No Boundaries
Good morning, everyone. My name is CaoLi. It’s my pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about some of my teaching ideas . My topic is No Boundaries taken from Senior English for China Student’s Book 2A unit1. It is made up of four parts.
Part 1 Teaching Material
This lesson is an extensive reading. By studying No Boundaries, the Ss can improve their reading ability; get know something about the famous scientist Stephen Hawking; and learn the spirit of Hawking. At the same time, we should get the students to discuss something about Hawking to improve their oral ability and understand the passage better. Let the Ss become stronger-mind to face the difficulty in their lives. On studying the teaching material and analyzing the regulation of the Ss’ growing of mind, I put forward the teaching objectives according to English Syllabus and new lesson standard.
1 Perception objective
boundary, disable, work on, go by, be/get engaged to sb., use up, dream of, go on with, turn out, seek
2 Ability objectives
Train the Ss’ reading skills.
The Ss master the language points and can apply it flexibly.
3 Emotional objectives
By studying the text, let Ss become stronger-mind to face the difficulties in their lives.
Make Ss be aware of the importance of life and require them to cherish the life.
Next is teaching important points:
Get to know something about the famous scientist Stephen Hawking.
Teaching difficult points:
First of all, develop some basic skills of reading.
Second, learn the spirit of Hawking.
Something about the Ss:
The senior students have learned some vocabularies, so they can express their ideas to some extent.
Some Ss are not active in the class because they are afraid of making mistakes. So we should encourage them to practice.
Well, I’ll talk about my teaching methods below.
Part 2 Teaching Methods:
According to the modern perception theories and social intercourse teaching theories, I adopts the question-and–answer method, cooperate method and discussion method in my teaching.
First, question-and–answer method, to some degree, it can arouse Ss’ interest and develop their corpus.
Second, cooperate method can cultivate the Ss’s communicate skills and influence efficiency of the class.
Third, discussion can help develop their thinking and communicative ability.
At the same time, make use of the modern electricity teaching equipment and all kinds of teaching means. It can mobilize the Ss’ enthusiasm and creativity in learning English.
Teaching Aids:
A tape recorder, a projector and a computer
Part 3 Studying Methods:
Let the Ss study in a relaxed and agreeable atmosphere, Ss understand the main idea of text through the mental process of reading, saying, thinking ect.
After feeling and comprehending the passage, let the Ss talk something about Hawking in their own words. Thereby, develop the Ss’ abilities of organization the language and cultivate their thinking.
Part 4 Teaching Process:
In order to realize the teaching process systematically, properly and efficiently, under the principle of “regard Ss as the corpus, the teacher inspires for predominance”, I divided the teaching process into six steps.
Step 1 Lead-in
First, I show the question ‘…may not have more than twelve months to live. How would you feel? What would you do?’ on the PowerPoint and ask the Ss to say something about it. And then show what Stephen Hawking thought on the PowerPoint. The purpose is to arouse the Ss’ interest of the study on Hawking.
Step 2 Fast reading
Before fast reading, here some questions for them.
1 Why did Stephen Hawking need a PhD?
2 When did Hawking become famous?
3. When did Hawking visit Beijing?
The purpose is to concentrate the Ss’s thinking, make them find the answer quickly to develop some basic skills of reading. It als
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