Birth Order and Personality 详案.doc

Lesson Plan for Birth Order and Personality By Wang Dan, Hangzhou Foreign Language School Key questions: How will birth order affect parents’ treatment to the children? How will parents’ treatment affect children’s personalities? What can you say to your parents to change their treatment? Teaching objectives Instruction objectives: Language: The students will be exposed to the following vocabulary: adj: responsible, independent, dependent, adventurous, fun-loving, jealous, creative, humorous, calm n.: personality (personalities), attention, responsibility, freedom, pressure v./phrases: tend to do, allow … to do, depend on, compete with, develop, treat Students will be practicing the usage of these words and expressions. Reading strategy: Students will be able to suggest hypotheses according to the illustration of the article. Students will be able to scan for specific information. Affection: Students will be able to make adjustment of their present personality and get the treatment they want at home. Students will communicate with the parents to improve their personality. Learner’s outcomes (evidence): The students will be able to draft a letter to their parents on how they would like to be treated by their parents. The students will be able to describe their personalities with the target adjectives. The students will be able to write about the treatment they get at home with the target expressions. Procedures: Teaching procedures Learning procedures Warming-up: The students get involved in the topic. The teacher plays the original rap – Sheep and Wolves and encourages the students to sing. T: How are the sheep in the chant? And how are the wolves? We can use these adjectives to describe their personalities. The students get familiar with the adjectives while chanting. S: Sheep are good, fun-loving, humorous and responsible. Wolves are bad, fight-loving and jealous. Pre-reading: The students suggest hypotheses. The teacher shows the students the ill