Module 5 Cartoon stories 教案

Module 5 Cartoons
Unit 1 It’s time to watch a cartoon.
Teaching style:
Listening and speaking
Teaching objectives:
1. To understand conversations about cartoon stories
2. To talk about the characters of the cartoon stories such as Superman, Batman, etc.
3. To grasp the key words and the key structures.
Teaching points:
1. Main points
1) Key vocabulary:
Cartoon handsome smart sky fight hero humorous laugh can’t help doing sth.
2) Key structures:
I can’t help laughing when I watch them.
2. Difficult points:
The present perfect
Teaching method:
Interactive approach
Teaching aids:
Tape recorder, video OHP, handouts, etc
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Share information
Talk about the cartoon characters below with the information you have prepared.
What do you think of the cartoons?
Step 2. Presentation
1. Have Ss read the questions in activity 1 and write their answers using complete sentences.
3. Put Ss in small groups to read their sentences to each other and decide if they agree or not.
1. What kind of cartoons do you like?
2. Do cartoons always end in a happy way?
3. What cartoons do you think are funny?
Step 3. Listening
Listen and find out Betty’s and Tony’s answers to the questions in Activity 1.
Listen to part of the conversation and find Daming’s descriptions about Superman and Tony’s descriptions about Spiderman.
Step 4. Answer the questions
Read the conversation and find the descriptions about Tom and Jerry.
Step 5. Pairwork
Which of the cartoons do you like best, Superman, Spiderman, Tom or Jerry? Why?
A: I like ….best, because …
B: I agree. I think …./ I don’t agree. I think ….
Step 6. Listen and imitate, then underline the important expressions
Step 7. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box.
Step 8. Work in pairs
Describe your favourite cartoon character or the characters below. Use the words in the box to help you.
--- I think Nezha is brave.
--- Yes, I think so too. / No, I think he is…
Step 9. Pronunciation and speaking
Listen and underline the words the speaker stresses.
Unit 2 Tintin has been popular for over eighty years.
Teaching style:
Reading and writing
Teaching objectives:
To get the general idea of the reading passage;
To use the key words of this unit to answer the questions;
To write about cartoon heroes: Nemo, Monkey King and Tintin.
Teaching points:
1. Main points
1) Key vocabulary:
Orange-and –white ugly school bag lead as mess heaven expect artist invent copy blank-and white own private create satisfy win the heart of sb.
2) Key structures:
…both of them have won the hearts of young people all over the world.
2. Difficult points:
To get information from the reading material about cartoon heroes. (难点)
To train reading strategies including skimming, inferring, and reformulating.
Teaching method:
Top-down approach
Teaching aids:
Video OHP, handouts, etc
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Enjoy a video.
Let’s enjoy a video in the Advertures of Tintin. And answer the questions.
1. What characters are there in the cartoon?
2. What’s the cartoon about?
3. What things did Tintin do in the cartoon you’ve watched?
Step 2. Talk about cartoon characters.
What do they look like? What are they like? ( use the questions to talk about their appearances and personalities.)
Teach new words. Orange-and-white, ugly green man, cute, smart, lovely
Among the cartoon characters, Which of them do you like? Why?
Step 3.Fast Reading
Read the passage and choose a sentence that best summarises it.
a) Cartoon heroes are popular all over the world, and some are more than eighty years old.
b) The most popular cartoons come out as books and not as films.
c) Many children read cartoons today.
d) Many foreign cartoons have become very popular in China.
Read and use the words to describe the cartoon characters.
Step 4. Careful reading
Read the passage and complete the notes.
Step 5. Pairwork
Talk about your favourite cartoon.
1. What is it about?
2. Who is in it?
3. Why do you like it?
Unit 3 Language in use
Teaching style:
Revision and application
Teaching objectives:
1. To practice using the present perfect and distinguish the difference of the simple present tense, the simple past tense and the present perfect.
2. To use the key words and expressions in new situations.
3. To finish the module task: Discussing how to write a competition.
Teaching method:
Formal and interactive practice
Teaching aids:
Tape recorder, video OHP, handouts, etc
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
1. Revise the vocabulary in Unit1 and 2.
2. Revise the structures.
Step 2. Presentation
Translate Chinese into English.
Step 3. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words.
Read the example with the whole class so they understand what to do.
Ask them to complete the activity individually, then check with a partner.
Call back the answers from the whole class as complete sentences.
Step 4. Work in pairs
Read the example with the whole class so they understand what to do.
Ask them to work in pairs to ask and answer the questions.
Circulate and monitor their production.
Call back some examples from the pairs.
Step 5. Complete the passage
Read through the words in the box with the class, having them repeat chorally and individually.
Ask them to complete the activity individually, then check with a partner
Call back the answers from the whole class as complete sentences.
Step 6. Listening
Work in pairs, listen and say where the speaker is.
Listen again and answer the questions.
Step 7. Module task
Work in groups. Choose an invention to discuss how to write a competition according to order.
Discuss in groups and make notes about the discussions
Present findings to the class.