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Be Careful with Numbers in Listening Class: Class 12, Senior Two Date: May 16,2007 Teacher: Ni Yazhen School: Zhi Yuan Senior High School Teaching Material: P75 S2B Oxford English; Additional material(The new Star Wars movie, Be Careful with Numbers) Teaching Objectives: Knowledge objectives: To enable students to listen and complete some exercises Ability Objectives: To encourage the students to have basic skills of listening. Emotion objectives: To cultivate the cooperation through peer interaction Teaching aids: Multi-media Teaching and learning method: Guiding for learning Teaching Procedures: I. Presentation Today we’ll have a class on listening practice “Be careful with numbers in listening”: First we’ll play a game. Then, we’ll practice. Lead-in A game on number II. Performance: Quick and accurate response to numbers is very important in daily communication. Telephone numbers, addresses, prices, temperatures, time and dates all closely linked with the use of numbers .Besides, numbers also play a very important part in broadcast programmes such as reports Now let’s listen to some advice from experts. Task 1 Be Careful with Numbers (Play the recorder Twice) Individual work→pair work(check the answer with your partner)→Group work(Underline the important sentences. e.g. The differences between million and billion, “-teen’s” and “-ty’s” are …..“Seventeen point five million.”…)Whole class read the key sentences. Well-done! Numbers are all around us. Let us practice with numbers and learn to be good at numbers.(First read out the following numbers… Watch the screen) Task 2 Listen to some statements about the brief history of films and TV. First check the answers in groups. If you have different opinion , please raise your hands. Judgement: (First students give themselves a judge. Then teacher does it) It seems no challenge. Now, We’ll do challenge exercise. So pay special attention to the numbers in the passage and select the correct answer from the choices listed below. First teach the students new words in listening material. Then ask students to read out the numbers in Star Wars. III. Promotion: Challenge exercise Star Wars Listen to the tape twice →Check the answers IV. Conclusion: What we learned today is “Be careful with numbers in numbers.”Remember the following points when you are doing listening tasks:

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A teaching plan By Liu Yi qiu School: Chen Middle School in Chongqing Junior or Senior Section：Junior Class：_one Grade : Seven_ Size: 40 students Time:_40 minutes Materials: _Unit 1 Making New Friends. Topic 1 Welcome to China ! Date: _December 13th_ Type of lesson: __listening and speaking_ Aids: computer-aided instruction power point tape recorder Contents: 1. Vocabulary：China, welcome , meet, thanks, you, I , yes, no, good morning, name, clock, what. 2. Structure: Good morning! I am …….Welcome to china! Good morning! I am …….. Are you Maria? Yes, I am. No, I am not, I am……. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Thank you!

3. Dialogue: ①-Hello! -Hello! - I am Kangkang . Are you Maria? - Yes, I am. ②-Hello! Are you Maria? -No, I am not, I am Jane. -Oh ! Nice to meet you, Jane. - Nice to meet you, too. ③-Hi! Maria! - Hi! Kangkang! -Welcome to China! - Thanks! 4. listening: Listen and number the following names. Listen and number the following letters. Then circle the letters with the same sound as Bb. Objectives: 1. Teaching Aims and Demands (1) Instructional Objectives Be able to use the new words: guitar: China, welcome , meet, thanks, you, I , yes, no, good morning, name, clock, what. Be able to use the new and phrases: ①-Hello!

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Teaching Aims: Knowledge aim: Students will know Lin Fei’s daily life and some good habits at their home. Ability aim: Students will improve their listening and speaking skills. Emotional aim: After this lesson students would like to learn to arrange their life and form good habit in the daily life. Teaching Key and difficult Points: Teaching Key Points: Students will understand this passage by listening and make a time line of Lin Fei’s life. Teaching Difficult Points: How to describe their own life style of the school day Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming-up Do a survey:ask students to fill the questionnaire (with different daily activities and time point, students just need to mark the activities in their time) and invite some students to share. Step 2 Pre-listening Show some pictures about Lin Fei’s day and ask students “what does Lin Fei do in a day Step 3 While-listening Play the tape recorder and ask students some question. Q: What is the distance between his school and home Play the tape recorder another time and give students some other questions to practice their listening again. Q1: When should Lin Fei go to school Q2: How long will it take Lin Fei to ride to the bus station

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Contents: 1. Vocabulary：guitar, join, dance, swim, sing, chess, paint, s peak, play chess, speak English, play the guitar, want to join the music club, art club. 2. Structure: Can you play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---? Yes, I can. No, I can’t. Bu t I can---. Can he/she play the guitar/ swim/paint/dance---? Yes, he/she can. No, he/she can’t.Bu t he/she can---. I want to join the art club. Objectives: 1. Teaching Aims and Demands (1) Instructional Objectives Be able to use the new words and phrases. Be able to use “can” and can’t. (2) Ability Objectives Be able to use what they learned to describe what they can do and give responses. 2. Teaching Importance To master the key vocabulary To understand and use the target language To master the usage of the different forms of “can” in the target language. 3. Teaching Difficulties To enable the students to understand the sentence patterns to talk about the ability activities. 4. Teaching Aids: Multi-media computer 5. The Teaching Methods: TPR, Conversation

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Teaching Aims: Knowledge aim: Students will know Lin Fei’s daily life and some good habits at their home. Ability aim: Students will improve their listening and speaking skills. Emotional aim: After this lesson students would like to learn to arrange their life and form good habit in the daily life. Teaching Key and difficult Points: Teaching Key Points: Students will understand this passage by listening and make a time line of Lin Fei’s life. Teaching Difficult Points: How to describe their own life style of the school day? Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming-up Do a survey:ask students to fill the questionnaire (with different daily activities and time point, students just need to mark the activities in their time) and invite some students to share. Step 2 Pre-listening Show some pictures about Lin Fei’s day and ask students “what does Lin Fei do in a day? Step 3 While-listening Play the tape recorder and ask students some question. Q: What is the distance between his school and home? Play the tape recorder another time and give students some other questions to practice their listening again. Q1: When should Lin Fei go to school? Q2: How long will it take Lin Fei to ride to the bus station?

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LESSON PLAN Time of Lesson: 45 minutes Students: Senior Grade One Teaching Material: How Did Postage Stamps Come Into Use Teaching Objectives: 1. To train Ss\' reading ability(such as guessing the meaning of new words in the context, the speed of reading.) 2. To train Ss\' reading comprehension(To get messages from what they read.) Teaching Points: 1. Ss get used to three reading skills. 2. Ss understand the given passage. Properties: Stamps, letters, postcards, work sheets, OHP Teaching Method: Communicative Approach Lesson Type:

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Teaching Plan Student: The students of Grade 9 Teaching Content: Go for it, students’ book of grade 9. Unit 1, the title is How do you study for a test? Section B, 3a, 3b, 3c. Teaching hour: One class hour Teaching plan: I. Teaching Aims: 1. Learn and master new words, phrases and sentence patterns. 2. Enable the students to talk in English about how to study English very well. 3. Develop the students speaking and writing ability. II. Teaching Main Points: 1. Improve the students’ speaking and writing ability. 2. Master some phrases and some sentence patterns. III. Teaching Difficult Points: 1. Phrases: first of all, later on, laugh at, take notes 2. Sentence Patterns: Sb. be afraid to do sth. Sb. realize that –clause IV. Teaching Methods: 1. Fast reading to find out the general information about the passage.

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