Unit 1 I can play the piano
Teaching aims:
1. To understand conversations.
2. To get to know some verbs and phrases.
3. To grasp the using about “can’.
Main points and difficult points:
The key vocabulary—play, tennis, piano, ride, club, term, board, well, all, worry, teach, then
Important points:
The key structures—I think she’d like to do sth.
Don’t worry about…
Teaching aids:
tape recorder, video
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warming-up
Say: Would you like to join some clubs. Can you dance?
Get the students to talk about in pairs.
Ask some students to answer the questions.
Share the answers.
Step 2. Match
Get the students to look at the pictures on the book. Let them read through the phrases. Make sure that they can understand the phrases.
Get the students to follow the teacher to read the phrases. The teacher leads them how to read.
Answers:
1) dance 2)play the piano 3) speak Chinese 4)cook 5) sing 6) ride a bike 7)play the tennis
Step 3. Preparation
Get the students to review the using of “can”
Say: can you play the piano?
Yes, I can.
Step 4. Listening
Get the students to listen to dialogue.
Play the tape and say:
Listen to the tape of their conversation, with these questions in mind:
Which Tony’s dad can do?
Step 5. Listen and Read.
Get the students to listen and read first. Work in groups to think of the questions. Give the answers.
Get some students to answer the questions.
Check the answers:
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Music Club
Dancing Club
Table tennis Club
Food and Drink Club
Daming
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Betty
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2?
Lingling
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3?
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Tony
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4?
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Step 6. Answering
Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
Choose club music board term
Can you cook? No? join the Food and Drink(1)_______. Can you play the piano?
Join the (2)______ club. What about dancing? (3)________the Dancing club. There are lots of new clubs every(4)______.
They’re all on the(5)________and you can choose your favourite.
Answers:
1.Club
2. Music
3. Choose
4. term
5. board
Step 7. Pronunciation
Say the sentences aloud.
Listen and repeat.
Step 8. work in pairs.
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Daming
● speak Chinese
● play the piano
● dance
Betty
● speak English
● play football
●play table tennis
Lingling
● speak Chinese
● dance
● cook
Tony
● play table tennis
● cook
swim
A: Can Betty speak English?
B: Yes, she can.
A: Can tony swim?
B: No, he can’t.