新课标展示课——有趣的现在进行时（枫叶英语二级）

   教学目标：理解现在进行时表达的意义；掌握现在进行时中动词的表现形式；能用现在进行时描述一个动作；小组合作学习。 

   在大家学习英语的过程中是不是会对“语法”这两个字感到非常害怕呢？一般现在时、一般将来时、一般过去时、还有现在进行时等等等等，太多了，完全分不清楚。是不是一到英语语法课，大家就开始奋笔疾书做笔记、要不就是直接倒头大睡了？但是在枫叶，孩子们会进入完全不一样的语法课，更确切的说学生们是在玩的过程中自然习得了语法，而且可以在适当的场合运用。

   5月22日，枫叶小学二级中英甘旖旎老师为学生们带了一堂与玩结合的语法课。本节课与枫叶英语新课标紧密结合，并基于STEAM教学法，让学生们在设定的情境中逐步完成任务，达成教学目标。

   本节课以每日常规的课前演讲开场，两位同学的演讲以中国食物为主题，分别介绍了各自最喜欢的中国食物。演讲结束之后甘老师没有直接进入教学，而是就两位同学的演讲向小听众们提出了一些问题以帮助学生养成良好的倾听习惯。

   接下来甘老师带着同学们复习了动词（verb）的定义，并提出了action words的概念，以此来铺垫今天的主题——现在进行时，只有action words才能有现在进行时形式。复习之后，同学们拿到了第一个任务。第一个任务是个人任务：每个人在观看视频的过程中需要在自己的任务单上记录下视频中出现的verbs，并且任务单会在接下来的任务中被使用到。

   心急的观众可能会有疑问：怎么还没开始正式的语法课？不用着急，学生们还要去公园玩一玩呢。甘老师结合STEAM的教学思想，给今天的课堂设置了“公园”这个情境，她带着同学们到公园开心的玩了一趟，同学们在这个头脑风暴的时间用verbs表述了很多可以在公园进行的活动。

   好了，前期铺垫得差不多了，同学们接到了第二个任务。第二个任务是小组任务，甘老师预先给出了四组人物（characters），包括单人和多人的组合，每组同学需要在选出其中三组任务，并从第一个任务的任务单中为每组任务选出一个动作，并画出该组人物做动作的图。每个小组中有一位组长负责分配任务，一位纪律委员负责鼓励大家用英文表达。

   十分钟后，任务完成，每组组长依次上前展示本组其中一组人物和动作，同时甘老师在黑板上做记录。接下来就到了甘老师的魔术时间，只见她在人物后面加上了合适的be动词（is/are），然后在每个动词后加上了ing。就这样，两个单词被巧妙地连接成了一个现在进行时的句子。

   谁说英语时态不难呢？可是再难，我们枫叶的老师也能带着学生轻松攻克。

Topic: Present Continuous Tense

Level: 2

Teacher: Lee

Teaching Objectives:

1. Students will be able to understand PCT.

2. Students will be able to know the form of verbs in PCT.

3. Students will be able to use PCT to describe an action.

4. Students can participate in group work.

  When I designed this lesson I wanted to be based on STEAM teaching mode, and can help the students to fulfill the goals in the new CS, also, not to be as boring as traditional grammar teaching. Based on these teaching purpose, I designed and delivered my lesson as follow.

The lesson started by reviewing verbs which students has learned before. I prepared a video with many actions words in it. The first task, which was an individual one, was to ask students to take down as many verbs as they can when watching the video. This step was a preparation for the second task.

   In the second phase, I set the scene of a park. This would make the student be more interested in the lesson, rather than remembering the rules of the tense.

   Students brained storm the activities they could do in the park, again they had to use different verbs.

   After all the preparations, here came the second task. The second task is a group task. I provided four groups of characters in advance, including single character and multiple characters. Each group of students needed to select three groups of characters, and choose one verb from the first task, finally drew the characters doing the actions. Then team leader from each group presented one group of characters together with the verb, meanwhile I wrote them on the blackboard. The purpose of designing single character and multiple characters was to help students reinforce when to use is or are.

   Finally, I put the word “is” or “are” after the characters (subject), and “ing” at the end of the verb, which connected the characters and the verb to a present continuous tense sentence skillfully. Students could see the rules clearly from the board.

   In this fun way, students can get the idea of present continuous tense easily. Some of them used this tense to describe their classmates doing an action right after the lesson.