Task: My hometown第一课时导学案

7BUnit 3

Welcome to Sunshine Town! Task

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. use new words and expressions correctly; 2. make notes about the hometown before writing; 3. write about their hometown.

II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: hometown, friendly, raise, grow, wheat, smell, drive, raise cows; grow wheat; smell the flowers 2. New structures: Some families raise cows, and others grow wheat.

I think it is a wonderful place to live.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. To make notes about the hometown before writing. 2. To write about the students’ hometown.

IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Lead-in 1. Memory of Sunshine Town. T: Hello, boys and girls, today we will learn Task of Unit 3. Do you still remember the hometown of Class 1, Grade 7 students in Sunshine Middle School? Let’s complete the table. 【设计意图：通过回忆有关阳光镇的内容，引出“家乡”这一主题。】

Step 2 Presentation 1. John’ notes about his hometown. T: You really have a good memory. We have learnt something about Neil, one of the exchange students. Today we will meet another exchange student, John. He wanted to make a video

about his hometown, so he made some notes about it. Read the notes and try to remember as much information as you can. 2. New words and phrases.

T: Time is up. John took some photos of his hometown. I’ll show them to you. Can you say something about these photos with the information in his notes?

Picture 1: raise cows

Picture 2: grow wheat

Picture 3: smell flowers

Picture 4: hear birds sing 3. Make notes. T: Read Neil’s notes again. We can find that his notes include these pieces of information. 4. Listen and answer.

T: Before making the video, John wrote a script. Let’s listen to it and answer some questions. (1) How do people make a living? (2) What can people do for fun? (3) What are the people like there? (4) How do people go around?

5. Different parts of Neil’s script. T: How many parts can we divide the script into? What does each part talk about? Part 1 (Introduction): name, greetings. Part 2 (Main body): my house, things to do, hometown. Part 3 (Conclusion): opinions, invitation. T: Can you find the useful expression? 【设计意图：通过不同形式的练习，让学生充分理解文章。】

Step 3 Practice 1. Writing steps.

T: All right, students. It’s time for you to write about your hometown. Before writing, let’s talk about the writing steps. 2. Writing materials.

T: Here is a video of Wuxi. Let’s find out some information that we can use in it. (Play the video.) T: Can you describe what Wuxi is like? Wuxi is a lively city. Wuxi is a historical city. Wuxi is a modern city. Life in Wuxi is like dancing to music. Life in Wuxi is like drinking a cup of tea. 3. Make notes about Wuxi.

Hometown: about 4650 km2

over 6 million people

full of beautiful view buses, trains, planes, underground, …

House:

Introduce your house and the environment around your house.

Things to do: go sightseeing

visit old towns

enjoy nice food

do some shopping

Useful expressions:

Hello, I am …/I’m going to

…

… is … in area./There are …

Some … and many others …

You can … by …

You can … and you can also …

It’s a good

place to …/I hope …

4. Writing structure. T: Here is my advice. You can divide your passage into five paragraphs. Here is what each paragraph is about. You can borrow some from it. 5. Sample writing. 【设计意图：通过对文章的分析，让学生知道文章的大体轮廓。为学生提供一些写作素材，提醒学生在写作中需要注意的地方，并给出范文，让学生自行完成一篇介绍家乡的短文。】

V. Homework

1. Write about your own hometown. 2. Recite John’s script.