Module 1 Feelings and impressions
Unit 3 Language in use
设计说明
本单元是复习单元,主要复习用感官动词来描述人物外貌及感受。因内容较多,应把教学环节安排得紧凑合理,能优化的就尽量优化。由生日谈起,引入教材上生日聚会的图片,并利用该图复习感官动词,然后按教材内容依次开展教学。其中,可以把第7、8两个活动整合在一起,使教学内容更充实,增强其操作性。还有,“世界各地”内容相对简单,故按简短的阅读理解来处理了。
教学目标
通过本单元的学习,让学生达成以下目标
1.知识目标:
(1)复习巩固本模块所学的生词和短语
(2)复习巩固感官动词的用法
2.能力目标:
能描述人物的外貌、爱好和感受
3.情感目标:
辨认人物,了解性格爱好,有效地与他人沟通,善于结交朋友
重点难点
重点:复习巩固感官动词的用法
难点:描述人的外貌、爱好及感受
教学准备
PPT课件,活动9的录音
授课时数
1课时
教学过程
Step 1 Warming up
Ask students to talk about their birthday party. Use the following questions.
When is your birthday…
Do you often have a birthday party
What do you usually prepare for it
What food/fruit/drink...
Step 2 Presentation
1. Now Lingling is having a birthday party. Look at the picture. Find out what
she prepared for her party.
the cookies
the bananas
the flowers
the juice
the chairs
the music
the balloons
Then practice the conversation:
A: Do you like the …
B:Yes, I do./No, I don’t.
A: Why
B: Because they/ it look(s)/feels(s)/ smell(s)/ taste(s)/ sound(s)…
2. Look at the plete the sentences in Activity 1.
(1)The bananas _____________________________.
(2)The students _____________________________.
(3)The flowers ______________________________.
(4)The juice ________________________________.
(5)The chairs ______________________________.
(6)The music _______________________________.
The answers are: (1)look nice(fresh)/taste delicious
(2) look happy/excited
(3)smell/look nice(lovely)
(4) tastes good/sweet/sour
(5)feel comfortable/soft
(6)sounds beautiful/nice
3.Grammar:感官动词 look
smell
taste +形容词
feel
sound
Read the sentences in the box.
Step 3 Writing about yourself (Activity 2)
1. Write sentences about yourself. Use the words in the box to help you.
Model: I like this dress very much. It feels comfortable.
I like pandas. They look funny and friendly.
I don’t like cheese. It smells very strong.
I like my teacher’s voice. It sounds nice.
I love fruit because it tastes sweet and fresh.
2. Get several students to read out their answers in class.
Step 4 Making a conversation
1. Get one student to come to the front and ask the others the following questions:
T: What does he/she look like
S: He/She looks…
T: What is he/she like
S: He/She is…
NOTE: What does/do sb. look like “某人长什么样子?”重在询问外貌特征; What is/are sb. like “某人是个什么样的人?”重在询问性格特征、内在品质
2. Get the class to practice the conversation below in pairs.
A: What does he/she look like
B: He/She looks…
A: What is he/she like
B: He/She is…
Step 5 Filling in the form(Activity 3)
Put the words in the box into the correct columns.
The answers are:
What does he/she look like What is he/she like
beautiful dark fair old pretty short tall young friendly nice proud quiet shy strict
Step 6 Practice
Work in pairs. Use the table in Activity 3 to ask and answer questions about
the people (your mum, your dad, your maths / Chinese / music teacher ,your
uncle, your best friend).
A: What does… look like
B: She /He is/looks…
A: What is …like
B: She’s/He’s…
Step 7 Completing the conversation
Ask students to complete the conversation with the correct form of the words in the box. Tell them to use some of the words more than once.
1. Ask the students to check with his/her partner.
The answers are: (1)look (2)tastes (3) looks/is (4)is (5)look
2. Read the conversation together.
Step 8 Completing the passage
1. Get the class to read the words in the box in Activity 6. Make sure they understand them.
2. Get the class to complete the passage. Get one of the students to read out the answers, and then check them.
The answers are: (1)meet (2)close (3)with (4)look (5)noisy (6) friendly
Get the students to read the passage by themselves.
Step 9 Description
Using the words in the box in Activity 7 and tense verbs, describe the things in the box in Activity 8.
A basketball looks round.
A bird’s voice sounds sweet.
A cat looks quiet.
A flower looks beautiful, and it smells sweet.
…
Step 10 Playing a guessing game
Ask students to read the conversation in Activity 8, and describe the things in the box according to the conversation in pairs. Then ask students to get their partners to guess what it is.
Step 11 Listening
Listen and complete the notes. What is the speaker complaining about
1.Ask the students to read through the table in Activity 9.
2.Get the class to listen and complete the notes.
3.Get the students to check with the partner.
The answers are:
The music terrible, too loud, sounds like noise, not music
The room too hot for dancing
The food has too much salt
The drink too cold
The people not very friendly
Step 12 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.
3.Talk about “Polite expressions”.
4. Fill in the blanks.
(1) People in the West are quite ____ about their feelings.
(2) Many people ____ each other when they meet.
(3)People in the West are ____and ____.
(4) It is _____ for people to say “thank you” to others.
5. Ask the students to check with the partner.
The answers are:(1)open (2)hug (3)friendly, informal (4)polite
Step 13 Writing
1.Write a description of a classmate, but don’t mention his/her name.
Including: age, hair, hobbies, face, height, size
Possible answer:
My friend is fourteen years old. He is tall and looks strong. He has short brown hair, big black eyes and a very friendly face. He plays football well and he loves reading comics.
2.Get the class to guess who he/she is.
Step 14 Homework
1. Revise the sense verbs.
2. Preview the new words in Module 2.
当堂达标
I. 根据汉语意思完成句子,每空一词
1. 这块比萨闻起来很美味。
The pizza ________ ___________.
2. 人们初次见面通常会互相握手。
People usually ________ _________with each other when they first meet. 3. 妈妈可能在家为我做蛋糕。
Mum may_________ _________ _________ ________me at home.
4. 这个年轻人看起来很友好。
The young man ________ _________.
II. 单项选择
1.-What ________ your brother _________ like
-He is tall and handsome.
A. does; looks B. does; look
C. is; look D. is;/
2. Peter is not good at English. So he is ________ of speaking in class.
A. afraid B. shy C. excited D. happy
3. -________do you feel when you leave your mum and dad
-I feel a bit sad.
A. What B. How C. How about D. When
4. This sweater ________very soft and comfortable.
A. tastes B. smells C. sounds D. feels
5. The air ________fresh after the rain, and the sky is blue.
A. feels B. tastes C. smells D. sounds
答案:I. 1. smells delicious 2. shake hands 3. make a cake for
4.looks friendly
II. 1-5 BABDC
板书设计
Unit 3 Language in use A: Do you like… B:Yes, I do./No, I don’t. A: Why B: Because they/ it look(s)/feel(s)/ smell(s)/ taste(s)/ sound(s)… What does/do sb. look like 某人长什么样子? 重在询问外貌特征 What is/are sb. like 某人是个什么样的人? 重在询问性格特征、内在品质