The Journey of a Coin
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge aim: Students can understand the meaning of the listening material, and get some detailed information from the material.
Ability aim: Students can retell the story, and their listening and expression abilities can be improved through doing the listening task.
Emotional aim: Through listening the story of the journey of a coin, students will get more interests in learning English.
Teaching Key Points: Understand the meaning of the story.
Teaching Difficult Points: Understand some new words in the story and retell the story in their own words.
Teaching Methods: Situational teaching method, Communicative teaching approach.
Teaching Aids: Radio, Multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming-up and lead in
Free talk: Share a experience about their journey.
Question: Have you ever heard of a journey of an object like coin? If not, today we will listen to the story.
Step 2 Pre-listening:
Learn some new words to eliminate the difficulty they may meet during the listening: mint, shiny, cashier, roll, stall.
Step 3 While- listening:
Global listening: listen to the tape for the first time, and then find the main idea of the listening material. (main idea: this listening material mainly talks about a journey of a coin. It goes through a lot and finally get to a girl’s hand.)
Careful listening: listen to the tape for the second time, and then finish the following 2 tasks. 1. write numbers 1-8 in the boxes to show the right order. Ask some students to show their answers after listening.(answer：1—c, 2—f, 3—h, 4—a, 5—d, 6—g, 7—b, 8—e.)
2. answer the following questions:
a. what does the coin look like when produced in the mint? (lovely and shiny.)
b. where is the coin’s first place when it was brought out from mint? (Bank.)
c. who get the coin from the bank cashier? ( A cake shop owner.)
d. why the coin became very dirty? (Because it rolled away when the woman dropped her purse, and she didn’t find it, so it stayed on the road for a long time. )
Step 4 Post- listening:
Retell the story in students’ own words.
Ask some of students to share their retelling.
Step 5 Summary and homework
Summary: Ask students to act as an assistant teacher to conclude what we have learned this class. And then make a summary together.
Homework: Supposed that you are the coin in the listening material, what would you say to the girl who made you clean? Write a letter to express your appreciation for her.
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