Teaching Plan
Unit 2 Robots
Pre-reading & Reading
Teacher: LianPing Middle School, ZengYumei
Teaching material: Pre-reading & Reading (1st period)，Unit2 Robots，Module 7
Teaching Aims:
1. To get the students to know more characteristics of robots.
2. To introduce some words about emotions to the students.
3. To improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. To teach the students how to grasp the detailed information to finish the reading task.
2. To get the students to understand the feelings and emotions of the heroine in the story.
3. To make every student active in this lesson.
Teaching approaches: Situational approaches, task-based approaches, cooperativelearning and communicative approaches.
Teaching Aids: a computer, a projector and a tape recorder.
Teaching Procedures:
(Play the song “Yesterday Once More” and give each group of students a card with a number and get them to write down their names on the card.)
Step I Greeting & Introduction.
T: Class begins!
Ss: Good morning, teacher!
T: Good morning, everyone! Sit down please. Very glad to meet you here! First, let me introduce myself to you. My name is Zeng Yumei. I am from LianPing Middle School. It is really a great honor for me to have an English class with you here. I hope all of you can have a good time in my class. As a teacher, I like to make friends. So I hope after this class, we can be friends. Look! I like this saying very much. (Show the students a proverb) Can you read it together?
Get the students to read the proverb: A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Step II Leading in (Pre-reading).
T: Very good! As we know, friends are very important in our life. So I hope all of you can have a friend in need. By the way, do you think we can make friends with robots? Yes or no?
Show the students some pictures of robots and get some of them to say what they think the robots can do.
T: As you know, robots can do a lot of things. But do you think a robot can think for itself? Does a robot have feelings? And can it share our feelings? Well, I would like you to discuss these questions on the screen.
(The questions: Do you think it is possible for a robot to think for itself / have feelings / have its own needs and desires / look and feel like a human being.)
Explain the questions to the students, then ask them to discuss in groups.
T: Please discuss the questions in groups. You are given two minutes to do it. Now begin, please. After you discuss, I will ask some groups to tell me their opinions. Do you understand?
(After two minutes.)
T: Time’s up. Which group can tell me their opinions, please?
Get two groups of students who have different opinions to answers the questions. Give them points if they can express their opinions well.
T: From your answers, I know you are not quite sure whether robots can have feelings, thoughts and desires. Now let’s read a story about a robot. After reading the story, I am sure you will know more about robots.
Step III Presentation (Reading & Comprehending).
Introduce the style of the text Satisfaction Guaranteed. Explain the name of the story if necessary.
T: The story we are going to learn is Satisfaction Guaranteed. Do you understand its meaning?
Ss: Yes / No.
T: Well, we have learned the word “satisfy”. It is a verb. “Satisfaction” is the noun of it. It means the feeling of being satisfied. Are you clear? We have learned the word “guaranteed”, right? So the meaning of the name is that you will be surely satisfied.
Part I Word learning
T: Before we learn the text we’d better learn the new words. I will show you some sentences with the new words. Please guess the meanings of them. You’d better tell me their meanings in English, Understand? I would like you to have a competition. The student who put up his/ her hand most quickly can g
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