Unit 2 Hobbies can make you grow as a person
Teaching Content: Vocabulary and reading
Teaching Aims and Demands:
1. Language knowledge:
New words: as, mountain, volleyball, sailing, creative, lazy, useful, develop, skill, camp, as well as, activity, such as, workshop, professional, imagine, senior, teenage, teenager, come out, result, as a result, enjoyment, success, should
2. Reading skill:
(1). Get information about one’s hobbies in reading.
(2). Improve the students’ reading ability to understand the passage.
3. Attitudes: We should establish good hobbies.
Teaching Aids: Multi-Media (Tape recorder, video, OHP, handout)
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Guessing Game (6’)
1. Show part of many pictures of different kind of hobbies and ask the Ss to guess what hobby it is.
2. While guessing, make simple comment on each hobby, like:
I like mountain biking because it is exciting.
I like painting because it is creative. You can draw everything you imagine in your mind
I like growing flowers and vegetables because it can bring me enjoyment and success.
I love singing very much, as a result, I know many professional singers such as Liu Huan, Michael Jackson.
Many teenagers like reading. Because they think it is useful and relaxing.
Many people like playing volleyball because they think this activity can develop their skills
I don’t like sailing because I am not a good swimmer and I don’t have good swimming skills.
Step 2 Talk abut the hobbies (2’)
1. Work in pairs, talk about the pictures.
A: What hobbies can you see in picture …
B: I can see …
A: How do you think of the hobbies
B: I think … is creative/ relaxing/ useful…
A: Is it a usual activity in the school
B: Yes, it is also a usual activity on a summer camp.
Step 3 Scanning and skimming (2’)
1. Get the Ss to read the passage as quickly as possible.
2. Find out:
Whose is the special hobby
What is the special hobby
3. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 4 Reading for specific information ( 5’)
1. Present some true or false questions about detailed information from the passage.
David Smith likes writing. (T)
He learned writing during a summer camp of 2000. (T)
There was a professional writer on the camp. (T)
David wrote a story about his life in senior high school. (F)
David’s first book came out in 2003. (T)
His book was very popular. (T)
Writing was his only hobby in his free time. (F)
David decided to write more books in the future. (F)
2. Read the passage by themselves. And ask to finish the true or false exercises.
3. Check the answers with the whole class.
Step5 Reading for comprehension (15’)
1. Get the Ss to listen and repeat the passage simultaneously.
2. Present the following questions:
How many hobbies does David have
Which is he interested in most
When did David become a successful writer
Why has David been very lucky
What is David’s plan about his main hobby
Have any of your hobbies brought your great success
What skills have you learnt through your hobbies
3. Get the students to discuss the questions in pairs.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
5. Language points in the passage.
Many students have hobbies such as …
Hobbies can make you grow as a person, develop your interests and help you learn new …
As well as the usual activities, …
She asked us to imagine that we were in a story.
David wrote a story about teenage life, and it came out…
…, and as a result, David has …
I spend some of my free time playing volleyball…
Maybe I’ll write more books in the future, but I’m not sure
Step6 Reading for further comprehension (5’)
1. Get the Ss to read the passage together loudly.
2. Discuss the following questions in groups.
What should we learn from David’s attitude towards his hobby
Why do people usually have hobbies
3. Share the ideas.
Step7 Debate (5’)
1. Divide the Ss into two groups.
2. Debate: Do you think David should write more books in the future
Group A For the opinion
Group B Against the opinion
Homework
1. Write a short passage. Introduce your own hobby and what it has brought to your life.
2. Complete Activity 3 on page 7.
3. Oral work: Read the passage.