Teaching goals : Talk about different kinds of music .
Practising giving advice and making suggestion
Review the passive voice .
Write a comparison essay .
Time arrangement : Five periods
Students : Intermediate
Teaching Method : Task-based Language Teaching
Period 1
Content : Warming-up, listening, speaking
Moral Focus :
(1): Help students enrich their knowledge about the world-wide music .
(2): Raise students’ interest in music and their love the world-wide music .
Teaching Aims :
(1): Increase students’ oral English by asking them to do some discussion.
(2): Improve students’ listening ability by do some listening .
(3): Improve students’ speaking ability by asking them to make some dialogue ,.
(4) : Improve students’ ability to cooperate with others by making dialogue .
Teaching Methods :
(1): Do some discussion to enable the students to express themselves freely .
(2): Do some listening to improve students’ listening ability .
Teaching Aids : a tape-recorder , a computer
Teaching Steps :
Step 1 : Lead-in & Warming-up .
(1): Ask students a question : “ What is your hobby?”
Some students must say that they like listening to music , then lea the topic in .
(2): Ask students to listen to the music on the tape-recorder and ask them to do some discussion about it and tell their feeling according to their won understanding .
Step 2 : Listening .
Ask students to do the listening part and finish t
exercise on P72. then check the answer with them .
Step 3: Speaking
(1): Explain to the students about the background of the dialogue , then ask them to read the dialogue given on the book .
(2): Tell students some useful expressions related to how to make suggestions and give advice .
(3): Ask students to make their own dialogue with their own dialogues with their deskmates .
(4): Ask some students to present their dialogue in front of the class .
Step 4 : Summary & Homework Assignment .
Summarize what learnt in this period .
Assign the homework .
(1) Preview the reading .
(2) Review the useful expressions learnt today .
Record _______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
Period 2
Teaching Content : Reading
Moral focus : Enrich students’ knowledge about different kinds of music around the world and help them get a better understanding on the idea “ Global Village”
Teaching Aims :
(1) : Improve students’ reading ability .
(2) : Help students’ learn more about the world-wide music .
(3) : Master some useful phrases and expressions .
Teaching Methods :
(1) : Do some discussion to improve students’ oral English .
(2) : Do the fast-reading to get the main idea of the text .
(3) : Do some scanning to better their understanding .
(4) : Do some explanation to help students master some important phrases .
(5) : do some True or False exercise to consolidate their understanding on the text .
Teaching Aids : A tape-recorder and a computer
Teaching Procedures :
Step 1: Greeting and revision :
Greet students as usual , and review the useful expr
learnt last period .
Step 2: Pre-reading
Ask students to do some discussion about the question given on P73.
Ask students to make a dialogue using the questions given and then present to the classmates .
Step 3: Skimming .
Ask students to skim the reading text as fast as they can
with the following question :
“ What kinds of music are mentioned in the text ?”
Step 4 : Listening & Scanning
Ask students to listen to the tape recorder ,
understand the text better .
Explain some important sentences to the students to
help them understand the text better . Help students
master some important phrases .
Step 5 : Post –reading
Ask students to do some discussion to finish Exercise1
Exercise 2 on P74.
Step 6: Summary & Homework
Summarize what learnt in this period and assign
the homework :
(1): Review the reading text.
(2): Finish Exercises on Qidong Homework Book.
(3): Preview the grammar .
Record _____________________________________________
______________________________________________
________________________________________________
Period 3
Content : Word Study and Grammar
Moral Focus : Enrich students’ grammar about passive povice so as to improve their English and make them more confident in English study .
Teaching Aims :
(1) : Enrich students’ vocabulary .
(2) : Review the passive voice we learnt .
(3) : Better their understanding on passive voice .
(4) : make students active in the class .
Teaching Aids : computer
Teaching Procedures :
Step 1 : Greeting & Revision
Greet students as usual , review what learnt yesterday by asking them a few questions related to the text .
Step 2 : Word Study
First give students the idea that just as many Chinese characters , many English words also have different meanings in different situations , so as to lead in this period’s vocabulary study .
Then ask students to finish exercises on P74 and check answers with them .
Step 3: Ask students to finish exercise 1 , exercise 2 on P146 so as to consolidate their vocabulary learnt in this unit .
Step 4: Grammar Learning
(1) Preview the passive Voice learnt before .
Explain to the students the main language points related to the passive voice as well as some special grammar points.
(2) Ask students to finish exercise 1, exercise 2 by themselves . By doing this , students can check their comprehension on passive voice . Also deepen their understanding on this language points.
(3) Ask students to finish exercise 1 on P147.
Step 5: Summary & Homework Assignment .
Summarize what learnt in this period , assign the homework :
Review the grammar point.
Finish exercise 3 on P147 and hand in .
Finish “ Qidong homework” if possible .
Preview Integrating skills .
Record _________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
Period 4
Content : Integrating Skills
Moral Focus : Help students learn more about the music, especially the Pop music and Rock music to broaden their eyesight.
Teaching Aims :
(1) : Improve students’ reading ability .
(2) : Improve students’ listening ability .
(3) : Enrich students’ knowledge about knowledge .
(4) : Make students’ active in class .
Teaching Aids : Computer, Tape-recorder
Teaching Procedures ;
Step 1 : Greeting & Revision
Greet students as usual and review the grammar point and vocabulary learnt in last period by doing some related exercise .
Step 2: Lead-in & Skimming
Ask students what is their favourite kind of music . There must be some students mention Rock Music or Pop music, then lead in this period’s topic .
Also ask students to think over the following question :
“ From which aspects do Pop music differ from the Rock music ?”
Step 3 : Reading
(1) : Ask students to listen to the tape and also underline some difficult language points according to their understanding .
(2) : Do some explanation related to the content of the text to help them understand the text better . also ask students raise some questions if they have .
Step 4 : Ask students to do some discussion and make a comparison between Pop music and Rock music .
Step 5 : Ask students to read the text on P148 and get the main idea of this text .
Then ask them to do some discussion and finish Exercise 1 , exercise 2 on P19 ( first part )
Step 6: Ask students to make a dialogue according to the questions and answers on P149.
Step 7 : Summary & Homework
Summarize what learnt in this period and assign the homework.
(1) : Finish the left exercise on the book.
(2) : Preview the content learnt in this period .
(3) : Finish Qidong homework if possible
Record__________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Period 5
Content : Writing
Moral Focus : Improve students’ English writing ability so as to raise their interest in learning English .
Teaching Aims :
(1) : Improve students’ writing ability .
(2) : Better students’ ability to make comparison between two things .
(3) : Help students learn how to write a short essay in English .
Teaching Aids : Computer
Teaching Procedures :
Step 1 : Greeting & Revision
Greet students as usual and review the content learnt in last period .
Step 2: Check the answers to the left exercises on workbook .
Step 3: Ask students to read the reading text “American Country Music” again ,then try to do some discussion about the questions related to the difference among American music in different periods , and ask students try to make a comparison by listing the differences on the paper themselves .
Step 4: Give students some instruction about how to write short essay in English to compare different objects .
Step 5 : Ask students to write a short essay on the topic “ American music at different periods” according to the list they just made .
Step 6 : Ask students to do some discussion about the differences between “Traditional Chinese Music “ and “ Modern Chinese Music” from the following aspects : Instruments, Period , Writer , Content .
Step 7 : Summary & Homework Assignment
Summarize what learnt in this period and then assign the homework : Write a short essay on the topic of “ Chinese Traditional Music VS Chinese Modern Music”
Record _____________________________________________
________________________________________