Unit 1 Learning to be A Getting ready 教学设计 2024-2025学年沪外教版（2024）七年级英语下册

Unit 1 Learning to be-A Getting ready 1. Content Overview This unit, "Learning to be", focuses on the theme of personal growth and development. In part A "Getting ready", students are introduced to basic vocabulary and expressions related to personal goals, qualities needed to become a better person, and some examples of how to grow from changes. They will encounter words like "goal", "responsible", "challenge", etc. Through mini - texts and simple listening materials, students start to think about what it means to be a better person and how to set and achieve personal goals. This part lays a foundation for the subsequent learning of the entire unit, including more in - depth reading, speaking, writing, and grammar learning. 教学目标 2.1 Knowledge Objectives Students will be able to master the new words and phrases related to personal goals and growth, such as "goal", "responsible", "challenge", "be going to", "will", etc. Understand the basic sentence structures used to express personal goals and future plans, like "I'm going to...", "I will...". 2.2 Ability Objectives Develop students' listening ability to understand simple materials about personal growth and goals. Improve students' speaking ability to talk about their own goals and plans for the future. Train students' reading ability to comprehend mini - texts related to the theme. 2.3 Emotional Objectives Inspire students to think positively about their personal growth and encourage them to set achievable goals. Foster students' sense of responsibility and the awareness of continuous self - improvement. 教学重难点 3.1 Key Points New words and phrases: Make sure students can correctly pronounce, understand the meaning, and use words like "goal", "responsible", "challenge", "give up", "achieve", etc. Sentence patterns: Enable students to proficiently use "be going to" and "will" to express future intentions and plans. 3.2 Difficult Points Differentiate the usage of "be going to" and "will". "Be going to" is often used for plans decided in advance, while "will" can be used for spontaneous decisions or predictions. Helping students understand and correctly apply these two in different contexts is challenging. Encourage students to think deeply and express their real - life goals and how to achieve them in English. This requires students to combine their personal experiences with language learning. be going to: 打算 in the future: 在未来 give up: 放弃 achieve one's goal: 实现某人的目标 take on challenges: 接受挑战 教学过程 5.1 Warming - up (5 minutes) Greet the students as usual. Then, show some pictures of successful people, such as famous scientists, athletes, or artists, on the PPT. Ask students: "Do you know these people What do they have in common" Encourage students to express their opinions freely. This activity aims to arouse students' interest in the topic of personal growth and success, and quickly draw their attention to the class. 5.2 Lead - in (5 minutes) After the discussion in the warming - up part, introduce the topic of this unit - "Learning to be". Explain to students that in this unit, they will learn how to become better people and set their own goals. Then, present some simple sentences on the PPT, like "I want to be a teacher in the future." "She is going to learn a new language." Ask students to read these sentences aloud and try to figure out the common points. This step helps students get familiar with the key sentence patterns for expressing personal goals and smoothly leads to the new knowledge learning. 5.3 Presentation (15 minutes) Vocabulary Teaching Show the new words on the PPT one by one, along with pictures or simple examples to help students understand the meaning. For example, when teaching the word "goal", show a picture of a football player kicking the ball towards the goal and say: "Look, his goal is to score a goal." Let students repeat the word several times to practice pronunciation. For some difficult words like "responsible", explain its meaning in Chinese briefly and then give more examples in English, such as "A responsible student always finishes his homework on time." "Parents are responsible for taking care of their children." Sentence Pattern Teaching Write the two main sentence patterns "I'm going to..." and "I will..." on the blackboard. Explain the usage differences simply. Then, give some examples for each pattern: "I'm going to visit my grandparents this weekend." (a plan decided in advance) "I will give you a hand if you need it." (a spontaneous decision) Let students make their own sentences using these two patterns. Walk around the classroom to monitor and help students. 5.4 Practice (12 minutes) Listening Practice Play a short audio about a student talking about his future plans. Before playing, show some questions on the PPT, such as "What is the student's goal", "What is he going to do to achieve his goal" Let students listen carefully and answer the questions. Play the audio twice if necessary. After that, check the answers with the whole class. Speaking Practice Divide students into pairs. Each pair is required to talk about their own goals for the near future and how they are going to achieve them. Encourage them to use the new words and sentence patterns they just learned. Walk around the classroom, listen to their conversations, and give necessary guidance and corrections. Then, invite some pairs to come to the front of the class and share their conversations with the whole class. 5.5 Summary (5 minutes) Summarize the key points of this class with the students, including the new words, phrases, and sentence patterns. Write them on the blackboard again for emphasis. Ask students if they have any questions or if there is anything they don't understand. Encourage students to ask questions actively. 5.6 Homework (3 minutes) Ask students to write a short passage about their long - term goals (what they want to be in the future) and the steps they will take to achieve these goals. They should use at least three new words and two sentence patterns learned in this class. Tell students to prepare for the next class, where they will further discuss the topic of personal growth and learn more related knowledge. 教学反思 Positive Aspects The warming - up activity with pictures of successful people effectively attracted students' attention and engaged them in the class discussion, which created a good learning atmosphere from the beginning. The step - by - step teaching of vocabulary and sentence patterns, combined with vivid examples and pictures, made the new knowledge easier for students to understand. The practice activities, especially the pair - work speaking practice, provided students with sufficient opportunities to use the language they learned, and most students actively participated. Areas for Improvement In the listening practice, although the audio material was relatively simple, some students still had difficulty catching the key information. Maybe in the future, more pre - listening guidance should be given, such as teaching some key words in the audio in advance. When students were making sentences using the new sentence patterns, some students made mistakes in verb forms. This indicates that more grammar drills on these sentence patterns are needed in the following classes to help students master them more firmly. During the pair - work speaking practice, a few students were a bit shy and didn't fully participate. In future classes, more encouragement and support should be given to these students to build up their confidence in speaking English. 2 / 37 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $