Unit 5 Art world
Grammar
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. tell the difference between “because” and “since/as”;
2. use “because” and “since/as” properly according to the linguistic context;
3. learn to be a good listener and respond to the teacher’s instructions actively.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: highly, breath, last, out of breath
2. New structure: because-clauses and since/as-clauses
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1. To tell the difference between “because” and “since/as”;
2. To use “because” and “since/as” properly according to the linguistic context.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
T: Boys and girls, do you like art?
What words/phrases/sentences come to your mind when you think of the word “art”?
Do you like art festivals? And why?
What words/phrases/sentences come to your mind when you think of “art festival”?
【设计意图：通过提问激发学生原有的学习知识，表达自己对art的认识、理解、喜爱或者自己的经历，导入艺术节话题。】
Step 2 Presentation
T: Each art festival has its own theme. Now Beijing Sunshine Middle School is going to hold an art festival. Look! Here is their invitation letter. Would you like to take part in it?
T: Let’s read the letter.
1. Read the mini-dictionary
2 Read the letter paragraph by paragraph
【设计意图：通过邀请函呈现本节课的生词和短语，以及接下来的四个任务，在语境中学习生词简单而又轻松。】
Task 1 Choose one piece of music for the opening ceremony.
T: Sunshine Middle School wants to choose a piece of music for the opening ceremony.
Which music is more suitable, Tan Dun’s or Michael Jackson’s? Let’s listen.
T: Which is more suitable? Why?
S: I think … is more suitable because … (询问2—3个同学)
T: I think Michael’s is more suitable because it can make the opening ceremony more lively.
That is, because Michael’s can make the opening ceremony more lively, it is more suitable.
We never use the conjunction so in sentences with because.
【设计意图：对比两种音乐，选择一首作为艺术节开幕式的主题曲，引出because的用法。音乐欣赏能帮助学生感受艺术的美，激发他们的学习热情。】
Task 2 Interview Mr. Tan Dun, a famous composer.
T: Sunshine Middle School has also invited Mr. Tan Dun. If you have a chance to interview him, what questions will you ask?
S: … (询问3—4个同学)
T: Daniel also has several questions about Tan Dun. Listen to a passage and help Daniel find out the answers.
T: Here we find we use “why” to ask for reasons and we use “because” to give the reasons.
【设计意图：通过采访名人的形式，让学生提问，引导他们活用because从句；利用PPT圈画的功能，强调why/because的问答形式。】
Work out the rules：
(1) We use why to ask for reasons and we use because to give the reasons.
(2) Its tone is strong. (strong/weak)
(3) We never use the conjunction so in sentences with because.
Task 3 Show our talents at the art festival.
T: What talent do you have? What are you good at? (Play the piano, play the violin, play the drum, play the flute, sing, dance, painting, talk show …)
S: …
T: Since/As you …, you can … (询问2—3个学生)
T: Make up a dialogue with your partner to discuss what talent you will show.
Use the dialogue below as a model.
S1: The art festival is coming. But I don’t know what talent to show.
S2: Me too. What art form do you like?
S1: I like music and I am good at singing.
S2: Since/As you are good at singing, why not sing a song at the art festival?
S1: Good idea. What about you?
S2: Ballet is my favourite.
S1: Since/As you like ballet, you can dance at the art festival.
S2: That sounds good.
T: I’m looking forward to your wonderful talent shows.
From the dialogue, we can judge we use since/as to give a known reason.
【设计意图：紧扣艺术节的情境，通过讨论学生的才能，引出since/as。在学生对话时，可鼓励他们适当进行表演，活跃课堂气氛。】
Task 4 Help Amy make sentences with since or as.
T: The students of Sunshine Middle School are busy preparing for the festival. What are they doing? Let’s help Amy make sentences with since or as to know about them.
(Work in pairs——Check out——Read these sentences aloud.)
【设计意图：通过帮助Amy完成句子来操练语言知识；大声朗读句子体会since/as的用法，为接下来语言的输出做好准备。】
Work out the rules：
(1) We use since/as to give a known reason.
(2) In most cases, since and so are used in the same way and have no difference in meaning.
(3) Their tone is weaker than because. (weaker/stronger)
Step 3 Practice
Task 1 Fill in the blanks.
T: Near the end of the art festival, Mr. Tan Dun played his amazing piece of music Water.
Let’s enjoy it.
Tan Dun loves the sounds of the rushing water and the blowing wind ___________, to him, the best music comes from nature.
__________ he likes the sounds of nature, Tan uses them a lot in his music. His amazing piece of music Water does not use any musical instruments.
【设计意图：围绕视频完成练习，巩固已学知识。】
Task 2 Finish Part B2 on page 72.
T: Sandy wrote a diary. Let’s help her complete the diary with because or since/as.
Work alone ——discuss with partner——correct the answers——raise questions.
【设计意图：通过Sandy的日记，在语境中辨别because和since/as的不同。鼓励学生先独立思考，接着同伴互助，然后呈现答案，最后提出问题并解决。】
Step 4 Practice
T: We’ve learnt a lot about Beijing Sunshine Middle School’s art festival. Now write a diary about this art festival. Try to use because, since or as when you give reasons.
【设计意图：通过写作练习，学生可再次在语境中运用because和since/as。在随后的交流环节，又能与同学分享自己的经历。】
T: Life is short, but art is long. Let’s light our life with art.
Listen to the song Heal the World and sing it together.
V. Homework
1. Revise your diary about the art festival. Try to write more sentences with because or since/as.
2. Finish the related exercises.
Unit 5 Art world
Integrated skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. learn something about five different kinds of music and their characteristics;
2. extract useful information about the concerts and different kinds of music from listening
materials;
3. invite others to a concert and share ideas about different music;
4. master some listening methods and make them to be good habits.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: concert, country, cowboy, guitar, lasting, value, African, American, tonight, country music, African American, local colour, classical music, make up, in the traditional style
2. New structures: It is a great day because I have learnt about different kinds of music.
Would you like to go to a concert tonight?
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1. Understand all the new words.
2. Tell the characteristics of different music.
IV. Teaching Procedures
A Different kinds of music
Step 1 Background introduction
1. Country music
T: Let’s enjoy a concert. Do you know the name of the song and the singer?
Yes, Take me home, country road by John Denver.
T: Do you know anything about John Denver?
He was a famous country singer in America. His country music is very popular.
It is about country life and cowboys in America.
T: What instrument did John Denver play while he was singing?
Guitar.
【设计意图：通过观看演唱会视频，引导学生猜测歌名、学习生词，并了解乡村音乐的特色，导入本课话题，激发学生了解不同类别音乐的兴趣。】
2. Folk
T: Listen to the song. Is it country music? What’s the name of it? Who sings it?
Song Zuying is a famous folk singer. She’s from Hunan. Look at the picture. She is wearing in the traditional style. We can feel strong local colour from her song.
【设计意图：folk一词较抽象，通过宋祖英的歌及她穿着民族服装的图片，可帮助学生更好地理解folk、local colour和 in the traditional style。】
3. Classical music
T: Now let’s enjoy another piece of music. Where can you often hear it?
You all know it! It’s so classical. It has been used for the wedding for many years. So it has a lasting value. This is its composer, Wagner, who had a lasting influence on music. And his music has a great value in the history of classical music.
【设计意图：学生对《婚礼进行曲》的旋律非常熟悉，很容易理解classical的两层含义：经典的；古典的。通过提问引导学生了解古典音乐的特色，并通过对音乐家的介绍，帮助学生理解两个抽象的生词：lasting、value。】
4. Jazz
(1) Play a piece of Jazz with the narration about Louis Armstrong.
Show his picture.
Narration: This is Louis Armstrong. He’s an African American. His music has a lasting value in Jazz. He was good at making up the music while playing.
(2) Listen again and complete the sentences.
This is Louis Armstrong. He’s an African ________. His music has a _______ ________ in Jazz. He is good at making up the music _______ playing.
Learn the new words: African, American, African American, Jazz, make up
【设计意图：通过伴随爵士乐的英文旁白，可让学生复习前面呈现的生词lasting value，认识新的生词African、African American、Jazz、make up，并且为本堂听力训练课热身。】
5. Rock
Play a video, with sentences on the PPT:
The singers are playing _______ music.
The instruments they are using are guitars and ________.
The music is so ______ that the fans are ______.
Present new words: rock, drum
【设计意图：通过视频帮助学生直观理解生词rock、drum，并引导学生谈论对这段音乐的感受。由于绝大部分学生都没去过音乐会，对音乐的不同形式及其特色也不够了解，因此教师须借助视频、音频、图片等多种形式，帮助学生了解背景知识，为接下去的听说环节作充分、必要的铺垫。】
T: We’ve learned a lot about five kinds of music now. What are they? What are their characteristics?
Please match the music with its characteristics.
【设计意图：灵活运用教材A2部份的配对练习，帮助学生归纳整理五种音乐及其特色。】
Step 2 Listening
Part A1
T: Where can you go to enjoy different kinds of music? (Go to a concert.)
Here’s a poster of different concerts. Read through it and tell me what we should do.
Key words: Listen, complete, with the correct date and times.
Listen to A1 twice and then check the answers.
【设计意图：完成A1部份，培养学生的听力策略：即听之前明确题目要求，抓住关键词。】
2. Part A2
(1) Listen to a conversation and complete the table.
More questions:
Who thinks rock is exciting?
What’s Sandy’s feeling about rock?
What music does Sandy like? Why?
(2) Group work: Share your favourite music with your partners.
What type of music do you like best? What’s your feeling about it? Which famous musician or
singer do you know about it？Why do you like the music?
【设计意图：从听力材料中提炼Daniel和Sandy对音乐的不同感受，以此为切入点，引导学生谈论他们感兴趣的音乐、音乐家、歌手、歌曲以及感受和原因等，为本课最后的“说”作热身。】
3. Part A3
T: Daniel is writing a diary. Help him complete it.
Check the answers and read the diary together.
B Speak up: Would you like to go to a concert?
Step 1 Speaking
Speak up
(1) T: Sandy wants to invite her friend to go to the concert with her. Listen and pay attention to the wh-questions.
(2) Answer the questions.
Who is Sandy inviting?
What concert is it?
When will they go to the concert? (tonight = this evening)
When will it start?
Where is it held?
When and where will they meet?
(3) T: What other questions can you ask about a concert invitation?
S: How do we get there?
What concert do you like? Why?
...
【设计意图：设计图表，帮助学生抓住音乐会邀请的主要信息，并引导他们拓展思维，为本课的“说”提供更多素材。】
2. Group work
T: Here are two tickets for today’s concert. Now invite your partner to it. You can use this chart to help you.
【设计意图：设计五张音乐会门票，让学生仿照课本对话设计新的对话。有了前面大量信息的输入，学生可在这里顺利输出。】
V. Homework
Remember the five kinds of music and their characteristics.
Read Part A3 fluently and recite “Speak up”.
3. Collect information about other kinds of music. Write down their characteristics and your
feelings about them.
Unit 5 Art world
Reading (II)
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. have a better understanding of Tan Dun and his music styles;
2. use the important words, phrases and sentences correctly;
3. retell the main parts of the passage.
II. Teaching contents
New words and phrases: present, winner, control, flow, successfully, traditional, bell, though, boundary, medal, composer, central, be famous for
New structure: Each time a medal was presented to a winner at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the award music was played.
When he was very young, Tan showed an interest in music.
Since he had no musical instruments then, he made music with common objects like stones and paper.
As a composer, perhaps he is best known for winning an Oscar for his music in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Tan made over 50 sounds from water by controlling the speed of water flow.
The music for the Beijing Olympics uses traditional Chinese music and the sounds of an ancient Chinese bell, though it is in a Western style.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1. Understand some sentence structures in the context.
2. Make a further understanding of the whole article.
IV. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
T: Look at the pictures. Let’s play a word puzzle.
(amazing, instrument, stone, bridge, Oscar→“music”)
T: Yes, let me tell you. This is my hero. His music is amazing. Without instruments, he makes music with common things like stones. He helps build a bridge between the East and the West. He won an Oscar for his music. So who is he?
T: Right, he is Tan Dun. What is he? What award has he received? Is it a great success for him?
(composer, musician, winner, success, successful, successfully)
T: Please say something about Tan Dun and his music according to the three parts below.
【设计意图：通过word puzzle和word map的形式轻松再现Reading中的部分词汇，以music这个关键词引导学生回顾谭盾和他的音乐。】
Step 2 Presentation
T: How can Tan become so successful in music? Let’s go through his music journey and know more about him.
【设计意图：以谭盾的音乐历程为主线整合文本，再次阅读课文，分析并操练其中的重点句型。】
1. Part One Tan’s Early Music Step
T: Read Lines 6-11, 17-22 in a group of four, and answer the following questions.
Why does Tan Dun love the sounds of the rushing water and the blowing wind?
Tan Dun loves the sounds of the rushing water and the blowing wind, because, to him, the best music comes from nature.
Why did he make music with common objects like stones and paper?
Since he had no musical instruments then, Tan made music with common objects like stones and paper.
(3) Why does Tan use them a lot in his music?
As he likes the sounds of nature, Tan uses them a lot in his music.
T: Yes, we uses because, since and as to tell the reasons.
【设计意图：利用表格的形式整合内容，初步呈现because、since、as引导的原因状语从句，为下一课时语法教学作铺垫。】
T: Interest is the best teacher. Tan Dun showed an interest in music when he was very young. That is, he was interested in music when he was very young.
T: Look! Tan Dun shows an interest in playing music with paper.
= Tan Dun is interested in playing music with paper.
T: What about the other musicians?
Lang Lang shows an interest in playing the piano.
= Lang Lang is interested in playing the piano.
Jay shows an interest in playing the guitar.
= Jay is interested in playing the guitar.
【设计意图：以兴趣为话题，引出短语show an interest in，并变式操练be interested in，通过谈论三个音乐家对音乐的兴趣，活用两个句型，体现语言在用中学的规律。】
T: Tan likes the sounds of nature. How does he make 50 sounds of water? Please enjoy a video called Water.
Yes, he makes 50 sounds of water by controlling the speed of water flow.
T: Tan controls the speed of water flow well and makes perfect music.
The speed of water flow is under control and 50 sounds from water are created.
T: What do you think of Tan’s musical talent?
【设计意图：通过欣赏视频《水乐》，学生可以更真切地解谭盾音乐的特色，通过how的提问，学生了解by controlling是方式状语。操练control作为动词和名词的用法，并引导学生思考谭盾的音乐创作追求。】
2. Part Two Tan Dun’s Achievement (超级链接)
T: Boys, read Lines 1-5; girls, read Lines 12-16.
Tan’s music is so special, and he has received great achievements. What are they?
T: Let’s enjoy part of the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Pay attention to its music.
Tan Dun is best known for winning the Oscar for his music.
= Tan Dun is famous for winning the Oscar for his music.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is also best known for Best Photography Award.
Best Music Award.
Best Art Direction Award.
T: A medal was presented to Tan Dun, an Oscar winner at the 73rd Oscar.
Tan Dun, an Oscar winner was presented a medal at the 73rd Oscar.
So this is a presentation of the medals of Oscar.
T: (颁奖背景音乐) Look! This is a presentation of the medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Who are these famous Chinese winners?
A medal ____________________ a badminton winner, Lin Dan at the Beijing Olympics.
Lin Dan, a badminton winner, ___________________ a medal at the Beijing Olympics.
(Guo Jingjing, a diving winner; Zou shiming, a boxing winner)
【设计意图：利用《卧虎藏龙》同时获得四项奥斯卡的成就，鼓励学生灵活运用be known for；再现2008北京奥运会中国运动健儿获奖的场景，让学生操练be presented to …，并进行变式训练。】
3. Part Three Tan Dun’s Music Style（超级链接）
T: Read Lines 23-32 together.
What is included in the award music?
Yes, the Chinese traditional music Molihua and the ancient bell. The music is also in a Western style.
The music uses traditional Chinese music and ancient bells, though it is in a western style.
= It is in a western style, but the music uses traditional Chinese music and ancient bells.
Though/Although there are many differences between the East and the West, Tan has successfully brought Chinese and Western music together.
= Tan has successfully brought Chinese and Western music together though/although there are many differences between the East and the West.
There are many differences between the East and the West but Tan has successfully brought Chinese and Western music together.
【设计意图：通过欣赏北京奥运会的颁奖音乐，引出谭盾的音乐特色，在语境中理解?though (although)/but的关系，学会替换练习。】
Step 3 Practice
1. An introduction to Tan Dun
T: Suppose you would like to introduce Tan Dun to others at the English corner. Here is your
report. Complete it with the information you’ve learnt.
2.Group discussion
T: Tan Dun has helped built a bridge between the East and the West, the past and the present, common objects and musical instruments. That’s Tan’s music dream.
Now let’s have a discussion in groups. What else are without boundaries besides music?
T: Yes. I quite agree with you. Love has no boundaries. People, no matter from the east or the west, should love each other. Art and friendship have no boundaries too.
【设计意图：通过对音乐无国界的认知，引导学生开展更多无国界的讨论。】
V. Homework
Make an English poster, including Tan Dun, Tan Dun’s music and your feelings about his music.
Unit 5 Art world
Reading (I)
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. have a better understanding of Tan Dun and his music styles.
2. guess the meanings of the new words from the context;
3. understand the difficulty sentences in the context;
4. catch the main idea of the whole article;
5. share their understanding of the title “Music without boundaries”.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: boundary, medal, present, winner, composer, central, common, object, stone, musician, control, flow, successfully, traditional, bell, though, be famous for, dividing line
2. New structure: Since he had no musical instruments then, he made music with common objects like stones and paper.
As a composer, perhaps he is best known for winning an Oscar for his music in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
As he likes the sounds of nature, Tan uses them a lot in his music.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1. Understand the new words in the context.
2. Make a further understanding of the whole article.
IV. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Enjoy a piece of music
Listen to the award music for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games made by Tan Dun.
Introduce the background of Tan’s award music.
Guess the meaning of “composer”
Questions: Who wrote the music?
He writes music. He is a composer.
3. Present the following new words according to the pictures
medal, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Questions: (1) What is the music for?
(2) What other amazing music does he write?
(3) What is he best known for?
【设计意图：通过2008北京奥运会的图片及颁奖音乐，帮助学生初步了解谭盾和他的音乐，激发学生阅读的兴趣。】
4. Predict the points that may be read in the article
T: We will read an article about Tan Dun. But before that, let’s predict what we may read about the famous composer, shall we? You can choose from the following points, or you can add your own ideas.
A. Music? B. Family? C. Education?
D. Achievements? E. Teachers? F. Thoughts? G. ......
【设计意图：学会预测文章的内容是9A第三单元Study skills板块的要求。此处要求学生对文章内容进行预测，可以帮助他们理解人物传记类文体的特点。】
Step 2 Fast reading
Read through the article and answer the following two questions. (Skimming)
1. What is the article about?
T: Is your prediction right?
A. Music? B. Family? C. Education?
D. Achievements? E. Teachers? F. Thoughts? G. ......
Answers: music, education, achievements, thoughts, interest in music
2. In which paragraphs can we read about them?
A. Music (Para.1, 4) C. Education (Para. 3)
D. Achievements (Para. 5) F. Thoughts (Para. 6) G. music interest (Para. 2)
【设计意图：快速阅读，帮助学生整体、理解文章主要内容。】
Step 3 Further reading
1. Para. 1
Read the first paragraph quickly and answer the question.
T: How does the writer introduce Tan to us?
S: By showing his music that we know well.
2. Para. 2
Read this part and find the answers to the questions. (scanning)
(1) When and where was Tan born?
(2) How did he show an interest in music when he was young?
the answer to Question 2:
He loves the sounds of the rushing water and the blowing wind because, to him, the best music comes from nature. Since he had no musical instruments then, he made music with common objects like stones and paper.
Help students understand the words “rushing” and “blowing” by showing pictures and listening to the sounds of rushing water and blowing wind.
【设计意图：帮助学生领悟rushing、blowing的表达效果。】
Understand the words “instruments” with pictures and the given context.
【设计意图：通过图片、情景理解生词意思。】
Understand the meanings of the words “common objects”.
T: He made music with common objects. What are the common objects? Oh, they are stones, leaves and paper. They are usual things. Tan could make music with usual things such as stones and paper.
【设计意图：通过上下文情境用近义词理解生词意思。】
Para. 3
T: Read this part and fill in the blanks.
T: What is this part mainly about?
S: It is about Tan’s education and Oscar award.
【设计意图：通过表格填空，理清小节框架，归纳段落大意。】
4. Para. 4
T: Tan’s music is quite different from other musicians’. Read Para.4 and find out what is special.
S: He uses the sounds of nature in his music. His amazing piece of music Water does not use any musical instruments. Instead, he makes over 50 sounds from water by controlling the speed of water flow.
T: How can he make over 50 sounds by controlling the speed of water? Let’s enjoy the video.
T: What does Tan Dun say about the sounds of nature in his music?
【设计意图：阅读传记类文章时抓住人物的原话对理解人物思想很有帮助，引导学生关注这一点。】
S: He says that they are the sounds of nature and they create different pictures in different minds.
T: What pictures do you have in your mind while you are watching the video?
T: In my mind, there are these beautiful pictures. (show pictures) Tan mixes common objects and musical instruments together to create a new type of music, that is, music without boundaries.
T: In fact, Tan’s music without boundaries means more. Please read Paragraph 5.
【设计意图：通过观看视频，学生可更好的理解文章中对Water乐曲演奏的描述，能更好的领悟“将平常物品和乐器结合演奏”的含义。初步了解music without boundaries的意思，为下文的My music is to dream without boundaries做好铺垫。】
5. Para. 5
T: What does this paragraph mainly tell us? Read the paragraph carefully and answer the question.
S: Tan’s achievement.
T: What is it?
S: He helped build a bridge between the East and the West.
T: Can you give us an example to prove it?
S: He has brought Chinese and Western music together. The music for the Beijing Olympics uses traditional Chinese music and the sounds of an ancient Chinese bell in a western style. (Enjoy the music once again. Sing after it and enjoy the sounds of the ancient bells.）
T: Is Jessamine modern music or traditional music?
S: Traditional music.
T: It is not modern music. Tan successfully mixes Chinese traditional music and Western music together. So what’s his thought of his music?
S: His music is to dream without boundaries.
T: Let’s go on to read Para.6.
【设计意图：多数学生对传统音乐及中国古代编钟的乐声理解有困难，让他们听2008北京奥运会的颁奖音乐，跟唱其中的传统音乐《茉莉花》，听编钟的声音，帮助他们体会现代音乐和传统音乐融合的美妙。】
6. Para. 6
T: Read this paragraph carefully. Answer the question:
What does Tan Dun mean by saying that “My music is to dream without boundaries”? Give examples if necessary.
Possible answer:
He mixes different types of music together, such as the past and present, common objects and musical instruments, traditional Chinese music and modern Western music.
For example, he has successfully brought Chinese and Western music together. The music for the Beijing uses traditional Chinese music and the sounds of an ancient Chinese bell, though it is in a Western style.
Step 4 Further understanding
Group work
Express your own opinions: What does Tan Dun bring to you?
【设计意图：9A教材以学生的成长为主线，一系列主题帮助学生了解自我、改变自我。所以此处的任务设计旨在提高学生表达能力的同时，帮助他们联系自身、反思自我。】
V. Homework
Read the article again and write down your own understanding of the title.
Try to say something about Tan Dun according to the profile card on page 68 and share what you have learned in class next time.
【设计意图：1. 鼓励学生在课后进行更多思考，并以作文的形式表达出来。2. 根据档案介绍谭盾，有助于引导学生在理清课文思路、充分理解课文的基础上进行背诵，避免死记硬背。】
Unit 5 Art world
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
guess the meaning of a new word from the context;
II. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Using the reading skills to read different types of materials.
III. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead in
1. Enjoy a song
T: The song Let it go is from the popular cartoon Frozen. Now let’s see the lyrics of the song.
There are three new words: footprint, kingdom and isolation.
2. Ways to understand new words
T: What will you do if you meet with new words? I will look them up in the dictionary.
For example, isolation.
T: What about this word footprint? We don’t need to look it up in the dictionary.
foot + print = footprint king + dom = kingdom
T: Now guess the meaning of the word homesick.
For example, he often misses his home. He is homesick.
Homesick means “missing home”.
3. Review study skills
T: We can guess their meanings by their formations.
【设计意图：由学生喜欢的电影主题曲Let it go导入，让学生猜测歌词中的生词isolation、footprint意思，复习第四单元的学习技能，并过渡到本课的学习重点。】
Step 2 Presentation
Guess the meaning of a word from the sentence
T: Look at the picture, and guess what happened one night.
One night while playing, Elsa accidentally injured her younger sister Anna. She hurt her head.
What does the word injure mean? How can we know it?
Hurt her head can help us know injure means hurt.
T: According to the doctor’s advice, Anna’s memories of magic were got rid of, but the fun was left.
Could Anna remember the fun with her sister? Yes, because the fun wasn’t got rid of. It was left.
Could she remember Elsa’s magic? No, because it was got rid of. It wasn’t left. It was cleaned out.
【设计意图：继续借助故事情境引入本课重点，呈现根据句子本身对生词的释义来猜测生词意思的技能。】
Step 3 Practice
1. Finish Exercise A on page 75
2. Make a summary
T: How can we understand a new word when reading?
Sometimes, the sentence itself might give the meaning of the word. When we look at the words before and after the new word, it is possible to find its meaning.
T: We can guess their meaning from the context.
【设计意图：通过练习，巩固本课所学的新技能。】
Step 4 Presentation
1. Guess the meaning of a word from its part of speech
T: Read the sentence and guess what the word azure means.
I sat on the green grass watching the white clouds sailing across the azure sky.
T: What should we do if the sentence doesn’t define the new word?
First, determine its part of speech.—It is an adjective.
Then look at the way other words are used in the sentence.—Green grass and white clouds, so azure may mean blue.
2. Guess the meaning of the words in Part B
T: What does the word in red mean?
I don’t like pop music. I prefer blues instead.
S: According to pop music, we know blues is a kind of music.
T: Blues is a kind of American pop music. It always tells sad stories. Now let’s enjoy one called Don’t You Remember.
【设计意图：根据生词的词性和上下文的语境来猜测词义，相对于前一种猜测方式要难一些，所以此处作了更为细致的引导。通过欣赏布鲁斯，可加深学生对这种音乐形式与西方文化的了解。】
T: Let’s take a quiz. Guess the meaning of the new words and tell us how you get the meaning.
Step 4 Practice
1. Play a game
T: Welcome to the reading garden. If you answer a question correctly, you’ll get a beautiful flower. Let’s see how many flowers you can get.
【设计意图：通过阅读不同种类的文本，强化学生根据语境猜测词义的能力。采用游戏的形式可激发学生的兴趣，也便于教师了解学生对这一阅读技能的掌握情况。】
(1) T: What does deliver mean? How do you know that? Circle the clue words.
Yes. It means sending a package to sb by post. Get a flower if your answer is right.
(2) T: Who took the photos? What does selfies mean?
Yes. The monkeys took photos by themselves. Selfies means photos taken by oneself.
(3) T: Is the joke funny? What’s the meaning of the word pregnant?
Who can tell the joke in a humorous way? You can get two flowers for telling the joke.
【设计意图：鼓励学生复述故事，以此活跃课堂氛围，并加深他们对文本的理解。】
(4) T: What about this article? Have you got the right meaning of the word?
Flavor means taste. Gentle Englishmen like gentle flavor.
T: Now it’s time for us to come out of the reading garden. How many flowers have you got?
2. Have a test
Read the sentences and write down the meaning of the underlined words in Chinese.
【设计意图：通过单句阅读训练，检测学生猜测词义的能力。】
IV. Homework
Preview Task.
Unit 5 Art world
Task
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. write an article about the art form they like best.
2. learn how to evaluate and modify their draft.
II. Teaching contents
New words and phrases: praise, gift, mark, encourage, literature, praise my designs for the art festival, have a real gift for, mix the paint with water, drop some paint onto the paper, be crazy about crayons and paints
New structures: She encourages me to keep trying and make more beautiful pictures.
I enjoy myself in the world of colours everytime I paint.
I did make some wonderful pictures later.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1. Understand some sentence structures in the context;
2. Learn to evaluate their articles and then modify them.
IV. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
Free talk
T: Boys and girls, look at the pictures and tell me what art forms they are.
T: Yes. They are dance, drama, film, photography, paper-cut, music, painting, calligraphy and literature. Can you name more art forms?
T: Whose works are they? Yes, they are works of Moyan. What great achievement has he received?
T: Right. The Nobel Prize in Literature. He has a great mother. She encouraged him a lot and used to praised him for what he did. What else do you think is important for his success?
T: I agree with you. He is good at writing. That is, he has a real gift for writing. Maybe his childhood in the town—Gaomi has impressed him a lot.
【设计意图：通过头脑风暴的方式快速再现各种艺术形式。谈论著名作家莫言，在语境中呈现和操练生词。】
Step 2 Presentation
1. Task One Listen and read
T: Sandy also has a great gift. What is it? Was she once good at it? Let’s listen to her story.
T: Good job. Next let’s read the following questions and try to answer them.
(1) How did Sandy make the beautiful picture?
(2) Who influenced her most? How?
(3) How does Sandy feel everytime she paints?
T: What do you think of her teacher Ms Luo? Here is a poem about her. Please finish it.
A teacher is like Spring,
Who nurtures?[?n?:t??]?（培养）
new green sprouts?[spra?t]（新芽）,
Encourages and praises them,
Whenever they have doubts.
She is a good judge of talents. She is a Bole for Sandy. Do you think so?
【设计意图：通过听与读的方式梳理Sandy的范文；通过超链接的方式帮助学生理解Sandy的泼墨画；通过问答和欣赏诗歌的形式，让他们理解罗老师对Sandy的影响。】
2. Task Two Discuss and analyze
T: Read the whole passage carefully and look at this mind map. What’s Sandy’s favourite art form? What do her teachers and classmates say and think? Was she once good at it? Why?
T: Please retell Sandy’s story according to this mind map.
【设计意图：通过构建思维导图，帮助学生理清文章结构并搭建写作支架，为接下来的写作做准备。】
T: Mo Yan says he is a person who likes telling stories. Listen! What is he saying?
【设计意图：学生分析并欣赏范文中精彩的句子，再利用莫言的演讲巩固以上重点短语和句式，并为下面学生的口头表达讲故事作示范。】
3. Task Three Tell and write
T: Boys and girls, would you like to tell us a story about the art form you like best? Please share your story in your group. Pay attention to the 5 Wh-s. Here are the useful expressions.
T: Who would like to share your story about your favourite art form in front of the class?
T: Excellent.
【设计意图：通过小组合作交流和展示分享，学生进行口头训练，为下面的写作输出做准备。】
T: It’s time for writing. The writing structure and questions may help you.
【设计意图：通过搭建的写作框架和引领学生写作的问题，让学生自主完成写作任务。】
Step 3 Production
1. Task One Self-assessment
What is a good writing?
A complete main part (内容全面)
Writing details (细节描写)
Write in different paragraphs (分段描写)
Conjunctions and adverbs (连词、副词使用恰当)
Use words and sentences precisely (词句精确)
Spell words correctly (拼写正确)
2. Task Two Peel evaluation
3. Modify the article
V. Homework
1. Modify your article and share it with your partner.
2. Finish the related exercises.
Unit 5 Art world
Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. act out the dialogue between Eddie and Hobo;
2. know the names of different kinds of art forms;
3. talk about these forms of art and share some ideas about some art forms;
4. learn to be a good listener and respond to the teacher’s instructions actively.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: art forms, pop, pleasant, drama, photography, musical, talent
2. New structure: Art is something pleasant.
Because I’ve found something more pleasant than art.
I prefer pop music.
His musical talent was amazing.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
To share some ideas about favourite art forms personally.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Comic strip
Step 1 Lead-in
T: Boys and girls, let’s welcome Eddie and Hobo. Listen, what is Eddie doing? Why?
Step 2 Discussion
T: Read their dialogue and discuss: What does Eddie prefer, food or art?
Step 3 Role-play
【设计意图：让学生观看动画片段，讨论Eddie的自我认识程度，参与角色扮演，帮助学生体会动画人物的个性，激发他们的学习热情。】
B Welcome to the unit
Step 1 Lead-in
T: What art form does Eddie like? Do you know any other forms?
Taking photos is another form of art. We call it photography.
This one is drama. We often enjoy some local operas and plays on the stage. This art form is
called drama.
(超链接) Choose the art form you are interested in.
【设计意图: 通过Free talk及小图标快速呈现艺术形式这一话题。根据学情，设计了超链接的方式。让学生选择自己喜欢的艺术形式，在活动中进行交流，感受艺术的魅力。】
Step 2 Presentation
T: Which art form are you interested in?
1. Photography
T: Enjoy a video. What do you think of these photos about water?
We see water every day. It is so common. But with a camera, we can find a more beautiful
world.
There is a girl called Mengzi. Her father has taken photos with her for more than 30 years. They take one photo every year. How amazing it is to see the changes to the growing daughter and her “growing” father!
If you have a camera, what kind of photos would like to take?
【设计意图：以视频欣赏的方式让学生感受摄影艺术的魅力。通过追问的方式，激发学生用简单的语言说说自己观察美的视角。】
2. Film
T: Have you seen these films? Name more films that you have seen.
Which film impressed you most? Why? (the actors/the actresses/the story/the theme song …)
Share your ideas in a group of four.
【设计意图：用海报的方式呈现学生喜欢的电影进行交流，谈论的切入口是：最喜欢哪部电
影？喜欢它的什么？】
3. Music
T: Do you like the song, Dad, where are you going?? Shall we sing part of it? Listen! What kind of music is it?
Yes, a piece of music played with a piano. It is called classical music. Whose work is it? Mozart’s, Chopin’s or Beethoven’s?
For him, life has ups and downs. He became deaf later but during the life of him, he had created countless beautiful melodies … What can we learn from him?
T: Listen! This is called country music. It mainly tells us the stories about common family, love, happiness or sadness with some western instruments.
T: Do you know who sang this song?
Yes. He was Michael Jackson. He was the singer of pop music.
He was remembered as the King of Pop because his musical talent was so amazing. I think it’s pleasant to listen to his songs.
T: Who is your favourite pop singers? Why do you like him or her so much?
【设计意图：通过听的方式，欣赏不同的音乐类型。学习榜样人物对音乐的挚爱。】
4. Dance
T: Who is he? He is not only a singer but also a dancer.
Enjoy part of Michael Jackson’s dance. Then match the different types of dances.
5. Painting
T: Whose painting is it? Which do you like best?
6. Drama
T: Have you read any works about Shakespeare? This is Hamlet. This is a Chinese drama named Thunderstorm. It is written by Cao Yu. There are some Chinese traditional local dramas like: Beijing opera, Kun opera …
【设计意图：略讲上面的几种艺术形式，通过图片欣赏、了解不同的舞蹈形式、著名的绘画作品和戏剧的基本形态。】
Step 3 Production
T: We’ve learned about some art forms. Please finish this note about your favourite art form(s).
T: Now make up a dialogue with your partner. You can use the following conversation as a model.
Model:
A: What art form do you like?
B: I like ___________.
A: What kind of ___________ do you like best?
B: I prefer .
A: Who is your favourite singer/dancer/painter?
Which is your favourite film/drama/painting?
B: I just love !
A: Why do you love him/her/it?
B: Because .
T: You’ve done a good job. We live in a world full of art. How wonderful it is!
【设计意图：信息整合，先让学生设计一张小卡片，然后仿照例子进行对话练习。】
V. Homework
1. Remember the six art forms.
2. Recite the conversation in Part B.（必做）
3. Search the Internet to know more forms of art and design a poster about it.（选做）
【设计意图：分层布置作业。必做作业要求所有学生完成。学有余力的学生可完成课外拓展作业，收集信息并设计成海报展示。】
