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Practice makes perfect——初中英语口语在线学习不停“说”

[发表时间]:2020-03-26 [来源]:

突如其来的一场疫情让所有师生不得不转移战场,在网络虚拟课堂,不能面对面学习,应该怎样学习英语呢?作为外国语学校,提升学生的口语能力一直是老师们教研的重点下面就让我们以初二年级为例一起走进初中英语网络课堂,看看初二英语备课组的老师们带领孩子们在口语提升领域走过的探索之路吧!


探索一:在线直播课堂,问题引领练口语

在线学习期间,初二英语组采用了在线直播的方式,设置系列问题层层推进学习,同时还可以通过学生的回答了解对知识的掌握程度,遇到开放式的问题,孩子们各抒己见,不仅锻炼了口语能力,还能听到亲切的声音,仿佛回到了熟悉的教室,大家开心地讨论着某个话题。

在话题选择上,老师们以时事为主线从不同角度选择素材丰富课堂内容,经过多次集体备课确定了新冠疫情简介,预防措施,疫情播报,话说蝙蝠,比尔盖茨谈防疫,疫情中的斗争精神,近代大型传染病,在线学习,一代球星的陨落作为在线教学素材,这些素材和时事联系紧密,贴近学生生活,容易吸引学生兴趣,同时形式多样,方便调整教学模式,多角度调动学生积极性。


探索二:穿插小组活动,在线口语输出

每天课上的轮流回答问题仍然满足不了学生们练习口语的强烈愿望,怎么办呢?没关系,还有我们的保留项目——小组活动,把班级分成4至5人的几个小组,分别建群,老师分配任务后开始小组内活动,可以针对一个问题进行探讨,可以朗读文章组内评价语音,也可以设置情境,组内采访。而老师可以加入各个群观察每个小组的任务完成进度,及时督促或提供帮助。例如,讲到近现代大型传染病的话题时,老师们引导学生分组完成关于SARS,西班牙大流感,黑死病和埃博拉病毒的介绍,学生制作了精美的手抄报和录屏演讲。


探索三:每日疫情播报,学生轮流做主播

Daily report一直是学生口语展示的传统项目,在线学习当然也一样不可或缺,结合新冠疫情,老师们给学生讲解了和疫情发展相关的词汇,并安排学生轮流做主播,每天课前做疫情播报,有机会当上主播的同学,别提有多神气了!


探索四:中外教携手联合教研,学生口语展示效果好

分布在美国、新西兰、苏格兰等国家的外教们也为隔离在家的孩子们发来了主题微课视频,地道的口语、纯正的发音锻炼了学生们的听力,提升了语音准确度,丰富的文化内容也为同学们打开了另一扇通向世界的窗户。同时,受到外教启发,看完外教视频后,学生们也跃跃欲试,以录屏或者录像的方式做起了镜头后面的声音主播,不管是怎样的授课模式,都阻挡不了孩子们展示口语的热情!


探索五:充分利用网络资源,全方位“说”起来

学生虽然隔离在家,但是网络同样也给大家的学习带来很多便利。趣配音,E听说,全民K歌都被师生充分利用起来,学习了senses and tastes,配一段“五种感官,致超能力的你”,学习了抗疫英文歌Fight the virusCharm of the dawn bell,我们也唱起来!


学生在线授课期间在口语方面的体验与收获:

@初二(1 范欣琪We have studied online for a few weeks, our English teacher led us to gain as much knowledge as we do in school. Online classes activities are colorful and meaningful. We’ve learnt about the epidemic prevention and control, we make our own audio about fighting virus by talking online. It’s quite useful for us to understand the information about the NCP and improve our speaking ability as well. Besides, we had group work during our online classes. We enjoyed the interaction with partners. What’s more, we had the chance to give a presentation in class. Undoubtedly, we benefited language speaking skills through giving presentation.



@初二(2 徐可心:In January, a sudden outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia messed up our normal pace of life and learning. When I was worried about our study, surprisingly, the Bureau of Education told us that we were going to study online, which they call Online Courses. I was so nervous and curious about how we study online when I got this public notice, also I was little afraid about our learning quality. On the first day of online study, I thought it would be boring and dull, but on the contrary, it's absolutely a new leaning style! Teachers have brought us interesting courses, and we can learn many different things. For example, we’ve learnt many things about the epidemic, like the vocabulary and the prevention. We’ve also researched some similar diseases of the past in groups, and we even recorded videos of our researches and voted for the best group. Sometimes, we read all kinds of articles and chat to exchange our ideas in groups. When the sparks of thought collide, our teacher gives us her suggestions in oral language. What’s more, we do the daily report at the beginning of the class every day. It's interesting that we can not only know what colorful things the classmates do at home, we can also practice the oral English at the same time! That's really awesome and make my oral language better and better!!

Although English online class is a new way of learning, it benefits me a lot. By the way, I want to say, the worse the situation is, the more we can't stop learning, instead, we should study harder and be responsible for our own achievements and study.



@初二(3 张馨瑶: Because of the outbreak of COVID-19, we have to stay at home and have online classes. In English class, I feel I learn more skills about oral language. Although there is a limitation of learning resources, we also do some useful things to practice speaking, such as making a video and doing presentation, which makes me learn more new vocabularies. I was very nervous when I speak English before, thanks to the practices of various training on online, I never feel nervous now and I was really clam and show my presentation. I am not a student who is good at oral language, but I can show my presentation without being nervous, that is a big progress to me.

  Online classes is a new type of study, doing presentation and making video is also a good way to improve the ability of speaking, I’m sure I can make more progress in the future!



@初二(6班 李佳烨:During the outbreak of covid-19,online English classes improved my spoken English. Before each English class, we have to make a daily report in turn. The specific content is that we need to understand the news and make a presentation on the recent news. I reported on interviews with nurses who supported Wuhan during the covid-19 outbreak. I made the PPT first, then wrote the speech and recorded the audio. It didn't take me long to write a speech, but it took me four hours to record the audio. Every time the recording is half way there will be a pronunciation error, affect the effect of the entire audio. Then I tried to read the speech and record it. After many failures and attempts, I became less nervous. Finally, the last recording was flawless. Of course, more than once. After that, we gave a speech on virus knowledge in groups. In the subsequent Ebola speech, I overcame various problems and made a big breakthrough compared with the first speech. This has greatly improved my spoken English.

In the online English class, we learned a lot about novel coronavirus. But I think my biggest improvement during this period is spoken English, which is a big leap.



@初二(6班 张博扬:In the recent online English classes, we had loads of interesting activities, especially in speaking. During the course,we often turn on the microphone to have a conversation with our English teacher. Moreover, we can read the excellent articles given by our teacher to improve our English speaking skills.Our teacher also arranged many interesting group-speaking activities.We can chat with the group members by voice and communicate in English.After class,we improve our speaking by recording videos and dubbing English videos. Generally,during the course,the students' spoken language has improved a lot, and we also feel that this activity is very meaningful.



@初二(9班 高新博:These days, because of the outbreak of the epidemic, the government appeal schools to have classes on the Internet in order to prevent us from being infected. Certainly, our school responded to the call and we started to have online courses.

For our English class, we do some different activities that are associated with the current affairs which are effective to our English learning. For example, we do daily epidemic report, which helps us speak out cold numbers using our own words, making them into sentences and expressing them to teachers and classmates.

What’s more, we also do English dubbing associated with the epidemic. That practices the imitation skill, which is very important in training pronunciation. I have achieved a lot in spoken language by doing these interesting tasks.

At last, I believe we will win the fight against the virus, and thanks to the doctors and nurses working on the front line of the battlefield, and our teachers who prepared such wonderful classes for us!



撰稿:吴芳