Unit 3 Could you please clean your room
Period1 Section A 1a-2c
Teaching Aims:
1.Master the new words and phrases:do the dishes,take out the rubbish,fold your clothes,sweep the floor,make your bed,clean the living room
2.Understand these sentences:
Could you please…
Sure. / Sorry, I can’t. I have to...first.
Could I …
Sorry. I'm going to ....
3.Can make polite requests about doing chores.
4.Cultivate the ability of doing chores.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Make polite requests
Ask for permission
Use the new words and phrases
Teaching Aids:
PPT
Teaching Procedures
Step1 Lead-in
1. Greetings .Greet the students as usual.
T:I am always very busy on weekends. So my daughter often helps me with the housework. Do you often help your mother do the chores at home
(Write “chores” on blackboard and explain it.) Here “chore” means housework. Could you please tell me what chores you do at home
S1:I often clean my room.
S2:I wash my clothes and fold my clothes.
S3:I clean the window.
S4:I make my bed and sweep the floor.
S5:I clean the living room.
T:Well, you are good boys and girls! We should try to be helpful and do so me chores at home.
2.Learn the new words and phrases
do the dishes take out the rubbish fold your clothes
sweep the floor make your bed clean the living room
3.Recite them
Step 2 Presentation
T:If you want to ask somebody to do chores,how can you ask in English
S1:Can you do the chores
S2:Could you please do the chores
T:Which one do you think is better students:The second one.
T:Yes. We should say“Could you please do the chores ”instead of other ways because it sounds very polite. Write “Could you please ... ” on the blackboard.
Step3 listening 1b
You will here a conversation between Peter and his mother. What kind of chores do Mom and Peter do Check Mom or Peter.
listen and do 1b.
1.1b Listen. Who will do these chores Check (√) Peter’s mother or Peter.
Chores Peter’s mother Peter
do the dishes
sweep the floor
take out the rubbish
make the bed
fold the clothes
clean the living room
2.Check the answers.
Step 4 Practice 1c
Make conversations about the chores in 1a.
Make conversations.
Examples
A: Could you please...
B: Yes, sure. /All right. /No problem./Certainly.
Sorry, I can't. I have to do.../Sorry, I can't. I am doing...
Step 5 Listening 2a&2b
Peter asks his father if he can do four things. What does his father say
1.Listen.
2.Check (√) “yes” or “no”.
3.Listen again. Draw lines to the reasons.
4.Check the answers.
Step 6 Practice 2c
1.Make conversations using the information in 2a and 2b
A: Could I use your computer
B: Sorry. I’m going to work on it now.
A: Well, could I watch TV
B: Yes, you can. But first you have to clean your room
2.Role –play the conversation
Step 7 Language points and summary
1.Peter, could you please take out the rubbish
help out 动词短语,表示在某人繁忙或
遇到困难时“给予帮助”。help和out之间还可以加入具体的“人”.
e.g. He helped me out with my task.
他帮我完成了任务.
“Could you please do sth. ”意为“请你做某事好吗?”,是一种表达请求、建议的问句,语气委婉,与“Would you please…?”句型可相互转换。
2. at least 至少
e.g. We should brush our teeth at least twice a day.
我们每天应该至少刷两次牙。
3. be back 回来
e.g. I won't be back till 11:00.
我11点以前回不来。
4. any minute now
一种常见的口语表达法,相当于“随时;马上;在任何时刻”的意思,表示事情有可能在极短的时间内发生或眼下就要发生。
minute还可以用second, moment, time等词替换。
Step 8 Summary
1. New vocabulary
do the dishes, sweep the floor, take out the trash, make the bed, fold the clothes, clean the room
2. ---Could you please…?
---Yes, please. / Sorry, I can’t.