Learning about Language名师教学设计2

Unit 4 Learning about Language Teaching aims: 1.Enable the students to learn some useful expressions 2. Enable the students to use some sentence structures freely Teaching important point: Enable the students to use structure and expressions correctly Teaching difficult point: How to use structure and expressions correctly

Step 1 Lead-in (导入) through some useful expressions Step 2

Discovering useful words and expressions 1.

Complete the sentences with suitable words or expressions from the text. 1) I love going on walks and looking at plants. In fact, I think I’ll study _______ at university. 2) He speaks Spanish with great _______ though he is not good at writing it. 3) The palace we are going to visit tomorrow ___________ the 19th

century. 4) In the center of the block of flats there is a small _________ where I can plant some flowers. 5) There are too many cars on the roads. I think there should be _____ restrictions on car numbers. 2. Complete the paragraph with words from the reading passage. The thought of another trip of thousands of miles on the high seas certainly did not ______ to me, but there was no other way to get the ______ to the _______ islands of the Pacific. We were unable to do any travelling across countries as there were too many ___________ by many of the

governments and we could not move freely across borders. We had so many ________ that they had to be ______ packed on the ship. There was not much room left for the crew. These crowed conditions resulted in a lot of ________ and several fights. However, the worst part of the trip was sailing through a wild _____________, in which the rain did not stop for two days. Step 3

Revising useful structures 1.

Revising these sentences using to or for with the indirect object. 1) Can you give me one kilo of ripe peaches? _________________________________ _________________________________ 2) Send me your report on irrigation as soon as you’ve finished it.

__________________________________ __________________________________ 3) He showed me the weeds so that I wouldn’t out out his new seedlings.

__________________________________ __________________________________ 2. Complete the sentences using the –ing form or the infinitive of the verb as the object. Use the words in brackets to help you. 1) Barbara learned _____________ when her uncle came to visit her family last summer. (ride / horses) 2) I enjoy ___________________________

_______________, though I don’t quite

understand what they are about. (read / cartoons) 3) Jim and Mandy both denied _____________________________. (see /

car key) 4) I expect __________________________ this year. (spend / holidays / France)

Step4 Homework 1.

Retell the story to your partner. 2. Finish off the exercises in your book.