The Exploration Of The Art Of Leading-in In Senior Middle School English Teaching

. "Teaching is an art full of regret, but at the same time it's also a surmounting art eliminating regret."Teaching is an art, but the art of class teaching is idiographic represent of teaching art. Only when the teachers make good use of every lesson and give each lesson wonderfully, can it show the charm of the art. For many years, we have been exploring different kinds of teaching pattern of triggering the students' interests in English and enhancing the efficiency of teaching and have been seeking different kinds of approaches of optimizing the process of class teaching. So many English class teaching methods such as five-step teaching method and task-based teaching method are put forward, but these methods pay more attention to imparting new knowledge to students and to training their ability of using English than to triggering their interests in English. Many students think that they are forced to study English for different examinations and tasks. As a result, teachers try their best to improve students' ability of using English, but there are fewer results. In this context, teachers should begin their teaching with "triggering and arousing" the students' interests. They should try to attract students from the beginning of every lesson and find a proper way of leading in. In this way, the students' interests can gradually be led to the teaching contents. So they can take an active part in the teaching activities., put their heart into the class and study the new lesson easily and naturally master the new knowledge and improve their ability of using English. When teachers are preparing the leading-in class, they should do it in different ways based on the teaching contents, students' individual characters and the teachers' own predominance. They must have a general idea of what to teach first and how to begin or continue and what to say first.This thesis explores the art of leading-in in senior middle school English teaching. The writer tries to find out how to trigger the students' interest in Englishlearning and how to optimize the class teaching process so that an efficient way of enhancing the teaching efficiency can be found out.The thesis will be written in the way of exploring, analysing, giving examples and stating. First of all, "leading in" and the art of "leading in" in class-teaching are defined. The importance and significance of leading-in in class teaching are described. Then it analyses the present situations about neglecting leading-in in English class teaching in senior middle schools; the next, the theory of pedagogy, psychology and esthetics will be used to state the necessity and feasibility of leading-in in class-teaching. After that, the significance, functions and principles are further discussed and explored. Finally, the different knacks and efficient ways of leading-in in English teaching are given according to the present new textbook of senior English for China.The difficult point in this paper is based on the research into the leading-in in鈥?relation to theory of pedagogy, psychology and esthetics. The keystone lies in the research into the significance, functions, principles, techniques and different kinds of methods of leading-in in English class teaching. According to the teachers' teaching experience in senior middle schools and the new textbook's characteristic, the thesis summarizes different kinds of ways of leading-in in English class teaching in 16 aspects. Teachers can lead in the English new lesson by showing the students some pictures or photos in relation to the new lesson and then ask the students to talk about it. They can also lead the students reviewing and then begin the new lesson based on it. They can give the students some ingenious questions and lead the students in thinking, seeking and attracting their attentions. They can also lead in the new lesson by playing music, breeding the students' imagination, giving them some suspense, drawing simple pictures while teaching or explaining the title. Teachers can also give students some key word...