Warm-up名师教学设计

Lesson 1 Life-Long Learning

Objectives: 1.To develop and practise the strategies for prediction, working out meanings and making inferences. 2.To learn to use the expressions correctly. 3.To realize the importance of life-long learning. 4.To practise using third conditional sentences. Teaching key & Difficult Points 1.Improve the students’ reading ability. 2.Master some important expressions. Expressions:be about to,lay off, swell with,aside from,have no chance of doing,go blank,set up. Teaching Methods: 1.Discussion 2.Reading 3.Asking and Answering 4.Conclusion Teaching Process: StepⅠ Lead-in Ask the students the following questions: 1.If you failed in the college entrance exam,will you continue to study? 2.If you would be laid off,what should you do? The ask students about life-long learning,what famous sayings can you think of? (for example:It’s never too late to learn) StepⅡ Pre-reading 1.Ask students look at the Picture and title of text and guess: ①Are they all students? ②Hou old are they? ③What are they doing? One more question: What have your parents or other relatives learned after formal education? 2.Match the new phrases with the explanations: ①Lay off A(心中)溢满

②Swell with B除……之外

③be about to do C 下岗，解雇

④aside from D 专心于……

⑤set up E 建立、成立

⑥be buried in F 好像

⑦as if G 正要做某事

Answers:① C ② A ③ G ④ D ⑤ E ⑥ D ⑦ F Step Ⅲ Fast-reading Let students skim the text to check their guesses and find out what each Paragraph is about. StepⅣ Careful-reading Students read the passage more carefully and find information to fill in the table. Name Sun Wen Ms Tang Grandpa Chen What did they

study? Reason for

study How did they

study? Result of their

study? Language Points: 1.be about to do sth 正在做某事

be about to do sth…when…正要做某事，突然……

eg:We were about to set out when it began to rain.我们正要启程这时突然下起雨来。

be doing …when… 正在做某事突然……

had done…when… 刚做完某事突然……

2.lay off

下岗,解雇

eg：If your boss laid you off,what would you do? 如果你的老板解雇你，你会怎么办？

lay down

放下

lay down one’s arms 放下武器

lay the table 摆桌子（准备吃饭）

3.aside from

①除了……之外（还有）=apart from/besides=in addition to eg:Aside from being too large,the color of the skirt doesn’t suit me . 除了太太之外，这个裙子的颜色也不适合我。

②除了……之外（没有了）=except eg:All of the children in that class like the game,aside from Peter.除了Peter外，那个班里的所有学生都喜欢这个游戏。

4.Frankly speaking,the last four years have been hard work,but it’s worth it! 坦白地说，过去的四年很辛苦，但它是值得的。

1)Frankly speaking:常用作插入语，意为：坦白地说。

eg:Frankly speaking,I bought the house for only l0,000 yuan. 2)Worth

表语形容词，意为：值，其后接表“价值”的名语或接动词-ing形式。

eg：①This book is worth 100 yuan. ②This book is worth reading. 5.I decided that it was time I became an Internet user.我觉得是成为互联网用户的时候了。

It’s time that sb did sth

是某人该做某事的时候。

eg:It’s time we went home. It’s time (for sb)to do sth 某人该做……

It’s time for sth 某人该做……

It /This is the first /second time that sb has done sth.这是某人第一、二次做……

StepⅤ Discussion Read through the example sentences,then ask students to discuss the ways they can take part in life-long learning when they finish school or university. StepⅥ Homework Do Exercise 5 in Page37 and exercises of lesson 1 in the language Power.