教學設計方案
Lesson 8
Language Focus:
Useful expressions:
a 12 - year - old schoolboy; try to; cross; channel; fail; set off; slow down; go on swimming, a big crowd of; wait for; be proud of; speak highly to.
Properties:
Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures
Teaching procedures:
I. showing aims
Get the students to know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:
1. To master some useful expressions.
2. To revise all the contents of Unit 2.
3. To go through Checkpoint 2.
4. To train their listening ability.
5. To train their writing ability.
II. Revision
1. Revise "have / has been to" and "have / has gone to". Ask: Where is he? Get some of the students' answers with: He has gone to. . .
S1: He has gone to the office.
S2: He has gone to the hospital. .
S3: He has gone to Beijing.
Then ask: How many times have you been to Beijing?
S1: I've never been there.
S2: I've been there twice.
S3: I've been there three times.
Make sure the students can ask and answer correctly.
2. Revise the sports words. Divide the class into four groups and have a competition, say out the words as quickly as possible. See which group can say the most quickly and say the most words.
III. Listen
Listening Casette. Play the tape twice for the students to listen and do Exercise I in the workbook. Then play the tape again, and check the answers with the class.
IV. Word Puzzle
Ask the students to find the words in groups of the four. Get one student to share his or her answer with the whole class and check with them. The answers are: skiing; swimming; skating; boat-racing; diving.
V. Presentation
Part 3. Speech Cassette. Play the tape twice for the students to listen and repeat. Then ask the students to read the passage by themselves. Try to find the answers to the following questions:
1. Who was the youngest swimmer to cross channel?
2. Which channel did he cross first?
3. When did he first cross the channel?
4. Where was the channel?
5. Why did he slow down?
6. How many hours did it take him to cross the channel?
7. Did he cross the channel alone?
8. How did his parents feel when he arrived the beach?
Note some useful expressions on the blackboard: a-12-year-old schoolboy; cross the Qiongzhou Channel; fail; his dream came true; step into; slow down; go on swimming; another; a big crowd of people; be proud of; not only … but also … ; Have the students retell the story.
VI .Writing
Get one student to act as Li Lida and the other students act as journalists. Make an interview, then write down a passage about the interview. The journalists can ask questions like:
1. Do you like swimming?
2. When did you swim?
3. Do you often swim?
4. Were you afraid while you were crossing the channel?
5. Do your parents like you to swim?
6. How do you like when your dream comes true?
VII. A poem
Speech Cassette. Get the students to read the poem after the tape and help the students understand the poem. Ask them to learn the poem by heart.
VIII. Checkpoint 2
Go through Checkpoint 2 in the usual way. Explain any problems that the students may have. Get the students to go over the grammar notes.
IX. Workbook
Do Exercise 3 in class, and check the answers in pairs. The answers are: E; A; D; C; B
Do Exercise 4 individually and practise the dialogue in pairs.
Work on Exercise 5 as homework.
X. Summary
Exercise in class
Fill in the blanks with "so" and "such"
1. He was ________ tired that he can't climb the hill.
2. She is __________ a kind girl that everyone likes her.
3. The classroom is ___________ beautiful.
4. There is ___________ a clever monkey in the tree.
5. My mother is - busy, she can't go with you.
6. There are __________ many books here, I like them very much.
7.I have ___________ an honest daughter. I like her very much.
8. The flowers are __________ beautiful, don't pick them.
Answers: 1. so 2. such 3. so 4. such 5. so 6. so 7. such 8. so
XI. Homework
Finish off the exercises in the workbook.