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Unit 4 Helping People around the world

Period 1 Welcome to the unit Teaching Objectives: 1. Enable students to think about different hard situations people around the world are facing and the importance of international aid. 2. Develop students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking ability. 3. Promote to form correct values. Teaching Important and Difficult Point: Improve students’ speaking and thinking ability.

Teaching Approaches: Task-based approaches Form of Activities: Individual, pair or group work and topic discussions. Teaching Aids: The multimedia and the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Brainstorming 1.Dicussion 1) If one of your friends met with difficulty in doing his homework, what would you do? If he was ill? Or unhappy? 2) When flood happened in Hubei in 1998, what did people of other areas do to help? (Have the students discuss the questions and then express their ideas.) 2. Talk about Tsunami in the Indian Ocean 1) Do you know what happened in the Indian Ocean in Dec.2004? 2) Pictures of the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Did you do something to help? What did you do? Why? 3) Pictures of China’s help: donation, medical team

Do you think it right for China to do so? Why? (When a country meets some difficulties, the other countries should help people there to overcome them, so that we can live peacefully together; International aid is very important for countries in need of help.) Step 2. Picture talking Picture 1 1. Show pictures of the UN peace-keeping force on the screen. 2. Questions: 1) Who are they?

2) How can they help people across the world? 3) Have you dreamed of being a soldier? Why or why not? Picture 2 1. Show pictures of poor African people on the screen. 2. Questions: 1) What happened in this picture? (The little boy was too weak to support his head because of hunger, there’s a hawk not far away, which seemed to be waiting for its dinner.) 2) Are there any poor people like them in China? Where are they? What can we do for them? Picture 3 1. Show pictures of flood on the screen. 2. Questions: 1) What are they doing? 2) What difficulties will people face if a flood happens? 3) How can people solve the problems? Picture 4 1. Show pictures of agriculture on the screen. 2. Questions: 1) Is agriculture important? Why? 2) What are the important things for agriculture? Picture 5 1. Show a picture of doctors who are helping people in need in the countryside for free. 2. Questions: 1) What are the doctors doing? Where are they? 2) What do they do to help? Picture 6 1. Show a picture of a poor family. 2. Questions: 1) Describe the family in the picture, what are the differences between your life and theirs? 2) How can they change their life? Do you have any good ideas? Step 3 Discussion 1.What organizations

do you know of that can help with the situations in the pictures? 2.Have you ever helped people in need? What did you do to help them? Step 4 Homework 1.Preview “Reading”

2.Write a short essay about your feelings of helping others.