Welcome to the unit名师课堂实录

Unit 1

Dream homes Comic strip & Welcome to the unit

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. understand and act out the comic strip; 2. correctly say the name, the capital, a place of interest, the language and the people of the six countries on Page 7.

II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: palace, town, Canada, France, Japan, Russia, UK, London, country, capital, next to 2. New structures: I’d like to live next to a restaurant. There are twenty restaurants in town. The biggest one in Fifth Street! Is Tokyo the capital of Japan?

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty 1. To read the proper nouns on Page 7 correctly and remember them well. 2. To get enough information for the conversation from the teacher’s presentation and the discussion with classmates. 3. To talk about the students’ own favourite countries.

IV. Teaching procedures Comic strip Step 1 Lead-in Free talk

(1) How was your winter holiday? (2) Did you have a good time?

(3) What did you do?

(4) Where did you go? (5) What was the best part of your winter holiday? T: Great! All of you enjoyed yourselves during the winter holiday. Some visited interesting places and others just stayed at home and still had fun. Just as the saying goes, “East or west, home is the best.” Though we all think our own home is the best place in the world, we still have our dream homes. Maybe you love your home in the city centre very much, but your dream home is in the countryside. Maybe your small flat is full of love every day, but you dream of living in a big house. This unit we are going to talk about our dream homes. I think it will be an interesting topic.

Step 2 Presentation 1. Watch and answer. T: Eddie and Hobo are also talking about their dream homes. Watch the cartoon and answer the questions: Would Eddie like to live in a palace? Do you understand the meaning of this new word “palace”? 2. Read and learn. T: Let’s open the book and tell me where Eddie would like to live. T: Good! What does “next to” mean in Chinese? And what about “fifth”? 3. Language points. T: Read aloud after the tape and learn the language points. (1) would like to do … = want to do (2) live in a palace (3) live next to a restaurant (4) in town (5) the biggest one in Fifth Street

Step 3 Practice 1. Play roles and practise in pairs. T: Work in pairs and act out the story. I’ll ask some pairs to act in front of the class.

2. Complete a short story.

Welcome to the unit Step 1 Part A 1. Presentation and learn.

Show pictures to learn about different countries: Japan, the USA, France, Canada, the UK and Russia. Japan T: Boys and girls, please look at the picture. Who knows the name of this place? T: Yes, it’s Mount Fuji. There is thick white snow at the top of the mountain all year round. The view in and around this mountain is really wonderful. Do you know which country it is in? T: That’s right. It’s in Japan. Mount Fuji is near Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Do you understand the meaning of “capital”?

T: What do we call the people who live in Japan? Yes, we call them Japanese or Japanese people. And “Japanese” also means the language that Japanese people speak.

T: We’ve learnt something about Japan. Would you please say something about this picture or this country? For example, the capital of Japan is Tokyo. Who’d like to go on? T: Good job! So much for this picture. Now, look at the next picture. 2. Look and match.

Finish Part A on Page 7. 3. Complete and say.

T: We’ve learnt a lot about different countries. Let me help you remember them well. Look at this table. First, would you please complete it? T: Would you please say several sentences about each country? You can first practise with your partner. Then I’ll ask some of you to report one of them to the class.

Step 2 Part B 1. Listen and answer. (1) Which picture are Annie and Simon talking about? (2) What do you know from their conversation?

2. Read aloud. 3. Make up similar conversations.

Step 3 Practice

Show pictures of famous people from the six countries and ask the students to do the question chains. Vote for the best question and the best answer. T: I’ll show you some famous people from the six countries. Let’s do a “question chain”. Six questions for each of them. Let’s see who will raise the best question and who will give the best answer. Are you ready? OK. Let’s start from …

T: Great! Most of you did a very good job. Which question and which answer do you think are the best?

V. Homework 1. Tell your parents about your favourite country among the six in English.

2. Remember the new language points.