Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious School: _No.12_High School in Urumqi
Teacher: Li Rushuang
Students: About 50 junior/senior high school students, Class__5_, Grade_8__ Materials: Section A Activity 2b
Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious, Book Grade 9
Type of lesson: Reading and writing
Lesson duration: 40 minutes
Date:
Aids: Blackboard, PPT, video, pictures, etc.
Teaching Objectives:
1.Instructional objectives (language knowledge and language skills)
1) by the end of the class, students will be able to know the main ideas of
Change’ story by retelling and acting.
2) students can introduce how to celebrate the mid-autumn festival
2. Educational objectives (affect, learning strategy and cultural awareness)
1)by the end of the class, students will be able to grasp the symbols of the
Mid-autumn festival, which is “full”, a typical traditional Chinese spirit.
2)students will learn some skills of adapting traditional Chinese stories and
acting skills.
3. Personal objectives
1)by the end of the class, I can choose interesting and popular teaching materials to arouse students’ interest
2) keep orders in heated group discussion while motivating students.
Focal points:
1.The phrases that can be used to introduce mid-autumn festival: admire,
goddess, steal, dessert
2.Retell the story according to the key words using past tense correctly
Difficult points:
To comprehend Chinese spirit “full” by understanding the feelings of the characters Teaching Method: Communicative method, TBLB, cooperative method Teaching Produces and time allotment
Stage 1Lead-in (3 mins)
Step1 Greeting
Step2 Set a situation
T: Good morning students, before having our class, I would like to show you a video about Nation’s Greatest Treasures. Let’s enjoy. Think about a question ”What’s the show about? ”
Ss: National treasures.
T: Yeah. Today we are going to focus on a treasure. Can you guess what’s this? Show students a real moon model
Ss: The treasure w e’ll going to talk today is “the Mid-autumn festival.”
(Aim: To arise students curiosity about the following contents.)
Stage 2 Pre-reading (3 mins)
Step 1 Vocabularies
· admire the full moon
· lay out fruits and desserts
· eat mooncakes
Stage 3 While-reading (14mins)
T: Now, let’s move into the first part to seek it legend centuries ago.Read the passage quickly for the first time and find out the main characters.
Ss finish task 1 individually
Task 1 Find out the main characters and match with the key events.
T: Yes, they are the main characters. Now read the passage for the second time. Finish task 2.
T: You are doing a great work. Now read the passage carefully and finish the mind-map in a pairs.
Task 2 Finish the mind map. Retell the story with key words.
Task 3 Retell the story in a group of four
Stage 5 Post-reading ( 20mins)
T: Choose one scene to act. Here is a play for you. You can refer to the play or act it freely.