Unit 4 What’s the best movie theater (Section B 3a-3c)
Teaching Material Unit 4 What’s the best movie theater (Section B 3a-3c)
Teaching aims |Main taskStudents will be able to describe the best places in their hometown.Language competence1. Students will be able to understand the meaning and structure of the passage.2. Students will be able to use the correct superlative forms of the adjectives and adverbs to compete the passage.Thinking quality1. Students will be able to use critical thinking to evaluate a piece of writing.2. Students will be able to use supportive details to back up their ideas in their writing.Cultural CharacterStudents will be able to explore the beauty of their hometown and be proud of their hometown.Learning CapacityStudents will be able to keep active in learning English and be more confident in English writing.
Teaching key points and difficult points Teaching key points:1. Students can use the superlative to discuss their best places in their hometown.2. Students can learn what they learned to write a passage about the best place to have fun in their hometown.Teaching difficult points:Students can use the superlative to talk about the best place to have fun in their hometown and then write a passage about it.
Procedures and Activities
Steps Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
Step1Warming up 1. Greeting with the students.2. Get the students to sing a song together. The students sing an English song together.
Step2 Let’s talk! 1. Get the students to talk about the stars of the class.2. Present the new sentence pattern: The place where you can is…because…Get students to review some superlatives. 1. The students use the superlatives to talk about the stars of the class.2. The students use the he new sentence pattern and the superlatives to talk about Tiantai.
Step3Let’s fill! Let Ss fill the blanks with correct superlative forms of the adjectives and the adverbs in the box.Get Ss to find out the most beautiful sentence they think.Guide students to notice the topic sentence and the ending. 1. The students are going to learn the new words and some important structures.2. The students are going to clear out the structure of the passage and learn to use beautiful sentence structures.
Step4:Criticalreading 1. Lead the students to read again and appreciate how the writer use details to back up the main idea.2. Guide the students to think critically about the content and think about how to write in a more logical and clearer way. The students will read the article critically.
Step5:Organize a mind map Get the students to think about different aspects to write about Tiantai.Lead the students to think about how to add more details to each aspect. The students come up with different ideas and fulfill the mind-map together.
Step6:Let’s write! Get the students to work in a group of four to talk about one best place in Tiantai and write it down on the worksheet.Then show 1 or 2 short passages to the whole class and make some comments. The students talk about one best place in Tiantai and write the composition and show 1 or 2 to the whole class.
Blackboard design:
to read and relax
something for everyone
to see the street performers
to meet friends
reasons
the best place to
Greenwood Park
superlative:
crowded
the most crowed
Unit 4 What’s the best movie theater
Section B(3a-3c)