The characteristics of middle school students in this age group are: love to talk and move, and lack of self-discipline and self-control ability. If we ignore these characteristics in teaching, simply follow the traditional teaching mode, explain them mechanically with traditional teaching methods, treat them purely as containers of knowledge, and spoon-feed boring and cold grammar and vocabulary, they will not be interested, so they will not be interested in learning enthusiasm and initiative. At present, the poor quality of English teaching in middle schools may be one of the main reasons. Learning needs interest. In a sense, learning English needs more interest. How to stimulate students' interest in learning, and keep it, so that it becomes their motivation for learning, is the starting point of interesting teaching.
Einstein once said, "Interest is the best teacher". Therefore, the author believes that the core issues of interesting teaching are: creating a harmonious relationship between teachers and students; A relaxed and pleasant learning environment; Flexible teaching methods are adopted, so that students can use them in learning and learning, stimulate interest, take the initiative to learn and improve efficiency. Because teachers' qualities are different, teaching objects are different, and teaching materials are used differently, there is no fixed model for interesting teaching. But these aspects discussed in interesting teaching are the same as the effect to be pursued. This paper wants to talk about some humble opinions in order to arouse the interest of colleagues and discuss this issue in order to promote English teaching in middle schools.
First, harmonious teacher-student relationship
Teaching and learning are a pair of contradictions. As the representatives of both sides of the contradiction, how to coordinate the relationship between teachers and students is very important to achieve the teaching goal. The psychological characteristics of teenagers tell us that students of this age group are more "pro-teachers". If they have a good impression on a teacher, they are interested in the teacher's class and attach great importance to it. They are willing to study this course hard and get excellent results. This phenomenon is probably what we often say "love me, love my dog"! On the other hand, if they don't like a teacher, they are unwilling or unwilling to learn this teacher's class because of their rebellious psychology. This phenomenon is also common to everyone. Therefore, teachers should go deep into students, mingle with them, understand the changes of students' interests, hobbies and emotions, always care about students, love them, respect them and help them with a clear aim. Let you be not only a respectable teacher in the eyes of students, but also an amiable intimate friend of students. Of course, this does not mean that their shortcomings cannot be criticized and can be left unchecked. That is, criticism and praise are for the same purpose to love them. Therefore, the way of criticism is more important than criticism itself. Let them not hurt their self-esteem and their personality not be insulted. Let them feel from the heart that the teacher's criticism is sincere love, sincere love and help. In this way, the relationship between teachers and students will be harmonious, we will feel harmony and we will be interested in learning.
Second, create a relaxed and pleasant learning environment.
Traditional teaching models and methods are always "centralized" by teachers, and students are always instilled in the classroom. Students are always in a passive and passive learning position, and there is nothing easy and pleasant to talk about, so there is no interest to talk about. Even those students who study hard regard themselves as the memory of knowledge and do so for the sake of grades. But for most people, they gradually give up English learning because they are not interested, which leads to polarization and poor teaching quality.
Classroom environment has a great influence on stimulating students' interest in learning, and teachers' responsibility lies in creating a relaxed and happy learning environment for students. To do this, teachers should devote themselves to classroom teaching with full enthusiasm, and should have free and easy appearance, full spirit, relaxed and happy expression, kind eyes, cordial attitude, generous and elegant manners, concise speech, pure and fluent language, standardized and beautiful calligraphy, and reasonable and eye-catching layout design.
In order to dilute the impression of traditional teaching. It is necessary to "entertain and educate", "combine static and dynamic", "combine learning with application" and "cooperate with teachers and students".
Before class, the teacher can tell a humorous joke and proverb in English that the students understand and roughly understand according to the teaching content, and can also let the students practice English conversation for three minutes before class, speak freely and sing an English song collectively. So as to enliven the atmosphere and stimulate students' interest. Finish the warm-up activities before teaching.
There is an English proverb that says, "A good beginning is half the battle." (A good beginning is half the battle), we should pay attention to art when introducing new courses. According to the teaching content, suspense can be set to attract students; You can also ask a thought-provoking question to catch the students; You can also start with visual teaching AIDS and demonstrations. In teaching, you can't move the teaching materials. Read it out loud and quietly, even if it is teaching. We should be good at using people and things in class and visual teaching AIDS such as pictures, wall charts and stick figures to set up scenes. Language is always associated with scenes. Without scenes, there is no language. With the scene, students can be impressed, and the sound, shape and meaning can be organically combined, so that they can learn interestingly and master accurately. Teachers should avoid tedious, complicated and heavy explanations (that is, tedious, messy and repetitive). To be precise, it's boring. In order to turn speeches into questions, students spend a lot of time participating instead of being bystanders, using what they have learned and learning from it. Only in this way can students be interested. In practice, we should pay attention to satisfying students' desire for success. Different levels of questions and language materials should be practiced by students of different levels and levels. In this way, every student can taste the joy of success and a sense of accomplishment. This has greatly stimulated interest and doubled enthusiasm. Once students make mistakes, don't complain, reprimand or blame, but pay attention to the skills of error correction to protect students' enthusiasm from setbacks. A class is a complete work of art, which needs not only a good beginning and development, but also a good ending. According to different situations, students can set a new "suspense" before class, leave an intriguing question, replay the recording of the text, and let students summarize the main contents of this lesson and sing a song.
In short, in a class, students should always be relaxed, happy and interested.
Third, the teaching methods should be flexible and interesting.
The single teaching method is boring. No matter how good the method is, it will lose its charm if it is used frequently. In order to stimulate students' interest, keep students' interest and consolidate students' interest, teachers should study the teaching materials carefully. According to the different teaching contents such as beginner, consolidation and review, we can't adopt the same method, which requires teachers to make painstaking efforts and keep exploring and pursuing. In teaching, this should be a place where teachers can make great achievements.
For example, teaching letters, 26 letters is easy to say, but not every teacher can really teach fast, accurately and well, so that students can learn interesting. Some people follow the script, a few letters at a time, and then teach in turn. Someone can make letters into cards for students to play alphabet queuing games, organize alphabet queuing competitions in groups and teach them to sing alphabet songs. In this way, students learn quickly and well, and also exercise their observation ability, reaction ability and collective concept. Two ways, two effects, the former boring, the latter happy. When we begin to teach words, we can make full use of direct teaching AIDS, such as teaching football. We pointed to the football and said, "What is this? This is a football. Football, Football "The sound, shape and significance of football are once again deeply imprinted in students' minds. In the future, when they see football, they will blurt out football and football without Chinese translation as an intermediary; Teaching vocabulary is also teaching thinking. If you review vocabulary, you can do "guessing" such as reviewing nouns such as Bell, Football, Pen, Book, Car, Jeep, etc. We can put the prepared small objects, pictures and models on the platform, let the students have a look at them first, then put them under the platform, secretly put a book in the prepared big bag, then take it out and ask questions with the sentence patterns that the students have learned:
T: What's in my bag? Students guess and answer (it is appropriate to do it alone)
This is a football. If the answer is wrong, say it.
T: No, don't ask another student.
T: what's this? Students guess and answer.
This is a book. That's right. The teacher encouraged the students to speak.
T: Yes, you're right.) If you learn to be smart, you can go further.
T: You are very clever.
Then change another one to continue. And so on, not only reviewed the words, but also became familiar with sentence patterns and practiced listening and speaking. Students did not regard learning as a chore, but participated in it with great interest.
At the beginning of teaching sentences, a listening contest can be held to see who speaks the sentence first and who reads it well. Then word group sentence competitions and so on can improve students' interest, which is much better than the teacher talking over and over again and the students reading over and over again.
Teaching texts can take many forms according to different genres and contents at different stages, such as simulating dialogue, playing roles, telling stories, telling the main idea, changing characters, changing dialogue into narrative, changing narrative into dialogue, improvising oral composition, speaking with pictures, writing sentences and so on. In this way, the dead textbooks will be used flexibly, students will be interested in learning, and there will be more opportunities to use them, and the effect will be good.
Fourth, the combination of inside and outside class.
Foreign language teaching should focus on the classroom and emphasize quality in 45 minutes. But to learn English well, it is not enough to attend English classes several times a week. Therefore, we should vigorously carry out extracurricular teaching activities. But this kind of talk should not be a continuation of in-class teaching, nor should it be an unorganized indulgence. Teachers should organize students according to different classes, levels, levels and hobbies. For example, training the backbone purposefully, holding English games, concerts, recitation, speech competitions, word recognition and dictation competitions, composition competitions, listening competitions and so on. , can be carried out in each class, can also be carried out in the same grade, the whole school. Its purpose is to enliven students' extracurricular life, consolidate the knowledge learned in class, create an English atmosphere, cultivate students' interest in learning English, and make the combination inside and outside class complement each other.
The above aspects briefly summarize some aspects involved in interesting teaching. How to discuss these aspects or more, I think it is a big deal, beyond my ability. I just want to "throw a brick to attract jade" here, and I am honored to get advice from my peers.
First, the method of creating a situation
Create situations in English teaching, let students feel-simulate-consolidate-use in the atmosphere of situational teaching, and achieve the purpose of learning to communicate. For example, when students learn communicative English about phone calls, ask them to call a party with prop phone numbers, real phone numbers and real names, and call them out for an outing. In this way, students' learning motivation and enthusiasm can be stimulated and their potential can be tapped to the maximum extent. The activities of mouth, ears, eyes, hands and body jointly cultivate students' communicative competence, and the effect is satisfactory.
Second, the role-playing method
Teachers can adapt the stories in textbooks into scripts, visualize the abstract concepts in textbooks through vivid play, make boring knowledge interesting, and make the classroom atmosphere vivid and impressive. For example, "one wolf and two bears" in the article can adopt this teaching method.
Third, the game competition law
Using this teaching method, students have a strong sense of participation and a warm classroom atmosphere. For example, Unit 13 of Grade Three, World Population, can practice the digital reading method, so that students can accept knowledge in games and feel that learning English is not a kind of pressure or burden, but a kind of "game or entertainment", and their thinking and speech can be trained and developed to a greater extent.
Fourth, pay attention to the achievement method
Middle school students are generally competitive and have a strong sense of self-expression They are always looking for opportunities to show themselves. Once successful, they will have a sense of accomplishment. The more successful the students are, the better their self-experience, the higher their self-confidence and the stronger their motivation to continue learning. Teachers should give students a chance to succeed, so as to continuously stimulate students' interest in learning. For example, in daily teaching, various forms, such as conversation, oral composition, story-telling contest, diary, composition, letter evaluation, etc. It will help to cultivate students' learning initiative, let them set their own catching-up goals and clarify their competitors, thus helping students realize the fundamental change from "asking me to learn" to "asking me to learn". At the same time, for underachievers, we should find their bright spots in time and stimulate their thirst for knowledge.
Practice has proved that a strong interest is the key to learning English well. There are various ways to train students to learn English. According to the teaching content and students' actual level, teachers can make things easier, stimulate students' interest in learning, and let students actively accept new knowledge in a positive thinking state, which will certainly get twice the result with half the effort.
First, the method of creating a situation
Create situations in English teaching, let students feel-simulate-consolidate-use in the atmosphere of situational teaching, and achieve the purpose of learning to communicate. For example, when students learn communicative English about phone calls, ask them to call a party with prop phone numbers, real phone numbers and real names, and call them out for an outing. In this way, students' learning motivation and enthusiasm can be stimulated and their potential can be tapped to the maximum extent. The activities of mouth, ears, eyes, hands and body jointly cultivate students' communicative competence, and the effect is satisfactory.
Second, the role-playing method
Teachers can adapt the stories in textbooks into scripts, visualize the abstract concepts in textbooks through vivid play, make boring knowledge interesting, and make the classroom atmosphere vivid and impressive. For example, "one wolf and two bears" in the article can adopt this teaching method.
Third, the game competition law
Using this teaching method, students have a strong sense of participation and a warm classroom atmosphere. For example, Unit 13 of Grade Three, World Population, can practice the digital reading method, so that students can accept knowledge in games and feel that learning English is not a kind of pressure or burden, but a kind of "game or entertainment", and their thinking and speech can be trained and developed to a greater extent.
Fourth, pay attention to the achievement method
Middle school students are generally competitive and have a strong sense of self-expression They are always looking for opportunities to show themselves. Once successful, they will have a sense of accomplishment. The more successful the students are, the better their self-experience, the higher their self-confidence and the stronger their motivation to continue learning. Teachers should give students a chance to succeed, so as to continuously stimulate students' interest in learning. For example, in daily teaching, various forms, such as conversation, oral composition, story-telling contest, diary, composition, letter evaluation, etc. It will help to cultivate students' learning initiative, let them set their own catching-up goals and clarify their competitors, thus helping students realize the fundamental change from "asking me to learn" to "asking me to learn". At the same time, for underachievers, we should find their bright spots in time and stimulate their thirst for knowledge.
Practice has proved that a strong interest is the key to learning English well. There are various ways to train students to learn English. According to the teaching content and students' actual level, teachers can make things easier, stimulate students' interest in learning, and let students actively accept new knowledge in a positive thinking state, which will certainly get twice the result with half the effort. Second, based on junior high school English classroom teaching, the use of "game teaching method" to mobilize the enthusiasm of students
As we all know, junior high school English teaching must adhere to the main base of classroom teaching, at the same time firmly grasp students' demands and interests, and formulate more targeted and interesting game teaching strategies. In addition, English teaching in junior high school must be closely combined with other cultural courses in junior high school, so as to greatly enhance the practical significance of teaching. By shaping junior high school students' English quality and learning ability, on the one hand, it can guide students into the palace of English knowledge, on the other hand, it can help students learn English basic theories and skills better and prepare for further study and further study. Especially in the context of the current junior high school English teaching reform and curriculum reform, we should pay more attention to the actual effect of game method in junior high school English classroom teaching.
For teachers, junior high school English teaching is very important, and the game strategy is very effective, which must be highly valued. On the one hand, the game teaching of junior high school English can cultivate students' English literacy and greatly improve their overall English quality; On the other hand, English game teaching can shape and adjust the relaxed and happy classroom teaching atmosphere, thus stimulating students' enthusiasm for learning and growth, and driving students to better physical and mental development and happy life. Games can become an important form and carrier of English classroom. It is necessary to guide students to experience the happiness brought by participating in English games and classroom activities and stimulate their enthusiasm for learning English. For example, the commonly used "English word solitaire" and "classroom group confrontation game" can play a role in junior high school English classroom teaching, thus stimulating students' interest in learning.
Thirdly, by cultivating a good relationship between teachers and students, students' enthusiasm for learning English is constantly stimulated.
Teachers and students are the most important pair of "contradictions" in junior high school English teaching, and they are also the most important participants in teaching, which directly determines the direction of teaching. The relationship between teachers and students is very important, especially for teachers. The majority of junior high school English teachers must strive to cultivate a good relationship between teachers and students, so as to stimulate junior high school students' interest in learning English and promote the development of teaching. Because English teachers are in a more active position in teaching, we must promote related work step by step, improve the effectiveness of teaching through two "battlefields" in and out of class, and stimulate students' good interest in English.
For example, in teaching, students can't answer the teacher's questions at the moment, and the teacher said kindly and thought about it.
After that, try something like please; After the students answered the teacher's question, the teacher said, very good, you did a good job.
Today, it is likely that the students want me to try my best to do better, or not to be afraid, or not to worry, or to talk about it tomorrow.
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Easy or something. Encourage students to participate in various forms of competitions, so that they can gain some self-confidence. In addition, the teacher's home visit should start from the positive aspects, communicate with parents more, and don't let students feel that the teacher is suing him. Teachers should talk to individual students with accurate language and sincere attitude, affirm their achievements and point out their shortcomings. In this way, the relationship between teachers and students will certainly develop in a healthy and positive direction, students' goodwill towards teachers will also increase, they will naturally like English classes more, and the development of English teaching will be smoother.