Unit 6 An old man tried to moved the mountains.
Period 2
Main activities: Section A (3a-4c)
Teaching period: 1 period
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Vocabularies:
object, magic, stick, hide, tail, turn…into, excite, western, stepsister, prince, couple, smile, marry , get married, fit, fall in love
2. Ability goals:
To train students’ reading ability and integrating skills by task-based activities.
3. Emotion goals:
Encourage students to read more traditional Chinese stories and learn from them.
Difficulties:
unless, as soon as, so…that
Teaching methods: Task-based method; Five-step method.
Teaching tools: Multi-media and a tape player.
Teaching procedure:
New lesson:
Step 1 Review
Let some Ss tell the story of Yu Gong moves a mountain.
Step 2 Warm up
Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
Who is it Do you know in which book it is the main character
Do you like it Why or why not
Step 3 Reading
Task 1 Listen to the passage and answer the questions.
1. What is he like
2. Why is not the Monkey King just any normal monkey
Task 2 Read the passage and then tell true or false.
1. Most pupils in England watch the TV program called Monkey in 1979 for the first
time.
2. Journey to the West is a new Chinese book. It’s new to Chinese children.
3. The Monkey King is just a normal monkey.
4. The Monkey King can make 72 changes to his shape and size.
5. If the Monkey King can hide his tail, he can turn himself into a person.
6. The Monkey King uses a magic stick to fight the bad people.
7. The Monkey King’s magic stick is so long that he can’t hide it in his ear.
8. Western children likes to read this book because the Monkey King keeps
fighting to help the weak and never give up.
Answers: T F F T T T F T
Task 3 Read the passage again and complete the chart about the Monkey King.
What he can do:
① He can make 72 changes to his shape and size, turning himself into different animals and objects
② He can make his magic stick small or large.
What he can’t do:
Unless he can hide his tail, he can’t turn himself into a person.
Task 4 Finish 3c.
Language points
1. …turning himself into different animals and objects.
turn…into… 变成
e.g. I have a dream that I've turned into an elephant. 我梦见自己变成了大象。
2. But unless he can hide his tail, he cannot turn himself into a person.
unless conj. 如果不;除非。引导条件状语从句,=if…not。
e.g. Unless I do, we’ll be lost.
如果我不这样做, 我们会迷路的。
hide v. 隐藏;隐蔽。(hide-hid-hidden)
e.g. Where did you hide the money 你把钱藏哪里了?
I hid the broken plate behind the table. 我把打碎的盘子藏在餐桌后面了。
3. …the Monkey King uses a magic stick.
magic adj. 有魔力的;有神奇力量的
e.g. All the people heard of the magic carpet. 所有人听说过魔毯的故事。
4. as soon as是连词词组,引导时间状语从句,意为“一……就……”。
as soon as引导的时间状语从句中,若主句是一般将来时,从句用一般现在时表将来。如:
My brother will look for a job as soon as he leaves school.
5. so ... that表示“如此……以至于……”,常用于引导结果状语从句。常见结构为:“so +形容词/副词+ that从句”或“so +形容词+ a / an +单数名词+ that从句”。如:
He was so excited that he couldn’t say a word.
It is so interesting a book that many people want to buy it.
Practice 4a&4b
→[重点讲解marry] marry v. 结婚
作及物动词时,后面必须跟宾语。与某人结婚 marry sb.
e.g. He is going to marry Jane in May. 他将于五月与简结婚。
常用词组:get married (to sb.)
Step 4 Summary
能够 be able to
72变 make 72 changes
变成 turn…into
如此……以至于 so…that
出来 come out
变得对……感兴趣become interested in
继续做某事 keep doing sth.
Homework:
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