1.Teaching contents
The given listening material introduces something about old people’s home.
2.Teaching objectives
(1)Knowledge objectives:
①Students can read and understand the new phrases such as read the newspaper, tell stories and care for.
②Students can grasp the general idea of the listening material.
(2) Ability objective:
Students can improve their abilities to listen and speak.
(3)Emotional Objective:
Students can cooperate with other group mates actively and complete the tasks together.
3.Key and difficult points:
(1)Key point
Help students know the details of the passage.
(2)Difficult points
Guide students to use the new knowledge in their daily life.
4.Major steps
Pre-listening
(1) New knowledge teaching
With the help of some pictures, the teacher will guide students to understand the meaning and usage of the new phrases, including read the newspaper, tell stories and care for.
(2)Prediction
Before listening, the teacher will organize students to make a prediction. Some hints will be provided to help them.
Hint 1: Words and sentence just referred.
Hint 2: A video in which students can see some students are helping some old people.
(Justification:The above activities can help students recognize the new words and sentence patterns, remove the barriers, and lay the foundation for the next step of “listening”.)
While-listening
(1)Extensive listening
Students will listen to the conversation for the first time to check their predictions and summarize the main idea of the conversation.
(2)Intensive listening
Students should listen to the conversation for the second time and do the following tasks:
①True or False
Helen will work in an old people’s home this winter.(T/F).
A lot of old people are not lonely in an old people’s home.(T/F).
②Questions
1.When will Helen work in an old people’s home?
2.What did the old people ask Tom to help with?
(3) Listening and repeating
Students will listen to the passage/conversation for the third time and read after it. They should pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
(Justification: In the process of completing the listening tasks at different levels, students can not only understand the content and certain details of the conversation, but also improve their listening skills.)
Post-listening
Group discussion
Students will work in groups to discuss the following question “What did your mother say this morning?” Several minutes will be given. When time's up, several students will be invited to share their answers. Then the teacher will comment on students' performances.
(Justification:Group activities will provide students with the opportunity to apply what they have learned to the situation, improve their come
