7下 Unit 3 Welcome to Sunshine Town
Period 1
Comic strips ~ Welcome to the unit
Teaching objectives:
1. To revise vocabulary about activities and places in the new situations.
2. To make suggestions about visiting different places of interest.
3. To link an activity with a place.
4. To make students familiarize themselves with Sunshine Town.
Total teaching time: 45 minutes
Teaching aids: Multimedia
Teaching importances and difficulties: some new words/ like doing/
take sb. to/ We can do…
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Free talk
1. Let Ss. make a daily report.
2.Ask some questions: What’s your name ( If you are new here.)
What’s the weather like today
Do you like such a hot day
What can you do on such days
Do you often play outside on these days …
( Ask the questions as quickly as possible and pay attention to the students’ answers.)
Step 2 Lead-in
1.Watch a video ( The sports star Liuxiang is singing.)
2. Ask some questions: What’s his name
Is he good at singing
(If a student answers No, you can invite him to sing a song.)
Do you like singing
Step 3 Learning
1. Show pictures of ball games one by one.
T-Ss.: What does he love doing
Does he love playing football
(learn a new word: badminton)
2. Show pictures of sports one by one
S-S: Do you love swimming
What do you love doing
Step 4 Practice
1. Let Ss. know the background information.
2. Show some pictures about other things to do when visiting another country.
3. Ss. construct a chain story ( Work in groups)
4. Ask Ss. to finish Part A.
5. Ask more able Ss. to do extra exercises: Choose and fill
A. In summer, I like ________ with my friends.
B. I always love _________ music while I am doing my homework.
C. Do you enjoy ________ TV when you have a rest at home
D. Mother often does some _______ at weekends.
E. After ________ supper, I walked my dog in the park.
F. I often like ________ English in the early morning.
G. The little boy is interested in ________ the erasers into small pieces.
H. I always spend more time _______ my homework than others do.
Step 5 Learning
T: I’m new here and I love traveling. So will you take me to the bookshop or China Dinosaur Park
Ss.: Match the two groups.
( Group 1: things to do Group 2: places to go)
Step 6 Practice
1. Ss: make the complete sentences by using the useful expressions.
(They like/ love/ enjoy doing, Let’s do, We can do, take sb. to sw.)
2. Finish Part B
3. Ask more able Ss. to do extra exercises: Choose and fill
A. If you want to try the traditional Chinese food, you can go to that ________.
B. At weekends, there are many shoppers in the ____________.
C. Yesterday afternoon, we paid a visit to the _________ in Sunshine Town.
D. More than 2000 people can enjoy films in that __________ at the same time.
E. We can go to the _________ if we want to be healthier.
F. The __________ is full of all kinds of food and drinks.
Step 7 Learning
1. Show a picture of a big pizza. (learn new words: pizza, order, no, none)
T: What’s it
Do you love eating pizza
It looks delicious, doesn’t it
Do you feel hungry So you can order it.
I have no money. What about you …
2. Play the radio
Ss.: listen and answer the question: Does Eddie want to order a pizza
3. Read and answer: A. Are they hungry
B. Is there any food left in the fridge
C. Where does Eddie want to go to buy food
D. Do they have any money How much
E. Do you think we can order a pizza with one yuan Why
Step 8 Discussion
What can we buy with one yuan
Write down as many possible answers as you can.
listen to have watch swim finish clean cut read
sports center restaurant shopping mall cinema factory supermarket