Teaching Plan

Module 5 Unit13 Lesson 1 First Impressions

李伦军    2009-9-13

Teaching objectives:

By the end of the class, you will be able to reach the following levels :

l        Level 1 Read and get the general idea of the text.

l        Level 2 Learn to make inferences.

l        Level 3 Read and get the details of the text.

l        Level 4 Get a deeper understanding of the text.

l        Level 5 Learn to talk about and write about a similar experience.

Possible challenges:

l        Students may have difficulty “making inferences”.

l        Students may also be too shy to engage in learning activities, and may call for more help with the writing and speaking activity.

Teaching approach:

l        Communicative language instruction

Teaching strategies:

l        Brainstorming

l        Pair and group work

l        Information gap activities

l        Skimming

l        Reading in detail

l        Inductive learning

Teaching aids:

l        Multimedia ( CAI )

Teaching procedures:

Step I Pre -reading

1.        Lead in

With the help of the picture, talk about “First impressions” together to warm them up.

Brainstorming is employed to help students come up with some words about “being angry”.

2.        Objectives

Have the students choose a level of objectives for themselves, which they think they can achieve by the end of the lesson. This step is used to help students to do self-assessment by the end of the lesson.

Step II While-reading

3.        Skimming for the main idea.

Get the class to work in groups.

Firstly, half of the group read the first part and try to work out the main idea, and other half do the second part.

Secondly, share ideas.

4.        Learning a reading strategy – Making inferences

a.       What is it?

b.      How to use it?

c.       Apply it to get a deeper understanding of the text.

Show students two examples and help them to observe and discover the features of the strategy.

5.        Careful reading

First, have the class work in pairs to fill in the blanks based on what they have read. By doing so, students can have a whole picture of the story.

Second, guide students to pay attention to the six essential elements of a story, which will help prepare for retelling the story and their language output, speaking and writing.

Step III Post- reading

6.        Retelling the story

Encourage students to try to retell the story by using the six essentials.

7.        Writing and speaking

Firstly, have students work in pairs to talk about a similar experience and make notes of their stories.

Secondly, encourage them to share their stories with each other.

8.        Discussion ( Optional)

Get students to work in groups to figure out how they find “first impressions”.

9.        Self-assessment and wrap-up

Have a brief review of what they have learned and turn to the objectives to make sure which level students have reached. Both congratulations and encouragement are to be offered.

Step IV Further reading & Homework

10.    Offer some useful websites for the students to do further reading.

 a. http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/FirstImpressions.htm

b. http://www.brainpopjr.com/reading/comprehension/makeinferences/grownups.weml

c. http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

11.    Ask students to finish the whole story after class.