Period 5 Speaking and Writing The General Idea of This Period
In this period we have two aims.One is to encourage the students to think of a woman that they admire or like and make a description of her.The second is to organize their ideas into a well-organized composition. Teaching Important Points
Get the Ss to talk about the woman that they admire or like. Enable the students to write a description of a woman. Teaching Difficult Points How to talk about a woman.
How to write a description of a person. Teaching Methods
Discussion in pairs and in groups of four.
Practice to improve the students’ writing ability. Teaching Aids
A multimedia computer A projector
Three Dimensional Teaching Aims
Knowledge and Skills
Get the students to talk about the woman that they admire or like.
Help the students write a description of the woman that they admire or like. Process and Strategies
Group work or individual work to involve the students in a heated discussion.
Explanation to acquaint the students with the tips of writing a composition of description. Feelings and Value
By discussing the students may have a better understanding of the position that women are in thus causing the students to think more about sexism.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead in
1.Show some pictures and get the students to describe them.
T:Do you like watching films and TV series?Ss:Yes,but we don’t have much time. T:Do you know the stars? Ss:Yes.
T:Who is the first one? Ss:Zhou Xun.
T:What does she look like?
S:She has big and bright eyes.
S:She has a baby face.She is very cute.
T:Good.We may say she is a cute lady with a baby face and big and bright eyes.What about the second?Do you know her?Who is she? Ss:Lin Xinru.
T:How would you describe her? S:Her hair is very long. S:Her eyes are very big.
S:She is quite a slim lady.She is very attractive.
T:Good.We may say she is a slim attractive lady with silky hair and big eyes.What about the last one?
Ss:Liu Yifei,a dedicate young girl. T:Do you like her? Ss:Yes.
T:Why do you like her?
Ss:Because her acting skills are extremely good.She has made many successful films although she is very young.One of them is The Story of a Noble Family(金粉世家). 2.Words that can be used to describe persons.
Instruct the students to think of some words to describe persons.They can be classified as follows: Positive:strong,smart,honest,friendly,kind,cheerful,generous
warm-hearted,hard-working,popular,intelligent,brave,modest,confident,considerate,determined,unselfish,hard-working,energetic etc.
Negative:weak,stupid,lazy,dishonest,cold,foolish,unkind,dull Step 2 Speaking
Get the students to think of a woman who is impressive to them.Work in pairs to make up a dialogue about the woman,asking questions and describing her.Try to use some of the words above and the following expressions.
T:Do you know any woman who is impressive to you?
Ss:Yes.Madame Curie/ Wu Zetian,the only female emperor in Chinese history/ Wu Yi/ My mother/ My teacher/My sister.
T:OK,you must want her known by others.Now please work in pairs and ask your partners to get information about the woman and the partner tries to describe the woman.Try to use the words above and the following expressions.After five minutes,I would like some pairs to present your dialogue.
What does she look like/ What is she like/ How would you describe her? What do you think about her?
Why do you like/love/ admire her? What are her strengths/ weaknesses?
How do other friends/ others describe her? Get two pairs to present their dialogue. Sample dialogue:
Apple:Who is the most impressive woman to you,Panda? Panda:My former English teacher,Annie Lou. Apple:Oh.What does she look like?
Panda:She is a pretty lady with short hair and bright eyes.She always wears a pair of glasses over her nose.
Apple:How would you describe her?
Panda:I think she is warm-hearted and unselfish.It is said that she is sponsoring a poor student in Xinjiang to continue her schooling in a high school. Apple:Really?She is so generous!Is she rich?
Panda:No,she doesn’t earn a lot herself.But she says she will try what she can to help others. Apple:Why did she choose to become a teacher?
Panda:At first she chose to become a teacher because she didn’t have to pay for the fees.But when she became a teacher,she found the students were so lovely that she came to love them and teaching.
Apple:Is she strong?
Panda:No.In fact,she is not in good health.But she’s energetic when she is on the platform.She devotes all her time to her students.and she is always considerate to us. Apple:You are so lucky to have so good a teacher. Panda:Why do you admire her?
Apple:Her confidence attracts me.She often encourages us to believe in ourselves and many of us has been influenced by her. Panda:How great she is! Step 3 Writing 1.Making an outline
T:Now you have made your partner know the woman impressive to you.Would you like her to be known by more people?Yes?OK I would like you to write a composition to describe her.Before we write the composition we should make full preparations. First what should you do? Ss:We should make an outline.
T:How to make an outline effectively?
S:First we should collect as much information as possible and make an analysis so as to classify it into different ideas,arranging which information is needed for the description of the appearance,which is for quality and which is for her advantages.Try to make each idea into a paragraph.
2.Making a draft
T:Good.What about the next step?What should we do? Ss:We should make a draft.
T:Yes.This step is very important.We should write down simple sentences,paying attention to the tenses and voices.
Most importantly,we should organize the sentences into topic sentence and supporting sentences.That is to say,the beginning sentence should be able to conclude the idea of the rest of the paragraph.If possible,give a concluding sentence. Topic sentence Supporting 1 examples Supporting sentence 2 For instant, Supporting sentence 3 examples Concluding sentence Then ask the students to write a draft in consideration of the discussion.After they finish,exchange their drafts and find some mistakes for each other.
At last show some of their drafts on the slide,pointing out the mistakes and appreciating the beautiful sentences.
3.Writing a description
If time permits,get the students to make the draft into a passage,adding necessary details.When they are trying to finish the assignment,go around and see their common strengths and weaknesses.After they finish,get them to check with each other.Then choose some to show on the slide and get the others to appreciate together,pointing out the strengths and weaknesses.At last show them a sample.
My teacher,Ms Zhang,is well past fifty.She is an ordinary-looking woman with a pair of bright eyes.She looks old for her age,because her hair is all white.
She is a teacher well worth honor.She came to our school in 1990,and has always been one of its best and most popular teachers.She works very hard.She carefully prepares her lessons,delivers her lectures and corrects our homework.She has been a friend to her students as well as a teacher.Whenever I need help,She will pay extra attention to me both inside and outside of class.I shall always be grateful for the help and guidance she has given me.
I respect my teacher very much.Every Spring Festival I pay a visit to him.I am proud of having a teacher like her.I like her very much. Step 4 Summary and Homework
T:Time is running out.We have to stop here.Today we talked about the important or impressive women around.Again we can see showing love to each other is of great importance.If we love each other,we can make our life more interesting and colorful. Step 5 Homework
Check their compositions again and write one. Sum up what we have learnt in this unit.
The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard Unit 1 Period 5 Speaking and Writing 1.Speaking Words to describe persons Positive:strong,smart,honest,friendly,kind,cheerful,generous warm-hearted,hard-working,popular,intelligent,brave,modest,confident,considerate,determined,unselfish,hard-working,energetic etc. Negative:weak,stupid,lazy,dishonest,cold,foolish,unkind,dull 2.Writing a description Steps: 1)Make an outline. 2)Make a draft. 3)Write a composition. Record after Teaching
Activities and Research
In this period the teacher may ask the students to choose a woman they think are the greatest and introduce her to his deskmate.Besides,the teacher can arouse a discussion about sexism. Reference for Teaching Learning Tips
书面表达写作指导
书面表达是综合性强、难度大的题目.但是,当我们深入研究后就不难发现,书面表达实质上就是组词成句、联句成篇的一项系统工程.只要我们抓好词、句、段这三个环节,加强缩写、改写、仿写等练习,由简到繁、由易到难,一环扣一环地进行训练,由模仿到活用,由操练到交际,就能使语言知识逐步转化成语言交际能力.
(一)选词
词是语言的最小组成单位,不同词性的词组合在一起构成句子.因此,要充分利用课文中出现的重点单词、词组、句型,培养学生学习和识记单词的能力.
1.注意一词多义的应用.如time一词,在Times have changed中指“时代”;在six times the size of mine中指“倍数”;在in slow time中指“拍子”.切忌在写文章下笔时,一词滥用,似是而非.
2.结合英语构词法,同义反义比较,名词的可数与不可数词义的区别,加强对英语词形变化的理解,扩充词汇量.
3.巧用过渡词,增强文章逻辑性.为了使所写短文通顺,连贯得体,句子与句子之间过渡自然,提高所写短文的质量,适当加上一些表示时间顺序、递进、因果、条件、让步等关系的过渡词是很有必要的.常见的过渡词有:
(1)表时间顺序的过渡词:first,second,third,and then,finally,before,after a few days,at last,at that time,later,in the past,immediately,in the meanwhile等等.
(2)表空间顺序的过渡词:near(to),far(from),in the front of,beside,behind,beyond,above,below,to the right,to the left,on one side,on the other side of,outside等等.
(3)表并列的过渡词:also,and,then,too,as well(as)等等.
(4)表转折的过渡词:but,yet,however,in spite of,otherwise等等.
(5)表递进的过渡词:what’ s more,besides,what’ s worse,in addition,furthermore,moreover,again等等.
(6)表目的的过渡词:for this reason,for this purpose,so that;in order that,so as to,in order to等等.
(7)表因果的过渡词:because,since,so,as a result,therefore,thus,as等等. (8)表解释说明的过渡词:for example,in fact,in this case,for,actually等等. (9)表条件的过渡词:as long as,so long as,on condition that,if,unless等等.
(10)表让步的过渡词:though,as,even if／though,who(what,when,where)ever等等. (11)表总结的过渡词:in brief,as has been stated,in a word等等.
(12)过渡性插入语:I think,I’ m afraid,you know,as we all know等等. (二)造句
句子是表达一个较完整意思的最小单位,所以遣词造句的能力在英语写作中是非常重要的,是书面表达成败的关键.因此,加强造句训练就显得尤其重要.
[高中英语]2017年高一英语人教版必修4教案：Unit1Period5SpeakingandWriting+Word版含解析
