Lesson 2 Personalities and Jobs全国优秀课堂实录

Unit13 People Lesson 2 Personalities and Jobs[教学设计] Objectives:

To practise describing people and talking about jobs To practice listening in order to identify opinions To get familiar with different ways of giving opinions To practice using suitable intonations in conversation

Skills Focus:

Listening, speaking

Teaching Process ◎

Warm-up: Activity 1: Students look at a caricature of Zhou Runfa (an actor) and talk about his jobs and the personalities that an actor should have.

Activity 2:

Students talk about what personalities should a teacher have.

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Pre-listening

Activity 3:

Brainstorming: words for personality.

Students find more adjectives for personality.

Check the answers to exercise 3 and learn the new words.

Activity 4:

Brainstorming: words for jobs.

Activity 5:

students answer the questions: What job do you want to do? Why? / What characteristics have you got that are good for this kind of job?

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Listening

Activity 6: Listen to a class discussion and answer the following questions. 1. Xiao Dong believes that computer programmers are not sociable but they have to be creative.

2. What characteristics do the students think that tour guides should have? They need to be __________, ____________ and ______________. They can deal with _____________________ and ___________. (independent, communicative, well-organised, unexpected situations, problems) 3. Li Liang said, “They must never give up.” Which job is he talking about here? Farm technicians Activity 7: Listen again and find out the expressions of giving opinions. And this time the tape script is given. Ways of giving opinions: My impression is that/ it seems to me that/I’m certain that/ I’d like to/ I think, / As I see it，

Other ways of giving opinion: I guess,/I feel that/ In my opinion/ I believe/ I would have thought/…

Responses to opinions: I couldn’t agree more/ That’s cool! / You are right there! / To some extent I agree

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After-listening

Activity 8: Write down your personalities and you can discuss with your desk mates.

Read out your personalities in your group and the rest of the students suggest the right careers (jobs) for them. (While speaking, try to use the expressions of giving opinions and responses t