Learning about Language第一课时教学实录

Language points Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

migrant, adequate, sow, hardship, bachelor, owe, correspond with b. 重点句子

Most Australia believe that having people from so many different backgrounds creates tolerance and respect and makes Australia a stronger nation and a more interesting place to live. P24 The early settlers owed their survival to hard work and determination to succeed. P25 The keeper’s solution was to build and even bigger barrier. P26

The result was disappointing. P26 The meat seems to shrinking. P26 It smells strange. P26

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to learn the usage of some important words in this unit. Enable the students to master what can act as predicative and which verb can be used as link verb. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students use the new words and expressions and predicative correctly.

Teaching important points 教学重点

What can be used as predicative.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

What other verbs can be used as link verbs besides “be”.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Summarizing and practicing. Teaching aids 教具准备

A computer and a projector. Teaching procedures && ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ

Learning about words 1. Discovering useful words and expressions Get the students to do Task 1, 2 and 3 according to the instructions and then ask some of them to present their answers. Before asking students to do this part, the teacher first should make sure that the students know the part of speech of these words, and then consult the dictionary to see how the same kinds of words are defined. Possible answers to Task 2

Word migrant Your definition Dictionary definition People who came from one place A person or animal or esp. birds that are now living in another place migrates or is migrating. Enough for the purpose To plant or scatter seeds on a piece of land adequate sow Enough Put seeds in to soil hardship bachelor correspond owe Something painful and difficult People who don’t marry

Keep touch with Think one results from another Difficult condition in life An unmarried man Exchange letters regularly To admit as the cause, discover, or point of origin Possible answers to Task 3 word tax home words related taxation, tax-collector, tax-payer, tax-free homeland, hometown, homework, homesick, homemade, homeless, homelike rust time rust-less, rustproof

timetable, time-bomb, time-limit, time-difference, time-saving, time-spirit tight night-bell, night-bird, night-school, night-work, night-dress, night clothes,

night-flower autonomy autonomous, automation, automatic, automat defend tolerate celebrate nation defense, defenseless, defendant, defensive, defendable tolerance celebration, celebrator national, nation-wide, nationality, nation-army, nation-band, nation-defense, nation-economy city birth associate reserve way

2. USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS (Workbook) Get the students to do the exercises in USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS and then check their answers together.

citizen, Citizenship, city-hall, city-man birthday, birthplace, birth-mark, birth-control, birth-rate association, associational reservation, reserved, reservoir airway, railway, waylay, waybill, way-less, way-worn