Unit 1 A land of diversity
Learning about language
Teaching goals
Target language
Useful words and expressions: luggage, tram, apparently, slip, bakery, ferry, hire, seagull, immigration, team up with, mark out, take in, a great many.
Teaching important and difficult points
Improve the students’ reading ability (skimming and scanning).
enable the students to grasp the useful words and expressions.
Teaching methods
Reading, discussion, cooperative learning
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Look at George’s photos. Then quickly read George’s diary. Write the days he saw these things under the photos.
Read George’s diary more slowly and answer the questions.
Step 2 Language points
Team up with: make an effort in cooperation with; work together with与……协力从事,合作
Translate:
He teamed up with an experienced worker in the project.
2.hire 解雇
fire 租,雇佣
1)You are _fired___, because you are so lazy for the work.
2) I must ____hire_ a house when finding a job in the city.
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Take in
接受
,
接纳
,
接待
吸收
,
领会
,
理解
改小
(
衣服
)
包含
,
包括
欺骗
)3.take in
He had nowhere to live in, so we took him in.接纳
2)The dress needs to be taken in.改小
3)They listened to my lecture, but how much did they take in , I wonder 理解
4)Don’t let yourself be taken in by these politicians.欺骗
Take off 拆开,拆散
Take on 贬低, 贬损名誉等
Take apart 从事,对…..产生兴趣,打听,占用空间或时间
Take away from 脱下,脱去,起居,休假,离开
Take up 开始雇佣,露出,承担,接受
Step 3 Pair work and consolidation.
Make sentences with the new words learned in this lesson.
Step 4 Homework
Read the passage again
Prepare for the diction of the useful words and expressions of this unit
Prepare for the writing of the next lesson.
Unit 1 A land of diversity
Using language
Teaching aims: Grasp the functional items of this unit to train the speaking and writing abilities.
Teaching important and difficult points
Improve the students’ writing ability).
enable the students to grasp the writing skills.
Teaching methods
Task-based teaching and learning
Teaching procedures:
STEP 1.FUNCTIONAL ITEM:
Making up a dialogue to practise encouraging others to speak using the following patterns:
Cool.
Sounds great.
Really
Oh, I see.
Such as
And what about…
So tell me what it is really like
That’s interesting.
STEP2.Reading& writing
1.The text is in the form of a diary
The language is informal
The purpose is to record events and feelings
Read the passage and finish the exercises2&3on page 9
Imagine you are on holiday somewhere. Write an email or a postcard to a friend telling him or her about your trip. You can write about the places mentioned in the Listening an speaking section or you can choose a different place.
STEP 3.Homework:
Finish writing an email of your visit to someplace