Module 2 What can you do?
一、学习目标:
A. 单词和短语：
play, tennis, piano, ride, club, term, board, would like, well, all, that’s all, worry, worry about, teach, then, monitor, start, get on well with sb. ready, ready to do sth. promise, fast, fit, just, ball, game, team, best, score, tidy, sure, everybody, just like, beautiful, fly, kite, swim.
B. 交际用语：
1. Look!
2. What about you?
3. Don’t worry about….
4. I can play piano.
5. I can’t speak Chinese very well.
6. —Can you cook? —Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
7. —Can Betty speak English? —Yes, she can.
8. —Can Tony speak Chinese well? —No, he can’t.
9. I’d like to be …
10. I want to be ….
11. I can play the piano.
12. She can dance really well.
13. We can teach you Chinese!
14. — Can you fly a kite?
— Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
C. 教学目标
1. Function: Finding out what people can do; asking and answering about abilities
2. Structure: can / can’t
3. Skills: 1) Listening and finding out about people’s abilities.
2) Supplying information on people’s abilities.
3) Reading and understanding simple passages, finding specific information
4) Composing a simple passage
4. Around the world: Languages
5. Task: Making a poster for a club.
二、重点及难点:
情态动词can / can’t的用法
三、教学设计:
Unit 1 I can play the piano.
ⅠTeaching model
Listening and speaking
ⅡTeaching method
Bottom-up approach to listening
Ⅲ Teaching aims
To understand the using can and can’t.
Ⅳ Teaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: play, tennis, piano, ride, club, term, board, would like, well, all, that’s all, worry, worry about, teach, then
2. Key structures: 1) I can ….
2) I can’t ….
3) —Can you …? —Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
ⅤTeaching aids
Tape recorder, OHP, video
ⅥTeaching Steps
Step 1 Warming up
1. Show some pictures to elicit the usage of “can”.
2. Introduce the new words.
3. Ask the students to read through the words and expressions in Activity 1.
cook dance play table tennis play the piano ride a bike sing speak Chinese
4. Look at the pictures carefully.
5. Match the words and expressions from the box with the pictures.
6. Check their answer with a partner.
7. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Keys:
1. dance 2. play the piano 3. speak Chinese 4. cook
5. sing 6. ride a bike 7. play table tennis
Step 2 Listening practice
1. Ask the students to pictures in Activity 2.
2. Listen and check (√)the things in Activity 1 which Tony’s dad can do.
3. Play the recording again, then they can check their answer with a partner.
4. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Key: He can ride a bike and cook.
Step 3 Pair work
Ask students to ask theirs partners about things in the pictures, tell them to answer truthfully.
Step 4 Listen and read.
1. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.
2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the conversation.
3. Read the conversation.
4. Act it out.
5. Ask the students to check (√) the clubs they want to join.
6. Ask the students to check with a partner.
7. Play the recording again .Check the answers:
Club
Name
Music Club
Dance Club
Table Tennis Club
Food and Drink Club
Daming
√
Betty
√
Lingling
√
Tony
√
Step 5 Complete the passage.
1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.
board choose club music term
2. Read through the passage.
Can you cook? No? Join the Food and Drink (1) __________. Can you play the piano? Join the (2) __________ Club. What about dancing? (3) __________ the Dance Club. There are lots of new clubs every (4) __________. They’re all on the (5) __________ and you can choose your favourite.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
4. Ask the students to check with a partner.
5. Check the answers:
Keys: 1. Club 2. Music 3. Choose 4. term 5. board
6. Learn “Everyday English”
Look!
What about you?
Don’t worry about….
Step 6 Pronunciation and speaking.
1. Say the sentences in Activity 5 aloud.
/k?n/ I can play piano.
/ka:nt/ I can’t speak Chinese very well.
/k?n/ Can you cook?
2. Listen and repeat.
3. Learning to learn
In English, we pronounce a word in different ways when it is stressed or not stressed. In “Yes, I can”, we pronounce can as /k?n/; in “Oh, good. You can come to help us”, we pronounce can as /k?n/.
4. Play the recording once without stopping.
5. Listen and repeat in Activity 6.
/i:/ Chinese she we
/e/ egg tennis
/I/ English
5. Ask the students to practice the sounds in pairs.
Step 7 Work in pairs.
1. Look at the information.
Can
Can’t
Daming
speak Chinese play the piano
dance
Betty
speak English cook
play table tennis
Lingling
speak Chinese dance
cook
Tony
play table tennis speak English
speak Chinese well
2. Read through the example with the class.
—Can Betty speak English?
—Yes, she can.
—Can Tony speak Chinese well?
—No, he can’t.
3. Pair them to ask and answer.
4. Circulate and monitor their production.
Step 8 Language points
1. ride a bike 骑自行车
ride v. 骑；乘
ride a camel 骑骆驼
ride a horse 骑马
2. I’d like to join the Music Club because I can play the piano.
我想加入音乐社团是因为我会弹钢琴。
定冠词the用于西洋乐器前。
e.g. play the piano 弹钢琴
play the violin 拉小提琴
中国乐器名词前不与冠词连用：
e.g. play erhu 拉二胡
球类运动、下棋不用冠词：
play basketball 打篮球
play volleyball 打排球
play football 踢足球
play chess 下棋
1) —Tina, are you going to play _____ chess on School Day?
—Yes, and I’ll also play _______violin that afternoon.
A. the; the B. the; / C . / ; the D. /; /
2) John can play _______ guitar, but he can’t play _______ chess.
A. the; / B. / ; the C the; the
Keys: CA
3. I like cooking, so I can join the Food and Drink Club.
这句话的意思是“因为我喜欢烹饪，所以我能加入饮食俱乐部。”so 的意思是“因此，所以”，作为连词连接两个句子。
本单元类似的句子还有We can teach you Chinese! So choose your favourite club和I play table tennis, so I choose the Table Tennis Club等。
汉语中用“因为……，所以……”这一关联词语完成一句话，但英语中because和so不能同时出现在一句话中。
汉语中用“因为……，所以……”这一关联词语完成一句话，但英语中because和so不能同时出现在一句话中。
Keys: so Because because so
4. Which club can she join?
这句话的意思是“她能加入哪个俱乐部？”
这是“疑问词which+名词club”引导的特殊疑问句。
根据汉语意思完成英语句子, 每空一词。
(1) 你想参观哪座博物馆？
______ ________ do you want to visit?
(2) 他喜欢哪本书？
______ ______ does he like??
(3) 她正在画哪棵树？
______ _____ is she drawing?
Keys: Which museums Which book Which tree
5. I think she’d like to join the Dance Club because she can really well.
我认为她想加入舞蹈俱乐部，因为她真的跳得好。
would like意为“想要”，其语气比用like 婉转些。
1) 后面接名词或代词，表示“具体要”某样东西。
e.g. I’d like two sweaters for my daughters.
我想给我的女儿们买两件毛衣。
Would you like some drink?
你想来点儿喝的吗？
2) 后面接动词不定式，表示“愿望，喜爱”，常用于有礼貌地提出邀请、请求或建议。
e.g. Would you like to come to supper？
你愿意来吃晚饭吗？
3) 当主语是第一人称时， would 可与should 换用，它们都可以缩写为 ‘d’，并且like也可换成love。
e.g. I’m sure he would love to come.
我确信他会愿意来的。
I should like the red one.
我喜欢红色的这件。
4) would like后面可以用动词不定式作宾语补足语。
e.g. What would you like me to do?
你想要我干什么？
I’d like you to meet my parents, too.
我想要你也见见我的父母。
6. Well, I can cook eggs, but that’s all.
我会炒鸡蛋，但仅此而已。
that’s all是口语中一句非常有用的表达，用法主要有以下三种：
1) 仅此这些或无关紧要，“没别的；没事；没什么；事情就是这样”。
e.g. —How are you feeling？你感觉怎么样？
—Fine. Just a little tired. That’s all. 还好，只是有点累，没事。
2) 表示沮丧或无可奈何，“没有（别的）办法”。
e.g. If it rains tomorrow, we shall have to stay at home, we can’t play football, that’s all.
如果明天下雨，我们只好呆在家里，不能出去踢球，没有别的办法。
3) 表示说话或做事完了（或暂时完了）。“……完了；……就这些”。
e.g. That’s all. Thank you. 我的发言完了，谢谢。
That’s all for today. 今天就到这里吧。
That’s all, you may go now. 就这些，你可以走了。
7. Don’t worry about Chinese.
别担心中文。
worry about = be worried about 担心
e.g. Don’t worry about your son.
= Don’t be worried about your son.
不要担心你的儿子。
Step 9 Exercises
一、单项选择：
( )1. —What can you do, Lingling? —I can __________.
A. play the football B. ride bike C. play the piano D. play a basketball
( )2. I can sing English songs ________ I can dance.
A. and B. so C. or D. but
( )3. He can sing, ________ he can’t cook.
A. and B. so C. or D. but
( )4. —Can Jim play basketball? —______________.
A. Yes, I can B. Yes, he can C. No, you can’t D. No, he isn’t.
( )5. —Can you speak English well? — _________.
A. No, I can’t B. Yes, I have C. No, I don’t D. Yes, I speak
Keys: 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. A
二、完成句子：
1. 汤尼，你会说中文吗？
________ you _______________, Tony?
2. 这学期新的俱乐部名单在公布板上。
The new clubs _______ this term_________________.
3. 我想加入英语俱乐部，因为我的英语说得不好。
________________ the English Club _____________speak English very well.
4. 不用担心你儿子，我会照顾他的。
______________________your son. I can look after him.
5. 因为我喜欢打乒乓球，我选择了乒乓球俱乐部。
I ____________ the Table Tennis Club _____________________ table tennis.
6. 汤姆想加入音乐俱乐部，因为他会弹钢琴。
Tom _______________ join the Music Club because he _______________.
Keys:
1. Can. speak Chinese 2. for, on the board 3. I’d like to join, because I can’t
4. Don’t worry about 5. choose , because I like playing
6. would like to, can play the piano.
Step 10 Homework
1. Finish exercises in the workbook.
2. Remember the words of Unit 1.
3. Prepare the text of Unit 2.
Unit 1?
Ⅰ. 找出与所给单词划线部分读音不同的一项。
(?? )1. we?????
A. she?? ????????????? B. because???????????? C. Chinese ? ? ? ? ?D. email
(?? )2. egg????
A. any? ??????? ?????? B. bed??? ???? C. check ? ? ? ? ? ? D. cinema
(?? )3. Africa??
A. child?? ???? ?????? B. animal ????? C. big ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. chicken
(?? )4. time???
A. like?? ?????? ?????? B. bike? C. fish??? ???? ?????? D. guide
(?? )5. actor???
A. Africa? ??????????? B. alone C. bamboo ? ? ? ? ?D. catch
?Ⅱ. 根据句意及所给汉语提示写出所缺单词。
1. It's a(n) ________(网球) ball on the floor.
2. She has got a(n) ________(钢琴) at home.
3. Is that the ________(俱乐部) for English teachers?
4. The new ________(学期) is starting on Monday.???
5. The ________(布告板) stands at the school gate.???
Ⅲ. 根据句意从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，有的需要变换形式，每词限用一次。
teach, well, ride, then, play
1. He often ________ basketball at weekends.
2. She likes ________ her bike to school.
3. ________, my family name is Wang.
4. She is good at ________ maths.
5. Eat breakfast, and ________ go to school.
Ⅳ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词（含缩略形式）。
1. 她很少弹钢琴。
She seldom ________ ________ ________.
2. 那就是英语俱乐部。
That's the ________ ________.
3. 这学期我们有六门课程。
We've got six subjects ________ ________.
4. 那就是个故事。仅此而已。
That's a story. ________ ________.
5. 我们不需要担心明天的天气。
We don't need to ________ ________ the weather of tomorrow.
Ⅴ. 根据各题后括号内的要求完成下列各题，每空一词（含缩略形式）。
1. He can play the guitar. ?（改为一般疑问句并作否定回答）
—________ he play the guitar??
—________, ________ ________.?
2. They can speak English well. ?（改为一般疑问句并作否定回答）
—________ they speak English well?
—________, ________ ________.?
3. She can understand those strange things. ?（改为一般疑问句并作肯定回答）
—________ she understand those strange things?
??? —________, ________ ________.???
4. We can clean the house today. ?（改为一般疑问句并作肯定回答）
—________ you clean the house today??
—________, ________ ________.
5. Mary can do her homework alone. ?（对划线部分提问）
________ ________ Mary do alone?
答案：
Ⅰ. 1-5 BDACB
Ⅱ. 1. tennis?? 2. piano? ? 3. club?? 4. term?? 5. board
Ⅲ. 1. plays ?? 2. riding / to ride? 3. Well?? 4. teaching???? 5. then
Ⅳ. 1. plays the piano? 2. English Club? 3. this term
4. That's all? 5. worry about
Ⅴ. 1. Can; No; he can't??
2. Can; No; they can't
3. Can; Yes; she can??
4. Can; Yes; we can???
5. What can
