七下Unit 8 Section A(1a--2c).doc

Unit 8 Is there a post office near here ? Period 1 Section A 1a-2cPart 1 The analysis of teaching materialStatus and functionsThis lesson is from the second book of GO FOR IT for Grade 7.It is the first period of this unit. This textbook is designed to cultivate students overall abilities including linguistic, culture and social ones. And it is also designed with the aim of making Ss use English to exchange ideas, fulfill certain tasks and solve practical problems.This topic is about how to ask and give directions on the street. Students will be certainly interested in it because it is closed to their daily life.Now Ill talk about the teaching aims and demands in this lesson.Teaching aims and demands According to the new curriculum standard, teaching aims are composed of three aspects: Knowledge aims, Ability aims and Emotion aims.Knowledge aims: 1. Ask Ss to learn the words of different buildings. Such as, post office, bank, supermarket, hotel, restaurant, cinema, etc. 2. Ask Ss to learn the prepositions of places: next to, across from, between, near, behind, in front ofetc. 3. Ask Ss to learn the sentence pattern: Is there a/an? Yes, there is. / No, there isnt. Where is? Its + prepositional phrases.Ability aims: 1. To help Ss talk about the places and locations with the target language.2. To enable students to ask and give directions using the sentence pattern.Emotion aims:1. To help Ss increase their ability of communication, cooperation and exploration by expressing their own opinions with the target language.2. To make Ss get happiness by giving help to others. Next, Ill talk about the teaching important and difficult points.Teaching important and difficult points The important points of this unit are the prepositions of places, the names of different places, and making conversations with the target language.The difficult point is asking and giving directions with the prepositions and the sentences.Part 2 The analysis of studentsThis lesson is for the students of Grade 7, they have leant about “Where is .? Its on/ in/ under .” before. And they can use the structures when they practice asking and giving directions in this lesson.The students have learned English for more than half a year so far. They can understand each other well. They have showed great interest in English. This topic is closed to the daily life, so they will be interested in it as usual.After this Ill talk about teaching and learning methods.Part 3 Teaching and learning methodsFor teaching methods, the new curriculum standard advocates that language is for communication, English teaching should lay special emphasis on development of Ss. For this purpose, Ill mainly adopt task-based teaching method、 communication teaching method. Here Ill mainly talk about Task-based teaching method, that is to say, in my class Ill design different activities and get Ss to fulfill the tasks. In that way, Ss will learn to experience and explore to improve their overall abilities. For learning methods, Ill adopt cooperative learning method and autonomous learning method. Ss in grade 7 have mastered a certain basic knowledge of English, and they still keep their curiosity on something new. According to this situation, in this unit I will design some activities to help Ss to develop their learning strategies.Now Ill deal with the most important part, teaching procedure. Part 4 Teaching procedureStep1 Warm-upIn this step, well first give each other greetings, then Ill guide students to review what weve learnt in last class。 1.Revise some nouns about buildings in the neighborhood by showing some pictures .2Show the teaching aims.Step2 presentation 1.Present pictures of buildings on the street. The students are interested in the new knowledge and I will teach them all about these words.2. Match the right places with the words.3.Ill ask them to imagine a real situation. Ill say, “Now, you are in a new city, you dont know the places here. And you want to go to a library, how can you ask people about it? Then Ill help students to ask, “Is there a library near here?” . and let them answer , “Yes, there is./ No, there isnt. ”.Step3 practice 1.listening practice. Ill ask students to listen to the tape and circle the places in 1a they hear. Check the answers. 2.Practice the dialogue in pair.Step4 Presentation.1.Present the new preposition and learn the prepositions by guessing the soccer ball.2.Then, let students talk about the different places and make conversations using these words.3.After this, Ill ask students to finish activity 2a, and then check answers by asking question: “Where is the pay phone?” This can also make Ss describe the places with the prepositions.4.Now, let Ss listen to the conversations and fill in the blanks. After finishing 2b, ask Ss to read the sentences to check answers.Step5 consolidation 1.Making their own conversations and act them our.2.Doing some exercises. 3Trying to talk about their dream neighborhood.Step 6 Summary1.Ask students to read the grammar focus.2.Educate students to help others. Roses in your hand, flavor in mine.Step7 homework 1.Write some sentences to talk about yo