英语人教版七年级下册Birthday Food Around the World.docxVIP

Teaching Plan Contents: 1. Vocabulary: different, candle, make a wish, blow out, get popular, cut up, bring good luck to 2. Reading: Birthday Food Around the World Objectives: Objectives for students (1) Students can correctly pronounce the following words and phrases, understand their meanings and correctly use them orally: different, candle, make a wish, blow out, get popular, cut up, bring good luck to. (2) Students are able to talk about birthday food and know the culture of birthday food in different countries. (3) Students can learn to work cooperatively. Objectives for the teacher I will create a student-friendly classroom environment where students can feel free to share their ideas; I will adjust the difficulty levels of questions I raise and assign different levels tasks according to the students’ reactions. Focal points: Students learn to realize the different birthday food in different countries and acknowledge the same wish to the birthday person. Difficult points: Students can get the deep reason why people have this kind of food on their birthday. Procedures: Stage 1 Pre-reading Step 1: Lead-in The teacher shows a picture of one of the classmates on her birthday and interest students’ eyes on birthday. Step 2: Free talk Pair work: With his partner, each student practices a dialogue which discusses about the birthday food. --What do people eat on their birthday? -- They have…. (Purpose 1: to create a student-friendly situation to ease students’ nervousness and motivate students’ learning interest) (Purpose 2: to learn to work cooperatively) Stage 2 While-reading Step 1: Filling the blanks Students read paragraph 2, then finish these sentences. Step 2: The whole process of celebrating with birthday cakes Students try to complete the whole process based on their life experiences and the hint from the teacher. Step 3: The birthday One of the classmates happens to have her birthday, therefore the teacher with the other stude