Good morning, dear judges! I’m very glad to be here to present my class today. I’m number X candidate applying for the English teacher of middle school. And my topic today is Unit 1 What’s the matter? In order to make my presentation much clearer, I’m going to divide it into 6 sections, that is, analysis of teaching materials, analysis of students, teaching methods, learning methods, teaching procedures and blackboard design. Now I am going to present them one by one.
一、说教材
I will briefly introduce the first part: analysis of teaching material. Today’s lesson is from unit 1 of Book 4 for junior middle school students, published by PEP. Its main theme is we should help others who are in troubles. Students can learn some reading strategies like skimming, scanning and intensive reading to deal with some information. Besides that, the topic of this unit is familiar to students’ daily life, so it can attract students’ interest easily.
Teaching Objectives
As everybody knows, without an aim, our class is like driving the boat at the sea. Thus, the teaching objectives are designed as follows:
All students could understand the main idea of the passage properly.
Students could listen, speak, read and write the new words and phrases: passenger, off, get off, to one’s surprise, onto, trouble, etc.
Most students could get the main information about the teaching material by predicting, skimming, scanning and careful reading.
Through the learning of this class, students should cultivate the spirit of helping others and establish the consciousness of self-protection at the same time.
Key Points
Based on the teaching objectives, the key points and difficult points are designed as follow:
Teaching key points are to cultivate students’ reading skills of predicting, skimming, scanning and careful reading. What’s more, students should grasp the detailed information of the reading material and be able to summarize the main idea.
Difficult Points
Teaching difficult points are to help students to cultivate the spirit of helping others and establish the consciousness of self-protection at the same time. What’s more, improving students’ ability to put the new words and phrases into actual use.
二、说学情
After the analysis of teaching material, now let me analyze the students. Students in grade 8 are around age of 14 or 15. And they should achieve the skills of guessing about words, predicting, skimming for general ideas and scanning for detailed ideas, etc. Besides, most of them have difficulty in using it in their daily life properly. And their abstract thinking is not fully developed. What’s more, they are forming the ability to explore English knowledge and skills with some teaching aids such as pictures, radios, and dictionaries. Therefore, all of these shall be taken into consideration into today’s teaching.
三、说教法
As is known to all, the classroom is the team-working of teacher’s teaching and students learning. And the key of a class also lies in the teacher’s teaching and student learning. So, the situational approach, task-based language teaching method and communicative approach will be used to help students engage in class. And these chosen methods combine together closely according to the new curriculum standards. Therefore, it is preferable to choose these methods.
四、说学法
As for the learning method, students will get knowledge by autonomous exploration and group discussion according to teaching objectives and students’ characteristics in this class. With these methods, students will work by themselves or in groups to grasp the new knowledge, which makes the class more active and effective.
五、说教学过程
According to the above analyses, now, let me introduce the most important part: teaching procedures. I will introduce it from the following steps.
Step 1. Warm-up
For this step, I will play the song “We are the world” and let students sing and act it out. The song will be like this:
“We are the world, we are the children.
We are the ones who make a brighter day so let’s start giving.
There’s a choice we’re making we’re saving our own lives.
It’s true we’ll make a better day just you and me”.
After singing, I will ask students some questions: Do you like the song? Do you know what the song talks about?
Step 2. Leading in
And then, I will hold a free talk. Students will be divided into groups and talk about their health problems and give advice. They may talk like this:
—What’s the matter with you?
—It was cold yesterday and I didn’t wear enough clothes. Now I have a cold. What should I do?
—I think you should drink some hot tea and keep warm.
By singing a familiar song together, students’ attention is easily drawn to the lesson naturally. Creating a situation helps to form a better English learning environment and leads the topic in.
Step 2. Pre-reading
In this step, I will guide students to look at the picture of the text to guess “what the passage may talk about?” to cultivate their predicting ability. Some students will be invited to talk about their predictions on the text.
In this way, students can reduce the strangeness of the text and enable them to learn the new knowledge in a relaxing atmosphere.
Step 3. While-reading
For this step, I will guide students to take part in 3 activities.
Skimming
I will give a few minutes for students to read the text quickly. Students need to read the text fast to check their predictions. Then students need to answer the questions:
1. Do you think it comes from a newspaper or a book? How do you know?
2. Did the bus driver help the man and the woman?
And in this way, students can practice their ability to acquire information quickly and get the main idea.
Scanning
Activity 1:
I will guide students to read the passage again and try to check the things that happened in the story.
1. Wang Ping was the driver of bus No.26 at 9:00 a.m. yesterday.
2. Bus No.26 hit an old man on Zhonghua Road.
3. The old man had a heart problem and needed to go to the hospital.
4. The passengers on the bus did not want to get to the hospital, so only Wang Ping went with the woman and old man.
5. Some passengers helped to get the old man onto the bus.
6. The old man got to the hospital in time.
These six sentences are detailed information in the passage. After doing that, students can learn how to find out the simple information through scanning.
Activity 2:
I will encourage students to discuss the following questions with their partner.
1. Why was Wang Ping surprised that the passengers agreed to go to the hospital with him?
2. Did the passengers think Wang Ping do the right thing? How do you know?
3. Do you agree that people often do not help others because they do not want to get into trouble? Why or why not?
In the process of answering the above questions, the teacher can give instructions to help students eliminate language barriers. Therefore, students will have a further understanding of the passage.
Careful reading
I will play the tape recorder paragraph by paragraph, and guide students to read for a third time. Then some students will be asked to translate some key sentences, and the teacher will explain some words and phrases: passenger, off, get off, to one’s surprise, onto, trouble, etc. to help students further understand the text.
In this way, students can guess the meaning of certain unknown words and understand the passage exactly.
Step 4. Post-reading
Task: do a discussion
I will divide the whole class into groups. Four students are in a group. Students do a discussion in the group about “If you were the driver, what would you do?” The leader of each group should write down their opinion. After several minutes, I will invite some groups to give a report in front of the class.
The purpose is to develop students’ creative thinking and lead them learning by doing.
Step 5. Summary
For the summary of this lesson, students will summarize what they have learnt in this class, and I will make supplements. What’s more, I will help students to cultivate the spirit of helping others and establish the consciousness of self-protection at the same time.
The purpose is to strengthen students’ understanding of the new knowledge. Thus, students can summarize what they have learnt. Meanwhile, I can check the effect of the class and make plans for the next class.
Step 6. Homework
For the final part of this lesson, I will ask students to surf the Internet to find more stories about helping others. Students are encouraged to share to the whole class the next day.
By doing the homework, students can consolidate what they have learned, which can also enhance their interest.
六、说板书设计
After finishing the part of teaching procedure, I will come to the last section: design of the blackboard, here is my blackboard design. I will write the key information on the blackboard. As you can see, it is simple and clear for students to take notes.
That’s all for my presentation. Thanks for listening!
