Unit 1 Do you collect anything
Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. Language knowledge:
Key vocabulary: collect, collection, tidy, tidy up, doll, fan, stamp, untidy, least, take up, all the time, be interested in, interview
2. Listening skill: To understand conversations involving talking about one’s hobbies. Improve the students’ listening ability.
Teaching Aids: Multi-Media (or Tape recorder, OHP)
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming up and lead in (2’)
1. Greeting. Talk about the winter vacation.
How was your winter vacations
What did you do during the vacation
Are you interested in …
What did your father/ mother often do
Did he / she do it all the time
So his / her hobby is to ….
Step 2 Listing (5’)
1. List the hobbies of the family members’.
2. Guess what hobbies the teachers have. In this way show the new words “stamp, doll, fan”.
3. Talk about the hobbies:
Which hobby is expensive
Which hobby takes up the least space
Which hobby is good for us students
Which hobby do you like best
Step 3 Listening (5’)
1. Read the chart and predict Tony’s hobbies.
2. Listen and complete the chart.
3. Listen to the tape again and answer the questions about the tape.
Why does Tony’s mum want him to tidy up his room
Whose hobby is expressive
Which hobby do you think takes up the least space
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 4 Listen and read (13’)
1. Show the following.
Lingling’s hobby music
Daming’s hobby fans
Sally’s hobby going to Radio Beijing
Sally’s plan. tickets
2. Listen to the tape of the conversation and match. (Activity 4)
3. Listen and repeat the conversation.
4. Get to write down the answers in Activity 4.
5. Read the conversation together loudly. Show some comprehension questions.
What does Lingling need to do And why
What made Sally so interested in music
When did Sally have her first violin lesion
What is Sally going to Radio Beijing to do
6. Read in a group of 3.
Step 5 Who’s who (4’)
1. Ask the Ss to choose a character from the conversation.
2. Work in pairs, get each of them to find out which character his / her partner selects.
A: What is your hobby
B: My hobby always takes up a large space.
A: You must be Sally.
A: What is your hobby
C: …
Step6 Who is my good friend in the group (10’)
1. Divide the classroom into 3 or 4 groups. Ask the Ss in each group to make conversations one by one to find out who is a good friend of his/ hers.
2. Make conversations to find out who has the most hobbies or has the same opinions about hobbies.
3. Make conversations with the ones in the group like following:
A: Do you have a hobby
B: Yes, I do.
A: What’s your hobby
B: My hobby is to read books.
A: When did you start doing it
B: I started doing it when I was seven years old.
A: How often do you read books
B: I read books every day when I am free.
A: Where do you read books
B: I read books everywhere, in the classroom, bedroom, library and park and so on.
A: Why do you enjoy your hobby
B: I think reading can make me happy and know a lot about the world.
A: Do you want to change your hobby when you grow up
B: I don’t think so. Reading is important and relaxing.
4. Make sure the one who has the same opinion about hobbies or who has the most hobbies as you is your good friend.
5. A report about your good friend like the example given. (The Ss may substitute the underlined parts with their own needs)
I have a close friend in my group. He is Eric. We have the same hobby --Reading. Eric stated reading when he was seven years old and now he reads books every day when he is free. He often reads in the classroom, in his bedroom, in the library or even in the park. He thinks reading can make him happy and know a lot about the world. He also thinks reading is very important and relaxing. So he will continue reading in the future.
Homework
1. Write a composition about your good friend.
2. Oral work: Read the conversation of Activity 3.
3. Finish Activity 6 on page 8.