高中英语 Small talk

感顿市安乐阳光实验学校Module1 Small Talk How

Good Are Your Social Skills?

School: Liao Cheng No. 1 Middle School

Time: October 28th, 2009

Teaching Planning

I. Teaching Aims and demands

1. Knowledge objects

1) To help students grasp new words and expressions related to the

topic;

2) To help establish understanding and use of the social skills.

2. Ability objects

1) To develop students’ reading ability via different types of skills,

including skimming, fast reading and careful reading;

2) To develop students’ ability of understanding words and

expressions in certain context;

3) To enrich students language capacity of social occasions.

3. Moral objects

1) To help students realize the importance of social occasions;

2) To help students learn the difference between different countries;

3) To improve students’ ability to communicate well.

II. Important teaching points

1. Talking about social skills;

2. Ways of improving social skills.

III. Difficult teaching points

1. Understanding of some new words and expressions;

2. To learn some social skills and make use of them in daily life.

IV. Teaching methods

1. Task-based Language Teaching

2. Situational approach

V. Teaching aids

1.

Multi-media computer

2.

Projector

Teaching Procedures

I. Leading-in

1. Show some pictures of communicating to the students and raise the

questions:

What are they doing? ( Individual work )

(They are talking with one another.)

What’s the relationship among them?

(Possible answers: friends, classmates, workmates, partners,

colleagues, etc.)

a video to introduce the topic of

Social Skills to the students.

The dialogue between the two girls:

A: Hi, how is your weekend?

B: Quite good. My parents and I went to the car exhibition and we

plan to buy a car.

A: Wow, that sounds great! Your parents must earn a lot of money!

How much money can they earn?

B: Oh, I’m sorry. In fact, I don’t know exactly.

A: Sorry. Maybe I can’t ask the question.

B: Uh, did you see Liu Xiang’s match last night?

A: No, I didn’t.

B: What a pity! Liu Xiang performed well last night. He was the second

in his group, but I think he could be No. 1. I believe he will win

the match tonight. Do you think so?

A: I can’t agree more. I like Zhou Jielun very much, especially his

song

Dao Xiang.

B: I like it very much, too.

A: Oh, it’s time for class. Let’s go.

1. Give some instructions about skimming. Make sure the students know

what they should do in this part.

( Individual work )

What is the main idea of the passage?

Read the passage as fast as possible and complete the following form.

( Individual work )

Main Idea More information

Ask some questions to

Give some situations you may meet in your

Introduction introduce the topic of

daily life and tell us social skills are

(para1&2) social skills

very important and they are easy to learn.

Three tips Tips on how to improve

1. Learn how to do small talk

(the rest your social skills

2. Develop your listening skills

paragraphs)

3. Learn the rules

IV. Careful reading

1. Read the passage and answer the following questions:

( Individual work & pair work )

1) Can you think of some “safe” things when talking with a stranger?

(Music, sport, films, etc.)

2) Communication is a two-way process. What does it involve?

(Speaking and listening.)

2. Reading comprehension.

1) Do you want to make more friends but you don’t have enough confidence

to talk to strangers?

(Do you want to make more friends but

lack to talk to people you don’t know?)

2) It will help if you do a little planning ahead of time.

(It helps if you do a little

advance planning.)

3) What’s more, you need to know how long to stay and when to leave.

II. Skimming

2. Skim the passage and answer the question: (The main idea is how to improve social skills.)III. Fast reading

(In addition, you need to know how long you should stay, and when you

have to

leave.)

V. Summary

1.

Sum up the passage together with the students.

2.

Conclusion

Social skills are important and we should pay attention to them in

our daily life.

VI. Task (Small Talk)

1. Show the students a video about small talk.

2. Work in pairs to make a small talk.(Pair work)

3. Choose two or three groups to act it out.

VII. Homework

Make a survey about social skills in your class. (Group work)

The survey may include the following questions:

1. How many students are good at social skills?

2. What are the main problems?

3. What can we do to help those with problems?

Give some tips after the class if necessary.

Take an active part in the class and try to be No. 1!

Come on!

Learning Outline

I. Leading-in（导入话题）

1. Look some pictures of communicating and answer the questions:

What are they doing?

What’s the relationship among the people?

2. Watch a video of two girls and introduce the topic of

Social Skills.

A: Hi, how is your weekend?

B: Quite good. My parents and I went to the car exhibition and we

plan to buy a car.

A: Wow, that sounds great! Your parents must earn a lot of money!

How much money can they earn?

B: Oh, I’m sorry. In fact, I don’t know exactly.

A: Sorry. Maybe I can’t ask the question.

B: Uh, did you see Liu Xiang’s match last night?

A: No, I didn’t.

B: What a pity! Liu Xiang performed well last night. He was the second

in his group, but I think he could be No. 1. I believe he will win

the match tonight. Do you think so?

A: I can’t agree more. I like Zhou Jielun very much, especially his

song

Dao Xiang.

B: I like it very much, too.

A: Oh, it’s time for class. Let’s go.

II. Skimming（略读）

Read the passage as fast as possible.

(Just read the title, the first or the last sentence of each paragraph

and you can get the main idea.)

What is the main idea of the passage?

a. Dos and Don’ts while listening.

b. How to improve social skills.

c. Introduce a book on social skills.

III. Fast reading

Read the passage as fast as possible and complete the following form.

Main Idea More information

Give some situations you may meet in

Ask some questions to your daily life and tell us______

Introduction introduce the topic ______are very important and they are

(para1&2) of________ ______ _____to learn.

Three tips Tips on how to improve

1. Learn how to do ________

(the rest your_______ ______

2. Develop your_________ ______

paragraphs)

3. Learn the ________

IV. Careful reading

1. Read the passage and answer the following questions:

1) Can you think of some “safe” things when talking with a stranger?

2) Communication is a two-way process. What does it involve?

2. Reading comprehension.

1) Do you want to make more friends but you don’t have enough confidence

to talk to strangers?

2) It will help if you do a little planning ahead of time.

3) What’s more, you need to know how long to stay and when to leave.

V. Summary

Make a summary of the passage.

1.

What is the main topic of the passage?

2.

How many tips does the writer give us?

3.

What are these tips?

VI. Task (Small Talk)

1. Enjoy a video about small talk.

2. Work in pairs to make a small talk.

( Make a small talk and write it on a piece of paper.)

3. Tips:

（You can refer to the sentences when you make a small talk.）

1) Do you like pop music?

Have you heard of the song …?

2) Liu xiang won his match again! Is it exciting?

What do you think of his performance?/ What’s your opinion about

his future?

3) Who’s your favorite star? / Which song / film is the best in your

opinion?

Why do you like him or her?

4) It’s really a lovely day, do you think so?

How are your parents these days?

5) I’m sorry I have to go for work./I want to chat with you, but

it’s really late./Is that the time? I must go now!

…

VII. Homework

Make a survey about social skills in your class.

You can refer to the following tips, such as:

How many students are good at social skills?

What are the main problems?

What can we do to help those with problems?

Take an active part in the class and try to be No. 1!

Come on!

Instructions:

Anyone in the group answer a question can get 2 points. The group leader

writes the points in the form. At last we compare the points and find

which group win the match.