1.Teaching Material

A Telephone Call

A: May I speak to Jim, please?

B: Sorry, He’s not at home.

A: Where is he now?

B: He went to the bookshop.

A: Would you please take a message?

B: Sure,

A: Tomorrow is Teachers’ Day. We’ll have a party at school.

B: What time is the party?

A: At three thirty in the afternoon,

B: OK. I’ll tell him when he’s back.

A: Thank you.

2.Teaching Aims

1) Enable the students to make telephone calls in English and get them to know how to behave themselves on the telephone.

2) Raise the students’ interest to learn English.

3) Encourage the students to have good cooperation with one another.

3.Teaching Contents

1) Patterns:

May I speak to……..?

Would you please take a message?

2) Vocabulary: message, party, take a message

4.Teaching Aids

Four toy telephones, a CD-ROM, a toy Santa Claus.

5.Teaching Procedures

Step 1: Warming-up exercise

Sing the song “Greetings”.

Step 2: Presentation and Practice

1) Ask the students to look at the screen and listen to the talk between the teacher and the person in the screen.

2) After the talk, the teacher tells the students how to make a telephone call in English, Write the pattern “May I speak to ….: on the blackboard and teach them how to use it on the phone,

3) Using the four toy telephones, ask the students to make telephone calls in pairs with the following patterns:

_______ May I speak to ….?

_______ Speaking.

Those students who do not have toy telephones can use their pencil-boxes instead, or they can put their fingers to their ears as a sign to make phone calls.

4) Ask one student his/her name and his /her home telephone number, using the following sentences:

Would you please tell me your name?

Would you please tell me your home telephone number?

5) Make a telephone call to a student and get the students to learn the following short dialogue:

T: Hello. Is that 1234567?

S: Yes.

T: May I speak to Xiao Long?

S: sorry, he is not in the office.

T: would you please take a message and ask him to come to school this afternoon?

S: Sure.

T: Thank you.

6) Ask the students to make calls in groups. Then ask some pairs to act out to see If they know how to use the patterns below:

May I speak to …”/

Would you please take a message?

7) Ask the students to look at the screen and listen to the dialogue: a Telephone Call” with the following questions in mind:

8) What is the message about?

9) What time is the patty?

Then ask the students some questions if they have understood the dialogue.

Ask the students to look at the dialogue on the screen and listen to it again.

The teacher tells the students the meaning of the word “tomorrow” with the help of a calendar and the following sentences:

We’ll have a party at school.

I’ll tell him when he’s back,

Ask the students to read the new word and the sentences on the blackboard.

Ask the students to retell the dialogue in their own words in pairs.

Play the game: “throwing Santa Claus” to see if the students can say the sentences well.

The teacher throws the toy Santa Claus to a student. When the student catches the Santa Claus, he or she must say one of the sentences on the blackboard, and then throws the Santa Claus to another student.

Ask the students to act out the dialogue in roles.

Step 3: Consolidation

1) Show the students three pictures in the screen, and them to make telephone calls in groups based on the picture they have chosen.

Picture One: Your want to invite Tom to play football with you, but Tom hasn’t got a telephone at home. You ask Rose to take a message to Tom.

Picture Two: Miss Wu is ill. You want to pay a visit to her with Jack. But jack is not at home, his sister picks up the phone.

Picture three: you will hold a birthday party on Sunday. You phone to lily to invite her to your party, but she isn’t at home, how do you speak to her mother, who is at home at that time?

(2)Ask some pairs to act out their telephone calls.

(3)Ask the students to make phone calls to the teachers who are sitting around the classroom. The teacher tells the students: “There will be a party on New Year’s Day. We will invite some teachers to come to our party. Write the names and the telephone numbers of some teachers and make telephone calls to them.”

Step 4: Summary

Tell the students the way of making a phone call in their daily life.

Step 5: Homework

Ask the students to make phone calls to their friends and tell them their school life after class.

Step 6: Ending

Sing the song “Happy Weekend”.

專(zhuān)家點(diǎn)評

這是一節真實(shí)、自然、生動(dòng)、有趣的英語(yǔ)課。該課教學(xué)目的明確，教學(xué)過(guò)程有序，教學(xué)活動(dòng)設計合理，教學(xué)各環(huán)節過(guò)渡自然，學(xué)生思維活躍。這節課在組織和設計上主要有以下特點(diǎn)：

1． 注重學(xué)生的主體地位，實(shí)現了老師角色的轉變。老師從學(xué)生的興趣出發(fā)，通過(guò)創(chuàng )設情景，示范教學(xué)內容，啟發(fā)學(xué)生的思維，組織學(xué)生實(shí)踐，培養學(xué)生的語(yǔ)言交際能力。老師在整個(gè)教學(xué)活動(dòng)中成功地扮演了多個(gè)角色。首先，他是一個(gè)示范者，他為學(xué)生展示語(yǔ)言結構、意義和語(yǔ)言運用的情景；同時(shí)他又是一個(gè)啟發(fā)者，啟發(fā)學(xué)生思考，引導學(xué)生想象；其次，他還是一個(gè)情景的設計者和學(xué)習的指導者，他通過(guò)多媒體課件展現生動(dòng)、逼真的交際情景，幫助和引導學(xué)生在語(yǔ)境中理解語(yǔ)言的結構和意義；此外，他更是一名課堂活動(dòng)的組織者、學(xué)生學(xué)習的激勵者和促進(jìn)者，他通過(guò)玩具小電話(huà)、身體語(yǔ)言設計情景，組織學(xué)生開(kāi)展游戲和兩人小組活動(dòng)，給學(xué)生提供模仿、體驗、實(shí)踐和創(chuàng )造性運用語(yǔ)言的機會(huì )，并在活動(dòng)中適時(shí)地鼓勵和表?yè)P學(xué)生，保護學(xué)生的自信心和學(xué)習的積極性，使學(xué)生學(xué)有所獲。

2． 注重把語(yǔ)言結構和語(yǔ)言功能有機結合，實(shí)現了從知識到能力的轉變。本課教學(xué)內容涉及關(guān)于打電話(huà)的表達方式，老師能夠注意處理好結構與功能的關(guān)系，將語(yǔ)言結構的學(xué)習融于模擬的交際情景之中。教師在教學(xué)的設計上采用分解難點(diǎn)、分步呈現、逐步擴展、層層深入的方式，注重示范質(zhì)量，保證學(xué)生對語(yǔ)言意義的正確理解，通過(guò)各種模仿和操練活動(dòng)，使學(xué)生掌握新的語(yǔ)言形式。

3． 注重教學(xué)內容與學(xué)生的生活經(jīng)驗相結合，實(shí)現了學(xué)以致用的教學(xué)目標。老師通過(guò)創(chuàng )設情景，將學(xué)習內容與學(xué)生的實(shí)際生活相結合，使學(xué)生身臨其境，從而達到了學(xué)以致用的目的。例如，他在給學(xué)生打電話(huà)之前，先用英語(yǔ)了解學(xué)生家的電話(huà)號碼，然后撥號給該學(xué)生打電話(huà)，讓學(xué)生感到真實(shí)和親切。同時(shí)他設置了三個(gè)情景：約同學(xué)踢足球，約同學(xué)看望老師，約同學(xué)參加生日晚會(huì )，也都反映了學(xué)生的實(shí)際生活。

4． 追求語(yǔ)音、語(yǔ)調自然，教態(tài)親切、大方，風(fēng)格友善和幽默也是教學(xué)成功的重要因素。當然，本節課還有改進(jìn)的余地，例如，當學(xué)生兩人小組活動(dòng)中，老師對學(xué)生角色的描述不夠明確，使得學(xué)生對話(huà)中的一些語(yǔ)言顯得不夠得體。