Historical stories

chapter 5 historical stories
teaching plan
(the fifth period)
speaker: tan hua
date: november 18,
class: class 6, junior 2, gangxia middle school
contents: the text of chapter 5, 8a --- <the night of the horse>
aims: 1. students can understand the reason of the trojan war.
2. students can catch the main idea of the text.
3. students can master the main phrases and important sentences.
4. students can realize that it’s important to keep the world peaceful and keep our minds peaceful.
key points: 1. the main idea of the text.
          2. the key phrases and important sentences.
          3. the three meanings of ‘trojan horse’.
          4. moral instruction: no wars, no violence!
                           keep the world peaceful!
                           keep our minds peaceful!
teaching methods: pair work, group work, individual
teaching aids: multi-media, slide-show, exercise paper
teaching personalities:
1. try my best to be an active, attractive, energetic and passionate teacher.
2. english is a language not knowledge. the best way to learn english well is to practice every day, not only in class but also after class. so i insist on talking with my students in english very often, although it’s very difficult at the very beginning. but one year later, more and more students in my classes can understand me in english more and more. some top students can even chat with me in english more easily and fluently now.
teaching procedures:
i. pre-task activities
  step 1: leading to the historical stories by showing some pictures of the famous films.
  step 2: catching the main idea of the story by watching a video about the trojan war.
ii. while-task activities
  step 1: answering seven questions about the trojan war.
  step 2: arranging the six pictures in the correct order.
step 3: listening to the tape. reading the text together with the tape.
step 4: finding out the main phrases in the text.
step 5: doing some exercises of paraphrasing.
iii. post-task activities
  step 1: reading the text again.
step 2: filling in the blanks according to the text.
  step 3: exchanging and checking up the exercise paper.