Background

The major feature of this lesson is the computerisation of the teaching materiel by means of a POWERPOINT™ presentation. Some educators have begun to adopt information technology (IT) into their teaching, in the hope that (1) learning will be more fun to our students; and (2) a different packaging of teaching presentation will be more attractive, dynamic and visually comfortable (in terms of tidiness) for the student.

Tools

  1. A PowerPoint Presentation –The English Past Perfect Tense for Cantonese Speaking Students©
  2. An Internet browser

Lesson Plan

LESSON TITLE:

The English Past Perfect Tense

CLASS:

3C

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:

41

TIME/LENGTH OF LESSON:

1 period (40 minutes)

OBJECTIVES:

Students will:

  1. acquire a fundamental but comprehensive concept of the meaning, form and use of the English Past Perfect Tense (Pluperfect Tense).
  2. come to know that the two languages are different in expressing the concept pluperfect tense (English employs a grammatical category; whereas Chinese employs lexical items).

PREVIOUS LEARNING:

Grammar:The three Present Tenses, Past Simple and Continuous Tenses, Simple Future Tense.

MATERIALS AND TEACHING AIDS:

A computer, a computer projector, a screen.

PROCEDURES:

Steps

Pre- task / Introduction & Set (5 minutes)
A brief talk about the Tenses that have been learnt previously
While-task / Step (25 minutes)
Run the POWERPOINT™ presentation - The English Past Perfect Tense for Cantonese Speaking Students©(slides 1 to 12) with Teacher’s explication.
Post-task / (10 minutes)
Do the exercise from slides 13-22 and check the answers.
Students can work on the websites on the topic outside class time.

Rationale of using IT

POWERPOINT™ (or IT) presentation enables Teacher to present teaching material in an attractive and orderly manner. It saves a lot of time from not having to do the blackboard writing and cleaning. Teacher can always go back to a particular page whenever it is necessary, no flipping pages, no re-writing.

The illustration of time diagram was wonderful – it is clear, clean and dynamic.

Students can re-access the teaching material when needed.

IT documents are recyclable.

Reflective Statement

POWERPOINT™ (or IT) presentation of teaching material is apparently a glossier, more attractive and dynamic way of teaching, but time will tell whether it can maintain its current worth in terms of teaching practicalities.

Teachers with current teaching load definitely cannot afford the time to create such material for every lesson.

New teachers with heavy financial burden may not be financially capable of purchasing the hard and software in order to work at home.

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