Unit 4 Colors and Mood

Period1 Reading- Color Association

Teaching Plan

作 者：张雪莉

单 位：安徽省淮北师范学校

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课程名称：英语 授课班级：师范二年级英语教育专业

授课类型：阅读课 学生数：36人

教学内容：Unit4 Reading 授课时间：一课时（45分钟）

使用教材：《英语》（拓展模块） 王立善 戴宗显 主编 语文出版社（2010年6月）

Unit 4

Period 1 Reading-Color Association

Teaching Plan

Theoretical basis

According to the current English Teaching Syllabus, language learning theory and learning by doing theory, the students are the real masters in the class while the teacher acts as a director. I will encourage students to improve their cooperation ability and develop different reading skills.

Analysis of the teaching material

The topic of Unit 4 is colors and mood. The reading passage is Color Association. It talks about color association, especially differernt meanings of different colors. Red, yellow and blue are particularly mentioned in the text. The text is not difficult for students to understand, however, they must work hard to know something valuable such as the importance of the three primary colors.

Analysis of the students

Our students have learnt English for years, they already have certain English knowledge, though they still have some difficulties in expressing themselves in English. What's more, they are interested in new things and have some certain ability of imagination, observation and creation. They are students of English major, and it’s more important for them to grasp different skills in English such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating.

Three dimensional teaching aims

1. Knowledge aims:

a.       Students learn some new words and useful expressions:

particularly, association, shape, object, tie, caution, policeman, opposite, blue-chip, be associated with, warn of, etc.

b. Students learn some useful sentence patterns:

Red is used to express a strong feeling like anger.

By association we are able to remember things that happened in the past.

2. Ability aims:

a. Students acquire a good knowledge of colors and their interesting meanings.

b. Students improve their reading ability by using different reading strategies such as skimming and scanning.

c. Students learn to teach by teaching colors to “pupils” in the teaching situation.

3. Emotional aims:

a. Students become more interested in English learning and teaching.

b. Students may know what red, yellow and blue to colors is just what ABC to English, thus they may hold a good attitude towards English learning and teaching.

c. Students learn to cooperate with each other and have spirit of teamwork.

Teaching important points:

a. Students comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.

b. Students know the detailed information in the text.

Teaching difficult points:

a. Students improve their reading ability and understand the passage better.

b. Students learn to teach “pupils” in the teaching situation.

Teaching and learning methods:

Task-based learning and teaching

Discussion

Teaching aid:

The multi- media set

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

A student try to teach the “pupils” colors, which is the homework of last class. Other students act as pupils to cooperate with the student.

Aims: Students may have a chance to teach in the class and lead in the new class naturally.

Step 2 Warming-up

Have free talks with students.

“What color will you choose to teach the pupils? ”

“What’s your favorite color ? Why?”

Aims: Students may have a chance to speak Enlish and improve their speaking skills. Students become familiar with the topic.

Step 3 Reading

1.      Listening

listen to get the main idea of the text.

What does the text mainly talk about?

(It talks about color association, especially different meanings of different colors.)

Aims: Students improve their listening ablity and know the main idea of the text.

2.      Skimming

Knowledge about reading

1.Read fast to get main idea;

2.Do not read word by word;

Aim: Help the students read the text more efficiently.

Skim the passage to do the text analysis.

Divide the text into three parts and match the main idea to each part..

Part 1 (para. 1) The function of the association

Part 2 (para. 2 & 3 &4) The definition of the association.

Part 3 (para. 5 ) Examples of color association，such as red ,yellow and blue.

Aims: Students have a general idea of the text and train their skimming skill.

2. Scanning

Knowledge about reading

Read carefully for detailed information, that is to look at every part of something carefully, especially because you are looking for a particular thing.

Aim: Students may know how to scan the text and grasp the reading skill.

Scan the text and find the answers to the following questions according to the text.

1. What does “association” mean?

2.What feeling is red color associated with?

3. What does a yellow ribbon mean in America?

4. What do we say when someone is sad?

5. How useful is association for us?

Show the students some key words to help them answer the questions.

Suggested answers:

1.      An association is the mental connection we make between two things or ideas.

2.      Red is used to express a strong feeling like anger.

3.      In America, a yellow ribbon is usually pinned on the door or tied on the tree to welcome their loved one to come back home.

4.      We usually say, “He is feeling blue.”

5.      By association we are able to remember things that happened in the past.

Aims: Students understand the passage in detail and learn the scanning skill.

3.      Competitions

Competion 1.

Read aloud to prepare for the competion.

Knowledge about readig

Read loudly for further understanding and pay attention to the important words and expressions. Pronunciation, intonation, and pauses are also very important when reading aloud.

Aim: Students know what to read when reading loudly and learn different reading skills..

There are six colors on the screen and behind each color there will be a question. Students can choose a color to get the question to answer. They can get one point if the answer is write.

1.What does the phrase “be associated with” mean in the text?

A. be connected with

B. act together with sb

2.It can be inferred from the text that most people would like to remember happy things. T or F

3.The author’s attitude towards colors is___.

A. pessimistic

B. objective

4.Association is very useful for us. T or F

5.There is no gift for you. Sorry!

6.You are a lucky dog. You can get one point. Congratulations!

You also have a chance to ask other groups a question and you can get one more point.

Answers: A T B T

Competition 2.

1. a green hand ( )

A.老手 B.新手，生手 C.脏手

2. a white night ( )

A.黑色的夜 B.不眠之夜 C.灯火通明

3. a blue Monday ( )

A.高兴的星期一 B.幸运的星期一 C.倒霉的星期一

4. a blue chip ( )

A. 蓝筹股 B.蓝色芯片 C. 垃圾股

Answers:B B C A

Aims: Students have a better understanding of the text and learn to cooperate with each other. Students become more interested in English learning and they are more active in the competitions.

Step 4 Post reading

Task1. Retelling

An association is the _____________we make between two things or ideas. Colors are often _______with different things. Red is used to ______ a strong feeling like anger. Yellow has very ______ meaning in America to welcome their loved one. Blue is cold. Interestingly, a promising and safe share is called a _________ . By association we can _____________that happened in the past.

Suggested answers: mental connection; associated; express; special; blue chip; remember things

Aims: Students understand the text as a whole and improve their speaking ability.

Task2. Discussion

Red ,yellow and blue to colors is what ABC to English.

Enjoy a vedio of colors and discuss your understanding of ABC.

the ABC of English

the ABC of a student

the ABC of a teacher

the ABC of an English teacher

the ABC of a person

the ABC of human beings

…

With the help of the above clues, students may show their opinions to us.

Share the idea “the ABC of a teacher” with the students.

T trust

E enthusiastic

A active

C confident

H humorous

E energetic

R responsible

Aims: Students improve their speaking ability by speaking out their opinions and hold a good attitude towards English learning and teaching. Students learn to know how to be a good teacher.

Step 5 Homework

Compulsory(必做):

1. Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.

2. Write a teaching plan according to the following teaching material.

Optional（选做）:

Surf the Internet to learn more about color association.

Aims: To consolidate what we learnt today and try to learn by themselves. Students may know somehting about Enlish teaching in primary schools.

Show students an example of the teaching plan.

小学英语教学设计模板(示例)

Teaching contents (教学内容)

Teaching materials

设计学案

Teaching aims (教学目标)

Knowledge aims

Competence aims

Emotional aims

Learning strategy aims

Teaching important points (教学重点)

Teaching difficult points (教学难点)

Teaching methods (教学方法)

Teaching aids （教 具）

Teaching period (课时安排)

Teaching & Learning procedures （教学步骤）

Step1. Leading in

Step2. Presentation

Step3. Practice

Step4. Homework

Blackboard design（板书设计）

Afterthoughts (教学反思)

Aims: The example may help the students a lot in writing the teaching plan. Students will improve their writing ability by writing.

Step 6 Self-assessment

After learning this class, I am able to do the following things:

1. Understand the passage and know something about English teaching in primary schools.

2. Use some new words and expressions.

3. Talk about something about color association.

4. Cooperate with each other and share ideas and information.

Aims: Students may know exactly what we learnt today. Most students can do it, thus they may become more confident in Englishi learning.

Blackboard design

Color Association

Red

Yellow → colors

Blue

A B C → English

Red, yellow and blue to colors is what ABC to English.

Afterthoughts

Basing on the learning condition of normal school students, I mainly adopted the task-based language teaching. Most students took part in the activites and improved their reading ability. Also their listening, speaking and writing ability have been improved in our class. What’s more, students know something about Enlish teaching in primary schools after this class. However, it’s still difficult for some students to write their teaching plan and to teach real pupils. I will offer them more chances to practice in later teaching periods

Body language

Lecturer: Wu Haiyan

School: Anhui Science and Technology Trade School

Curriculum： English

Telephone Number: 139********

The designing of writing on the Bb：