Unit 3 A day out
Comic strips and welcome to the unit
Teaching aims and demands:
Ⅰ. New words: ourselves, greeting, greetings, president, block, foreign, city
Ⅱ. Teaching tasks:
1. To use vocabulary to identify and describe well-know places in China and around the world.
2. To use formulaic expressions to make suggestions and arrangements for a trip.
3. To help students behave well when they are traveling.
Ⅳ. Teaching methods: task-based approach
Ⅴ. Teaching aids: CAI (powerpoint)
Teaching procedures:
Warming up
Before class, sing a song: the Tikkabilla Jive.
Questions: 1. Do you like dancing?
2. Do you think dancing can help you keep healthy?
3. What other activities do you think can help you keep healthy?
4. What kind of exercise do you think is the most dangerous / healthiest / interesting?
5. What kind of exercise do you often do?
二、Comic strip
1. T: Our best friend Eddie wants to keep healthy too. What do you think he will do? Let’s see what he is going to do today?
Listen and answer: What is Eddie going to do? ( He is going to exercise. )
T: Is Eddie really going to exercise himself? ( No. )
What is he really going to do? ( He is going to enjoy himself. )
Why? ( He wants to exercise but not keep fit. )
Teach the new phrases: enjoy himself, keep fit = keep healthy
2. Have students practice this dialogue and then act it out.
三、Welcome to the unit.
1. T: So Eddie will eat a lot to exercise himself. Do you want to be like Eddie? Do you want to do some real exercise to keep yourselves fit? How about traveling around the world? And if you have a chance to go abroad, where would you like to go? Why do you want to go there? What places of interest can you see there? (elicit the answers from students)
2. T: It seems to me that you know a lot of places of interest in the world. Now let’s have a test to see who knows the most.
Play a game: Magic guess! (I will give you four key words or phrases, can you guess what place it is? )
3. T: Good job! Now let’s see some places of interest. Do you know them? And do you know what countries they belong to?
the Statue of Liberty
Hawaii
the Golden Gate Bridge
Buckingham Palace
the Big Ben
the Eiffel Tower
the River Seine
pyramids
the Sydney Opera House
the Harbour Bridge
4. T: Great! You know the names of many places of interest in the world. But how much do you know about them? Now let’s play a game: Hot Chair! I’ll give you a sentence. If you think it is right, stand up. If you think it is wrong, don’t move. Let’s see who is the quickest.
Is the White House white? Y
Does the president of the USA live in the White House? Y
Does the White House have a small garden and many trees? N
Is the Big Ben a big clock? Y
Is Mount Fuji the tallest mountain in the world? N
Is the Eiffel Tower in Egypt? N
Does the king of Egypt live in the pyramids? N
Are there many coffee shops by the River Seine? Y
Is the River Seine the longest river in the world? N
Is the Harbour Bridge the longest bridge in the world? N
5. T: Now Amy and Simon are reading some postcards from their friends. Can you help them to find out where their friends are?
4. Do you want to go abroad? Which country do you most want to go to? Now let’s see. Try to use this dialogue to help you find out where your partner wants to go?
Have students work in pairs and choose one or two pairs to act it out.
6. Activity 1: Write a postcard to your friend.
T: Now suppose you are visiting your favorite country. You are very happy and you want to share your joy with your friend. Write a postcard to your friend ant tell him or her what you saw there. You don’t have to tell your friend the name of the country. Let him/her guess where you are. See if he/she can guess it.
(Have students write a postcard to his friends and let some read it aloud. His friend has to guess where he is now.)
7. Activity 2: what is it?
T: Now let’s play another game: Magic guess! Choose one from your group to come to the front. I’ll show you a picture. The rest in this group can use any words, phrases or sentences to help him guess what it is in 30 seconds. But you have to remember that you can’t use any word in the name of the place.
8. Discussion:
T: Traveling is always a very happy thing. But sometimes it can be very bad if you do something wrong. So what do you think you have to do to make your journey happy or perfect?
Have students talk about it quickly:
Keep quiet in public places.
Do not litter.
Do not spit everywhere.
Do not pick flowers.
Wait for your turn. Don’t jump the queue. 9. Homework:
1) Read the dialogue again.
2) Try to remember all the new words in this part.
Design intention:
This lesson is the first period in this unit. It mainly introduces the main task in this unit. In this lesson, I try to help students learn something about the places of interest in the world. I use several games to arouse their interest and try to make them believe English is fun and easy. Everybody can learn it well.
First, I ask students to sing an interesting song. Students should sing and dance. They will be very excited. Then lead to the comic strips by talking about exercise. Exercise can help us keep healthy. Then talk about different kinds of exercises and lead to the topic: traveling around the world. Use a game to check what places of interest students have learned. Then come to the text. Read the post cards and find out where the three students are according to the information on the postcard. Then talk about the country students most want to visit. Use the dialogue to find out the answers. Then play another game to encourage students use their own words to describe some famous places. At last, talk about something they should do when they are traveling. Remind students to be a good traveler.
课件49张PPT。Welcome to the unit
Unit 3 A day outWhat is Eddie going to do?Listen and answer:He is going to exercise.He’s going to enjoy himself. He wants to exercise but not keep fit. What are you going to do, Eddie?I’m going to exercise, Hobo.Are you going to climb the hill?That’s good. You need to exercise and keep fit. Well, I want to exercise but not keep fit. Come on, Hobo. Let’s enjoy ourselves!Yes. Let’s play “Magic Guess”!the White Housewhite3 floorswith a big garden and many treesBush Big Benbuilt in 185914 tonsclockHawaii islandpalm treesfamous for its flowers and dancewarm, one seasonthe Eiffel Towerbuilt in 18893 floorssteelstowerpyramidsbuilt 4500 years agostoneskeep dead bodieskings and queensthe Great Wallseven wondersstoneslook like a dragoncan be seen in spacethe Statue of Libertywhitea torcha booka womanthe Sydney Opera Housebuilt in 1973art centerlook like white shellstheaters and hallsthe Harbour Bridgethe widest bridgesteeltook 8 years to finishthe “Coat Hanger”Buckingham Palacebuilt in 17034 floorsa golden angel Queen’s house the River Seineone of the most beautiful riverscoffee shops by it36 bridges over itthe Statue of Liberty
Hawaii
the Golden Gate Bridge
Buckingham Palace
the Big Ben
the Eiffel Tower
the River Seine
pyramids
the Sydney Opera House
the Harbour BridgeAustraliaDo you know them?Hot chair! Hot chair!Is the White House white? 5.Is Mount Fuji the tallest mountain in the world?2. Does the president of the USA live in the White House?3. Does the White House have a small garden and many trees?4. Is the Big Ben a big clock?6.Is the Eiffel Tower in Egypt? 7. Does the king of Egypt live in the pyramids? 8. Are there many coffee shops by the River Seine? 9. Is the River Seine the longest river in the world? 10. Is the Harbour Bridge the longest bridge in the world?Where are they?Nick
Leo
Jane Australia France the USAPair work:A: Which foreign country do you want to visit?
B: I want to visit …
A: Which city do you want to go to?
B: I want to go to …
A: Why do you want to go there?
B: Because I want to …write a postcard to your friend.Hi Lucy
…Lucy
Nanjing Senior High School
Huangshan Road
Jiangyin, Jiangsu
China
What is it?What is it?What should we do when we are travelling? Keep quiet in public places.
Do not throw litter.
Do not spit(吐痰) everywhere.
Do not pick flowers.
Wait for your turn.
Don’t jump the queue(插队).Remember to be a good traveller!Homework:
Read the dialogue again.
Try to remember all the new words. the White HouseHawaii New YorkTian’anmen Squarethe Statue of LibertypyramidsBuckingham Palacethe Temple of HeavenBig BenHong Kong the Sydney Opera Housethe Harbour Bridgethe Great Wallthe Eiffel Towerthe River SeineMount FujiBeihai Parkthe Palace Museumthe Summer Palace
