Learning about Language教案和课堂实录

Teaching Procedure: Step One: Revision

1. Check the homework with the whole class. 2. Change the following sentences into Passive Voice or Active Voice. 1)

A new book is written by him.

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Will the meeting be held tomorrow? 3)

They can finish the work on time. 4)

Tom broke the window. 5)

Have you paid the money?

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Mary is cooking the meal. 7)

Are the books being sold? Step Two: Reading 1. Show students some pictures of the dinosaurs. 2. Ask Ss to read the passage and answer the questions. 1) When did the dinosaurs live?

2) What’s the rare new species dinosaur?

3) Why did the dinosaur die out?

Answers: 1) tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being;

2) It is a rare new species of bird-like dinosaur. They could run like other dinosaurs, but also climb trees.

3) Some scientists think it was after a large rock hit the earth…(Para 2)

Step Three: Language points

1. come into being = begin to exist

开始存在；发生；产生

eg. We don’t know when the world came into being.

2. for sure = certainly 的确；确实地

Step Four: Listening 1. Show the pictures of dodo to students. 2. Play the tape and ask Ss to get the main idea for the first time, and do Ex 2 on P30. 3. Go through Ex.1 for the second time, then check the answers with the whole class. Step Five: Speaking

1. Ss talk in pairs how to help dodos when they are in trouble. 2. Ask some Ss to report their discussion Step Six: Writing 1. Show the writing tips on the slide. 1) Collect your ideas for the letter and write an outline of the ways to help it 2) Decide the intention and the purpose of each of your ways. 3) Begin the letter with your address and the solution. Then write the ways as the body of the letter. 4) Finish the letter with your best wishes and your signature. 2. Write a letter to the dodo to tell him how you will help him. Step Seven: Assignments 1. Preview “Reading task”, P65

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2. Do “Writing task” on P67.

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