Teaching plan
Material: 6A Unit 10 Healthy eating
Learning objectives:
At the end of this period, students are expected to
1. use adjectives to make comparisons
2. develop the skills of working in pairs or groups
3. be aware of the importance of a healthy diet
Teaching focus:
How to use the sentence patterns :
…healthier than…, …less healthy than…, …as healthy as…, …as unhealthy as…
Difficulty in teaching:
1. Students may have difficulty using “…less healthy than… ” correctly and freely
2. Some students may have difficulty speaking confidently when facing all the class.
Procedure:
Steps
Learning activities
Teaching purposes
Lead-in
Watch a video
Guess what unhealthy food it is
To arouse students’ interest and engage themselves in it.
Input
1 Review Joe and Alice’s diet
To elicit the sentence pattern:
A is healthier than B.
B is not as healthy as A.
B is less healthy than A.
2.Study more examples.
To strengthen the pattern “not as…as…; less a./ad. than…”
3. Get to know how to compare two things
To have students practice the pattern “as...as”
Brainstorm: Find things to be used to make comparison
Output
1.Do pair work about your deskmates’diet.
To practice the patterns:
…healthier than…, …less healthy than…, …as healthy/unhealthy as…
2. Have a group discussion
To arouse students’ interest and learn how to keep healthy.
Homework
Oral work: Interview your parents about their ways of life
Written work: 1.composition: “How to keep healthy”
2. Do some exercises about the comparative degree of the adjectives and the adverbs.
Practise more
This shirt is 100 yuan. That shirt is 180 yuan.
This shirt is __ than that one.
This shirt is _ ___ as that one.
2. Linda is helpful to others. But Mary is more helpful to others.
Linda is _______ _______ than Mary.
Linda is ______ _______ _____ as Mary.
She is always late for school. He is sometimes late for school.
She is _____ often late for school than he.
He is _____ often late for school than she.
4. Mike looked stronger than Jack three years ago.
Jack looked _______ _____ than Mike three years ago
Jack ______ look ______ ______ as Mike three years ago.
A: What do you usually have for breakfast/ lunch /dinner ?
B : I usually have __________for breakfast/lunch/dinner.
What about you?
A : I usually ______________.
B : Do you often have steamed food or fried food?
A: _______________
B: Your diet is ______________ my diet.