Welcome to the unit优秀说课稿

Welcome to the Unit Teaching aims:

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Encourage students to participate in a discussion about how they feel about these people in need and what they can do to help them. 2.

Encourage students to talk about some international organizations that can help people to live a better life. 3.

Get Ss to know the functions of some famous international organizations. 4.

By talking about the posters and discussing, students’ spoken English can be practised and ideas shared in the group. Teaching focus & difficulties: 1.

Make sure that students have the basic knowledge about the disasters (caused by nature and we human beings) and their effects on our lives . 2.

Make sure that students have the basic knowledge about some famous national and international organizations. 3.

Make sure that each student can hold their own opinions on how to help people around the world. Procedure: Step 1 Brainstorming

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Disasters, caused both by nature and mankind, strike different areas and regions every year. It’s very difficult to predict when and where they will take place. Could you think of some disasters that impressed you deeply? 2.

Show some photos about some disasters and ask what effect these disasters will have on people’s daily lives?

Proper answers:

many people will become homeless

Many children will have no schools to attend

Many people will suffer from hunger

Many people will die from diseases

people still live in poverty

Children have no school to attend

Step 2 Discussion 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 3

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

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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 4

quiz Look at the following and tell what organization you know it stand for? Step 5

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 6 Homework 1.

Do relevant exercises in Assessment Book.

2.

Finish the reading Exs on P128 in Workbook.

3.

Preview reading.