Unit 5 Problems and advice优质课教案设计

Unit 5

Problems and advice Reading: What should I do? (1.5 periods) Cognitive Objective:

To learn about some students’

problems by reading three excerpts from their letters to the school counselor asking for advice. Skills Objective:

To practise students’ skimming for main ideas and scanning for specific details. To practice students’ speaking on a given topic.

Affective Objective:

To help students learn that it is natural for everyone to sometimes have problems in life and need to consult someone else for advice.

Teaching aids: Tape-recorder & Multimedia

Procedures: I. Lead-in:

A. Picture talk: What should I do? Pic A:

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Just walk by the money as if you did not see it. 2

Pick up the money and donate it to Project Hope. 3

Pick up the money and stand there waiting for the person that lost it. 4

Pick up the money and give it to a policeman. 5

Pick up the money and use it to buy some books. Pic B: 1

Build a fence 2

Keep the dog as your pet. 3

Just drive the dog away. 4

Raise a dog of your own to keep watch over the garden. Pic C: 1

Ask your parents for help to solve the problem. 2

Go away and pretend you had nothing to do with it. 3

Ask a mechanic to repair the window.

B. What sort of problems do you have? family problems, boy-girl relationships, study pressures, failing exams, bullying in school, depression, …….

C. Questionnaire 1

Who do you often turn to for advice when you don’t know how to deal with a problem? 2

Why do you turn to that person for help? 3

Have you ever done something that you regret? If so, have you thought of doing something to me up for it?

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II. While-reading A. Listen to the first letter and answer three questions 1. Who knocked a flowerpot from the window of a new high-rise flat? •

A close friend of mine. 2. What did the police do to a neighbour’s son?

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They took him to the police station and questioned him. 3. How did the writer feel? •

She felt guilty of not reporting the truth.

B. Listen to the second paragraph and fill in the blanks •

Last night,

while travelling home on the underground, I saw three ______ guys enter my almost empty ________. •

They sat down beside a young boy who was travelling ______ and began to ______ and ______ him. Their _________ was so bad that it made him move to another seat, but that did no ______. They just followed him and __________ their bullying. The boy was obviously __________. _____________, I stopped looking and got off my station, feeling sorry for the boy. I ________ not helping him, but not being Superman and _______ violence, what could I do?

C. Listen to the third paragraph twice and retell it Key words: •

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checkout assistant, rude and unhelpful pay 50 pounds for a 6-pound purchase busy grumbling, accidentally, an extra 10-pound note discover the error, try to tell the assistant bark, leave the shop with the 10 pounds a clear conscience

Assignment 1.

Read aloud new words and expressions and the text after the tape. 2.

Group work: prepare a short play that dramatizes the incident and create an ending that somehow resolves the problem.

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