A Teaching Plan for Reporting Class
Content: Christmas Lesson 4 Unit 3 Module 1
Place: The Multimedia Room on F 3, No.2 Middle School
Time: November 24, 2009
Teacher: Liu Jing
A Teaching Plan for
Christmas Lesson 4 Unit 3
Ⅰ. Teaching Objectives:
1. Knowledge objectives:
(1) To build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas.
(2) To read a narrative text and understand the story.
2. Ability objectives:
(1) To develop reading strategies to answer the multiple-choice
questions.
(2) To improve the students’ reading ability.
(3) To develop the student’s speaking ability by describing, talking and
discussion.
3. Moral objectives:
(1) To get to know about the origin of Christmas and the ways to
celebrate it.
(2) To make the students be aware of the cultural differences by
comparing Christmas in western countries with the Spring
Festival in our China.
Ⅱ. Teaching Important Points:
1. To learn and master the words associated with Christmas.
2. To improve the students’ reading ability.
3. To enable the students to understand the text better.
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficult Points:
1. How to help the students understand the reading passage better.
2. How to improve the students’ reading ability.
Ⅳ. Teaching Type:
A reading class
Ⅴ. Teaching Methods:
1. Task-based teaching method
2. Teaching the text as a whole
3. Question-and-answer activity method
4. Individual, pair, or group work to make every student in class work
Ⅵ. Teaching Aids:
The multimedia
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedure:
Step 1 Warm-up
1. Greet the whole class as usual.
2. Introduce the tasks in this period.
Step 2 Lead-in
1. Students listen to a song and then answer the following questions
shown on the screen:
(1) Do you know the name of this song?
(2) On what special occasion do we sing this song?
2. Check the answer as a class, thus leading into today’s topic
Step 3 Pre-reading
1. Show today’s learning objectives on the screen.
2. Ask the students if they know the origin of Christmas. If they don’t
know, tell them and then ask:
When talking about Christmas, what can you think of?
3. Get the students to answer the question above as a class. Maybe
they don’t know the exact English name for those things associated
with Christmas. Draw their attention to the Key Words in Exercise
1 and then check the meaning of these words by pictures shown on
the screen.
Step 4 While-reading
1. Skimming
(1) Students read the text quickly, and match the main idea shown on
the screen with each paragraph.
(2) Get individual students to match and check answers as a class.
2. Scanning
(1) Go through the Reading Strategies about how to do multiple-choice
questions with the students.
(2) Students read the passage carefully and do the multiple-choice
questions handed out to them.
(3) Get the students individually to report their answer and then check
the answers as a class.
Step 6 Post-reading
1. Students read the article again and work out:
In what order did the children do these things?
Example: 1 d)
a) open the new year calendar
b) put their stockings at the end of the bed
c) sing Christmas carols
d) write a letter to Father Christmas
e) put up the Christmas tree
f) go to church
g) have Christmas cake
2. Check the answer as a class by the diagram shown on the screen.
Key: 2 a 3 c 4 e 5 b 6 f 7 g
Step 7 Pronunciation-checking
Students listen to the tape. Ask them to pay attention to the
pronunciation of the new words and the intonation of the sentences.
Step 8 Discussion
1. Christmas is known as the “Spring Festival” in western countries.
Students are expected to work in groups and discuss:
What are the similarities and differences between Christmas in western
countries and the Spring Festival in China?
2. Students may don’t know how to express the things associated with
the Spring Festival in English. Before the discussion, show the
students some pictures about the Spring Festival, thus making it easier
for them to discuss.
3. Students discuss in groups and then get several individual groups to
report back their discussion to the whole class.
4. Make a conclusion of the students’ discussion by showing on the
screen the similarities and differences between Christmas and the
Spring Festival.
Step 9 Summary and Homework
1. Sum up what we’ve learned today.
2. Ask the students to write a passage about the similarities and
differences between Christmas and the Spring Festival.
Reflection: (filled in immediately after class)
A Blackboard Design
Lesson 4 Christmas
Slides:
☆ Task 1 Read the text quickly and choose
the main idea for each paragraph
☆ Task 2 Answer the multiple-choice
questions.
☆Task 3 In what order did the children do
these things?
☆ Task 4 Discussion
Vocabulary:
stocking
seriously
pole
the North Pole
envelope
calendar
decoration
swallow
adult
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