Teaching Plan for Unit 1: Learning a Foreign Language, Key to Successful Online Learning

Teaching Plan for Unit 1

Section A
Learning a Foreign Language
Section B
Key to Successful Online Learning  

Objectives:  

To memorize new words and phrases in this unit

To master the grammatical structure —“ Present Participle” and “the Inverted Order”

To improve students’ reading skill of finding out word meanings

To learn to write a paragraph of cause and effect

To get to know the advantages and keys to learn a language by computer or through the Internet

To improve the listening skills for names

Learn to use the expressions for greeting and introducing and the corresponding responses

Time Arrangement 

Contents

I. Key words and useful expressions:  

1. Section A: reward, positive, opportunity, medium, access, participate, virtual, commitment, assignment, discipline, embarrass, insight, be worth sth./ doing sth., far from, feel like sth./doing sth., come across, reap the benefits of, trade for

2. Section B: expand, aware, barrier, reflect, critical, arise, likely, reinforce, challenge, vital, effective, be/ become aware of, hinder from, in addition, reflect on, allow for, remind sb. of

3. Section C: blame, self-worth, isolate, solve, democratic, charge with, be fed up with, hold back

II. Sentence Patterns  

1.       Not only did I lose my joy in answering questions, but also I totally lost my desire to say anything at all in English.

2.       Sometimes I feel like giving up.

3.       Now that I speak a foreign language, instead of staring into space when English is being spoken, I can participate and make friends.

4.       In the virtual classroom nearly all communication is written, so it is critical that students (should) feel comfortable expressing themselves in writing.

III. Text study

1. Summary

2. Discourse analysis