Group activities provide a simple and effective way for classroom teaching, so how to reasonably insert group activities into classroom teaching?
In the warm-up stage, we can arrange a group of students to perform short plays before each class. The content of the performance can be arranged according to the grammatical structure of each text. For example, from the first lesson to the fifth lesson in the second semester of grade seven, the main learning structure is the comparative degree and superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs. We can ask students to include this structure in their arranged sketches. Of course, we can also let students speak freely through group activities. The teacher discusses the topic, the students speak freely, and then choose a group member to communicate.
After the presentation session, it will enter the exercise and drill stage. At this time, we can also insert group work. Ask the students to look at the pictures, ask and answer, imitate the dialogue, act out the text dialogue and so on in a few minutes. We can also ask students to write a short dialogue and perform it according to the listening and reading exercises after class. The purpose of doing this is to help students deepen their understanding of new language projects, consolidate new language habits and prepare for further application in practice. The content of the exercise should be difficult, and students should have a wider choice when practicing.
The purpose of the consolidation stage is to enable students to use the language they have learned to solve practical problems in various simulated daily life backgrounds, so as to embody various functions of the language. Students can answer according to their own wishes, and the answers are varied and unexpected. Students have greater freedom and opportunities and space to give full play to their creativity. The content can be talking, discussing and solving problems, simulating interviews, expanding dialogues, supplementing imaginary endings and so on. Teachers should remind students to express themselves in combination with the language forms in the text, and pay attention to the identity of characters and specific occasions. For example, I created such a scene in the ninth class of the second semester of the seventh grade in our school teaching. Suppose Friday is the school's open day, and many parents will visit the school that day. Then I divided my classmates into six groups. According to the draw, each group must complete a task and arrange a sketch. These six tasks are: writing an invitation letter and inviting parents to participate in the open day activities; Design the schedule of the open day; Buy all the food and articles needed; Open day, leading parents to visit the school; Arrange for parents to attend classes; Parents and teachers have a discussion, and the principal introduces the school. As far as concrete implementation is concerned, the students show great enthusiasm and enthusiasm. They organically combine what they have learned and give full play to their imagination in a certain space.