Starter Unit 1 Good morning!
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Knowledge goals: letters Aa – Hh; expressions: Good morning(afternoon, evening). How are you? Fine, thank you.
2. Ability goals: greet people
Teaching tools: flash card; tape recorder
Period 1
Step 1 Greeting
Begin by greeting the class with a smile and good morning.
Step 2 Lead-in
T: Do you still remember my English name?
Can you spell it?
If someone gets the answer, give him/her a piece of chewing gun as a prize.
Step 3 Ask and answer
Ask Ss what their English names are, help them to spell them out. Write their names on the Bb, read them out and spell them.
Step 4 Presentation
Present letters Aa—Hh one by one and do activity 2a.
Step 5 Listening and writing
Get the Ss to listen to the tape and finish the task list on the book.
Have the Ss watch the teacher writing the letters in the Bb, then ask them to follow the teacher and write down these letters on their exercise books.
Step 6 Read and guess
Ask Ss to look at the pictures in Activity 3. Have the Ss read them out and guess their meaning. And have them to say more abbreviations they know.
Step 7 Listening
Ask Ss to listen to the conversation in 4a. Then circle the names you hear. Have Ss look at the pictures in 4b. Get them to listen again and number the pictures.
Step 8 Pair work
Get Ss to work in pairs.
Practice the conversation with their partners.
Help them when they practice the conversation.
Encourage Ss to present their conversations to the class.
Homework:
Copy the letters Aa—Hh and sentences.
Period 2
Step 1 Duty report
Ask the student on duty to show his/her name card and tell the class his/her favorite sentences.
Step 2 Listen and practice
Play the tape (Section B 1) and ask the Ss to listen to it carefully and then act it out with the partner.
Step 3 Listening
Ask Ss to look at the picture in 3a. Play the tape and ask them to listen and draw lines between the letters. Then let them guess what it is.
Get Ss to look at the picture and have them match the big letters with the small letters. Make sure they can match them all.
Step 5 Activity 4
Present some groups of words such as: face, grade, name / bag, back, fat on the Bb. Ask Ss to find the same English vowel they contain. Ask Ss to give more words.
Play the tape and ask Ss to listen and repeat.
Step 6 Listen and sing the song
First read the song to the class. Then play the tape for the Ss and ask them to listen. Then play it again and ask Ss to read. At the end practice the song for several times.
Step 7 Self check 1 and 2
Ask Ss to check the letters and the letters they know. Then write five new words in their Vocab-builder. Ask several Ss to write their new words on the Bb and share their words with the class.
Step 8 Self check 3
Ask Ss to look at the faces. Put their names in the correct alphabetical order.
Step 9 Self check 4
Have Ss read the letters and words in column A. Then try to read the new words in column B. Correct the pronunciation.
Step 10 Just for fun
Homework
Practice writing letters I—R.
Write down the target language in activity 1a, 2b and just for fun down in the exercise books.
