Learning about Language教学活动设计方案

Unit1

(Learning about Language) Knowledge: 1.

Learn some new words of this unit. 2.

Do some exercises of this unit. Ability: 1.

Learn to write out the words according to their explanation in English. 2.

Improve the students’ ability of translating.

Emotion: Train the students’ ability to cooperate with each other.

Teaching important points: 1.

Learn the new words. 2.

Train the students’ translating skills.

Teaching difficulties: 1. Learn to choose the correct words according to the meanings. 2. How to improve the students’ translating skills. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision.

Have a dictation of some words and expressions of reading part.

The Amber Room 1. Time spent: A ____ of artists spent ___ years making it. 2. Material: 7,000 tons of ______ were used for making it, with ____ and ______. 3. Purpose: It was made ___ to be a gift, ___ for the Palace of Frederick I. 4. Results: It was _________ to Russia people. After Frederick William I succeeded his father and ______ the king of Prussia; soon it became part of the Czar’s winter palace; it was one of the great _______ of the world; in 1941, it was _____ by the Nazis. Now a new Amber Room ____________ in Russia and it ______________ the old one, ________ the old photos.

Step 2 Words guessing game 1

1. to choose carefully-- 2. not seen or found very often-- 3. welcome area in a hotel --- 4. to surprise somebody very much--- 5. no more than-- 6. made of wood-- 7. trying to find something; looking carefully for something --- 8. to manage to live or continue in difficulties-- 9. to take something away -- 10. person who creates things which can be considered works of art

-- 11. of an earlier period or time; happening before -- 12. in a situation in which two sides fight each other ---

Step 3 Complete the passage with words below. Suggested answer to Ex 2 dynasties, style, amazing, jewels, designed, decorated, fancy, rare, doubt, worth

Step 4 Learning about Language. 1. Ask the Ss to find the word that means each of the following (Discovering useful words and expressions.) from the reading passage. The Ss begin to do this exercise. After a while, teacher begins to collect their answers and give the correct answers. 2.T: Look at the dictionary entry for the phrasal verb “belong to”, and match the meanings with the sentences in the right box. belong to phr v (T) a.

to be the property of: That coat belongs to me. b.

to be a part of; be connected with: That top belongs to this box. c.

to be a member of: He belongs to a large family. Warning: “Belong” is not used in the continuous tense or the passive voice. 2

Eg. The computer is belonging to my sister. (F)

The computer is belonged to my sister

(F)

The computer belongs to my sister.

(T) The Ss begin to do this exercise. After a while, teacher begins to collect the answers. Later, teacher gives the right answers. 3.

T: let’s look at exercise 3.The preposition sometimes indicates a state, condition or a continuous activity. Look at the sentence of exercise 3 and try to express each of them in another way. After several minutes, T gives the answers.

Step 5 Homework 1.

Finish Ex1 on P4: find out the sentences with attributive clause. 2.

After class, read the passage on Page 5.

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