Material Analysis:

It is a passage about choosing monitors, it introduces what you can say when you are running for a class monitor. As it is a reading material, reading strategies play an important role in reading learning, some proper tasks will be created to get students to practice the following strategies, such as skimming, scanning, detail-reading, pair work and so on.

Analysis of the students:

Students in Grade7 may be interested in this passage, because it tells choosing monitors which is close to their life. It’s easy for them to talk freely and say some authentic feelings in their mind. Therefore, different tasks will be designed to equip the students with the detailed information of the speech.

Teaching Objectives:

By the end of this session, most students will be able to understand the reading material, meanwhile, they will learn to be confident and express themselves properly. This will be achieved by the followings:

1.       Skim the passage to know some general information of the story; topic sentences of each paragraph, etc.

2.  Scan the passage to perceive some more detailed information of the speech; which monitor they would like to be, why they like it, how they ask for support, etc.

3. Retelling the story to have a better understanding of the structure and learn to make a speech like the passage.

4. Discussing to know what kind of person these three students are and try to be confident as them. The most important thing is find out their own advantages.

Teaching & Learning Focus:

1.       Have a good understand of the reading material.

2.       Learn to be confident and make a speech.

Anticipated Difficulties & Solutions:

1.       Some new words may obstruct students from understanding the passage well.

2.       Students may have a difficult time analysis the personality of these three people and retell the stories.

Solutions:

1.       Get students to guess the meaning of the words according to the certain context.

2.       Enable students to cooperate with partners and show their opinions.

Teaching methods:

Individual reading, group work and other task-based approaches.

Teaching aids:

Multi-media, reading material.

Teaching and learning arrangements

Stages/timing

Activities

Purpose

Greetings(1min)

The teacher greets the students and have a free talk.

To help students know today’s topic and attract students’ attention to the class.

Warming-up / Leading-in(3mins)

The teacher presents a picture and then ask students to describe the picture. Teacher can ask students the following questions:

What do you think of the boy in the picture?

What can he do?

Students try their best to talk something about the picture.

Key structure:

--He is good at singing.

--He does well in singing.

(Teacher can present another picture and then practice as the same.)

New year is coming. There is a new year party. But I can’t do it by myself. Who can help me?      Monitor.

Free talk:

1.In your class, who is a good monitor? Why?

2. What is he like?

Word bank:

be good at…

get on well with…

be ready to help…

do well at…

This step is designed to arouse students’ interest in learning today’s topic because the man in the picture is familiar to students. So they would more likely to talk freely. And the key sentence do well in is shown for the first time. Students can understand the meaning easily from the context.

修改：

情景设置不错，但是话题相关度不强。转换到monitor比较生硬，而且无法使学生更好的理解monitor的含义。

另外，word bank不可以在这个环节给出。

Free talk(3mins)

T: Who is your class monitor?

What can a class monitor do?

How about the PE monitor?

And study monitor?

What can you do for your class?

Which monitor would you like to be for your class?

Then teacher turn the topic to students’ life. They can talk based on their authentic life and express their own idea. In this step, students can also find advantages on themselves, which helps the final activities.

Skimming(4mins)

Q1: What are they doing?

They want to be monitor and make a speech for it.

Q2:How many people are speaking?

Who are they?

Three. Lingling, Daming and Tony.

Tips: Read the first sentence to get main idea. Pictures can also help us.

Get students to skim the passage, especially the first paragraph and first sentence of the each paragraph.

What’s the passage about?

A. Self-introduction

B. Speeches (演讲词) about running for (竞选) the monitors

C. How to choose a monitor

Tip1: Pay attention to the first paragraph of the passage.

Lingling would like to be _____________________.

Daming wants to be ________________________.

Tony would like to be ________________________.

Tip2: Pay attention to the topic（主题） sentences.

What’s Lingling like?

1.Get on well with everyone.

2.Work hard and do well at school.

3.Be ready to help others.

Q: What does do well at school mean?

She does well at school.

=She is good at studying.   ？？

修改：

这个问题设置过于简单，没有体现思维的深度。Tips虽然很重要，但是学生基本都知道通过图片和首段，建议可以从文体出发。

The questions are very easy for students. This step aims at getting students to have a general idea of the passage. Moreover some reading strategies will show from the steps in finding answers.

修改：

不太建议分段阅读，最好进行整体阅读。在进行整体阅读时，提问要注意培养学生的深层思维，加入一些深层次的问题。

Close-reading (8mins)

Get students read the passage carefully and find out the reasons why they run for the monitor.

Tip3: Underline(划线) some key words.(while reading)

Lingling:

1. get on well with classmates

2. work hard

3. do well at school

4. is ready to help others

Daming:

1. enjoy sports

2. run very fast

3. fit and healthy

4. play ball games well

5. is good at football and basketball

6. get best scores in every match

Tony:

1. help his mother do cleaning

2. like a clean and tidy house

3. make the classroom beautiful

T: What else do they say?

S: Choose me for/as…and we can…

T: Who will you support(支持)? Why?

This step is created to get students know initial meaning of the speech for running for a monitor. Another reading tip for students is to underline key words while reading. It isn’t difficult for them. So students can make their own sentences using new words.

Read for thinking (7mins)

The teacher asks students to work  in pairs and solve these problems.

Q1: Do you like Daming to be your PE monitor?

Q2: What do you think of Tony? If you are Tony, what will you say?

Q3: What is the most important thing when you run for a monitor?

It aims at checking if students have known the story deeply and express their own opinion towards monitor of class. By the way, they will learn to be confident and how to make a promise.

Group work(12mins)

If next term, you’ve got a chance to run for the monitor. Which monitor would you like to be for your class? What will you say?(下学期，如果你有机会竞选班长/委员/课代表)，你会选择哪一个？你准备怎么演讲？

Which monitor would you like to be?

  I would like to be…

Why ?

  I can…well.

  I get on well with…

  I do well in…

  I am ready to …

Ask for support:

  Choose me for/as… I’m sure…

Evaluation:

T:

1.       Who can be the ...monitor?

2.       Why do you choose him/her?

This step sets to check if students understand today’s topic and whether they can express their inner idea. Try to be confident in themselves. When others is listening, they also need to take notes and then retell after the speech.

Summary(1min)

Try to be confident! Everyone has his price. Be ready to help others.

To raise students to be a confident person and find their price.

Homework(1min)

Must to do:

Write a passage about the monitor you choose. You have to include, who they are, what job they do and why they can do it.

Challenge to do:

Look up the dictionary and find a suitable monitor for yourself. Think about if you want to win, what else you can say.

To consolidate what learnt today. Different homework for different level students is more suitable for students.