《Unit 1 Teenage Life》单元教案Unit 1 Teenage Life-Listening and Speaking & Listening and Talking【教材分析】The theme of “Listening and Speaking” is “Choose a school club”. Students will have a general understanding of different school clubs by listening and ultimately can make reasonable suggestions on the choice of clubs and make correct choices. School clubs are an important part of students’ campus life, as well as an important study to expand students’extracurricular knowledge, develop their skills and cultivate their interests.Listening text of “Listening and Speaking” consists of two parts. The first part is about the dialogue between teachers and students in the activities of the school clubs, which makes situational preparations for choosing a suitable clubs. The second part is the dialogue between Adam and Julie as senior high school students to discuss how to choose the right one.The theme of “Listening & Talking” is “Plan a camp for teenagers” Nowadays, more and more high school students are interested in participating in various camp activities, and take this opportunity to make friends, broaden their horizons and train their teams’spiritual and communication skills. The purpose of this section is to stimulate students’ imagination, plan a camp activity that their peers like and to use “be going to + verb primitive” and “will + verb primitive” to express future intentions or plans.Listening Text of “Listening & Talking” is a dialogue, where Max and Cao Jing talk about their participation in adventure camps and international youth camps on weekends.In the plan, the two men introduced the activities of the camp and expressed their expectations for the life of the camp. The dialogue highlights “be going to + verb” and “will + verb” are two structures used to express what will be done in the future.【教学目标与核心素养】1. Instruct students to get main facts by listening and motivate them to talk about the topics about how to choose a right school club, how to plan a camp for the future, and how to talk about future activities.2. Develop students’sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.3. Develop students’different listening skills to solve different listening comprehensive problems.4. Help students to understand how to use the structures “be going to do, will do, plan to do, there will be, hope to do” to discuss their future plans and activities.【教学重难点】Prompt Ss to talk about the related topics, such as how to choose a right school club, how to make a camp for the future, how to make a camp plan and how to talk about future activities.【教学过程】Step 1 Listening and SpeakingLead inThe teacher is advised to talk with their students about school clubs that they were in when they were at junior high school: boys and girls, have you ever taken part in any school clubs before and why you chose them? After the small talk, the teacher can move on by finishing the following listening task:Listen to the first two conversations and choose the correct answers.1. What are they learning about in Conversation 1?A. Hearing.B. Sounds.C. Dogs.2. The students are discussing in Conversation 2.A. schoolworkB. relationshipsC. dating3. Circle the two clubs where these two conversations happened.A. Science ClubB. Ballet ClubC. Nature ClubD. Debate Club.Learning tip:After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play Conversation 3 which is about how to help Adam choose a right club and after finishing listening for the first time, the students need to solve the following task.Listen to Conversation 3. Then help Adam choose a club.Tick the activities that happen in each club.Ballet Club○ learn new movements○ make ballet clothes○ watch dance programmesNature Club○ watch biology lectures○ grow plants○ work in a greenhouseCartoon Club○ watch cartoons○ write stories○ draw cartoonsVolunteer Club○ help old people○ clean up parks○ give directionsAfter finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play Conversation 3 again and solve the following task.1. Adam says that he likes ___________ but is not so interested in___________.2. Which club do you think is suitable for Adam? Why?I think Adam should join the _________Club because he says that he_________.Finally, after finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to instruct students to work in groups to finish the following project:Speaking ProjectWork in pairs. Help each other choose a school club.EXAMPLEA: Hi, Sam! I’ve decided to join the Music Club.B: Good decision!A: How about you? Are you going to join a club?B: Yes. I’m wondering which one I should choose: the Acting Club or the Ballet Club?A: I guess the question is... Do you like dancing better than acting?B: Actually, I like acting better, but my friends go to the Ballet Club and I want to be with them.A: Hmm ... If you ask me, I think you should choose what you like.Pronunciation part1. Have the Ss listen and repeat, then add more words to each group.2. Then listen to the proverbs and repeat. Have the Ss notice the pronunciation of the letters in bold.Step 2 Listening and Talking1. The teacher is advised to talk with their new students about the related topic: Boys and girls, do you know some structures to talk about future activities?Talking about future activitiesWe’ll …I plan to …There’ll be …I hope to …We’re going to …2. After their small talk, the teacher can move on by playing the listening and solve the following task.Underline the expressions in the sentences below Cao Jing and Max use to talk about the future.We’ll learn useful skills.I plan to improve my spoken English.There’ll be students from different schools.I hope to make new friends.We’ll talk about teenage life.I’ll learn to make a fire.There’ll be students from different countries at the camp.There’ll be some experts there to show us how to live in the wild.We’re going to learn about wildlife.I’m going to give a speech.I think I’m going to enjoy the activities.I think we’ll have a lot of fun.3. Work in groups. Plan a youth camp.Teacher make the Ss think of ideas for the camp. And they can use the questions below to get started. And have the Ss present their ideas for a youth camp to the class.●What kind of camp is it?●Who will be there?●What will they do?●Wh at will they learn?EXAMPLE______________campDo you want to have fun and learn at the same time? Then come to our camp. In our camp, you can learn about... There’ll be many interesting activities. First, we are going to... Then we’ll... We also plan to… Finally, we’ll... Please come to our camp!Unit 1 Teenage Life-Reading and Thinking【教材分析】The topic of this unit is about teenage life, which belongs to the theme context of “humans and oneself”.As teenagers who shoulder the responsibility of “Chinese great dream”, they must fully know themselves, including their strengths, weaknesses and challenges etc. They are supposed to improve themselves continuously and readily study their subjects, and thus foster their strategies and confidence in lifelong studies.This period is entitled the freshmen challenges, which mainly concerns some big challenges for new students in Senior high school. In this period, a teacher should lead students to find out what their challenges are and guide them to figure out how to crack the challenges and better themselves. More importantly, a teacher should instruct students to absorb new language points and appreciate the language. Besides, a teacher must instruct students to acquire some skills concerning reading efficiently and inspire them to talk more about their new school life, especially their newproblems and solutions both at school and in life.【教学目标与核心素养】1. Enable students to acquire the basic usage of the new words and expressions concerning the freshmen challenges and learn to use them flexibly.2. Enable students to have a good understanding of the freshmen challenges in the new senior high school which is quite different from junior middle school.3. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.4. Develop students’ different learning skills to solve different r eading comprehensive problems.【教学重难点】1. Develop students’ reading ability such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.2. Let students talk about their new school challenges in senior high school and encourage them to find the possible solutions to conquer them.【教学过程】1. Warming upStep 1 Leading-inHave a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:How do you feel about your senior high school? Have you come across some challenges that make you upset?Step 2 Pre-readingLet students guess what the text will be mainly about before reading by looking at the picture and the title.Step 3 Reading1. Fast readingAsk students to skim the reading passage to sum up the main idea of each paragraph and then discuss it with their partners.Paragraph1.________________________________________________2.________________________________________________3.________________________________________________4.________________________________________________Tips: you can find main ideas by first taking at quick look at the title, picture, key words and phrases and topic sentences.2. Intensive readingAllow students to read carefully this time to understand the main details of each paragraph and then finish the following.1. 1. Adam felt __________at the beginning of his senior highA. excitedB. interestedC. confusedD. worried2. Who gave Adam advice on courses?A. Parents.B. Adviser. C .Coach. D. Classmates.3. What subject is Adam's favorite?A. Chinese.B. World history.C. Math.D. English.4. Hearing he was poor in playing football well, AdamA. felt disappointed but went on with itB. left the football and joined a clubC. didn't give up and tried to improveD. felt unhappy but signed up for a new team5. What kind of person is Adam?A. brave and well preparedB. negative and sillyC. active and shyD. gentle and patient2. Let students look through the chart first and then read the text silently. Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen.Step 4 Further Reading and discussionRead the text the third time and work in pairs to do the following.1.What does “make the team” in Paragraph 3 mean?2.Do you face the same challenges as Adam? What other challenges areyou facing?3.What are some differences between Adam’s school life and your schoollife?Step 5 Passage ConsolidationComplete the passage with the suitable words from the passage.I'm Adam, 1._______freshman in senior high school. The first week was a little 2. _____ (confuse).There are some 3. _____ (challenge) I have to face in my new school life. First, I had to think carefully about my courses. Chinese is hard to learn, but I hope I can speak it _____ (fluent) when I graduate. My adviser 5. _____ (recommend) me to sign up for advanced literature because I'm good 6. _____it. Second, I had to choose my extra-curricular activities. I tried 7. _____ (join) the school football team though I couldn't do well in 8. _____at first. Besides that, I joined a volunteer club.In order to be well 9. _____ (prepare) for university or whatever else10. _____ (come) in the future, I make up my mind to study harder and get used to new situation.Step 6 Homework1. Write a passage to introduce you first senior school challenges and how to solve them. (about 120words)2. Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.Unit 1 Teenage Life-Discovering Useful Structure【教材分析】This teaching period mainly deals with the grammar: Phrases.This period carries considerable significance to the cultivation of students’ writing competence and lays a solid foundation for the basic appreciation of language beauty. The teacher is expected to enable students to master this period thoroughly and consolidate the knowledge by doing some exercise of good quality.【教学目标与核心素养】1. Get students to have a good understanding of the basic usages of phrases, including adjective phrases, adverb phrases and noun phrases.2. Enable students to use the basic phrases structures flexibly.3. Develop students’ speaking and cooperating abilities.4. Strengthen students’ great interest in grammar learning.【教学重难点】1. How to enable students to have a good understanding of the basic usages of phrases, including adjective phrases, adverb phrases and noun phrases.2. How to enable students to use the basic usages of phrases flexibly.【教学过程】Step1:语法自主探究读下列例句并感知画线部分的共性。
