Unit 1 How do you study for a test

Unit 1 How do you study for a test
The First Period
Ⅰ. Analysis of the Teaching aterial
1. Status and Function
In this unit, students learn to talk about how to study. Such topic is very useful to students. It’s helpful to raise learning interest of all the students. Either more or less advanced students will benefit a lot.
(1)The first period mainly gives students listening and oral practice using the target language "How do you study for a text? I study by doing…"
(2)The activities in the second period give students more listening and oral practice using more target language. They are helpful to improve students’ listening and speaking skills.
(3) In the third period, students learn to
get detailed information from an article. It is a basic reading skill and is
a great help to improve students’ reading skill.
(4) The fourth period not only introduces some neords but also provides students with many different kinds of activities. In this class, students learn to give advice to those who have difficulty in studying using the target language.
(5)The fifth period is designed to train students’ reading and writing skills.
(6) All the activities in the last period in this unit are used to provide writing practice using the target language.
2. Teaching Aims and Demands
(1) nowledge Objects
In this unit, students learn to talk about how to study for a test and give advice to those who have difficulty in studying.
(2) Ability Objects
To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using the target language.
(3)oral Object
Everyone learns a different way.
The best one is to do. That is, no pains, no gains.
3. Teaching ey Point
To make students learn and grasp the key vocabulary words and the target
language.
4. Teaching Difficult Point
To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
To train students’ communicative competence.
5. Studying Way
Teach students how to be successful language learners.
Ⅱ. Language Function
Talk about how to study.
Ⅲ. Target Language
1. How do you study for tests?
Well, I study by working with my classmates.
2. Have you ever studied with a group?
Yes, I have. I’ve learned a lot that way.
3. I don’t have a partner to practise English with.
aybe you should join an English club.
Ⅳ. Structure
verb + by with gerund
Ⅴ. Vocabulary
1. flashcard, take notes, frustrating, memorize, aloud, comma, make mistakes, pronunciation, be afraid to
2. What about…?
3. Why don’t you…?
Ⅵ. Recycling
vocabulary list, cassette, conversation, improve, forget, test, notebook, friend, English language, study, video, pop song, speak, learn, watch, work, join, listen, write, practice
Ⅶ. Learning strategies
1. Personalizing
2. Role playing
Ⅷ. Teaching Time
Seven periods
The First Period
Ⅰ. Teaching Aims and Demands
1. nowledge Objects
(1)ey Vocabulary
flashcard
(2)Target Language
How do you study for a test?
I study by working with a group.
2. Ability Objects
(1) Train students’ listening skill.
(2) Train students’ communicative competence.
3. oral Object
Studying the right way is helpful, It helps you get good grades.
Ⅱ. Teaching key Point
Target Language
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficult Points
1. Train students’ listening skill.
2. Train students’ communicative competence.
Ⅳ. Teaching ethod
Scene teaching method
Ⅴ. Teaching Aids
1. A tape recorder
2. Real objects
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Welcome the students back to school and ask them if they had a good time during the summer holidays. Invite different students to describe what they did in the summer vacation.
Step Ⅱ 1a
This activity reviews earlier vocabulary and introduces some neords.
Read the instructions to the class.
Call students’ attention to the box. Read the list of ways of studying to the class.
Then hold up a flashcard, a cassette, a shopping list and a textbook brought to class or point to the items in the illustration to show the meaning of each item.
Please check the ways you usually study for an English test. While the students are doing this, write the list of ways of studying on the blackboard. After they have finished checking the ways, ask the students to look at the blackboard. Ask, who study by working with friends for an English test? Please raise your hands.
Write the number of hands you see after by working with friends on the list. Repeat the same approach with the other ways of studying on the list. Then discuss which are the most popular and least popular ways of studying.
Say, And now please add other ways you use sometimes. While the students are doing this, move around the room to offer language support as needed. Invite several students to read their ways to the class.
Sample answers
1. by joining a study group
2. by practising conversations with my friends
3. by reading aloud every morning
4. by watching English-language TV
Note
A flashcard is a piece of paper or card which students write a word on and use
to memorize information.
Step Ⅲ 1b
This activity provides students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.
Read the instructions to the class.
Focus attention on the illustration. Point to the pictures labeled a,b and c and elicit
how each student is studying. Then point to the pictures with names ei, Antonio
and Pierre underneath. Say, You will hear one conversation. You are asked to write
the letter of each picture in front of the name of the person who studies that way.
Point out the sample answer to the class.
Call students attention to the speech bubble in the illustration. Say, ei says, "I study by making flashcards. "so the answer to number 1 is a.
Play the recording for the first time.
Students only listen. Play the recording a second time. Students write in their answers. Check the answers with the whole class.
Answers
1. a 2. c 3. b
Tapescript
Boy 1: Hey, Gang. There’s a big test on Tuesday. I really need some help.
Can you tell me how you study for a big test?
Voices: Sure! Yes. Sure we will.
Boy 1: You did really well on last English test, didn’t you, ei?
Girl 1: Yeah, I did O.
Boy 1: Well, how did you study?
Girl 1: By making flashcards.
Boy 1 : aybe I’ll try that. How did you study, Pierre?
Boy 2:By asking the teacher for help. She was really happy when I asked.
Boy 1: That’s interesting. How do you study, Antonio?
Boy 3:I like to study by listening to cassettes. But sometimes my mother thinks I’m listening to music. And then she gets mad.
Boy 1 :Oh, well…
Step Ⅳ 1c
This activity gives students oral practice using the target language.
Read the instructions to the class.
Call students’ attention to the conversation in the box. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class,
S1:　How do you study for a test?
S2: I study by working with a group.
Write it on the blackboard. Then demonstrate a new conversation with another student.
T: How do you study for a test?
S3: I study by making flashcards.
Say, Noork with a partner. Start by reading the conversation in the box with
your partner. Then look at the other ways of studying in Activity 1 and ask your
partner how he or she studies for a test.
As students work, listen in on various pairs checking progress and helping with
pronunciation as needed.
After students have had a chance to practice several exchanges, ask pairs to come
to the front of the room and act out their conversations.
Step Ⅴ Summary
Say, In this class, we’ve learned some key vocabulary words, such as flashcard, cassette. And we’ve also learned the target language How do you study for a test? I study by working with a group.
Step Ⅵ Homework
Ask students to interview students in other classes, family members, and friends to try to discover some neays of studying that haven’t been introduced in the book or in class.
Step Ⅶ Blackboard Design
Unit 1 How do you study for a test?
Section A
The First Period
1. Ways of studying:
by working with Friends
by making flashcards
by reading the textbook
by making vocabulary lists
by listening to cassettes
by asking the teacher for help
2. Target language
A: How do you study for a test?
B: I study by working with a group.


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