from China. He is in the United States.
The others will guess: He is Yao Ming.
Get each group say one, the other groups ask and guess.
Step III. Listening
1. Finish 2a.
2. Listen and circle. (2b)
3. Listen and complete the chart. (2c)
Step IV. Task Three - Choosing a pen pal
Group work: 4 students a group
Get students to choose their favorite pen pals from other countries according to the cards given by teacher. The following card in only an example.
Name: Maria
Gender/Sex: Female
Be from: Canada
Born: On 29th July, 1990
Live: Toronto
Like: Dancing, basketball, English, thrillers,
Language needed：
My pen pal is Maria. She is from Canada. She lives in Toronto. She likes dancing, basketball, English and thrillers.
Step V. Task Four - looking for friends
Pair work:
After choosing their pen pals, get the students to look for friends and find out whose pen pals come from the same country and live in the same city.
Language needed：
1. -Where is your pen pal from?
-She/He is from….
2. -Where does she/he live?
-She/He lives in….
Step VI. Homework
1. Please write a letter to your pen pal and tell her/him something about you.
2. Make a card for your favorite movie star or sport star.
Step VII. Grammar Focus
1. Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, Japan, the United States, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom, China
2. Soul, New York, Mexico City, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro
3. -Where is your pen pal from?
-She/He is from …
4. -Where does she/he live?
-She /He lives in…
文化的傳授：
補充學生對各地的名勝古跡、歷史風情、地理知識等知識的進一步了解，從而實現英語與其他各學科之間的滲透。