Learning about Language教学设计(第一课时)

Book 2

unit 1

period 2 learning about language the general idea of this period This period is about the useful words, expressions and structures learned in the text. From the exercise in this period the students can consolidate what they learnt in reading part. Teaching aims: 1.

learning about key words. Select, rare, reception, amaze, less than ,wooden, in search of

Remove, artist, former, at war , survive

2.

make students learn to use these important words and phrases teaching important point

make students learn to use these important words and phrases teaching difficult points

how to make students master these words and use them easily.

Teaching methods: 1.

asking-and-answering activity to make sure whether the students have mastered the usage of the words or not. 2.

explanation and exercise to make them clear.

Teaching procedures Step 1 Greetings

Step 2 explain the key words and phrases 1. But in the professor’s view, a respect for

a peoples’ right to select their own rulers is more important.

Exercise

Mr. Reed has been ________ to represent us on the committee.

He _______ a team for the special task.

区别同意词

choose, select, pick & elect

2. Gold is a rare metal.

Exercise

Because his wife Millicent liked to invite

her friends to big dinners and serve them rare and expensive food and wine.

It is very rare, for instance, for

somebody who has learned English past

puberty to speak without an accent. 3. Thank for your warm reception. Exercise

Speaking of untouchables, I’ve got

great news for you guys. People magazine is having a reception

this Saturday and I managed to get you

invited. Then there is the reception after the ceremony, and often another meal the following morning.

4. The rocket belt will always interest the public and amaze spectators

Exercise

I was ________ at his conduct.

Women have strengths that _______

men. 5. “Oh, yes.” “Well, we get on the job right

away. And in one hour, even less than

one hour, we lose the fix.”

They have less than two weeks to go before they must perform the play for

the Shakespeare in the Courts program.

Exercise

How can I sleep for ________ a second?

. He is no ________ fifty centimetres

round the middle. 6. At the front was a sharp point of iron

that could smash through the sides of

wooden ships.

Exercise

His performances have become ________ and dull.

7. Now, this famine, which strikes

Canaan as well, drives Joseph’s

brothers to Egypt in search of food,

and Joseph doesn’t reveal himself to

his brothers.

Exercise

They all went out ___________ food

They went to Australia ____________

gold. 8. Few survived after the flood.

Exercise

You will not survive the fight tomorrow,

they will make sure of it.I don’t give a fuck.

But did the other prisoners ________? These plants will not ________ without

sun.

Who can ________ the price war? 9. ……..

Step 3 exercise

Words guessing game 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 ---

Chen Lei studied art history and the early _________ of China in a university. He was able to recognize the _____ of different cultural relics from former times, especially the Tang and Song dynasties. One day he was looking in second-hand furniture shop when he saw an ________ object among the many different vases and ______.

It was a mirror _________ in the Song Dynasty and __________ in the _______ style of that time. He recognized that it was ______ a cultural relic, but at a price he could afford, so he bought it at once. Later he gave it to his local museum.

The people there were very happy and without ______ consider it one of the treasures of their collection. To them, it was ______ much more than Chen Lei paid. Step 4 homework