School: Tianlin No.3 Middle School
Students: Grade 8
Teacher’s name: Vickie Sun 孙琦
Contents:(Writing)Oxford English8Chapter5 You are Welcome
Teaching objectives
Language focus
1. Using a certain rhyme scheme to write a stanza
2. Using a given pattern to complete a poem in steady rhythm
Ability focus
To develop the students’ ability of writing a simple poem
Emotion objectives
1.To inspire a love of poetry in students.
2.To be hospitable and friendly to welcome visitors.
Procedures |
T’s Activity |
Ss’ Activity |
Purpose |
Pre-task |
1. Show and read the Poem on the Statue of 2. Ask about the ways to welcome the foreign students. |
Ss Listen and enjoy Sg Discuss |
To warm up To feel the beauty of the words in a poem. To lead in the topic To know about whom the poem is written to and why we write poem. |
While-task |
1. Choose a Topic 2. Choose a rhyme scheme 3. Write the first verse 4. The second verse 5. The third verse 6. The last verse 7. Add a title |
Ss Discuss The topic of the welcome poem Sg Brainstorm The words or phrases they can think of on the chosen topic Sa answer Sg put the lines in order and practice reading it in steady rhythm Sp fill in blanks with rhyming words Sp write a verse with rhetoric Ss guess Ss read T-Ss Conclusion |
To get to know what to write about To learn the skills of writing poems To practice the ways of the stanza writing To pay attention to the rhythm in poem writing To pay attention to rhyming words Suggest Ss write lines with rhetoric Suggest Ss use repetition in poems to focus on the topic or show the feelings. To consolidate |
Post-task |
1. Make your welcome card 2. Presentation |
Sg use their opening and closing to complete their poems Sg complete Sn representatives of each group read their poems and share their work |
To consolidate what they have learnt and practice writing poems. Learn to cooperate with each other To produce outcome. |
Assignments |
1. Write a poem about your class/your family/Shanghai/yourself 2. Make a welcome slide show (Goup) 3. Give students a website for rhyming words and for furthur learning (To know more types of poems and enjoy reading some good work of poets) |