A Teaching Plan for Teaching goals

1. Get the students to talk about pictures.

2. Encourage the students to talk out what they know about the UK and Ireland.

3. Help the students learn to get information by listening.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

1．Lead-in

Group work:

Step 2 Listening

Step 3 Extension

1. Talk about our own timetable.

2. Have a discussion about the similarities of the timetables in our country and the UK and also tell the differences between them.

Step 4 Homework

Find more information in relation to the UK and Ireland on the Internet.

The second period Speaking

Teaching Goals

Train the students’ spoken English

Improve the students’ ability of imagination and debate

Practise expressing agreement and disagreement

Increase participation and learn from each other.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Talking about hot topics

Step2 Group theme debates

Step3 Tips on how to express agreement and disagreement

Step5 Homework

Preview the reading passage “The British Isles”

The third period Reading

Teaching goals

Get the students to know more about the British Isles and learn more new words and their usages.

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Presentation

Step 2 Fast reading

Step 4 Discussion

Show the students some pictures of the three countries of the British Isles and then ask: If you have got the chance to visit one of the three countries of the British Isles, which country will you choose and why?

Imagine that you are going on a four-week trip through the UK. Make a travel plan in which you describe where you go, how long you will stay and why, and what clothes and things you will take.

Step 5 Homework

Write a short passage about the Dachen Isles.

大陳島位椒江區(qū)東南52公里海上，分上、下大陳二島。大陳島面積約14平方公里，島上氣候溫暖濕潤，冬暖夏涼，尤其盛夏時(shí)溫暑宜人，是避暑休閑的好去處，林木植物茂盛，森林覆蓋率達(dá)50~60%，1993年被批準(zhǔn)為省級海上森林公園，海洋資源豐富，為臺州海上最繁榮的漁業(yè)集鎮(zhèn)，被譽(yù)為“東海明珠”。

The fourth period Grammar and Language study

Teaching goals

1. Learn about the appositive clause.

2. Identify noun clauses.

3. Enable students to use new words.

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Review the vocabulary and complete the sentences.

Step 2 Brainstorming

Step 3 Grammar Explanation

Step 4 Tell the function of the following sentences.

Step 5 Consolidation

Consolidate what have been learned by doing further exercises.

The Fifth Period Integrative Skills

Teaching Goals:

1. Learn to describe the countryside, the cities, the people and their life by reading the passage.

2. Learn things about the city Salisbury.

3. Know more about Britain.

4. Cultivate the students’ abilities of concluding and reasoning.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Lead in

Step 2: Reading

Step 3 Extension

Step 4 Homework:

Now you know how to describe a city’s landscape, the people and their lives after reading this passage. And today’s homework:

1. Choose any place you know or you like and write a short passage about it.

2. With the help of the Internet, try to collect as much information as possible and make a PowerPoint presentation in the next period.