Word power: Emotions教学设计方案

Module 6 Unit 2

What is happiness to you? Word power ----Emotions Teaching aims: 1.

Enlarge students’ vocabulary related to emotions. 2.

Practice students’ reading and speaking ability. 3.

To help students keep a positive attitude towards life and study. Teaching important and difficult points: 1.

To learn how to differentiate the usage of nouns from that of adjectives. 2.

To understand the formation of nouns and adjectives. Teaching methods: 1.

Task-based teaching. 2.

Group work. Teaching aids:

A projector

A computer Teaching procedures: Step 1 Greetings

Greet students as usual. Step 2 Lead-in

Show a picture of Fu Yuanhui and ask students to describe her facial expressions. Tell students that words related to emotions can help us express exactly how we feel. Step 3 Word Power 1.

Word study Show more pictures from the Rio Olympics and ask students to describe them with adjectives and nouns. In this way, students are able to draw conclusions as “1. link verb (be,feel,seem…)+adj.

2.notional verb /prep/(pron)+n.”

2.

Expansion of words Have students finish the exercise of Part B on page22, since they have understood the differences about the usage of words related to emotions. Students will be able to master more such words. 3.

Brainstorming After finishing the exercise on the book, students may find a problem that they usually feel confused about the choice between adjectives and nouns, though they know the rule well. Especially when they don’t know the meaning of the word, they can’t decide which one is the adjective form. List the adjective form and noun form of several words about emotions, and ask students to find out the rule.

Students may conclude that it is the suffix that makes the word an adjective or a noun. Ask students to have a brainstorm and work in groups to come up with more words

according to the suffixes. Adjectives

happy

content

satisfied

suffix

-ness -ment -tion Noun

More examples ……

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More examples ……

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Noun

cheer

surprise

anxiety

suffix

-ful -ed -ous

Adjectives

4.

Consolidation Show a picture of a debate of the class. Remind them of this experience and share a diary entry of one student. Ask students to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given words.

excitement, disappointment, surprised, fright,

pride, nervous, frustration, relaxation

Hearing about the debate competition, I experienced a sense of 1._____________, thinking of many teachers and classmates staring at me. Eger to win, I spent many hours searching for information and improving my speech. My friends all said I was quite hardworking.

As the debate went on, I gradually became 2. ________ because I was too absorbed in the debate to notice people around me. Our class was against Class 467. To my 3._________, Zhou Tong, one of my classmates in the middle school was among the debaters of Class 467. He raised many convincing arguments that are difficult to debate against. All our classmates looked anxious, as they were 4. __________ that we would be defeated. Thankfully, the four of us soon found ways to declare our points. At last, we became the winner. The whole class cheered with 5.___________. I also felt 6.________of myself because I earned reputation(荣誉) for my class.

However, my classmate Zhou Tong seemed 7. __________, fearing that his classmates would be 8. ___________ __with him. After the debate, I talked to him, giving him a lot of comfort. 5.

Idioms study Draw students attention to part C on page 23, and ask them first to guess the meanings of the idioms. Then show a passage to them so that the students are able to figure out their meanings according to the context. Life is always full of competition. When we gain victory, we may be over the moon. However, failure is also part of life, which constantly leaves us down in the dumps.

When we meet unfair（不公的）judgement, it is natural to feel hot under the collar. However, it is life. What we have to do is accept it.

Whatever happens, never fly off the handle, because it is not good for your health. Whatever happens, just smile, being on cloud nine will prevent us from feeling blue. In this way, our life will be full of laughter and sunshine. Step 4 Group Work Students are expected to talk in groups to share one of their life experiences using at least 5 words related to emotions. Meanwhile, they are welcomed to come up more words and idioms about emotions. Step 5 Homework Review the words we learnt today. Finish the exercise on page 113 of WORKBOOK.