Mar 11 assignment:my lesson plan March 18, 2008

Lesson Plan Book 2 Unit 1 Images of Animals

Purpose: 1.   make students know the different cultural images of animals between Chinese and English.

   2.   require students searching both English and Chinese proverbs related to animals.

   3.   1^st Sentence Pattern: Dative Verb& 2^nd Sentence Pattern

   4.    introduce students about the transitional word and the format about English composition

Time: 6 classes

Class	Date	Content	Materials
1st		1. Warm-up activities ¨ Adjectives that modify animals(p3,6reading comprehesion) 2. Vocabulary teaching (1-16) HW1: preview /review vocabulary and phrase HW2 :search both English and Chinese proverbs related to animals
2nd		1. Share the search result (groups) 2. Vocabulary and phrase teaching (v:13-19, p: 1-11) HW 1: Prepare the quiz on vocabulary and phrase HW 2: preview the reading
3rd		1. Vocabulary Quiz 2. Listening to the reading 3. Reading (content and language) teaching HW: preview /review reading	Reading CD
4th		1. Reading (content and language) teaching 2. discussions(p7, 16,extended content) HW: preview /review reading
5th		1. reading review(including aural practicing) 2. sentence pattern1 teaching 3. introduction of composition format and transitional words(handout) HW 1: Exercises(p13) in the textbook HW 2: review the composition handout
6th		1. Check the answers of exercise1 in the textbook(p13) 2. sentence pattern2 teaching 3. composition format and transitional words teaching(handout) HW1: Exercises(p14,15) in the textbook WH2:use the format to write a short composition/paragraph involved transitional words WH3:Prepare unit quiz

p.s I revised it from the sample 1 teacher gave us, and I just roughly put my ideas about the whole lesson. I havn’t build the category of  time management, so some of them  mayseem ridiculous …..  

reflection about the EFL class on Mar 18 March 18, 2008

I had to say that this week class really “shocked” me a lot. After the second group’s presentation,  the professor asked us to prepare vocabulary teaching in 15 minutes.  Actually, for me, at that short 15 minutes my brain only could go through some traditional teaching ways like syntactic categories analysis or  translation, etc. However, the impromptu the two classmates presented for us really made me surprised! ” Wow! I havn’t thought that definitions also can be taught as a vocabluary teaching materials.”  I believe it would be a good lesson for me to absorb others’ inspiration, and I also have to read more and think more. Hope that one day I can be a creative teacher:-)