Good morning, dear judges! I’m number X candidate applying for senior school English teacher. It’s my great honor to be here to share my presentation. And my topic today is Unit 5 Languages around the world. In order to make my presentation much clearer, I’m going to divide it into 6 parts, which are analysis of the teaching material, analysis of students, teaching methods, learning methods, teaching procedures and blackboard design. Now I am going to present them one by one.
一、说教材
First of all, I will give a brief analysis of the teaching material. Languages around the world is a reading text, taken from unit 5 of Book 1 for senior school students, published by People’s Education Press. The passage The Chinese writing system: connecting the past and the present talks about the history of Chinese writing system and how it helps Chinese culture survive. By studying the lesson, students can have deeper understanding of Chinese writing and traditional culture, during which students can also improve their reading abilities.
Teaching Objectives
Given the analysis of teaching materials, the teaching objectives are designed as follows:
1. Students can understand the main idea of the passage and grasp new words and expressions.
2. Students will learn how Chinese writing system develops and have deeper understanding of our writing history.
3. Through kinds of reading activities, students’ reading skills and strategies, such as predicting, skimming, scanning and information collecting by timeline, can be improved.
4. Students are able to talk about Chinese writing system and writing history with newly-learnt expressions.
5. Students will learn to appreciate Chinese writing and the history can help students cultivate cultural confidence.
Accordingly, I set the following teaching key and difficult points:
Key Point
Students can grasp the vocabulary and basic information of the history of Chinese writing system and improve their reading abilities.
Difficult Points
Students can use timeline to deal with detailed information.
二、说学情
Students are the core of a class, so the analysis of students can contribute to a better class. Students in grade one of senior middle school have mastered a large number of English words and expressions, and have quite abundant knowledge about Chinese traditional culture. However, they haven’t developed their reading ability fully and systematically, and they are unfamiliar with some reading strategies like scanning and timeline. And the topic is not so common in English, so I will stress both the text itself and some reading strategies in the class.
三、说教法
To achieve this, I will adopt communicative method and task-based language teaching method in this lesson. I will lead students to communicate to exchange ideas and improve their spoken English, and set tasks to help students better understand the passage and get everyone involved in the class activities.
四、说学法
Students can learn this passage by individual work and group work, during which they can practice their reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, intensive reading and so on. Students will be encouraged to solve problems on their own and then through discussion, they can develop communicative ability.
五、说教学过程
Then comes the most important part of my presentation: teaching procedures. And I design my teaching procedures in the following several parts based on the above analysis.
Step 1. Lead-in
Before the class, I will show some pictures of oracle bone inscriptions from Shang Dynasty and ask students to guess the meaning of each picture. Pictures are used to catch students’ attention and arouse their learning interest. Oracle bone inscriptions can lead in today’s topic naturally.
Step 2. Pre-reading
I will show the picture in the book and the title of the passage and let students guess the main idea. This is to arouse students’ enthusiasm for study and students can get well-prepared for the reading.
