(Section B, 2a-2e)

Good morning, my dear judges. I'm the No.3 candidate. It’s my great honor to have this opportunity to share my teaching design with you. The lesson I’m going to talk about is “When was it invented?” This is a reading class.

Firstly, let’s come to the analysis of teaching material. The topic of this lesson is about “basketball”. This lesson is from the reading part of section B, Unit 6 of PEP junior middle school English. After learning this passage, students will know about the origination, development and popularity of the basketball. Also, students can use the target language and useful phrases properly. Meanwhile, encourage students to use the scanning, skimming and mind map strategies, which can help them have a better understanding of this text and form a good habit of reading. The reading passage 2b offers a good example for students to imitate.

Secondly, students are the subject of our class. As for the students of Grade eight, they have known quite a few knowledge of the grammar structure of passive voice sentences. And they learnt to use the passive voice in past tense in the last lesson. What’s more, the topic “basketball” is close to students’ daily life. They will be very interested in this topic and willing to get some information about basketball in this reading material. So, it may not be so difficult for them to understand the content of this passage and express their feelings about the inventions in this lesson.

By analyzing the New Curriculum Standard in English, teaching material and the students in my class, I set the following three teaching objectives.

The first one is knowledge aims:

(1) Students can recognize these new words and phrases: basket, popularity, hero, professional, divide…into, look up to and so on.

(2) Ss can learn about the origination, development and popularity of the basketball.

(3) Ss can understand the passive voice sentences.

The second one is ability aims:

(1) According to the mind map about basketball, students are able to retell the passage.

(2) Students can use the passive voice in past tense correctly.

The third one is emotional aims:

(1) Ss will have a positive attitude towards inventions.

(2) Cultivate students’ innovative thinking.

According to the analysis above, I set the key points and difficult points as the followings.

Teaching key points:

1. Students will learn the target language and understand the content of the text.

2. Students can use the passive voice in past tense correctly.

3. Ss can learn about the origination and development of the basketball and learn to use mind map method.

Teaching difficult points:

1. Ss can use the mind map method to member some key and detail information.

2. Cultivate students’ innovative thinking.Now, I would like to talk about the teaching methods and studying methods. As to the teaching methods, Communicative Approach and Task-based Teaching Method will be adopted in this lesson. Based on the learning condition of my students, I arranged some activities to make the reading process more attracted. For example, I will ask students to make competition in groups, which can help them form a good sense of cooperation.

Then I’d like to talk about the teaching aids. Multi-medium will be used in this class.

Now, let’s come to the most important part of this lesson: the analysis of the teaching procedures. There are 5 stages in my design, there are lead-in, pre-reading, while-reading,

post-reading and summary & homework.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Lead-in

After greeting Ss, I will show some famous basketball players’ pictures (Yao Ming, Lin Zhizhi, Kobe, and Chris Paul) on the screen, then ask them some questions: Do you know that man? What are they famous for? Do you like playing basketball? What do you know about the sport? I ask these questions step by step. In this way, students’ learning interest will be aroused. And this free talk can motivate their background knowledge which can make a good preparation for further reading.

Step 2: Pre-reading

Then, I will work with students to draw a simple mind map about basketball according to their responding. In this way, I will present some new words (popularity, hero, professional, NBA, CBA, the Olympic, divide…) for the better understanding of the text. After that, I will ask them to predict the main idea of this passage according to the topic we talked about in Lead-in part and the title of the text. It can help them to use predicting skill properly.

Step 3: While-reading

At this stage, I will arrange 3 activities. Activity 1: ask students to read the passage quickly to find out the main idea of each paragraph, and then check their answers. Activity 2: divide students into several groups, each group includes three students, and then asks Ss to scan the passage again and complete the tasks on 2c. One group answers, other groups complete the answer. I will write down the key words on the blackboard. Activity 3: ask Ss to read this text carefully and then with the help of the mind map to retell this passage. One group member retells the “Development” part; the other two members retell the “Game” part and “Popularity” part respectively. For the students of poor command of English, the teacher can prompt them with some questions. Just like “How old is basketball?”, “Where is the game played?”. All this activities are mainly used to help them have a better understanding on this text and cultivate their awareness of using reading strategies, like scanning, skimming, predicting and mind map.

Step 4: Post-reading

At the post-reading stage, I will show some pictures about the basketball players, and then ask students: Do you want to be a famous basketball player? What do you think of famous basketball players? This activity can make preparation for the next activity. So, after that, I will ask them work in groups of 3 or 4, to talk about the topic: It’s good or difficult to be a famous basketball player because…. They can express their feelings about this topic freely. Also, they have more opportunities to use the passive voice in past tense.

Step 5 Summary and HomeworkAt the end of the class, I’d like to make a summary about this lesson and present my homework to consolidate what the students have learnt in this period. Ask students to make a poster which about the things they want to invent, e.g. a special car /key/bag/bowl/bowl. They can paste the photo on it. It should include the following aspects:

----What is it made of?

----What is it used for?

----What does it look like?

----Where and when can it be used?

----How much will it cost?

The poster should be handed before the next class.

That’s all for the teaching procedures. And these are the blackboard notes. On the left, there are some words and expressions. On the right, is mind map of the passage. I write them on the blackboard to remind students to use them as much as possible in group work throughout the lesson. And show them the key points of this lesson.

That’s all for my teaching design. Thank you for your listening.

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