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 Unit 1 How do you study for a test

Ⅰ. Analysis of the Teaching Material

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 new words 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) Knowledge 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)Moral Object

Everyone learns a different way.

The best one is to do. That is, no pains, no gains.

3. Teaching Key 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.

Maybe 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. Knowledge Objects

(1)Key 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. Moral 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 Method

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 new words.

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 Mei, 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, Mei 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, Mei?

Girl 1: Yeah, I did OK.

Boy 1: Well, how did you study?

Girl 1: By making flashcards.

Boy 1 : Maybe 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, Now work 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 new ways 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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