Unit 3 Language in use
【教学目标】
1.To consolidate Present Continuous questions and short answers.
2.To learn new words by using word map and pictures.
3.To write a letter about the Spring Festival.
【教学重点】
1.Key vocabulary:finish,housework.
2.Key structures:Present Simple with I,you,we,they;prepositions of time at,in,on;negative form of Present Simple don’t.
【教学难点】
1.Function:
(1)How to describe and ask about the festival;
(2)Describe the process of preparing the festival.
2.Grammar:The Present Continuous Tense.
【教学过程】
Step 1 Revision
Review the text of Unit 1 and Unit 2.
Step 2 Language practice
1.Read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class.
2.Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box.
3.Grammar:The Present Continuous Tense.
Step 3 Work in pairs
1.Look at the pictures.
2.Ask and answer:What can you see What are they doing
3.Read through the example sentences with the whole class.
Step 4 Writing
1.Read through the example sentences in Activity 2.
[参考案例]
Lingling’s mother/learning a lion dance
—Is Lingling’s mother learning a lion dance
—No,she isn’t.
2.Read through the sentences in Activity 2.
3.Write questions and short answers.
Step 5 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in brackets
1.Read through the passage with the whole class.
2.Ask the students to complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in brackets with a partner.
3.Call back the answers from the whole class,check the answers.
Step 6 Around the world
1.Ask the students to look at the picture and discuss what they can see.
2.Read through the information with the whole class,and talk something about them.
Step 7 Module task:Writing a letter about Spring Festival to a foreign student
1.Work in pairs.Ask and answer questions about what you and your family are doing for Spring Festival at the moment.
[参考案例]
—What are you and your family doing for Spring Festival at the moment
—My mother is cooking.
2.Write notes about your Spring Festival.Use the headings to help you.
Step 8 Do exercises
根据短文内容及首字母提示,在空格处填入正确的词,使短文意思完整。
The Spring Festival is one of the most important (1)f______ in China.There are a lot of (2)t______ for Spring Festival.We clean our houses and (3)s______ away bad luck,and then we paint doors and windows (4)r______.It means good luck.We usually decorate the doors and windows with (5)p______ cuts.We also buy clothes and everyone has a (6)h______.The family have dinner and we eat jiaozi —a kind of (7)d______,or a sweet rice pudding.Older people give young people red packets with (8)m______ in them.On New Year’s Day,we put on our new (9)c______ and visit our family and friends.There is dragon and lion (10)d______ in the street.
Keys:(1)festivals (2)traditions (3)sweep
(4)red (5)paper (6)haircut (7)dumplings
(8)money (9)clothes (10)dancing
Step 9 Homework
【教学反思】
掌握现在进行时的具体用法,并且对一般现在时与现在进行时进行区别。作文介绍节日时,最后要描述自己的感受,学生往往容易遗漏。