How it moves voice Food Slowly and from side to side Whisper Mixture of carrot juice and cocoa Skip around fast shout Lemonade with herbs
Step2 group work
Create a new alien and fill in the blanks then draw it out Name of creature Size Appearance Color Personality Number of arms Number of legs How it moves Voice food Moddock Small child when grown Very large nose and hairy body grey Slow and shy but friendly once approached Six six Rolls over and over like a ball Uses sign language oil With your partner, draw a picture of your alien.
Then write a description based on your drawing and the notes in the chart. Step 3 extensive reading 2 Rising to a challenge Paragraph 1
Silver adventure: Advantages: Paragraph 2:
Problem existed in the past:______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Now solved by________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ What can Saturation City provide? Paragraph 3:_________________ Paragraph 4:_________________ Paragraph 5:_________________
Teaching procedures Step 1 Revision
1 Check the homework exercises.
2 Ask the Ss a few random questions to revise future time and introduce the topic of the unit. For example: What lessons do you have this afternoon / tomorrow? Are you going to do anything special this evening? What do you think the weather will be like tomorrow? What are you going to do on Saturday evening? Are you planning to do anything on Sunday?
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Step 2 Presentation
S. Ask questions about the picture (in PPT.), and get Ss to tell you what they think is happening. Teach the new words majority, goods, industry. Read the introduction aloud. Step 3 Reading
Say Now read the dialogue silently and find out this information: What is being planned at this company? Allow the Ss a few moments to carry out the task. Check the answer. (A new factory may be built.) See if the Ss can guess the meaning of out of work. Step 4 Dialogue
Play the tape of the dialogue for the Ss to listen and follow. Go through the dialogue briefly and make sure the Ss understand it. Ask questions like these: What are people at the company talking about? Who is going to make the decision? Why does the company need to build a new factory? What is the difficulty? Why do some people want the new factory to be built? Why are some people against the new factory? Explain that may have plans expresses uncertainty about the future. Play the tape again. This time the Ss listen and repeat. Then let the Ss practice the dialogue in pairs. You may wish to ask one pair to act the scene in front of the class. Notes:
a People have been talking of it a lot recently.:
Note the Present Perfect Continuous Tense to express an activity which started in the past and is still continuing.
b I simply don?t know. = I honestly don‘t know. c Right now = At this moment
d The problem is … it. = Finding land for building the new factory is a problem ( i.e. difficult). e The majority of people = Most people f a number of people = quite a lot of people g out of work = do not have jobs
h But some people … built on. = Some people do not want them to build a factory on good farm land. Note the structure not want something to be done. i I can see the problem. = I understand the problem. j is likely to happen = will probably happen
k It?s quite likely: Quite emphasizes likely and increases the possibility. Step 5 Practice
Demonstrate how to make sentences from the table, and then get a few Ss to make example sentences. Then let the Ss do this exercise in pairs. At the end get Ss to write down 5 sentences from this table in their exercise books. Step 6 Workbook
After Ex. 1 is done orally, get the Ss to write the answers in their exercise books.
Both Exx. 2 and 3 should be done in pairs first. Then check the answers with the class. Get Ss to translate the sentences into Chinese and ask them to think if they will be able to put them back into English. Pay attention to the sentence structures.
When doing Ex. 4, warn the Ss not to do word for word translation. Special attention should be paid to the sentence patterns and word order. Step 7 Consolidation
With a good class you can give the Ss the following phrases and get them to make up a dialogue. Write these phrases on the Bb. I believe you‘re right.
What are the problems then?
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What do you think is likely to happen?
Write them up on the Bb and demonstrate with a good S how it is possible to make up a dialogue. A: I think the company will buy more land. B: I believe you?re right.
A: But it isn‘t likely that the manager will make a decision soon. B: What are the problems then?
With an ordinary class, just practice the dialogue in Part 1 again. Homework
Finish off the Workbook exercises.
Unit 4 Making the news
一. 教学目标 (Teaching aims) 1. 能力目标 (Ability aim)
Enable the Ss to recognize the variety of jobs there are in newspapers and what is needed to work in a newspaper office.
Enable the Ss to know what is needed to become a reporter and how to conduct an interview. 2.. 语言目标 (Language aim) 重点词汇和短语
occupation, do research, on one‘s own, cover, concentrate on, acquire, accuse…of, so as to, scoop 重点句子
1) Not till you are more experienced!
2) You‘ll find your colleagues very eager to assist you and if you are interested in photography, it may
be possible for you to concentrate on that later on.
3) Not only am I interested in photography, but I took a course at university, so it‘s actually of special
interest to me.
4) Only if you ask many questions will you acquire all the information you need to know. 5) We say a good reporter must have a ―nose‖ for a story. 6) This is a trick of the trade.
7) Have you ever had a case where somebody accused your reporters of getting the wrong end of the
stick?
8) Perhaps I too will get a scoop!
二. 教学重难点 (Teaching important points)
Know what is needed to become a reporter and how to conduct an interview 三. 教学方法 (Teaching method)
Fast reading; Task-based method & discussion 四. 教学步骤 (Teaching procedure)
Period 1 Step I Lead in.
1. Where can we get the news?
Newspaper, TV, radios, website, magazines, mobile phones, etc 2. What are the advantages of newspaper over other means of news medias? Step 2 Warming up.
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1. Can you tell some jobs in a newspaper company? What are their jobs involves?
Types of jobs Reporter/ journalist Photographer Editor Designer Printer 2. Do you know what‘s the press of making a newspaper? The chief editor hold a meetimg.
Journalists interview people and write stories
Photographers take photographs
Photo are quickly developed
Editors check the report.
Editors write the headline
The newspapers are printed.
The newspapers are delivered by train and truck.
Step III Pre-reading
T: Get the students discuss the importance of qualities a good news reporter needs to have. And why?
Step IV Reading
1. Listen to the tape and do the True or False questions. 1) Zhou can go out on a story immediately (F)
2) Zhou took a notebook,a pen,a camera with himself. (T)
3 While interviewing, the reporter would just ask the questions prepared before hand.(F) 4) Zhou took a course of photography at mid-school. (F) 5) Zhou is very enthusiastic. (T)
2. Read the passage and answer the following questions. 1) When can he go out on a story on his own?
2) A good reporter must have a ―nose‖, what does it mean? 3) What mistakes must he avoid? 4) Why is listening so important?
Step V Divide the dialogue into three parts, and write down the main idea of each section.
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What it involves Interview people or finds out events from onlookers Takes photos of important people or events Makes sure the writing is clear, concise and accurate, check facts Lays out the articles and photographs Prints the newspaper Part 1: To work in a team
Part 2: how to get an accurate story
Part 3: how to protect a story from accusation
Period 2. Language points: 1 occupation
(1) job / employment 工作/ 职业
Please state your name , age and occupation
(2) period of time during which a house ,country ,etc, is occupied They have a five-year occupation of the farm . 他们对该农场有五年的占用期. 2 fill in
Don’t forget to fill in your boarding cards. (填写)
Let me fill you in on what’s been happening in the office over lunch . (向 …提供最新消息) We have got some time to fill in before the show . Let‘s go for a drink .( 消磨( 打发)时间) Sally’s off sick . Can you fill in for her for a month. (临时替代 ) 3 reporter : journalist
an on-the –spot reporter 现场记者 It ?s reported that … 据报道 report sb 告发某人 report to sb 向某人汇报 4 personality (1) characteristics and qualities of a person seen as a whole 人格/ 个性 She has a very strong personality .
(2)u/cn distinctive , esp socially attractive ,qualities 特色
We need a person with a lot of personality to organize the party . (3) cn famous person
A lot of personalities from the film world attended the party . 5 assignment
She was sent abroad on a difficult assignment . (task or duty that is assigned to sb) The English assignment is a book report . (homework ) assign homework 留家庭作业
be assigned to a new post 被派到新的工作岗位 6 Never will Zhou Yang forget his first …
否定词放在句首,故用倒装把谓语的一部分位于主语之前.类似词有:no / not / never / little / hardly / seldom / scarcely / neither ?nor / not only ?but also / no sooner ?than / hardly?when/ by no means / in no time
他很少去看电影. Seldom does he go to the cinema .
在我一生中还未曾听说或见过这样的事呢 . Never in my life have I heard or seen such a thing . 7 influence
have a good / bad influence on sb / sth 对… 有好/坏的影响 have (no ) real influence over sb /sth 对..有/没有真正的约束力
use one’s influence with sb 利用与某人关系的影响力 under the influence of 在…的影响下 8 go out on a story
on 加名词与come /go / set out 等动词连用可表示目的,表示去做某事
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