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2012/11 Presenter: Corita Liu [email protected]

Introduction of Tales of Joy Book 7

★ Rearrange the Pictures (Refers to Appendix)

★★★★ The Contents of

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Joy Children’s Language School

The story is ______________________________________________ .

It’s a story.

Dialogue

Vocabulary

Patterns

Activities

Songs / Chants

Culture & Festivals

Phonics Tales of Values

Reading Magic Words

Writing Practice

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What is new in TJ7?

Editorial Features & Difficulties

1. Hidden Message

MJ5

Reading

Box

TJ 7–8 TJ 1–6

Sight Words

Dialogue

Vocabulary would be hidden in the dialogue poster, thus,

teachers can:

1. present and provide students with listening input

while storytelling.

2. have students find out the vocabulary as review.

U18

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2. Nonsense Words

Demonstration

Steps

Presentation

+

Practice

Acting & Dialogue Posters + Repetition

Closure We Can Sing

Tips

� Since students are familiar with the song “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” (Phonics

ABC 1, ABC Song), presentation and practice can be conducted at the same

time.

� It’s not necessary to explain the meaning of the words right here. The focus is to

sing the song fluently.

� In order to make the practice more interesting, other famous songs as

follows can be utilized for practice.

� Trick Or Treat

� London Bridge Is Falling Down

� Mary Had a Little Lamb

� Birthday Song

� The More We Get Together

U13

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1. Study Focus

2. Difficulties

Vocabulary

Uncountable

Nouns

Quantities

Quantities

Big Numbers

Directions

Weekdays

Tableware

It’s not really difficult to learn the

quantities:

1. Spiral curriculum:

Students have learned the

concepts of uncountable nouns

through Units 1–3.

2. Using real objects can present the

quantities easily.

U4、、、、6

Quantities + Uncountable Nouns

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Demonstration

Dialogue （（（（about 15 mins））））

Presentation Acting & Story Telling & Dialogue Posters

Practice Role Play

Closure Pass and Put

Tips

� Present the 4 directions before telling the story.

� Use the picture of “the sun” or map and draw the arrows on the poster,

the whiteboard or your hands to help students comprehend the directions.

� Present and practice the directions via gestures and through actions.

U7：：：：Big Numbers

Students have learned one to one

hundred in TJ6.

U9：：：：Directions

Use top-down approach.

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Tips

� When showing the flashcards, please have students notice the red indicator of the

compass, which means the “direction.”

� Notice the pronunciation of “north” and “south”; “th” is an interdental (齒間音).

� The signs of directions can be utilized to present and practice with students.

Demonstration

Vocabulary（（（（about 10 mins））））

Presentation

+

Practice

Signs & Flashcards +

Point and Say & Repetition

Closure Hitting Game

Patterns（（（（about 15 mins））））

Warm-Up Lightening Flash

Presentation

+

Practice

Deductive Method +

Q-A & Substitution Drill

Closure Try Your Luck

U12：：：：Tableware

There are only two new words:

a bowl, chopsticks.

U13、、、、14：：：：Weekdays

� Guide students to use syllables to

practice spelling.

� Mark “day” red.

� Students usually confuse Tuesday

with Thursday; thus, more

practice is necessary.

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1. The Activities for Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Show It to Me

More Activities

� Right or Left

� Running Game

� Tempo ready Go

2. Pronouns（（（（U19））））

Demonstration

Steps

Presentation Inductive Methods

Practice Grid Drill & Q-A

Tips

� Use real / meaningful situation to help

students comprehend the pattern.

� Mechanical practice will benefit learning

outcome.

Do some activities to help students distinguish between countable

and uncountable nouns.

Patterns

Use TJ5 U20 Writing Poster to

review pronouns first, which

helps students build up a clear

concept of pronouns.

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Treasures for Teaching Patterns

Demonstration

Steps

Presentation

+

Practice

ABC Cards +

Listen and Read

Closure Listen and Put

Phonics

Guide students to read 《Parent’s Guide》 in the class or at home.

[C][C][C][C] [a?][a?][a?][a?]

[C0][C0][C0][C0]

[?][?][?][?] / / / / [u][u][u][u]

long oo / short oo

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Reminders for Teaching Phonics

� Make sure that you really know the teaching goal before the class.

� Before the class, listen to CDs and make sure the pronunciation

is correct.

� Use the frequent words to help students memorize the rules.

� While presenting the representative words, it is not necessary to

exaggerate mouth movements.

★★★★ Study Focus

1. The introduction of dialogue characters.

→ It’s easy for the students to read and

understand the context.

2. The goal is to read aloud (Point & Say).

★★★★ Demonstration (U5)

Steps

Presentation

+

Practice

Listen, Look, and Say +

Reading Relay

Tips

� Use pictures or headgears to help students

comprehend the short reading and review the

features of characters.

� Try NOT to focus on the new words or patterns.

It is suggested to guide students to catch the

main idea via key words.

� No assignment, no exam. No need to

memorize the reading.

Reading

� Don’t ask the students to memorize words with

long oo sound or with short oo sound.

� Let the students distinguish the sounds by

listening, not by reading.

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★★★★ Study Focus

1. The goal is to listen and speak.

2. Let students use the words in their real life.

★★★★ Demonstration (U15)

Did you catch the editorial features of Tales of Values?

★ True or False?

( ) 1. Students have to memorize how to spell every single word.

( ) 2. Students have to know how to say, read and write the sentences.

( ) 3. While teaching, teachers can have students do the actions.

( ) 4. Teachers can use storytelling skills to present Tales of Values.

Steps

Presentation

+

Practice

Picture Telling + Q-A

Closure Measuring Game

Tips

� Provide students with real situations to

help them comprehend how to use the

language.

� Teaching props can be helpful for

presentation.

Daily English

Tales of Values

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References

★ Joy Teacher Resource Series

� An EFL Teacher’s Guidebook 英語教學的理論與實踐

� Exploring Vocabulary 千萬別教字彙

� Teaching Dialogue- So Much Fun! Fun新教對話

� Teaching Grammar All in One 就是有辦法

� Reading Magic 閱讀師樂園

� Tales of Joy Book 7 Teacher’s Manual

★ E-Training

� How to Teach Tales of Joy Book 1 2011/05






� 發音一級棒 2012/01

� 故事教學他最行 2012/05

� 新教材周年慶-教務教學新動力 2012/06

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