Lesson Title: Unit Eight From hobby to career(Reading) Period: 20 minutes
Objectives: 1.Students are able to talk about hobbies; 2.Lead students to understand and try to retell the story; 3.Prepare students to think about how Patrick Moore turned his hobby into his career.
Focal Language Features: Grammar Vocabulary □Listening □Speaking and pronunciation Reading □Writing Others:
Copies and Material: Textbook of 7B
Table Talk: Usual Routine Notes
① Greeting ② A self-introduction and briefly introduce the content and learning objectives of this lesson ① Make students feel comfortable; ② Let them aware of what we are doing during the period.
Task 1: Getting ready Notes
① Read a picture. Try to tell why Lo say so in the dialogue. ② Exercise: Decide whether the following activities are indoors or outdoors. ③ Give examples of some famous people who turn their hobby into a lifelong career. ④ Introduce Teacher’s own experience of turning a hobby into career: From being interested in language to becoming an English teacher. ① Students get to know the meaning of “hobby”, and aware that there is a difference between hobby and what we have to do everyday. ② Students could get a deeper understanding of hobby through specific examples. ③~④ Relate this to the theme: from hobby to career. Students would know that hobbies could be turn into a career.
Task 2: Observe a picture Notes
Have a look at the picture of young Patrick. Tell what he is doing ① Relate some new words to specific pictures, so that students will understand them. ② Let students feel the charm of the sky, and maybe understand why Patrick get fascinated by it.
Task 3: Before reading Notes
An exercise: What do you know about the solar system Review some basic information of the solar system.
Task 4: While reading Notes
① Skim and predict Patrick’s hobby according to the title. ② Scan the text and tell what Patrick’s job is now. ③ Read the text in detail, and find out answers to the designed questions. ①~② Reading skills are cultivated. ③ By leading students to answer questions, students could the the clue of Patrick’s life. Also, they will understand why and how he lead his hobby into a career. In the end, a form will be completed, which will help students to retell and memorize the passage in the following period.
Task 5: Post-reading - Retell Notes
Follow the brief information in the form, and try to retell this story in students’ own words.
Activity: More about the author Notes
① Introduce some further news of Patrick ② Career guide: give example of some other possible career to some common hobbies. ① Let students know this is not just fiction, Patrick is a real person; To meet students’ curiosity, or lead them to form a habit of concerning related information after reading. ② Students develop awareness of their future job - maybe connected to their hobby.
Task 6: More exercise Notes
① Watch a video, and learn about a young football player, Duan Liuyu. ② Finish an exercise related to grammar. ① Give a more real-life example of a young boy who develop his hobby into a successful career. ② Grammatical skills are developed.
Homework
1. Read aloud the passage after the recording, imitate the intonation and pronunciation; 2. Retell the story in your own words and try to recite it; 3. Finish the exercise on the textbook from page 106 to 107.(共24张PPT)
Unit 8 From hobby to career
Reading
Unit 8 From hobby to career
1.Talk about hobbies;
2.Understand and try to retell the story;
3.Think about how Patrick Moore turned his hobby into his career.
Learning Objectives
Getting ready
What we like doing in our free time
a hobby
P103
enjoying delicious cuisine
Getting ready
P104
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Getting ready
P104
はじめまして。
Comment allez-vous
From loving language
to being a language teacher.
a shooting star
diamonds
velvet
star
planet
satellite
What do you know about …
the Solar System
P104
Before reading:
While-reading:
What is Patrick's job now
P105
Host of a TV programme called
The Sky at Night.
P105
When did he began his hobby P1
What did he do about his hobby P2
While-reading:
P105
While-reading
My lifetime hobby—studying stars The beginning of his hobby When he was eight, he got a book.
His hobby activities used to go outside;
looked at the sky
P105
What about his career P3
His feelings
His achievements
While-reading:
What is his advice P4
While-reading
P105
My lifetime hobby—studying stars The beginning of his hobby When he was eight, he got a book.
His hobby activities used to go outside;
looked at the sky
From a hobby to his career (feelings) (achievements) great fun → proud
found out more and more → tell people about stars
host a TV programme, has lasted 50 years
While-reading
P105
My lifetime hobby—studying stars The beginning of his hobby When he was eight, he got a book.
His hobby activities used to go outside;
looked at the sky
From a hobby to his career (feelings) (achievements) great fun → proud
found out more and more → tell people about stars
host a TV programme, has lasted 50 years
Advice enjoy what you do
My lifetime hobby—studying stars The beginning of his hobby When he was eight, he got a book.
His hobby activities used to go outside;
looked at the sky
From a hobby to his career (feelings) (achievements) great fun → proud
found out more and more → tell people about stars
host a TV programme, has lasted 50 years
Advice enjoy what you do
Post-reading:
Retell
More about the author
Patrick Moore and Clive Hare in The Sky at Night (1957)
hobby
job
Singing
Drawing
Playing football
Singer
Artist
Football player
For example:
Hobby & job
What you do to earn money or do for a living...
career
If you want to do your job for a whole life …
How can we make our hobby into our career
career
hobby
achieve our dreams
HOW
Duan Liuyu, a professional(专业的) football player, used to be a student of Shenzhen Cuiyuan Middle School. At present, he is a member of Shandong Luneng Football Club.
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Fill in the blanks with the given expressions(use proper form if needed), and learn something about Duan.
lifetime begin
a member of used to be
At an early age, he got great interest in football after watching a match of Shenzhen Team. That was the beginning of his lifetime hobby.
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After years of training, he got more and more interested in it and became much more skillful. Although it was difficult to have a balance(保持平衡)
between schoolwork and his hobby, he
never gave up.
He says, 'It is not difficult to have a hobby or a dream, but doing our best to acheive our dream.' I think it's a very lucky thing to turn my hobby into career.
Fill in the blanks with the given expressions(use proper form if needed), and learn something about Duan.
give up turn...to... achieve one's dream train
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Interest is the best teacher, but dedication and persistence make our dreams come true.
Homework:
1. Read aloud the passage after the recording, imitate the intonation and pronunciation;
2. Retell the story in your own words and try to recite it;
3. Finish the exercise on the textbook from page 106 to 107.
THANK YOU!
Acknowledgement
Yu Zhixiao
Liu Jinhui
Duan Liuyu
Min Fang
