英语：Unit 3 My friends  A Let’s talk

I Analysis of teaching materials

This lesson is from PEP English book, the first semester of Grade 4, Unit3 My friends. We will focus on Section A, Let’s talk. I want this material to teach students to introduce and describe their own friends

II Analysis of students

This lesson is designed for Grade-4 students who will have been learning English for one year. While some of them might speak some English, they will run into problems due to knowledge gaps and poor grasp of certain grammatical forms, so I will introduce the idea of descriptive words in this lesson. This is why I will design and practice activities to improve their speaking and listening skills.

III Analysis of teaching aims

According to the English curriculum standard, teaching material andstudents, I set the following teaching aims: Students can get to know the main idea of the dialogue and know what descriptive words are.

Students can improve their basic and intensive listening skills. Students can utilize relevant descriptive words in their own English.

Students’ increase their personal interest in learning English Ⅳ Analysis of teaching key points and difficult point Key points:

The main idea of the text.

Basic understanding of descriptive words. Difficult point:

Being aware of descriptive words in a text and for students to utilize them in their own English

ⅤAnalysis of teaching methods and learning methods

Speaking of teaching methods, I’ll mainly use Task-based Teaching Method and Communicative Approach, by which, I think, students can have a thorough understanding of the text.

When it comes to learning method, students will be asked to do some teamwork and learn in a cooperative way to give students a cohesive understanding of the content. For this reason, in this class, students will be divided into groups to finish the task.

VI Analysis of teaching procedures

Step 1 Warming-up

1. First, I’ll briefly greet students by asking simple and friendly questions.

2. Then we’ll play a game. Two students will come to the front of the class and we will differentiate them using descriptive words, for example, “Alex hasshort hair. Luke has long hair”. We will do this for a few minutes until the students are relaxed and comfortable.

After that, students will be invited to make guesses at what we will be studying this lesson.

3. Finally, I will lead in the topic they are going to learn in the class, andfurther enhance their interest by pictures of people they can describe. The purpose of this stage of the lesson is to relax the students and make them feel like they are in a comfortable, inclusive and friendly learning environment.

Step 2 Pre-listening

In this part, I’ll guide students to have a preliminary understanding of the text.

1. First, the students will look at a picture from the comic book with the text. I will ask them what they think about the pictures and what they think this text is about.

2. The students will describe the picture collectively.

3. The students will guess what is going on in the picture. By asking students to draw conclusions of main idea according to the giveninformation, they will be actively involved in the class and their ability ofreasoning can be improved.

The purpose of this stage in the lesson is to further immerse the students inthe subject matter and prepare them for listening to the text.

Step 3 While-listening

In this part, students need to listen to the text twice in order to grasp thestructure and some detailed information.

1. Basic comprehensive

First, I’ll ask students to listen to the text to check if their guesses about thepicture were right or not. If not, they need to find out the right answer within the text. For this part, they will only be given one and a half minutes. After that, two students will be invited to share their ideas.

Main idea: describing friend

2. Intensive listening

I’ll then ask students to listen to the passage for the second time. This time. they are required to listen to it carefully to find out some details and then answer specific questions. They will have four minutes for this part. Name of the boy’s friend: His name is Zhang Peng. Here they can familiarize themselves with the sentence structure “his/her name is...”

1)Three things about Zhang Peng: He is tall, Chinese, and strong. Here they can familiarize themselves with the sentence structure “he/she……

The purpose of this stage of the lesson is to introduce these sentence structures and descriptive words, and ensure students understand the content of the text.

Step 4 Post-listening

After the students are thoroughly familiar with the comic strip, I’ll design an activity based around descriptive words to help improve their understanding of this English tool.

Students will be paired into groups of approximately three, dependent onthe number of pupils, and each student will take turns as the speaker. The speaker will have one minute to introduce their two partners to each other describing them using descriptive language following the sentence structures wehave learned, i.e., “His name is Mike! He is tall and strong. The students will be encouraged to use accurate descriptive words and their teammates with evaluate their progress. We will do this activity for around 8-10minutes, changing groups around if necessary. This stage of the lesson is to evaluate how much the students have grasped the content of the lesson, and also test their understanding of these specific grammatical forms. A relaxed activity like this also creates a relaxed and enjoyable learning atmosphere for learning.

Step 5 Summary andomework

Students will then be invited to review the content they have learned in this class, and we will go over the key points learned and touch briefly on the difficult points.

For homework, the students should draw a short comic about their ownfriend(s) or family, using descriptive words and sentences that we discussed during the lesson.

The purpose of this part of the lesson is to summarize what was learned, and ensure the students have details of their homework so that they can consolidate their knowledge.