Book1 Unit1 Back to school

Integrated skills

Teaching objectives:

By the end of this period, students will be able to:

1. understand the steps of starting a new school club by listening;

2. find the elements and features of a proposal for starting a new club by reading;

3. gather information about their own clubs by discussing and speaking;

4. finish the proposal by writing and cooperating;

5. improve their love for school and study

Teaching procedures

Step 1: Lead in

Have students enjoy some pictures about various school clubs of our school.

Have students listen to the principal’s announcement.

Step 2: Listening

1. Pre-listening

Encourage students to predict before listening to the conversation.

A1. Listen to the conversation and put the steps it takes to start a new school club in the  correct order.

a    Give the signed proposal to Mr Zhou.

b    With Mr Zhou’s help, find a place for the club and set up the first meeting.

c    Write a proposal for the new club.

d    Wait for the proposal to be accepted by the principal.

e    Find at least five students to sign up(签名) for the first meeting.

Your order is ___________________.

2. While-listening

1) Listen and check

2) Listen and complete (one word for each blank)

Maggie’s new school club

l  Purpose of starting a new club： To help students learn a useful (1) __________

l  Type of club Maggie wants to start：A (2)__________ __________ __________club

l  Information the proposal must contain

Ø  The name of the club

Ø  The name of the club (3) ____________

Ø  The aims of the club

Ø  The time the club will meet every week

Ø  The (4) __________ Maggie plans to organize

Ø  What materials she will need

Ø  How she is going to find new (5) ____________

3. Post-listening

Have students think about what can be included in a proposal about starting a new school club.(encourage students to list the elements by drawing mind maps)

Step 3: Reading

Have students read Maggie’s proposal as a sample and guide them to work out the following questions.

1) What are included in Maggie’s proposal?

2) What are the features of Maggie’s proposal?

Step 4: Speaking

1) Have students brainstorm for information about the clubs that they want to start.

2) Have students discuss with their partners about the clubs they want to start following a given dialogue pattern. (language reference is provided)

A: I’d like to start a _________ club so that _________.

B: Sounds great! What’s the plan for each meeting?

A: We plan to _________.

B: Club members can also _________.

A: Great idea! What materials do you think we need?

B: We need _________.

A: Then how can we find new members?

B: Let’s _________

B: Perfect! Let’s finish our proposal!

Step 5: Writing

1) Have students work in groups of four and number each member.

2) Assign each member a specific task so that the group can cooperate together to finish their proposal.

3) Present an assessment table and remind students to pay particular attention to the features of the proposal.

4) When students finish the writing, have them present their own proposals and evaluate their work according to the assessment table.

Step 6: Writing

1) Send the proposals to our principal and ask students: If you were the principal, would you agree to the proposals and approve of your starting the clubs?

2) Have students read the newly-received reply from the principal.

3) Ask students: After reading his reply, how do you feel?

Step 7: Homework