Unit4 Reading: “English Poetry”
Hello, everyone. Today I’m very pleased to have an opportunity to talk about some of my teaching ideas. My topic is English Poetry taken from Unit 4 in SEFC Book2A. There are four parts.
Part 1 Teaching Material:
First, I’d like to say something about the teaching content. This unit is about English poetry, conerning introduction of English poets, different types of English peoms and the development of English poetry. The reading part is a typical exposition. As we know, reading belongs to the input during the process of the language learning. The input has great effect on output , such as speaking and writing. It plays a very important part in the English teaching of this unit. By studying this lesson, Ss can improve their reading ability and learn history and different characteristics of different period about English poetry. At the same time, help Ss to appreciate and recite English peoms, and help them deveolop the feeling of beauty in English poems.
Second, the aims of this lesson are:
1. Knowledge aim: to read for the information of the history of English Poetry & the characteristics of English Poetry in different times. 2. Ability aim: Enable the students to give their ideas about poets and poems to other group
members, using the target language.
3. Personal development/ Emotional aim: To let Ss experience the spirit of the poems and encourage the Ss to learn to appreciate poems. Third, the focus and difficulties are:
1. Help the students learn to appreciate poems and know about poems and poets. 2.To develop some basic reading skills.
Part 2 Teaching Methods and studying methods:
Students of this stage are quick in thought and they are eager to show what they know and they have a certain ability to read. But they are lack of the courage to express their ideas. Therefore, in this lesson，I will teach my students to master the following strategy:
1）Basic learning strategy: The students can get the meaning of the words and phrase 2）Practice strategy: Practice can help the students get the general idea and have a better
understanding of the language：To some extend, students develop the abilities of study, effective communication, dealing with information and thinking and expressing in English.
According to the modern social communication teaching theories, I adopt the Comunicative method, interactive method and Task-Based Language Teaching method. Teaching English at senior schools aims at students’ basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing in English. So I find it necessary to design a class where Ss can practice them all: I’ll require them to do watch and listening activity, Q＆A, pair wok of reading and free discussion. This task will make it possible for the students to pick up the language in a allround way. Teaching aids: Projector; Computer; multimedia and blackboard. I shall make the students join in the reading, they are the master of their class. Besides, it's a good way to practice their spoken English and improve their reading ability.
Part 3 Teaching procedures.
I’m going to take the following procedures: Step1 Warm-up: Greet the whole class as usual.
Step2 Lead-in and preparation for reading: show them a peom of Chinese poet on screen, ask Ss to read and recite, then match the author in Column A with their poems in Column B. Ask Qs about
Chinese peoms and introduce the content of this lesson—English poetry; Step3 Practice: Fast reading, and divide the text into 4 parts, then find out the main idea or the topic sentence of each part; Step4 Consolidation: Get the Ss to comprehend the passage by one Para & one Para carefully & accurately; Then show them a English peom and try to analyse its structure; Then discuss about Qs- are poems good for our life, what can we got from poems? Step 5 Assignment: Read the text again to get a better understanding, read and translate some good English poems, and get some information about famous poets on Internet if possible.
Part 4 Blackboard design
Blackboard design should be think for a thing that attract the student’ s attention and let them to write down the important teaching points. I will divide the blackboard into two parts .The left part will be used to write the important vocabulary and grammar and their usage. It will be reserved for the whole class. The right part will be precious explanation of a English peotry, I will try to analyse meaning and structure.
All in all, No matter which steps is taken ,the purpose is to provide teacher and studends with information and internal demand to improve teaching skill and learning quality. strategy and approach will help students become more independent and the successful learner. That’s all. Thank you.
