Teaching Goal:
1. General aims:
A. Talk about preferences
B. make plans
C. types of movies and description words
D. conjunction
2. Particular aims:
A. Language Focus.
(1) ordinary questions Do you ….?
Does she/he…?
What kind ….?
(2) conjunction: and and but
B. Language goals
(1). Do you want to go to a movie?
Yes, I do./No, I don’t.
(2) Does she/he want to go to a movie?
Yes, she/he does. /No, she/he doesn’t.
(3). I want to go to an action movie.
(4). What kind of movies do you like?
(5). I like thrillers and I like action movies.
(6). I like comedies but I don’t like documentaries.
C. Language structures:
(1). Do you want to v…?
(2). What kind of … do you like?
(3). … and …/….but…not
D. Useful words and phrases:
Words: comedy, thriller, documentary, tragedy, romance, action movie, funny, interesting, scary, exciting, sad, romantic, fun, but, stay, favorite, think, also
Phrases: stay at home, on weekends, in a word, learn a lot about, in fact,
E. Grammar language:
singular and plural
irrigate sentences
present tense to want
and/but
F. Learning strategies:
(1). Inducing
(2). Reinforcing
(3). classifying
G. Interdiscipinary:
(1). Art
(2). Music
(3). show
H. Emotion and manner:
Teaching time: 5 periods
Teaching procedures:
Period One (pp53-54)
Step I. Section A Use vocabulary from earlier lessons to introduce the idea of using want to express preferences and make plans.
1a This activity introduces some key vocabulary words.
ask, what movies have you seen lately?
Call attention to the conversation in the speech bubbles.
Explain the meaning of the four words using simple explanations and gestures.
Step II. 1b This activity gives students practice in recognizing the target language in spoken conversation.
Listen to the tape carefully.
Play the recording a second time.
Step III. 1c This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Call attention to the conversation.
Ask two students to demonstrate a conversation using one of the words from 1a.
Step IV. 2a This activity gives students practice in recognizing the target language in spoken conversation.
You will hear a recording of a conversation.
Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.
Play the recording the second time.
Step V. 2b This activity provides listening practice using the target language.
Point to the headings on the chart and ask a student to read them to the class.
Point to the names at the left and read them aloud.
Play the first two lines of the conversation.
Play the whole recording and ask students to complete the task individually.
Step VI. Grammar focus
Point out the question, what kind of movies do you like? Ask students to think of other what kind of …questions they might be able to ask.
Period Two (pp55-56)
Step I. 3a This activity provides guided reading and oral practice using the words and and but.
Call attention to the two conversations: Brad and Maria’s and Hidecki and Michele’s.
Write the sentences from this conversation on the board.
Point to the and and say, we use “and” when both ideas in the sentence are the same. We use “but” when the two ideas in the sentences are different.
Call attention to the second conversation.
Step II. 3b This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Point out the sample conversation and ask two students to read it.
Ask several students to say sentences to the class.
Step III. 4 This activity provides guided reading and oral practice using the target language.
Call attention to the chart and the list of movie types students are going to ask about.
Ask the students to get into groups of four. Tell them to ask each other questions about the types of movies listed in the chart.
Step IV. Section B
1a This activity introduces key vocabulary words used to describe movies.
Point out the four illustrations with description words.
Ask students to complete the chart individually.
Step V. 2a This activity gives students practice in recognizing the target language in spoken conversation.
Listen to the tape the first time. Students only listen.
Play the recording the second time.
Step VI. 2b This activity provides listening and writing practice using the target language.
Play the recording.
Period Three (pp56-57)
Step I. 2c This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Listen to the tape and repeat the passage.
Ask students to translate them into Chinese.
Ask students to talk about it like that.
Step II. 3a This activity provides reading practice using the target language.
Call attention to the two pictures of Charlie Wayne
Ask students to read the review to themselves.
Ask students to repeat the review.
Step III. 3b This activity provides guided reading and writing practice with the target language.
Call attention to the four words in the box.
Read the completed review aloud or ask a student to do this.
Ask students to read again.
Step IV. 3c This activity provides open-ended writing practice using the target language.
Read the two reviews to the class.
Ask several students to read their review to the class.
Step V. 4 This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Ask students to work in groups
Period Four (pp58)
Step I. 1 This activity provides a comprehensive review of all key vocabulary presented in this unit.
Ask students to read the words.
Speak Chinese about words
Step II. 3 This activity provides written practice with the target language.
Ask students to fill in the blanks individually.
Step III. Just for fun This activity provides guided reading practice with the target language.
Ask students to read the conversation.
Ask students if they know anyone who doesn’t like movies.
Period Five
Testing (Weekly paper and Nan’an paper)