Lesson 1  Li Ming Is Back to School

lesson 1  li ming is back to school

ⅰ.teaching content:

1.     new words and phrases: grade, student, class, pupil, cousin; be back, have lessons/classes

2.     introduce yourself and your school

ⅱ.teaching goals

1.     learn new words: back grade, student, class, pupil & cousin

2.     make sure the ss can introduce themselves and their school

3.     talk about the differences between schools in china and other countries.

ⅲ.key points:

 1) some new words and phrases

 2) introduce a school by mail

ⅳ.difficult points: compare schools in china and canada

ⅴ.preparation: some word cards, pictures

ⅵ.teaching resources: recorder, pictures or cards

ⅶ.type of the lesson: listening and speaking

ⅷ.teaching procedure

1: class opening

1)teacher’s and ss’ self-introductions.

t: i’m your (new) english teacher from today. my name is …. you can call me mr./ms.x. i’m glad to learn english with you. i hope to be your friend, so i want to know you now. please introduce yourself to me. who wants to be my first friend?

s1: my name is wang wei.

t: good, thank you wang wei. you are a handsome boy.　.

s2: my name is li xiaohua.

t: very good. glad to get my second friend. thanks, xiaohua. your red skirt is so beautiful. i like red very much. where are you from?

…

(the teacher can ask ss some other questions, such as: how old are you? do you like english? what’s your favorite color? etc. but do remember to praise each student for whatever he/she says in english.)

2)lead in today’s new lesson

t: after you introduced yourselves, i have known some of you. now i want to know something about our school. who can tell me? is it big?

s3: yes, it’s very big.        

t: oh? how big is it?

s4: every grade has 8 classes.

t: wow, yeah. it’s quite big. then we have 24 classes (the teacher can pause a little here , waiting for the ss speak together) altogether. very good, who can tell me how many students in our class?

s5: forty-eight.

t: thank you, s5. you know our class well. how many girls in our class?

s6: twenty-five.

…

t: thank you all for telling me about our school. who knows schools in some other countries? for example, in canada, their schools are bigger or smaller? you can guess the answer. who wants to have a try?

s7: bigger?

t: good! a nice try. thanks.

s8: i think, smaller.

t: good, it’s a different answer. thank you. we’ll get the answer after we learn this lesson. please turn to page 2 of your textbook. we have more questions to discuss.