Understand me Interest me and Involve me Teaching

Understand me, Interest me, and Involve me Teaching listening & speaking

Instructional Principles 1. Understanding of Language 2. Understanding of Learning Mode 1) Learning by doing/using 2) Spiral circle:

Spinal Learning Pre-existing Knowledge Output Input

Instructional Principles 3. Understanding of Learner 1) interest 2) Learning strategies 3) Perception of good teachers

Background Information 1. 17 weeks/ 2 periods 2. Small class with 25 students 3. Non majors— starting band 3

Unit 1, Book 3 Family Education Teaching Objectives 1. Language skills: 1) theme-related expressions 2) Expressing disagreement 2. Learning Strategies 3. Critical thinking 4. Cross-cultural awareness

Pre-Listening Activity Write a diamond poem to describe your family Men Stupid, rude Sleeping, eating trousers, underpants, knickers, skirts Men working, sporting brilliant, perfect clever, beautiful working, learning, earning Women beer, car, mirror, make-up speaking, speaking furious, exhausted Women

Pre-Listening Activity Write a diamond poem to describe your family Mammy harsh, commanding criticizing , threatening , nagging You did it wrong, You do it again, I didn’t, I won’t ignoring, fighting, escaping naughty, disobedient Son

Pre-Listening Activity 2. The main topic is about family. Predict some sub-themes concerning the topic 3. Make a dialogue you think you are going to hear in this unit. Aims 1. Pre-existing knowledge 2. Introducing the topic 3. Arousing interests 4. Creative thinking

1. Finish the listening exercise on P. 2 (10 dialogues), P. 4 (long conversation), P. 5 (understanding a passage) 2. Prepare a question and raise it to other groups in competition held next class. Aims 1. Complexity 2. Involving students 3. Learning by doing

Class Competition

Round 1–how to check vocabulary Way 1: Word Guessing Pregnant Thrilled Way 2: Use the expressions to describe pictures Cold, distant But deep down…… A tough man with a gun and blood on his hands

Round 1–how to check vocabulary Way 3: Action Let the baby cry to sleep Pick the baby up as soon as he cry

Round 1–how to check vocabulary Way 4: Free questioning: student to student Aims 1. Involving students 2. Learning strategy There are both advantages and disadvantages There are positives and negatives……

Round 2—how to check content Way 1: Summarizing Key Words Contrasting. Parenting style Loving person Way 2: Which dialogue do you like most? Why? Way 3: Associate the objects with the content you listened to in the homework.

Round 2—how to check content Way 4: Respond to the following statement based on what you learn in the textbook If my parents spend 1 million Yuan to raise me up, I have to pay them back. Aims 1. Creating mental linkages 2. Involving students

Round 3: Synthesizing the information in new context VS 1. How does it relate to this unit? 2. How will you comment on……?

Being Disagreeable—critical thinking Presenting opposing opinions to Tiger Mother’s or Hello Kitty Mother’s parenting style by using the model drills 1 . What expressions you already know to express your agreement or disagreement? 2. What are some new ways you just learned?

Critical Thinking Logical relationship Soundness of evidence Credibility of Statement

Round 4: Seeking new Information 1. The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. 2. We are polar opposites.

Post-Listening Activity Write a diamond poem based on what you have heard. Husband boring , protective earning, sleeping, providing provider, money and love, settler, no fairy tale enduring, sticking, accepting realistic, contented Wife

Assignment 2 Prepare a speech to present your philosophy or reflection on today’s topic based on the example you have watched Loving person Successful preson

Unit 1, Book 3 Family Education Teaching Objectives 1. Language skills: 1) theme-related expressions 2) Expressing disagreement 2. Learning Strategies 3. Critical thinking 4. Cross-cultural awareness

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