Teaching design for
Book 1 Module 1 My First Day at Senior High
Reading and Vocabulary
Teaching Aims
1.Improve the students’ reading skills.
2.Help the students learn the words and phrases about school life.
3.Help the students learn to write a diary to introduce their first day at
Senior High school.
4.Train the students’ cooperative study.
Teaching Important Points
1．Make the students understand some useful words and phrases.
2． To help the students write a diary about their first day at Senior High.
Teaching Difficult Points
1. How to help the students understand the whole passage step by step.
2. How to help the students write a diary about their first day at Senior High.
Teaching Methods
Task-based teaching
Teaching Aids
1. A multimedia. 2. A blackboard. 3. A learning plan.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Greeting
Make a greeting to the whole class.
Step 2 Present the learning targets to the class.
What will we learn today?
1.We’ll learn some words and phrases about our school life.
2.We’ll learn how to write a diary to introduce our first day at Senior High school.
3.We’ll practise some reading skills.
Step 3 Lead-in
1. Introduce a girl student called Chen Hui to the whole class through a video, and answer two questions.
(1). Where is she from? (2). What is she talking about?
(Answers: (1) Haikou (2) Her new Senior High school )
2. Show the picture of Li Kang, a Senior High school student, ask students two questions, and then ask the students to read the first paragraph to find out the answers on their textbook.
(1). Where is he from? (2). What is he talking about?
(Answers: (1) Shijiazhuang (2) His first day at Senior High school)
3. Introduce the learning objectives.
(1) We’ll learn some words about school life.
(2) We’ll learn how to introduce one’s first day at Senior High school.
(3) We’ll practise some reading skills.
Step 4 Reading comprehension
1. Fast reading:
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Paragraph 1 A. Li Kang’s new English class
Paragraph 2 B. A self- introduction of Li Kang.
Paragraph 3 C. His new school.
Paragraph 4 D. The students introduced themselves to each other.
Paragraph 5 E. The students of his class and their homework for the first day.
Paragraph 6 F. More information about Ms Shen, his English teacher.
(Answers: 1-B; 2- C; 3-A; 4-D; 5-F; 6- E)
1. Detailed reading
Ask the students to read the passage carefully, and finish the following table.
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My new school
Para 2
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New school
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Teachers
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Classroom
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The English class
Para 3
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Class
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Teacher
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Students in Li Kang’s class
Para 4~6
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Answers:
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My new school
Para 2
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New school
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good/ brilliant
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Teachers
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enthusiastic and friendly
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Classroom
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amazing
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The English class
Para 3
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Class
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interesting, funny, not boring
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Teacher
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enthusiastic with new methods
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Students in Li Kang’s class
Para 4~6
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friendly, hard-working
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3. Listen to the tape
Listen and fill in the blanks.
Li Kang is from Shijiazhuang, a city not ___1___ from Beijing. Li Kang likes his school, because the classrooms are amazing, and the teachers are _____2______ and friendly.
His English teacher Ms Shen ’s method of teaching is ___3___ like that of his Junior High school, and he will not be ___4___ in Ms Shen’s class.
And Li Kang’s homework tonight is to write a description of the street, and he is looking forward to ___5___ it.
(Answers: 1—far; 2—enthusiastic; 3—nothing; 4—bored; 5—doing)
Step 5 Post-reading
Group work
Write a diary
1. The students write a diary in groups of four orally.
2. The diary must have four parts, including the description of the students, the teachers, the playground and the classrooms.
3. One student is responsible for one part.
4. Share their part of diary with the whole class.
Step 6 Summary
Self-assessment
What have we learnt today?
1. Vocabulary
(enthusiastic, amazing, hard-working, interesting, exciting, bored, brilliant, look forward to doing, nothing like…)
2. A passage from Li Kang’s diary. And we learn how to write a diary about the first day at Senior High school.
Step 7 Homework
Combine the four parts of your group together and finish a diary of 100 words.
Title: My First Day at Senior High