1. Understand me, Interest me, and Involve me
Teaching listening & speaking

2. Instructional Principles
1. Understanding of Language
2. Understanding of Learning Mode
1) Learning by doing/using
2) Spiral circle:

3. Spinal Learning
Output
Pre-existing Knowledge
Input

4. Instructional Principles
3. Understanding of Learner
喜欢的影视作品
1) interest
想做没做的事情
2) Learning strategies
3) Perception of good teachers
激发兴趣
处理被挑战的能力

5. Background Information
1. 17 weeks/ 2 periods
2. Small class with 25 students
3. Non majors—
starting band 3

6. 1) theme-related expressions
Unit 1, Book 3
Family Education
Teaching Objectives
1. Language skills:
1) theme-related expressions
2) Expressing disagreement
2. Learning Strategies
3. Critical thinking
4. Cross-cultural awareness

7. Pre-Listening Activity
Write a diamond poem to describe your family
Men
Stupid, rude
Sleeping, eating
trousers, underpants, knickers, skirts
working, sporting
clever, beautiful
Women
Men
brilliant, perfect
working, learning, earning
beer, car, mirror, make-up
speaking, speaking, speaking
furious, exhausted
Women

8. Pre-Listening Activity
Write a diamond poem to describe your family
Mammy
harsh, commanding
criticizing , threatening , nagging
You did it wrong, You do it again, I didn’t, I won’t
ignoring, fighting, escaping
naughty, disobedient
Son

9. Pre-Listening Activity
2. The main topic is about family. Predict some
sub-themes concerning the topic
3. Make a dialogue you think you are going to hear in
this unit.
Aims
Pre-existing knowledge
Introducing the topic
Arousing interests
Creative thinking

10. Aims Complexity Involving students Learning by doing
Finish the listening exercise on
P. 2 (10 dialogues), P.4 (long conversation),
P.5 (understanding a passage)
2. Prepare a question and
raise it to other groups in
competition held next class.
Aims
Complexity
Involving students
Learning by doing

11. Class Competition

12. Round 1–how to check vocabulary
Way 1: Word Guessing
Pregnant
Thrilled
Way 2: Use the expressions to describe pictures
Cold, distant
But deep down……
A tough man with a gun and blood on his hands

13. Round 1–how to check vocabulary
Way 3: Action
Let the baby cry to sleep
Pick the baby up as soon as he cry

14. Round 1–how to check vocabulary
Way 4: Free questioning: student to student
Aims
Involving students
Learning strategy
There are both advantages and disadvantages
There are positives and negatives……

15. ContrastingParenting style
Round 2—how to check content
Way 1: Summarizing Key Words
ContrastingParenting style
Loving person
Way 2: Which dialogue do you like most? Why?
Way 3: Associate the objects with the content
you listened to in the homework.

16. Round 2—how to check content
Way 4: Respond to the following statement based on what you learn in the textbook
If my parents spend 1 million Yuan to raise me up, I have to pay them back.
Aims
Creating mental linkages
Involving students

17. VS Round 3: Synthesizing the information in new context
1.How does it relate to this unit?
2.How will you comment on……?

18. Being Disagreeable—critical thinking
Presenting opposing opinions to Tiger Mother’s or Hello Kitty Mother’s parenting style by using the model drills
1. What expressions you already know to express
your agreement or disagreement?
2. What are some new ways you just learned?

19. Critical Thinking Reflective Man However Man Logical relationship
Soundness of evidence
Credibility of Statement
Reflective Man
However Man

20. Round 4: Seeking new Information
1. The grass is greener on
the other side of the fence.
2. We are polar opposites.

21. Post-Listening Activity
Write a diamond poem based on what you have heard.
Husband
boring , protective
earning, sleeping, providing
provider, money and love, settler, no fairy tale
enduring, sticking, accepting
realistic, contented
Wife

22. Assignment 2
Prepare a speech to present your philosophy or reflection on today’s topic based on the example you have watched
Loving person
Successful preson

23. 1) theme-related expressions
Unit 1, Book 3
Family Education
Teaching Objectives
1. Language skills:
1) theme-related expressions
2) Expressing disagreement
2. Learning Strategies
3. Critical thinking
4. Cross-cultural awareness

24. Conclusion Teacher’s Role Organizer Evaluator Critic Designer
Student’s Role
Participants in
class
Practitioner of
the language