英语听力竞赛活动的思想总结
为激发我校学生英语学习的兴趣,进一步促进学生英语听力能力和实际应用能力的提高, 检测前一段教学效果及学生的学习情况，提高学生的英语听力能力和水平，让英语走入学生的日常生活,让学生用所学去实践、去检验、去创造。2013年9月18日星期三下午,九年级英语听力竞赛在会议室顺利举行，这是一个中学生英语听力、技能展示的盛会，也是促进学校英语教学水平提高的一次竞赛活动。现就此次活动总结如下：
一、基本情况
本次竞赛活动从九年级选优秀学生参加。为了开展好这次竞赛活动，我们英语组精心准备测试题目，做好计划、精心的组织和严谨的安排，从各个班级中抽选出20名学生参赛，决赛期间，由我组五名老师担任评委，其他教师组织纪律，严格按照评比标准，本着公平、公正的原则，认真负责地对每位参赛选手进行了细致的评审，选出8名获奖者。
二、成功与不足之处：
我们欣喜的看到，学生也表现出极大的热情，有部分学生能比较轻松地听，说明孩子们学好英语的潜力很大。这是我校首次开展的英语听力竞赛活动，有一定的意义，它成功地为学生搭建了一个合作学习、展示自我、互相学习交流的平台，每位参赛学生在这次活动中开阔了视野，有不同程度的收获。竞赛活动不仅营造了学校英语听力学习的氛围，还激发了学生学英语、说英语、用英语的热情。
但同时也存在问题。1、在本次竞赛中，我们发现有相当一部分选手的英语听力有一定的难度，毕竟我们练的较少，平时教学中时间有限，我们希望在日常的教学活动中，能充分利用教学光盘、英语录音磁带等英语教学资源，引领学生展开听说、听写等教学活动，创造学生学习英语的环境。
2、参赛选手临场应变能力较差。主要体现在现场大多数选手的英语听得不是很清楚，大部分参赛选手的英语词汇量不足，平时的积累不够，积累词汇是提高英语听说水平的一个重要前提.
3、有些同学因为少参加此类的活动,表现胆怯,学生要通过多听，多练来锻炼,老师也要在教学活动中多创设语言训练的环境，为学生创造一些展示的机会，教给学生一些听的技巧，引导学生在大量练习中提高听的能力。
以赛促教，以赛促学，竞赛是形式，应用是目的。希望通过此活动，学生在竞赛中学习竞争,学习合作,学习他人身上的优点.能够集中思想将词汇更加牢固的记住，,而教师认真总结好本次竞赛活动，积极地思考和探索，把听英语录音这个可能有些单调枯燥的事情开展的有生有色，创新地开展英语教育教学工作，为全面提高我校英语教育质量共同努力。
时光飞逝，转眼间一学期结束了。在本学期，本人按照学校的安排，任教空乘0821班英语听力的教学。一学期来，本人认真备课、上课，认真出卷、及时阅卷。严格要求学生、尊重学生，发扬教学民主，使学生学有所得，从而不断提高自己的教学水平和思想觉悟，并顺利完成教育教学任务。为了总结经验，寻找不足，现将英语听力一学期的工作总结如下：
1、要提高教学质量，关键是上好课。为了上好课，我做了下面的工作：
（1）课前准备：备好课。
①认真钻研教材，对教材的基本思想、基本概念，每句话、每个字都弄清楚，了解教材的结构，重点与难点，掌握知识的逻辑，能将教材运用自如，知道应补充哪些资料，怎样才能教好。
②了解学生原有的知识技能的质量，他们的兴趣、需要、方法、习惯，学习新知识可能会存在的困难，采取相应的预防措施。
③考虑教法，解决如何把已掌握的教材传授给学生，包括如何组织教材、如何安排每节课的活动。
（2）课堂上的情况。
组织好课堂教学，关注全体学生，注意信息反馈，调动学生的.积极性和注意力，使其保持相对稳定性，同时，激发学生的情感，使他们产生愉悦的心境，创造良好的课堂气氛，使学生在轻松的氛围下聆听。课堂语言简洁明了，课堂提问面向全体学生，注意引发学生学英语的兴趣，产生的问题尽量课堂解决，稳扎稳打，减轻学生的负担。
2、辅助教学
为加强学生练习英语听力的思想认识，树立坚持每周甚至是每天英语听力练习的新理念。尝试新教法，不断更新教学观念。开展英语歌曲教学、英文原声电影教学等非传统教学手段，并得到学生的欢迎。
3、不断提高自己
在备课过程，除了依仗手头材料外，要通过各种途径查找有关材料补充新知识，并增加课外知识以提高学生的学习主动性，刚刚踏上讲台，还缺乏很多教学经验，所以更加努力工作，以形成自己的教学风格。
4、成绩与反思通过一学期来的努力，充分调动了学生的学习积极性和自主创新能力，提高了学生学习英语听力的兴趣。学生掌握了学习英语听力的方法，自学再生能力得到了进一步的提高，但学生的成绩还参差不齐，整体成绩提高得不快，有些甚至不尽人意，这有待今后工作中不断的探索、借鉴与完善，主要存在以下问题
（1）教材挖掘不深入，对学生的自主学习，合作学习，缺乏理论指导。
（2）教法不灵活，不能完全吸引学生学习，对学生的引导、启发不足。
（3）对学生了解不够，对学生的学习态度、思维能力不太清楚，学生掌握的情况怎样，教师心中无数，导致了教学中的盲目性。
5、今后努力的方向
（1）学习新内容，挖掘教材，创造新教学方法，进一步把握知识点和考点。
（2）多听课，学习同科目教师先进的教学方法的教学理念。
（3）加强教学反思，加大怎样提高英语听力教学投入研究。
最后，也希望各位老教师多指正我的缺点，从而不断提高我自己。
Unit4
Activity4
You’ve never met Melissa Hayes, and you don’t know her name, but you know her voice. Melissa records information messages for the telephone company. When you hear “The number you called has been changed …” — that’s Melissa!
“Yes, it’s true,” she says. “I’m the voice talent for National Telephone.” At least 50,000 people hear her voice every day. “I try to sound warm and friendly, even when I’m saying, I’m sorry, that number is incorrect. Please try again.”
Melissa works only three days a week, but she has to practice a lot. “My voice has to sound the same at the end of eight hours.” She’s very careful about her voice. “I don’t go outside in cold weather, and I have to drink lots of hot water with honey. I can’t go to horror movies because I always scream, and I might hurt my voice!”
How did she get her job“A friend told me about it. I listened to all the telephone company messages on my phone, and then I recorded a cassette of those messages. After I sent it to the company, I called them every day for a month!”
She’s done this work for three years now, and she loves it. “It’s fun! And I’m helping people by using my voice.” Plus, people are always surprised when they hear about Melissa’s job. They say, “You’re a real personI thought it was a computer!”
Unit5
Activity3
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling flagship products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft ships products to Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. In the mid-1980s, it rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS. Since 1985, Microsoft has released an upgrading line of Windows operating systems featuring a friendly user interface. The latest one, Windows 7, was released in October 2009 and has sold 600 million copies to date. A more powerful one, Windows 8, is to be released in late 2012. It is reported that this product can deliver a fast and fluid experience, along with a new user interface that responds equally well to touch as it does to keyboard and mouse.
As one commentator notes, Microsoft’s original mission was “a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software,” and now it is a goal near fulfillment. Microsoft also makes profits in other markets such as computer hardware products and home entertainment products.
Unit5
Activity4
A different kind of holiday: Shop less, live more!
Advertising is everywhere. It’s on race cars and subway trains, on T-shirts and billboards. Every day, you see hundreds of ads, and each advertiser wants you to buy their product. But do we really need all these productsA group in Canada says “No.” In 1991, they started an event called Buy Nothing Day, to protest against consumerism and waste. Every year, on the last Friday in
November, no one should spend any money for 24 hours. The event has spread to over 15 countries around the world, including Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
In the United States, Buy Nothing Day takes place on the Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday. This is usually the busiest day of the year in department stores and shopping malls. Traditionally, it’s the first day of the Christmas shopping season, when Americans buy gifts for family and close friends.
However, this “season” has grown longer every year. Now some stores put up their Christmas window displays in the middle of October, and Americans are pressured to buy gifts for every one of their relatives, for all of their coworkers, and for everyone they do business with. Many people feel that they are forgetting the real significance of the holidays, because companies just want them to spend more money.
Of course, Buy Nothing Day supporters don’t want to change just one day. They want the change to continue all year. But if we take a break from shopping on one day, we can start thinking about what we really need in life. Michael Smith, British organizer of Buy Nothing Day, says: “Our message is clear: Shop less, live more!”
Activity5
Ad or no ad
Is advertising really necessaryBillions of dollars are spent on it every year, so it must be important. After all, it’s a busy world. You have to advertise, sell products, and make money!
Not every company thinks that way. The NO-AD company (“no-ad” stands for “not advertised”) avoids big advertising campaigns. The company was started in 1960 and is successful today. Their products are still affordable because the company saves money on advertising. They also use their savings to support a drug and alcohol awareness program to educate high school students.
NO-AD sells by word of mouth. “Word-of-mouth advertising” happens when a person tells another person about a good experience with a product or service. That second person then tells another friend, family member, or colleague. And so a chain of information is created.
Typically, advertisers talk about how good their product is. Although they say things like, “Studies show that our product is the best,” or “Everyone loves this product,” it can sound insincere or unconvincing. It’s much more believable to hear about a product from someone who did not make it. Our friends’ opinions are very important to us, so we often listen to their advice about a product.
Word-of-mouth advertising has other advantages, too. It’s cost-effective (after all, it’s free) and a company doesn’t have to create a complex business plan to do it. Here is some advice for small business about word-of-mouth advertising:
Be prepared to talk about your company at any time. You never know who you will meet. Always carry business cards.
Only say positive things about your company. Don’t say negative things about your company. Help other companies by referring people to them. The more you help others, the more good fortune will come back to you.
Unit6
Activity4
Ad or no ad
Is advertising really necessaryBillions of dollars are spent on it every year, so it must be important. After all, it’s a busy world. You have to advertise, sell products, and make money!
Not every company thinks that way. The NO-AD company (“no-ad” stands for “not advertised”) avoids big advertising campaigns. The company was started in 1960 and is successful today. Their products are still affordable because the company saves money on advertising. They also use their savings to support a drug and alcohol awareness program to educate high school students.
NO-AD sells by word of mouth. “Word-of-mouth advertising” happens when a person tells another person about a good experience with a product or service. That second person then tells another friend, family member, or colleague. And so a chain of information is created.
Typically, advertisers talk about how good their product is. Although they say things like, “Studies show that our product is the best,” or “Everyone loves this product,” it can sound insincere or unconvincing. It’s much more believable to hear about a product from someone who did not make it. Our friends’ opinions are very important to us, so we often listen to their advice about a product.
Word-of-mouth advertising has other advantages, too. It’s cost-effective (after all, it’s free) and a company doesn’t have to create a complex business plan to do it. Here is some advice for small business about word-of-mouth advertising:
Be prepared to talk about your company at any time. You never know who you will meet. Always carry business cards.
Only say positive things about your company. Don’t say negative things about your company. Help other companies by referring people to them. The more you help others, the more good fortune will come back to you.
activity5
Money from unexpected sources
The San people live in southern Africa. Scientists say that they may have been living there for as long as 40,000 years, hunting animals and gathering plants. Until recently, the once mighty San were broke and unemployed.
They had lost their land and were no longer engaged in traditional activities, such as hunting. The few young San people with jobs were working as farm laborers. They were not learning about their ancient culture and language. That may all change. The San have struck it rich. They recently signed an agreement with a large drug company.
The San have traditional knowledge about plants. The drug company is especially interested in a particular cactus and how the San use it.
The San used to go on hunting trips. While away from home, they chewed on the cactus to suppress their appetite — they no longer felt hungry afterwards. Using the San’s knowledge, the drug company plans to make a new drug from this plant. For people around the world who eat too much and have weight problems, this new drug could really help them by suppressing their appetites.
The San have a positive plan for this new wealth. Their first step will be to get jobs for their people. Their next priority will be education. Through education, they hope to save their culture and language for future generations. When you think of a monk, you might think of a quiet man living in an isolated place. The “free monks” of Greece do live in a monastery, but they are anything but quiet. In fact, they sing. They have been recording their songs and selling many records in Greece.
Young music listeners love to listen to the “free monks.” Their songs are recorded in different styles (digital keyboard and rock, for example), and the themes are not only religious. The
brothers also sing about problems like drugs and globalization.
The monks haven’t made a fortune from their record sales, but they have made a profit. They use the money to pay for summer camps for teenagers. At the camps, the teens can play soccer and go horseback riding. The monks also donate money to other social programs that help people.