As a zero-starting English training textbook, Jordan American English is suitable for children aged 6- 12. This set of teaching materials passed the examination and approval of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" research group of China Education Association on 20 10, and was experimented in many regions of China. Jordan's American English textbook *** 10 is divided into five levels, and one textbook is completed each semester. The course adopts situational teaching mode-taking children's natural living environment as the background, language learning and life scenes are skillfully combined to create a language use environment, which fully embodies the combination of knowledge and life; Judging from the topic, this 10 textbook has selected topics closely related to the daily life of primary school students, such as individuals, families, school life, time, date, hobbies, personal feelings, animals and plants, holiday activities, shopping, diet, health, weather, entertainment and sports, etc. Judging from the language knowledge of textbook arrangement, the textbook only involves the relevant contents of present continuous tense, general present tense, general future tense and general past tense; In this 10 textbook, students are exposed to more than 1000 words, of which about 600 words will be mainly explained, which meets the requirements of national curriculum standards. The features of the whole set of teaching materials are as follows:

1. Fun

Stimulating students' interest in learning English is an important task in English teaching in primary schools. The arrangement of Jordan's American English textbooks focuses on combining children's psychological, physiological and age characteristics. According to the characteristics of children's novelty, love of labor, love of imitation, love of singing, love of dancing and love of performance, the situational texts and dialogues with vivid and interesting design, illustrations and various forms are compiled. Among them, situational dialogue runs through the whole set of teaching materials, which is conducive to listening and speaking activities and entertaining. Through dialogues, games, songs, poems, jingles, tongue twisters, riddles, mazes, simple and interesting fables and competitions, students' interest in learning can be stimulated, so that they can gain some perceptual knowledge of English and maintain a strong interest in continuing to learn English.

Step 2 tell stories

Stories are an indispensable part of children's lives. According to this feature, Jordan American English adopts comic stories as the main learning content of each unit. The main content of the story revolves around the daily study life of the protagonist in the textbook, which is close to the student life. At the same time, the story itself is a complete text, which not only provides language input, but also provides scenarios and occasions for language use through illustrations and scenes, indicating the identity, relationships, intentions and thoughts of the speaker, reflecting the meaning and function of the language (that is, when to use it), effectively avoiding the disadvantages of simple sentence pattern teaching. Students only know what to say but don't know when to say it or to whom.

3. talkative

Language is acquired from daily environment, and the process of learning language has certain rules, that is, from others to imitating speech to mastering and using various vocabulary. Jordan's American English follows the law of language acquisition and the age characteristics of students, and every level of teaching materials runs through complete situational stories. The characters in the story are vivid and close to the students' life plot, which effectively stimulates students' interest and motivation in learning. Provide an immersive living space for language acquisition. Knowledge points come from stories. Unifying discrete sentences into complete situational stories not only stimulates students' interest in learning, but also promotes students' cognition and understanding of semantics and pronunciation, which is conducive to improving students' comprehensive language use ability.

American English has become popular all over the world.

Because the United States is more and more ahead of Britain in the world position, and American English is easy to use and understand, under the current popular trend, more and more people are using American English, which may replace British English. For example, in Germany, France, Switzerland, Japan and other countries, American English is the main teaching method in schools, while in order to speed up the integration with advanced western countries, China also studies and uses English as a foreign language. Although British English is still the main language in primary and secondary schools in China, American English has been taught in high schools and universities, and European and American countries are our first choice for studying and working abroad in the future. Therefore, it will be the general trend to learn American English from an early age and become an international talent.

As our training institution, whoever predicts the general trend first will succeed. When we teach British English in similar training schools around us, we choose differentiated management, and teaching American English will certainly achieve the greatest development.

☆ The characteristics of Jordan's six American English classes make students learn happily.

Warm-up with positive rhythm

A good beginning is half the battle. From the psychological characteristics of children, singing can make students feel relaxed, happy, satisfied and excited. Because of this, many teachers design various methods to attract students' attention at the beginning of a class. Singing is a good way to organize teaching, which can make students full of energy, concentrate, prepare lessons, relieve students' nervousness, reduce fatigue and maintain abundant physical strength to learn new lessons. Therefore, at the beginning of class, students should sing English songs and cooperate with appropriate actions, so that students can return to class after class and quickly enter an English environment.

Introduction to music games

Use games to pave the way for the new curriculum and the connection between old and new knowledge. It is an important part of classroom teaching. In this way, skillfully using games to introduce new lessons can disperse difficulties and reduce the difficulty, so that students can learn knowledge unconsciously in pleasant games.

New knowledge learning

In this link, Jordan American English uses changeable gestures, rich expressions and cadence to design the language environment as much as possible, and uses wall charts, objects, multimedia courseware and stick figures to teach, so that students can actively participate in teaching activities in a pleasant classroom atmosphere.

Practice while playing.

This link is a good opportunity to carry out game activities. After learning new knowledge, students have a certain understanding of the content of this lesson, and then they must digest it through practice. By practicing while playing, students can strengthen and remember boring knowledge in interesting games.

Cosplay

Role-playing is also a link to transform knowledge into ability, and it is the most exciting moment for students. Pupils are lively and active, and like to express themselves. Role-playing caters to the needs of students and enlivens the classroom atmosphere. For example, students can act out the occupation that the teacher said in English with actions, and they can act out the animals that the teacher said in English with body language.

Solid competitive integration

Competition consolidation is the last link of teaching, and it is also the stage of summing up a lesson. Taking advantage of the aggressive nature of primary school students, we introduce the competition mechanism into the classroom. Everyone who participates in the game is eager to win, which makes the students who participate in the activity study actively and helps to overcome the psychological barrier of shyness.

☆ Learning Effect of Jordan's American English

1. Be able to master 1000- 1500 English words, more than 300 sentence patterns and 120 scene dialogues.

2. Be able to understand simple short stories with pictures; Be able to understand common instructions and requirements and make appropriate responses.

3. Be able to pronounce clearly, stress correctly, and convey meaning in oral expression.

4. Be able to have simple English conversation, meet the needs of daily life expression and communication, and be able to understand English teaching programs and English cartoons to a considerable extent.

5. Be able to use some of the most commonly used daily expressions appropriately, such as greetings, farewell, thanks, apologies, etc. And can tell short stories with the help of the teacher.

6. Be able to read simple words according to spelling rules, read simple stories or essays with pictures, and develop the habit of reading in groups.

7. Can write common simple English sentence patterns, and can write simple English short articles according to the model essay.

8. Be able to perform English short stories or plays with the help of teachers, and perform 40-60 folk songs.

9. Pronunciation: master the pronunciation rules of most English words and have the ability to read, listen and write words.

Jordan's ten methods of American English

■ Direct mother tongue teaching method

Get rid of the traditional translation-oriented bilingual learning, create a pure English classroom for children, and let children speak English as loudly as their mother tongue. As we all know, games are children's greatest pleasure and a very important part of their growth. Therefore, it is really fun and entertaining to add games to Jordan's American English class. Teachers also use body language, objects, cards, wall charts and other teaching AIDS as carriers to help children understand, so that children can learn flexibly in class and be happy and rewarding.

■ Phonetic teaching method

According to the sound source represented by 26 letters and letter combinations themselves, English teachers guide children to find the same sound source through the correct pronunciation of different words in class without learning international phonetic symbols. Train students to immediately and intuitively reflect how to pronounce any word, exercise children's correct pronunciation, and exercise children's sense of independent pronunciation, so as to achieve a super ability to listen to and see the pronunciation of words.

■TPR limb response teaching method

Body language is the simplest way of communication between countries and people. Jordan's American English teacher focuses on verbal commands in class, using body language, gestures and demonstrations to make students understand and imitate verbal commands. English teachers' repetition of verbal commands and skillful use of TPR teaching are very consistent with children's early active personality characteristics.

■ overlapping spiral three-cycle teaching method

Three-stage lesson plans have broken through the disadvantages of traditional education "forgetting classes after class". In the first cycle, learn words and useful phrases first; Learn sentences and texts in the second cycle, and review what you have learned in the first cycle; Learn dialogue and grammar in the third cycle, and review what you have learned in the first and second cycles to lay a solid foundation and improve spiral overlap.

■ Left-right brain balance development teaching method

First of all, let's briefly understand the functions of the left and right brains. Left brain: mainly responsible for rational IQ such as logical thinking and body movements, commonly known as rational brain. Right brain: mainly responsible for language, music and other perceptual IQ, commonly known as perceptual brain. Breaking through the shortcomings of traditional children's education in developing the left hemisphere, English teachers use words and pictures to change each other, supplemented by lively TPR physical reflection, games, performances and other activities to strongly stimulate students' left hemisphere, realize the balanced development of left hemisphere and right hemisphere, realize unlimited potential, and reach the peak of memory and understanding at the same time.

■ Song teaching method

Music is not only the best carrier of language, but also can cultivate people's sentiment. Therefore, expressing the teaching content in the form of songs can not only make children sing what they have learned, but also make children learn and absorb it easily in entertainment. More importantly, it can shape their character.

■ Teaching methods of stimulating reflex under environmental conditions

Jordan's American English teacher uses body language, related teaching AIDS and daily life scenes as the teaching environment for pure English classes, so that children can feel the expression of American English and use it, thus proving that the language is used after understanding, not after translation, and helping children develop English thinking to the greatest extent, so that children can really learn and never forget it.

■ The most interesting and wonderful teaching method

Interest is the best teacher. Using songs, games, dances, performances and other teaching methods can stimulate children's interest in learning English to the greatest extent.

■ Game teaching method

Games are an indispensable part of children's life. They imitate adult life and experience life in games. Jordan American English has designed more than 200 kinds of classroom games for children's English classes, including word teaching games, sentence teaching games, role-playing, listening response, simulation, rhythm and tone sandhi games. From the teaching content, classroom teaching games run through the whole process of teaching operation and application.

■ Situational teaching method

In English class, Jordan's American English textbook has designed various real scenes of children's life, presenting the unit subjects that students are interested in in in a lively way, leading students to practice situational dialogues repeatedly in the scenes, and achieving the learning effect of applying what they have learned.

A newly conceived composition

"Nobody asked me for ten years, and I am famous all over the world"; Looking at China's imperial examination system, which has lasted for thousands of years, it shows a problem that many students, after ten years of cold window, end up with only one article that decides their future and destiny, either entering a room or leaving Sun Shan! Writing a good composition is the embodiment of candidates' comprehensive quality. Why is it that after the reform and opening up, China is in line with international standards, and Chinese people are enthusiastic about learning foreign languages, but at the same time foreigners' enthusiasm for learning Chinese is quietly rising? It is because China's language is extensive and profound, ranking first among all languages in the world, and it is not enough to understand China without learning; Why can only one composition be admitted to Tsinghua Peking University and other famous schools? It is because people in China have realized that talents in China must first write Chinese well if they want to go global! So the composition score accounts for half of the Chinese, and the composition = 1/2 Chinese! Learn to write a good composition from primary school! At present, Chinese education in primary schools is mainly based on basic education. Students spend most of their time on literacy, word formation, rhetoric and simple writing, but they can't cultivate professional writing talents suitable for college entrance examination, survival and employment. As soon as junior high school students enter school, the pressure of dozens of textbooks and senior high school entrance examinations makes students breathless, so that most junior high school students' compositions are rigid or lack of spirituality. They read like a cup of plain boiled water, boring, and bury many talented people with writing talent! Therefore, primary and secondary school students urgently need professional composition training and brand composition training, and new ideas for composition emerge as the times require!

Since the implementation of the new round of curriculum reform, what to teach, how to teach, what to learn and how to learn composition in primary and secondary schools has become the most puzzling and urgent problem for Chinese teachers in primary and secondary schools. After years of exploration, practice and research, we have developed and established a new composition teaching system. The construction of this system will enable primary and secondary school teachers to teach and students to learn composition with clear goals and directions. One monk carries water to drink, three monks have no water to drink. This story is so old that almost all the people in China have heard of it. Its educational significance is also well known-you can't be lazy, you can't rely on others, you must work hard and help each other. We always look for reasons from the ideological level, which is the characteristic of China people's thinking. However, westerners do not agree with this story. They thought, how tired it is to carry water, and we can't blame everyone for being lazy. Simply invent a water pump to pump water directly from the river, and everyone will be relaxed. No matter how many monks there are, everyone will have water to drink. This is the characteristic of western thinking.

In all fairness, these two views are very reasonable, and it would be great if they could be combined into one. On the one hand. Everyone strives to inherit the fine tradition of hard struggle of the Chinese nation; On the other hand, with advanced tools, you must have drunk too much water.

Today, many students are afraid of writing, which is neither long nor fast. The roots of these problems can be summarized into two aspects: first, students do not observe life, but only memorize model essays to cope with composition exams (for example, writing about my mother, and so does my mother's image); The other is that you can't find the correct writing methods and skills. Writing only depends on "hard work" and "groping", and of course you can't get high marks in the examination room. How to improve learning efficiency without changing the way of thinking today when there are many disciplines, tight time, great learning pressure and strong test-taking significance? If we combine these two aspects, we can not only master the writing methods and skills, but also observe life and be familiar with model essays, so writing will naturally become a very easy thing.

The newly conceived composition takes "novel conception" as the core and "five-step composition method" as the writing mode. Rich in content, strong in logic and rigorous in structural system, the contents of each chapter are relatively independent and integrated with each other. The textbook explains the writing methods of each style thoroughly and clearly, covering a wide range and with strong pertinence. The characteristics of the whole set of teaching materials are as follows: 1. The original five-step composition method-examination of questions → conception → outline → writing → revision (each method has rules to follow). 2. Mind mapping method-use mind mapping to conceive and draw 75 styles and writing methods, which is intuitive and clear. 3. Summarize the writing modes of various styles-100 writing angle and 80 writing skills. 4. Comprehensive analysis of writing skills and methods-30 kinds of skills of examining questions and conceiving ideas, 100 kinds of writing methods, so that your writing is as disciplined as mathematics. 5. Practical exercise of examination questions-analyze the thinking of writing famous books, summarize the writing skills of examination questions over the years, and let students calmly cope with various composition exams.

★ Five-step teaching method of newly conceived composition

1. Play games in storytelling.

Explain the examination, conception, conception and writing style, modify the writing skills and methods of various styles, improve students' innovative thinking and test-taking ability, and use the combination of games and stories in class to let children quickly open the breakthrough of examination, conception and writing style, so that children can quickly learn to write compositions.

2. Reading, guiding reading and accumulating materials

In the teaching of reading, we combine the model essay of teaching materials with the excellent works of students to guide students to understand and absorb the characteristics and methods of writing. Students are required to study hard for the wonderful fragments, vivid figurative sentences and vivid anthropomorphic sentences in the textbook model. You can use it for reference at any time in the future composition process.

3. Writing training oral English to promote writing.

After the topic of each composition is determined, divide it into four groups and say your composition in turn. In this process, learn from each other, inspire each other, learn from each other's strengths, and then put the speeches into written words.

4. Comment on the introduction of the game and comment on the spot.

After the students finished writing, the teacher arranged for the students to cross-check. In this way, students' ability to write comments, evaluate and appreciate compositions can be cultivated. After the students evaluate each other, the teacher will comment on the spot. According to the specific situation of the composition, make a comprehensive evaluation and point out some problems in the composition process. Stimulate students' interest in writing and improve their writing ability.

5. Learn to modify appraisal appreciation.

When instructing students to revise their compositions, the newly conceived composition teacher will choose one or two articles for collective guidance (excellent or poor) and teach students how to revise them. Through review, help students improve their ability to identify, analyze and appreciate compositions.

Jinbei mathematics

Whether or not to learn Olympic Mathematics has always been a problem that puzzles many parents and students. The fundamental reason is that many parents and students don't know what to learn in Olympic Mathematics. Skills and thinking are two important conditions for improving math scores. They complement each other. Only thinking can't solve math problems, and only skills and thinking can't improve math scores. Primary school textbooks focus on the cultivation of students' mathematical skills, while Jinbei Mathematics focuses on the cultivation of students' thinking ability. Mathematics is gymnastics to exercise thinking, and the cultivation of thinking ability in Jinbei mathematics is an indispensable part of mathematics learning.

First, the role of Jinbei mathematics

1. Develop intelligence "Smart children love math, and children who love math become smart". Olympic Mathematics has been recognized as a course that can improve children's intelligence, improve children's way of thinking and shape good study habits. Child psychologists at home and abroad generally believe that 5- 12 years old is the best period for children's intelligence and mental development, which is very important for their life-long growth. Olympic Mathematics plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating people's innovative thinking ability. It can meet the needs of students' intellectual potential development in all aspects and plays an extremely important role in students' intellectual development. Therefore, mathematics, also known as wisdom, is the mother of encyclopedias. It is the most important subject in primary and secondary schools. Whether junior high school students participate in the Olympic Mathematics or not, it plays an irreplaceable role in the development of children's intellectual potential, so it is necessary to participate in certain Olympic Mathematics training.

2. Respond to the entrance examination. Although primary school graduates are assigned to the nearest school by computer, in order to compete for excellent students, some key middle schools come to primary schools to take the joint entrance examination every year to recruit excellent students, most of which are Olympic math questions, but at present, Olympic math is not in the teaching syllabus of primary school mathematics, so the contents of Olympic math are not discussed in the school classroom. If children don't take part in training courses to learn Olympic Mathematics, natural children will have no chance to be admitted to these key middle schools and can only passively participate in computers.

3. Learning mathematics, physics and chemistry better in junior middle school can improve the logical thinking ability. To put it bluntly, most math problems in primary schools can be solved by remembering theorems and formulas, and the types of questions are limited. However, many students often can't do it because they can't draw inferences, and many problems are changed a little, which leads to the failure to improve their grades. This is because their analytical understanding ability is insufficient, and Jinbei Mathematics is of great help to improve children's logical thinking and analytical understanding ability. At the same time, learning Olympic Mathematics well lays a good foundation for middle schools to learn mathematics and physics well. When children enter middle school, the courses are more difficult, especially the three very important courses of mathematics, science and chemistry. If a child can improve his thinking ability by learning Olympic Mathematics in primary school, it will be of great help to him to learn mathematics and physics well in the future. As the saying goes: "If you learn the Olympiad well, you can easily take the science exam." Children who learn Olympic mathematics well in primary schools can easily cope with math, science and chemistry subjects in middle schools. It is for this reason that many key middle schools give priority to students with good results in Olympic Mathematics.

Second, Jinbei Mathematics solves the following problems for children

1. Afraid of mathematics, with serious psychological barriers.

I'm not interested in math, and I don't like it.

I'm afraid of math, and I don't know how to write it when I see math application problems.

4. Careless, familiar math problems often lose points because of carelessness in exams.

5. Unable to finish homework independently, relying on the inspiration and explanation of teachers and parents.

6. Don't extrapolate, the result is always stagnant.

7. I can't remember the formula theorem, my ability of analysis and understanding is insufficient, and my thinking of solving problems is chaotic.

Third, the training effect.

1. The speed of mental arithmetic and oral arithmetic is 100%.

2. The sea of questions is boundless and the types of questions are limited. As long as you master the problem-solving ideas of this course, you can draw inferences from others.

3. After learning this course, children's problem-checking methods, problem-solving thinking and reasoning and analysis ability have been significantly improved.

4. Jinbei Mathematics can make people who like it fondle admiringly, make people who are afraid of it feel cordial and make people who hate it fall in love with it.

5. If the Olympic Mathematics training only adapts to 5% top students, then this course can make 50% students become top students.

Fourth, the characteristics of teaching materials.

1. The synchronous learning content of knowledge points is strictly synchronized with the new curriculum standards and knowledge points of all grades, and is perfectly combined with the Olympic Mathematical Competition. Course explanation pays attention to the diversification of problem-solving skills and the expansion of thinking methods.

2. Progressive courses are gradual and graded. Example study, classroom consolidation exercise and after-class expansion training are arranged in each unit. It not only emphasizes the consolidation of textbook knowledge and solid foundation, but also organically connects with "Olympic Mathematics" to meet the needs of children's mathematics learning to the greatest extent, and at the same time, it can develop the wisdom potential of every student.

3. Unique methods In the classroom, teachers use interesting stories or games to stimulate students' interest and motivation in learning, so that students can gradually feel the close connection between mathematics and daily life, and the course explanation is based on the non-repetition of teaching materials; Higher than textbooks, creative; Link Olympics has been expanded; Let students no longer be afraid of math.

4. Content selection As the saying goes: "Thousands of questions all originate from the motif", thoroughly understanding the original questions is the fundamental guarantee for learning mathematics well, and mastering the methods is a powerful weapon to overcome the Olympic math problems. Only by clarifying the principles can we have a clear train of thought; Only by mastering the method can we draw inferences from one another. The examples in the class fully reflect the diversity of classics. Basic questions, typical questions, prototype questions and compound questions are designed for each level of courses. The explanation of examples strives to simplify the complex and popularize profound truth, so that students can learn well and do well in exams.