英语  毛戚敏

        It is not a long history that English is as a subject in primary school in our country and the main instructional aims of teaching English in primary school is to cultivate pupils’ basic abilities of their listening and speaking and their good sense of the English language. Our boys and girls are exposed to English for the first time, so it is very important to develop their keen interest in English.

        Today I’m going to talk about Part B of Unit 2, PEP Primary English, Book 3. This lesson includes two parts: Let’s talk and let’s practice. In section 1, it mainly deals with the dialogue about “What’s in the schoolbag?” and the answers. And in section 2, it provides a real situation for the Ss to prastise the pattern: How many +n.(pl.)+ do you have? And the answer: I have 23 +n.(pl.)

1.  Aims on the knowledge

(1)  To enable the Ss to understand and speak: “My schoolbag is heavy. What’s in it? Thank you sooooooo much.” Make sure that Ss can use these sentences in real situations.

(2)  To help Ss to finish the survey.

(3)  Let  Ss finish the assessment of “Let’s check” in this unit.

2.  Aims on the abilities

(1)  To develop Ss’ abilities of listening and speaking.

(2)  To train the Ss’ ability of working in groups.

(3)  To foster Ss’ abilities of communication and their innovation.

3.  Aims on the emotion

(1)  To foster Ss’ consciousness of good co-operation and proper competition.

(2)  To lead Ss to show their loveliness to the poor.

(1)   To help Ss ask and answer the question: What’s in it?

(2)   To enable Ss to study in groups and co-operate skillfully.

(3)   To develop Ss’ interest in English.

(1)    To help the Ss ask and answer the question “What’s in it?” and make sure they can use the plural nouns correctly.

(2)    To finish the survey by themselves.

        As we all know: the main instructional aims of learning English in primary school is to cultivate pupils’ basic abilities of listening and speaking and their good sense of the English language. So in this lesson I’ll mainly use “Task-based” teaching method. That is to say, I will let the Ss learn in real situations, finish a task by making a survey to help the Ss to get a better understanding of the key structure of the dialogue. I will arrange four kinds of activities: singing, guessing game, finishing a survey and having a competition. And in this lesson a recorder, CAI, school things and a printed form will be needed. Students should prepare some school things.

I’ll finish this lesson in five steps.

1.  Free talk between T and Ss about things in the CLASsroom.

2.  Sing the song together: Books and pencils.

3.  Do some TPR, for example: Show me your English book. Show me your crayon.

4.  Review the numbers by asking: “How many crayons do you have?”

     Now I’ll mainly talk about this step.

    1. Present the pattern: “My schoolbag is heavy.” “What’s in it?.”

(1)  Show a bag and say:  “Look! I have a bag.” Carry it and say: “Oh, it is heavy. My schoolbag is heavy.” Help the Ss understand the meaning with the help of my body language. Then lead the Ss to read the sentence. Make sure they can say it correctly.

(2)  T: My schoolbag is heavy.

     Open the bag and say: “What’s in it?  What’s in my schoolbag?”

     Take out a Chinese book. Then do the action again. Let the Ss read the sentence.

2. Play a guessing game. Divide the whole CLASs into four groups to have a competition. 

                   Let them guess: What’s in the bag? How many?

   Purpose: To present the key structures one by one is much easier for the Ss to learn

3.      With the help of the CAI to present the dialogue. Set a situation to help Ss understand:

Two Ss are coming. One girl is carrying a heavy bag on her back. They are talking.

Girl:  My schoolbag is heavy.

Boy:  What’s in it?

       Girl:  20 story-books, 32 pencil, 9 rulers, 12 crayons and 30 picture-books. Etc.

       Boy:  What will you do?

       Girl:  They are for the poor.

       Boy:  Great! I’ll bring some school things too.

       The boy comes back home and puts a lot of things into the bag. Then he goes to

       school again and gives them to a teacher. While he is taking them out, he is counting

       the numbers of all things. The teacher says:  Thank you soooooooo much.

4.  Mention that we should take care of the poor.

5.  Play the cassette. Let the Ss listen and imitate the dialogue. Pay attention to their

    pronunciation and intonation.

    Divide Ss into groups of six children. Each one would finish the printed form by asking and answering: How many storybooks do you have? Find out which group finishes faster.

            Help Ss finish “Let’s check” of this unit and workbook.

1.    Let Ss tell each other how many school things they have after CLASs. Tell their

     parents how many school things they have at home.

2.      Take care of everything they have.