Module 1 My First Day at Senior HighI . Four-dimensional Teaching objectives: 1. Language ability: 1) Listening: Listening for attitudes. 2) Speaking: Making conversation and talking about different school systems. 3) Reading: Paraphrasing and reading for ones opinions, and learning the new words, phrases and sentence patterns. 4) Writing: Writing an email and a brochure about a high school. 5) Grammar: Revision of the present tenses and adjectives ending in ing and ed. 2. Cultural awareness: 1) Exploring and discovering the environment of the new school. 2) Knowing about American school system.3. Thinking qualities:1) Obtaining information and reconstructing the meaning according to the discourses and topic in this module. 2) Accepting different school systems and expressing personal opinions with the information learned in this module. 4. Learning ability: 1) Using proper learning strategies to complete the learning tasks in this module. 2) Learning to deal with mistakes. II. Important points1. Some new language items in this module, especially the new words, phrases and sentence patterns. 2. Reading comprehension of the reading passage, My First Day at Senior High, and talking about high school life. 3. Grammar: Revision of the present tenses and adjectives ending in ing and -ed. 4. Listening, speaking and writing practice. III. Difficult points: 1. Some new words, phrases and sentence patterns.2. Reading comprehension and writing. 3. Grammar: adjectives ending in ing and -ed. 4. Function: Talking about future. IV. Teaching aid: Multi-media teaching system V. Teaching methods: Individual, pair and group work, interactive and task-based teaching VI. Teaching time: 9 periodsPeriod 1Teaching and learning contents: Introduction and answer the questions about the words in the box in Reading and Vocabulary. Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives: 1. Revise the words about subjects at school and talk about them. (Get the Ss to preview them first)2. Guess the meaning of the words according to the questions and words and then learn the usage of some words. Main and difficult point: Revie of the words about subjects, talk about the subjects and learn some new words and their usages. Teaching and learning procedures: Step 1 Lead-in Introduce the teaching topic and contents of this module. Step 2 Introduction: Vocabulary and speaking 1. Task1 Review the words about subjects at school. Activity: Get the Ss to close their books and write down all the subjects from their memory in English in their exercise books. Ask 4 of them to write on the Bb. And then check the spelling 2. Task 2 Talk about the subjects. Activity 1: Get the Ss to answer the questions about the words in the box together. (Teacher explains the new words: academic, IT., technology)Activity 2: Complete the sentences with a subject and a reason in pairs. Activity 3: Work in pairs to prepare a brief presentation and then choose a few Ss to give a brief presentation in front of the class. Step 3 Vocabulary in Answer the questions about the words in the box Task1 Answer the questions to understand the meaning of some new words. Activity: T guides the Ss to guess the meaning of some new words according to the questions and answers, and then answer the questions. Task 2 New language items. 1. Describe your attitude to studying English. 1) describe vt. 描写，形容；叙述；描绘 description n. 描写（文字）；形容；说明e.g. Can you describe him to me? 你能向我描述一下他的样子吗？The man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20. 据描述这男人高个子，深色皮肤，年龄在20岁左右。Jim was described by his colleagues as unusual . 吉姆被同事们称为“不寻常”的人。Could you just give us a description of your cat? 能否请您向我们描述一下您的猫？Write a very brief description of a typical problem. 就一个典型问题作简要的描述。2) attitude n. 态度; 看法; 姿势; have/hold/keep/take a attitude to/towards to have a good/bad/positive/negative attitude towards sb/sth 对某人或事物持的态度e.g. Remember, keep a positive attitude and good things will happen. 记住：保持乐观的心态，好事自然会发生。We should have a positive attitude towards English learning. Youth is simply an attitude of mind. 青春仅仅是心态问题。If you want to pass your exams youd better change your attitude!你若想通过考试就最好改变你的态度！Youre taking a pretty selfish attitude over this, arent you? 你对这个问题的看法相当自私，对不对？2. Describe the general behaviour of your Junior High class in English lesson. behaviour n. u 行为；举止；态度 good/bad behaviour 良好 / 恶劣行为e.g. His behaviour towards her was becoming more and more aggressive.他对待她的态度越来越蛮横。 behave vi.表现(=act)；举止端正 vt. 使守规矩 e.g. They behaved very badly towards their guests. 他们对客人们很不礼貌。He behaved like a true gentleman. 他的行为像个真正的绅士。She behaved with great dignity. 她显得很尊贵。He behaved as if/though nothing had happened. 他显得像是什么都没发生过。They behave differently when youre not around. 你不在时他们就是另一副面孔。Will you kids just behave! 孩子们，规矩点！well-/badly-behave