Instructional Analysis

Analysis of the Teaching Material

This unit aims to improve students’ ability to describe a person through the use of stories and dialogues that focus on developing their vocabulary in describing themselves and others. It is designed to help students get to know their classmates and teachers better. The content of Lesson 5 is about describing a teacher.

Analysis of the Students

The students of Grade Eight have mastered certain vocabularies. They can talk about their classmates and teachers simply just by their appearance and their likes or dislikes. But they can’t describe them correctly and completely. They are interested in different kinds of activities in class like games and competitions.

Teaching goals

Knowledge Objects

All the students can read and write the words “someone, England, discuss, patient” and “piano”.

All the students can read and understand the meaning of the words “knowledgeable”

correctly.

Most of the students can use the words above and the following phrases and patterns through describing teachers correctly.

feel lucky to do sth. encourage sb. to do play the piano someone very special discuss sth. with sb

Learn the meaning of the phrases with “lucky” and the use of “play”.

Ability Objects

All the students will be able to describe someone using the words we learned in this lesson as well as other words.

Most of the students will be able to describe others correctly.

Moral Objects

To know others better through describing others and get closer in relationship with each other.

Learning Strateg

Individual learning, group-work and task-based learning

Teaching Important and Difficult Points

1. Teaching Important Point:

To learn to describe teachers in a right way.

2. Teaching Difficult Point:

To describe others correctly using the phrases learnt in this lesson.

Teaching Aids

multi-media, tape recorder