9A unit 4 Study Skills教学设计

Analysis of teaching content:

From Oxford Junior English Book, students already have a basic idea about Derivation and compounding. In this lesson, the teacher wants to help students have a better understanding about word formation which can improve their guessing ability. The teacher will create more opportunities to foster students’ guessing strategy which can enlarge their vocabulary and broaden their horizon. As for students, whenever coming across unknown words, they always look them up in the dictionary. After leaning this lesson, students can apply the guessing strategy.   

Teaching objectives:

1.      Students can memorize derivation and compounding.

2.      Students can guess the words’ meaning by word formation and apply the guessing strategy.

Teaching procedures:

Step1: Warm-up

1 Introduce herself and invite students to guess what she wanted to be before being a teacher.

2 Have a revision of suffix -“er, ist, or” referring to people.

Step2: Presentation

1 Invite students to find similar words from the article “Friendship”

2 List these words in groups and help students make a conclusion. There are two kinds of words formation: Derivation& Compounding.

Step3: Practice

1 Play a brainstorming game with students which can help students consolidate this knowledge they have learned.

2 Let students guess the meanings of words from sentences

3 Do exercise from our text book “The Diary of a Young Girl”.

Step4: Extension

Show students an article: some sayings about cats. After reading the article, students can draw a conclusion that is we can guess the words meaning not just by words itself, but by the context, explanation and common sense.

Step5: Conclusion

Help students sum up today’s lesson and encourage them not to be frightened or frustrated when encountering words that they don’t know.

Step6: Homework

1 Remember words like derivation and compounding.

2 Do exercises in our students’ book.