8A Fun with English Unit 5 study skills
Teaching plan
Step 1 Revision:
Ask the Ss one questions: Do you often take notes in class? When else do you have to take notes?
Encourage them to find out answers: reading, having a talk……
Step 2 Presentation:
1 T: How can we take notes more quickly and more effectively? Let’s have a try!
1) Some people want to change the wetland to make more space for farms and buildings.
2)We hope this information will help them understand and make them actively take action to protect wildlife.
And help the Ss to find out the ways to take notes better.
2 T: Sandy is going to listen to a radio programme on birds. She wants to take notes more quickly with some short forms. Could you help her write the short form? You can discuss with your partner about what you don’t know.
for example,and the rest, minute(s), second(s), centimetre(s), kilometre(s), number, information
(eg. etc. min sec cm km No. info)
3 Ask the Ss to read them after the teacher and help them to remember them .
4. Teach the Ss some more short forms.
1)usually 2)somebody/something 3)New Zealand 4)especially 5)noun 6)verb 7)square metres 8)hours 9)that is 10) note well
(usu/ sb.sth./NZ/esp./n./v./sq m/hrs/i.e./NB)
5.Teach them that short forms are called abbreviations and those abbreviations of days of the week and months of the year.
(Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat/Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.)
Step 3 Presentation:
1.T: Sandy also use some symbols in her notes. Do you know what they mean?
= + % ° ≠ @ & < > ∴ $ ∵
( equal(s) plus per cent degree(s) do(es) not equal at and smaller /less than greater/more than therefore dollar(s) because)
2.Have the Ss read after the teacher to know them better
3. Teach the Ss some more symbols and ask them to read after you:
a half-1/2 , be similar to-= ,times(multiplied by)-* ,a quarter-1/4
Step 4:practise:
1 T:Daniel is writing down some questions, but he didn’t use short forms or symbols. Could you help him rewrite his note?(teacher read/Ss take notes,ask some of them to do it on the blackboard)
I need some information about the number of birds in Zhalong. For example, is the number of red-crowned cranes larger than a hundred?
Answer: I need some info about the No. of birds in Zhalong. e.g., is the No. of red-crowned cranes >100?
2Write a short passage after the model sentence and ask your partner to rewrite it with the short forms or symbols.
Step 5:Homework: