Unit 7 Days and Months

2. 課堂設計與課時分配
period 1   speaking and listening
period 2   grammar
period 3   speaking and listening
period 4   speaking and reading
period 5   speaking and listening
period 6   speaking
period 7   speaking and listening
period 8   integrating skills

iii. teaching plans for each period 分課時教案

period 1 speaking and listening
target language 目標語言
1. words and phrases 生詞和短語
  march, april, may, june, july, august, autumn, september, october, november, december, january, february, weather, windy, sunny, cloudy, snowy, rainy, season, month, spring, summer, winter
2. key sentences 重點句子
there are four seasons in a year.
how is the weather? it’s …
what weather do you like?
ability goals 能力目標
enable students to say the twelve months, the four seasons and talk about different weather.
learning ability goals 學能目標
help students learn about different seasons and weather.
teaching important and difficult points 教學重難點
learn to express different seasons and different weather.
teaching methods 教學方法
speaking, listening and game.
teaching aids 教具準備
pictures, cards and tape recorder.
teaching procedures & ways 教學過程與方式

step i lead-in
use a beautiful wall calendar to teach the twelve months one by one: january, february, march, april, may, … (show ss cards for months.) have ss repeat them.
then ask: how many months are there in a year?
help ss try to answer: there are twelve months in a year.

step ii game
what’s missing?
put up the twelve months in the front of the classroom. tell ss to look at the twelve months for one minute and then close their eyes. remove a picture.
ask ss to open their eyes and try to figure out which month you have removed. call on individual ss to answer with the removed month until one answer correctly.
then the student who answered correctly hides a picture and leads the guessing.

step iii presentation
show ss many beautiful pictures on the screen.
first show pictures of green trees, green grass, flowers that come out, melting snow, ...
t: every year we can see these things. we call this period “spring”. (write it on the bb and let ss read it.)
then show pictures of girls who wear skirts, boys who wear shorts, old men with fans, swimming children in the pool, ...
t: you must be familiar with these pictures. we call this period “summer”. (write it on the bb and let ss read it.)
teach “autumn” and “winter” with the same way.
at last, ask ss: how many seasons are there in a year?