1、Unit 4 Learning efficiently Part One: Teaching DesignPeriod 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language(HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?)AimsTo help students read the passage HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writingProceduresI. Warming up by learnin
2、g about how to learn EnglishMotivation: Become a person who likes to learn English. Dictionary: Get a good English dictionary. No mistakes: Avoid mistakes. Try to use correct English from the beginning. Pronunciation: Learn to pronounce English sounds. Learn to understand phonetic transcription and
3、the phonetic alphabet. Input : Get English into your head by reading and listening to lots of English sentences. Reading Movies Adventure games SuperMemo is a computer program that you can use to learn English. We have used it for 8 years and it has helped us a lot.II. Reading for forms and for the
4、meaningRead the text HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST? on page 36 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?Take this quiz to find out what kind of learner/ you are. Tick only the statements/ that y
5、ou think resemble your situation.1. I would rather hear a book/ on a cassette/ than read it.2. When I am doing my homework, I like to hear music/ in the background.3. When I go shopping, I would rather rely on a written list/ than on my memory. 4. I like playing sports/ more than watching them.5. It
6、 is a struggle/ for me to keep my room/or desk tidy.6. I know most of the words /to the songs /I listen to.7. I tend to see pictures /in my mind /when I am reading /or listening. 8. I like reading stories /more than listening to them.9. When I am spelling words, I try to “see” the words /in my mind.
7、10. I like talking on the phone.11. I love working with my hands/ to build things.12. I often draw /when I am on the phone.13. I can express myself /more easily/ when I talk/ than when I write.14. I find it hard to concentrate/ when there are a lot of people /talking near me.15. I like to follow a m
8、ap /rather than written/ or spoken directions.16. I often know what I want to say /but have trouble expressing it /in words.17. I read /as little as possible.18. When I remember something /that happened in the past, I often see pictures of it /in my mind.19. I learn about something best /when someon
9、e explains it to me.20. I find it hard to concentrate /when people are moving around me /or things are messy.21. When I am spelling difficult words, I often write them down/ to see if they “look right”.22. I find it tiresome/ to sit /and concentrate on anything /for a long time. I prefer to keep cha
10、nging activities.23. I usually remember peoples names/ but I often forget their faces.24. I usually remember peoples faces /but I am often vague about their names.25. I remember things /in a list /best /if I say them to myself.26. I prefer to be shown what to do/ rather than be told.27. When I am gi
11、ving directions, I have a tendency /to move my body/ and / or hands/ as I speak.28. When I am spelling difficult words, I often sound them out /as I write them down.29. I like art /more than music.30. I enjoy reading.31. When I am trying to solve a problem, I like to consult someone else /about it.3
12、2. When I am learning to spell words, I write them down/ again and again /until I know them.Now /follow the instructions below /to find out what kind of learner/ you are.In the table/ circle the numbers /that match the statements /you ticked. Then/ add up the number of circles/ in each column.The co
13、lumn /with the most circles is probably your preferred learning style. You may find /you have more than one strong learning style, which is a bonus /because being able to learn/ in more than one style increases your chances of finding activities/ that suit you.Visual Auditory Tactile3 1 47 2 58 6 10
14、9 10 1115 13 1218 14 1620 19 1724 23 2126 25 2229 28 2730 31 32Now/ turn the page/ to find out more about how you learn/ best.Read the descriptions below /of three kinds /of learners.Visual learners learn best /when they can see /or watch something. They like to read/ or look at pictures, and diagra
15、ms.Auditory learners learn best/ when there is an oral component/ to the material /they are learning. They prefer to listen to explanations/ or instructions/ rather than read them.Tactile learners learn best/ through concrete experiences; that is, when they can touch /or feel real objects, do experi
16、ments /or make things.III. Copying expressions and making sentencestake a quiz, find out, what kind of, would rather do, hear a book on a cassette, do ones homework, like to hear music, in the background, go shopping, rely on, a written list, on my memory, like playing sports, keep ones room tidy, t
17、end to do, see pictures in my mind, like reading stories, talk on the phone, love working with, express oneself, find itto do, have trouble doing sth., learn about sth., write sth. down, concentrate on sth., for a long time, prefer to do, have a tendency to, sound sth. out, enjoy doing, add up, do e
18、xperiments, make thingsIV. Listening about learning stylesLearning styles are different ways that a person can learn. Its commonly believed that most people favor some particular method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli or information. Psychologists have proposed several complem
19、entary taxonomies of learning styles. But neuroscientists have doubts about the scientific basis for some learning style theories and a major report published in 2004 cast doubt on most of the main tests used to identify an individuals learning style.Now turn to page 38 and do the three listening an
20、d discussing exercises.V. Discussing difficulties learning English What is the most difficult part about learning English?Spelling?Listening?Pronunciation?Grammar in general?Grammar - Word order?Grammar Prepositions?Grammar - Phrasal Verbs?Grammar - Verb Tenses?Different Regional Accents?Vocabulary?
21、Reading?Other - Please specify?VI. Discussing education quotes and proverbsEducation Quotes and ProverbsUnknownIf you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember.Ropo OguntimehinEducation is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no
22、enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.UnknownThe essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Sir Walter ScottWe shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, co
23、mpared with the education of the heart.Mark TwainThere is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.Lord ChesterfieldThe knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in t
24、he world, and not in a closet.Agustin MarissaEducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet.W. B. YeatsEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.Wendell PhillipsThe best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a time in every
25、mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.B.B. KingThe beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.Angela SchwindtWhile we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Ralph
26、 Waldo EmersonI pay the schoolmaster, but tis the schoolboys that educate my son.Henry AdamsNothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.AristotleThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.James BaldwinA child cannot be taught b
27、y anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. Alec BourneIt is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.Henry Peter BroughanEducation makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Epictetus On
28、ly the educated are free.Malcolm ForbesEducations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.John RuskinLet us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons.Robert FrostEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Horace Mann
29、Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.Henry B. AdamsA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.Richard BachLearning is finding out what you already knowMich
30、ael FaradayThe lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Anatole FranceThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Ben
31、 Franklin Genius without education is like silver in the mine.GalileoYou cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.Kahlil GibranI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to th
32、ese teachers.Robert F. GoheenIf you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.Joseph JoubertTo teach is to learn twice.Laurence LeeThe world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows.Anthony J. DAngelo, The College Bl
33、ue BookNever stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.Anthony J. DAngelo, The College Blue BookLearn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.Anthony J. DAngelo, The College Blue BookDevelop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.Galileo Gali
34、leiI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something from him.Hellen KellerCollege isnt the place to go for ideas.VII. Reading and writingRead the short email on page 39 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the u
35、seful expressions. An emailHi, Congratulations /on your great English mark. Im proud of you. I wish /I were doing as well/ in my English class. I try really hard /but I just dont seem to get any better. For example, we have to learn 40 new words/ every week/ and the teacher tests us /on Mondays. I s
36、pend half an hour /every afternoon /learning the words, but I still get only about 20 /out of 40 correct /in the test.And Im not much better /at reading. I read the passage/ and half the time/ it doesnt make sense. It takes me ages/ to read /because I have to keep looking up words /in the dictionary
37、. Then /I usually forget what Ive read. Have you got any suggestions? I need HELP: -(Best wishes,DonghuaCongratulations on ones great English mark, be proud of, do well in, try hard to do, get any better, spenddoing, get aboutout of, in the test, make sense, keep doing,look up words in the dictionar
38、y, get any suggestions, need help, best wishes,VIII. Closing down by writing an emailSmileys in EmailSmileys Meanings:-) User is smiling.:-D User is laughing.8-) User is smiling and wearing glasses.: -( User is sad :-O User made a mistake.;- User is winking.: -) User has a cold.: -( User has a cold and is crying.=:-o User is very surprised:-/ User does not believe you.Acronymns used in emailsASAP: as soon as possible BTW: By the way CU: See you (good-bye) FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions HTH: Hope this helps TIA: Thanks in Advance
