Lesson plan 1
Silent Wheels
Name: Elaine Chen
Student: Grade One, Senior, Tianmen High School
Materials: Silent Wheels
Lesson type: Intensive Reading Lesson
Duration: 45min
Date: 10/03/2011
Teaching Ideology
With the curriculum reform in China, the new curriculum has been widely promoted in China until now. The new curriculum promotes communicative approach to develop students’ comprehensive language competence. According to the functional linguistic view, on one hand, language learning should focus on language use, not only on language knowledge learning; on the other hand, real communication should be used in classes.
Based on the theory of communicative language learning, many tasks are designed to be finished by students under the lead of teacher. Through real communication in classes, students realize how to apply English into use. Furthermore, the language class should be students-oriented. At the same time, students’ lifetime development is taken into consideration in language classes. Under the guidance and the help of teacher, students develop their language skills, good study habits and effective learning strategies in an integrated way through real communication learning environment. Moreover students can feel some cultural awareness in the process of language learning.
Learner profiles
The class will consist of 50-60 students from grade one, senior. According to
investigation of the students, the number of female and male students is almost the same. The average level of the students is a little higher than the other classes in the school, but the level of the class is different, great individual difference exists, so more attention should be paid to keep the balance of tasks designing.
Teaching material and learning condition
The analysis of teaching material
This passage is about a new style car. It introduces the great advantages of this kind of new environmental car, and some of its disadvantages. At the same time, through comparing the new car with the previous car, we can learn a notion of environment protection is throughout our daily life. Therefore, from this passage we can not only learn a new scientific product, but can form a sense of environment protection. Nowadays, environment protection is a very hot topic in our daily life, students will be very interest in it and as for these senor students, they are interested in any new things, so the material of a new car will ignite their curiosity and sense of innovation. All in all, it is a good reading material to be learnt by students.
Teaching objective
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to achieve the following objectives: 1 Language knowledge
1)Students can memorize the new words and expressions and can use them
properly: the new words and expressions as follows:
Special, petrol engine, pollution, cleaner and quieter, double, recharge the battery; take a long time, fiber-glass, distance.
2)Learn more related knowledge about this kind of new car.
3)Help students under the whole text deeply.
2 Language skills
1）Get some reading skills through the context, such as scanning, skipping and
