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1. Expand the ideological nature of the topic
The new curriculum standard emphasizes that the curriculum starts from students’ learning interests, life experiences and cognitive levels, advocates experience, practice, participation, cooperation and communication learning methods and task-based teaching approaches, and develops students’ comprehensive use of language, so that the language learning process becomes a process for students to form positive emotional attitudes, active thinking and bold practice. Concretization is the emotional goal, that is, the integration of ideological and emotional education in language teaching, such as teaching Unit8I ‘llhelpcleanupthecityparks. When the topic of “volunteers”, emotional education should be permeated. Society needs volunteers, and volunteers show great love in times of great difficulty. Wenchuan earthquake and Ya’an earthquake, the love of volunteers holds up a blue sky, thus guiding students to think about the value of “volunteers” to society. Giving roses to others has a lingering fragrance. Introduce the ideas of some famous philanthropists, such as Chen Guangbiao, the first philanthropic person in China. Encourage students to talk boldly about public welfare activities within their ability according to their own interests and hobbies. Train students to start from the little things around them, care about others and care about society.
Second, use the interest of the topic
Interest is the best teacher and a major driving force for students to learn. Teachers should tap the interest of the topic itself, so that students can learn English in Happy Middle School and develop their interests in Happy Learning. In teaching Ifyougototheparty, you’llhaveagreattme. When it comes to the topic of, teachers can hold a birthdayparty, so that students can be immersed in the scene and feel the customs of Westerners celebrating birthdays. Not only learning English language, but also allowing students to learn life. More importantly, students’ abilities and interests are also stimulated in the process, achieving three birds with one stone.
Third, explore the intellectual and cultural nature of the topic
The new curriculum standards put forward new era requirements for English teaching: cultivate students’ cultural awareness. The new teaching materials also fully demonstrate the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, so that students can understand the customs and habits of the language countries they are learning, expand students’ knowledge, help students understand the world correctly, and improve cultural quality. Teachers should guide students to participate in the analysis and understanding of the topic, such as in teaching Unit8Whydon’tyougetherascarf? In this unit, teachers should guide students to find out the dates of Father’s Day and Mother’s Day and the way Westerners express their gratitude to their parents during the festival. Students can use the Internet or newspaper materials to find other major festivals in the West, such as Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, Easter and other related materials, and produce a handwritten newspaper of “Western Festival Kaleidoscope” for evaluation. In the gift-giving and gift-receiving links, students are guided to compare the different practices of Chinese and Westerners. Chinese people often like to wrap red envelopes when giving gifts, while Westerners think that wrapping red envelopes is a sign of laziness, “It ‘sthethoughtthatcounts.” The emphasis is on friendship. Chinese people cannot open gifts in person when they receive them, while in the West, people are used to opening them in person and expressing their gratitude.
IV. Subject compatibility and sociality of development topics
The new curriculum standard emphasizes the interoperability between various disciplines. English is a comprehensive language subject, and it should strengthen the connection with other disciplines. Enhance the tension of English subjects radiating outward, so that students feel that “learning is useful”. For example, in the teaching of “Makeasurvey”, students can use mathematical knowledge to draw an English statistical table. In the teaching of “Therebe” sentence patterns, students can use their drawing skills, design rooms for themselves and describe them in English, and award “Best Designer Award”. Of course, in addition to strengthening the connection between various disciplines, the ultimate goal of learning English is to “give feedback to the society and apply what you have learned”. Therefore, English subjects should pay more attention to integrating with society. After learning Travelspotlight: Paris, you should make full use of local resources, let students go to the Internet to find information, and write an introduction to tourist attractions in your hometown. This will not only expand students’ horizons and broaden their horizons, but also allow them to think about things in their hometown as the owner of their hometown, contribute to the development of their hometown economy, and cultivate humanistic spirit.
