Lesson 1 Choosing a Flat
Period 3
Teaching Objectives
1.Learn the reading by heart.
2.Review the use of modal verb: should
3.Talk about flats.
Teaching Difficulties
Exchange ideas by useful sentences.
Teaching Aids
Text book, students’ book, a recorder and a computer
Teaching Procedure
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Teaching aims
Step 1
Making sentences with should and shouldn’t
Show four pictures. “ a park, a classroom, a cafeteria, a street”
Divide the class into groups of four.
Ask the students to make sentences with should and shouldn’t according to the given pictures.
Let the students have a competition: to see which group can make more sentences.
Use the picture cues and make sentences with should (not).
have a competition with other groups
By making more sentences.
to get students to know how to use the modal verb: should.
to stimulate talking
to cultivate the students’ ability to make sentences
Step 2
Free talk: What do we need to do before moving to a new flat?
Ask them to talk about the picture of the passage.
Talk about the topic on “Moving to a new flat”
Describe the picture.
To let them think about the preparations of Moving to a new flat.
Step 3
Give them some True or false to finish when reading the passage and check the answers.
Let them read the passage fluently and correctly.
Let them find some useful phrases and sentences. Explain the language points.
Read the passage and then decide if the statements are true or false.
Read the passage together. Check the answers.
Read the passage in pairs in two minutes as quickly as they can.
Look for important phrases by themselves
Help them read and understand the passage by themselves and form their good habits of reading
Step 4
Let them work in groups and role-play the talk on housing conditions in the past and present
Work in groups of three.
Ask each other the following questions and complete the survey on Housing Conditions
Practice how to talk about flats
Homework
1.Recite the reading.
2.Write five to eight sentences to describe your flat.