Abstract

With the development of internationalization, more and more people pay attention to English. Lead-in, as the first step of teaching procedure, plays a crucial role in middle school English classroom teaching. There are two main effects about lead-in: help the students to review the knowledge learned previously and introduce the new knowledge. It has many advantages, such as arousing students’ interest, helping students’ development of thinking and improving students’ learning efficiency, etc. The appropriate lead-in will improve the teaching effect. Nowadays, lead-in is widely used by many English teachers in English classroom teaching. However, in the current English teaching situation, teachers still have some problems needed to be solved and improved in the lead-in part. The thesis will discuss the importance, the methods and the application of lead-in.

Keywords: lead-in; classroom teaching; middle school 

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-2

3. The Current Situation of Lead-in in English Classroom Teaching-2

4. The Essential Role of Lead-in in English Classroom Teaching-3

4.1 The importance of lead-in-3

4.2 The advantages of lead-in-3

5. The Ways of Lead-in in English Classroom Teaching-5

5.1 By verbal interactions in lead-in-5

5.2 By nonverbal interactions in lead-in-6

5.3 By multi-media-6

5.4 By doing games-7

5.5 By reviewing-7

6. The Application of Lead-in in English Classroom Teaching-7

6.1 In the welcome to the unit part-7

6.2 In the reading part-8

6.3 In the grammar part-9

7. Conclusion-9

Works Cited-11