Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city parks.
Section B2 (2a-2e)
【学习目标】
1. 理解并掌握下列单词及短语:
New words: letter, Miss, disabled, blind, deaf, imagine, difficulty, open, door, carry, train, excited, training, kindness, clever, understand, change
Key phrases: make a difference, set up, disable people, be difficult for sb., answer the phone, open the door, help sb. out, be excited about
理解并掌握下列句型:
I’d like to thank you for giving money to Animal Helpers.
I’m sure you know that this group was set up to help disabled people like me.
You helped to make it possible for me to have Lucky.
Lucky makes a big difference to my life.
Or imagine you can’t walk or use your hands easily.
Most people would never think about this, but many people have these difficulties.
…opening and closing doors, or carrying things are difficult for me.
After six months of training with a dog at Animal Helpers, I was able to bring him
home.
Thank you again for changing my life.
2. 能从文章中找出有关信息,理解大意。判断词性,理解词义。
3. 学会获得帮助后如何感谢提供帮助的人。
【重点和难点】
1. New words and key phrases.
2. 学会获得帮助后如何感谢提供帮助的人。
3. 理解词语的词性,并利用词性理解词汇意思。
【课前预习】
I. 重点单词
丧失能力的;有残疾的 _____________ 2. 瞎的,失明的 ______________
聋的 _______________ 4. difficulty _______________
5. open _______________ 6. 门 _______________
7. 拿;提;扛_______________ 8. 训练;培训 _______________
9. 激动的;兴奋的 _______________ 10. 仁慈;善良_______________
11. 聪明的; 聪颖的_______________ 12. understand _______________
13. change _______________
II.重点短语
14. 对……有影响;有作用____________ 15. be difficult for sb._____________ 16. answer the phone ____________ 17. 开门_________________
18. help sb. out__________________
19. 对……感到兴奋/激动________________
【合作探究】
Step I. Reading
Task 1:
Read the letter and answer the questions.
1. Who wrote the letter to Miss Li Why ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
2. What did Miss Li do
______________________________________________________________
☆教材解读☆
探究一
You helped to make it possible for me to have Lucky.
make it possible表示“使……成为可能”,it指代to have Lucky,it是形式宾语,真正的宾语是后面的动词不定式, 用于这种结构的动词还有think, find等。
We will make it easier to do this in this way.
我们这样做会更容易。
I found it very difficult to learn a foreign language well.
我发现学好一门外语很困难。
探究二
Then one day last year, a friend of mine helped me out.
help ... out表示“帮助(某人)解决困难/摆脱困境”。
They helped me out when I lost my job.
当我失业时, 他们帮了我一把。
Don’t forget your friends who helped you out.
不要忘了帮你解决困难的朋友们。
探究三
I love animals and I was excited about the idea of having a dog.
be excited about 因……而兴奋不已
The children were excited about winning the football game.
学生们因为赢得了足球比赛非常兴奋。
【辨析】 exciting, excited
exciting“激动人心的”。作表语时,主语通常是物;作定语时,常用来修饰物。
excited“激动的;兴奋的”。作表语时,主语通常是人;作定语时,常用来修饰人。
e.g. Dad will return home tomorrow. We’re all excited.
The excited students sang and danced.
The basketball game yesterday was very exciting.
My sister told me some exciting news just now.
Task 2:
Read the letter again and complete the mind-map.
Task 3:
Retell the letter.
◇I’d like to thank you for...→give money →Animal Helpers →a group, set up, disabled people, have Lucky, make a difference
◇to be blind or deaf →have difficulties→ a friend of mine helped me out→ get a dog →was excited about...
◇six months of training→ clever, understand words...
◇send you a photo of him→ show you how he helps me→ Thank you again for changing my life.
Step II. Understanding Parts of Speech
Task 1:
Work on 2c. Now look at the list of words below. Circle the part of speech of each word and make your own sentences with these words.
1. group (adj./ n.) 2. disabled (adj./ adv.)
3. difference (adv./n.) 4. imagine (v./ n.)
5. difficulties (n./ adj.) 6. normal (adv./ adj.)
7. training (adv./ n.) 8. kindness (n./ v.)
Task 2:
Work on 2d. Use the information in the letter to make true sentences by matching the different parts.
Step III. Discussion
Now talk about them with your partner.
1. In what other ways do you think dogs are able to help people
2. What other animals can we train to help people
【课时小结】
本节课学习了如何从文章中找出有关信息,理解大意及判断词性,理解词义以及获得帮助后如何感谢提供帮助的人.
单词:letter, Miss, disabled, blind, deaf, imagine, difficulty, open, door, carry, train, excited, training, kindness, clever, understand, change
词组: make a difference, set up, disable people, be difficult for sb., answer the phone, open the door, help sb. out, be excited about
句型:
I’d like to thank you for giving money to Animal Helpers.
I’m sure you know that this group was set up to help disabled people like me.
You helped to make it possible for me to have Lucky.
Lucky makes a big difference to my life.
Or imagine you can’t walk or use your hands easily.
Most people would never think about this, but many people have these difficulties.
…opening and closing doors, or carrying things are difficult for me.
After six months of training with a dog at Animal Helpers, I was able to bring him
home.
Thank you again for changing my life.
语法: 复习动词不定式和动词短语。
【达标检测】
I.用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. I was __________ (excite) about going to the zoo.
2. The players has a lot of __________ (train).
3. She had __________ (difficult) in finding the way to the museum.
4. I can’t imagine __________ (live) in such a place.
5. The new invention will make a great __________ (different) to our life.
plete the passage.
Ben Smith is a __________ man. He has many __________ in his life. He can’t __________ his __________ or legs well. Some normal things like answering the telephone, __________ and closing the doors, or __________ things are difficult for him. But “Lucky”, the dog-helper, makes _________ to his life. Lucky is a fantastic dog. It is very __________ and__________ many English words. Lucky can understand him when he gives him orders.
【自我评价】
1. 本课我学会了什么?
___________________________________________________________
2. 通过本课的学习,我还有哪些疑问?
___________________________________________________________
参考答案:
【课前预习】
I.1. disable 2. blind 3. deaf 4. 困难;难题 5. 开;打开
6. door 7. carry 8. train 9. excited 10. kindness
11. clever 12. 理解;领会 13. 变化;改变
II. 14. make a difference to 15. 对某人来说很难 16. 接电话
17. open the door 18 帮助某人解决困难/摆脱困境
19. be excited about
【合作探究】
Step I:
Task 1:
1. Ben Smith wrote the letter to Miss Li. He wanted to thank her for sending money to Animal Helpers and to tell her how Animal Helpers helped him.
2. She sent money to Animal Helpers, a group that was set up to help disabled people.
Task 2: giving money to disabled man many English words
how Lucky helps him
Step II:
Task 1:1.We’d better go in a group. n.
2. I know a lot of disabled people need our help. adj.
3. Can you find the differences of the two pictures n.
4. You can imagine how surprised I am. v.
5. Each family has its own difficulties. n.
6. He says this piano sounds different from normal pianos. adj.
7. I didn’t have any training in drawing. n.
8. I thanked him for teaching us patience and kindness. n.
Task 2: Miss Li sent money to Animal Helpers.
Ben Smith wrote a letter to Miss Li.
Lucky can get things for disabled people.
Animal Helpers trains animals like Lucky.
Step III:
1. Dogs can look after the house and the sheep. They can be friends of us.
2. Fish hawk, camels, pigeons.
【达标检测】
I.1.excited 2.training 3.difficulty 4.living 5. difference
II.disabled, difficulties, use, arms, opening, carrying, a big difference, clever, understands