Task(1): Writing to a foreign friend: Skills building 1 and 2优质课教案内容

Period 8-9

Task Learning aims 1. Knowledge (知识) ：Learn the new words and phrases and learn more about Contributive Clause 2. Ability (能力) ：Improve the abilities of reading and writing. 3. Emotion (情感) ：Talk about growing pains. Step. Pre-class Lead in

Talk about the feelings of the speakers in the pictures, ask students to list the different tones and speak out some of the sentences from the HOME ALONE according to the tones of each character.

Dad: where is your brother? It’s nice to be home. I feel like

we have to punish him….

Daniel: I hate them! Mom, Dad, I can explain…

Eric: Mom! Dad! You’re back early!

Mom: What did you do with the money we left? Step 2. During-class 1. Presentation

Skills building 1: Listening

Ask students to listen to example sentences in five different tones one by one Ask them to tell what they think about the speaker’s emotion.

Is she happy or angry? Is she in high spirits or in low spirits?

Ask them to read the explanation for each sentence.

Ask students to imitate after the tape.

2. Skills building 2: Reading for gist

What is gist? ___________________________________________.

Practice

Read the four diary entries and fill in the form.

Ask students to read four diary entries and underline the main points of each entry and circle the key words that show the mood of the writer. Ask students to finish the task in a group of four and each member of the group is in charge of one diary entry.

[来源:Zxxk.Com]Entries The first diary entry The second diary entry The third diary entry The fourth diary entry Main points Today has been …

We had … I am …

Failed … don’t …

All … for nothing

The words telling the writer’s moodhappy tired, afraid, nervous upset very happy, glad [来源学科网]

3. Skills building 3:

Writing a dialogue If you want to write a dialogue, you’d better pay attention to the following points:

1) not too colloquial, not using words like “Umm” and “Hmm”

2) not too redundant, trying not to repeat words in a dialogue.

3) descriptive, showing your character’s feelings.

Practice Finish exercise on page 36.

4. Group work Talk to your partners about what subject you like most and what subject you like least. Then present the dialogue with your group members in class.

5. Language points 1) mark n. 分数；标志,记号vt. 做标志；打分数

练：(1) I got 80 ______ in the math test. 数学考试我得了八十分。

(2) _____

the test papers?你给所有的试卷都

______ 了吗? (3) As the years passed, many occasions — birthdays, awards, graduations — ________ with Dad’s flowers.

A. are marked

B. were marked

C. have marked

D. had marked 2) stay up 不睡觉，熬夜

练：Are you used to

?

你习惯了熬夜吗？

3) upset adj.

心烦的，苦恼的；vt. 使心烦，使苦恼

练：(1) upset sb.

be / feel upset about sth

(2) What he said just now upset me.

。

(3) I

the students’ results of the test. 我对学生考试的结果感到心烦。

4) after all

毕竟；还是

after all放在句子前，表示“毕竟”；放在句子后，表示“还是”，相当于副词though。

练：(1) The little girl can’t

.

, she is only five.

那小女孩不会自己穿衣服。毕竟她还只有五岁。

(2) The man wanted to stick to his plan. He gave it up at last after all.

(3) Your performance in the driving test didn't reach required standard

, you failed.

A. in the end

B. after all

C. in other words

D. at the same time 5) mix

vt. & vi 混合；混淆，弄混

adj. mixed混合的，复杂的

练：(1) What will happen if you

the two chemicals? 将这两种化学物质混合，会出现什么情况？

(2) 油和水不相混合。

(3) I have

feelings about the matter. 我对这个事情有种复杂的感情。

(4) mix up 混淆，弄乱；搅匀，拌和

mix … with

(5) His explanation just

他的解释让我更糊涂了。

(6) mix joy and sorrow

7) express vt. . 表达，表示，表露

n. expression 练：(1) His views have been expressed in many speeches.

(2) express oneself

8) stress

n. 负担，压力；强调；重音

v. 强调

adj. stressed 紧张的

练：(1) Things can easily go wrong when people are under stress. (n.)

(2) The teacher puts too much stress on the pronunciation of the word. (n.)

(3) 她强调了学习的重要性（v. ）

(4) When you are not stressed, you can be more productive. (adj.)

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9) fix v. 使固定，安装；确定，决定

练：(1) Please fix a shelf to the wall.

(2) 下次会议的日期确定没有？

Has the date of the next meeting

? fix sth. on sb. / sth. 集中（思想，目光等）于某人

/ 某物

(3) Please fix your attention on what you are doing now.

10) leave out

省略；遗漏

练：我们可以省去第二句话。

11) the rest

其余的人

/ 东西

练：(1) Take what you want and throw the rest away.

注：the rest本身相当于名词，可直接做主语，宾语等. 也可以后接of短语，the rest / the rest of…作主语，后面可接单数或复数谓语，视情况而定。

(2) 其余食物被扔掉了。The rest of the food

(3) Tom很生气，但其余人都很高兴。Tom was angry, but the rest

12) be meant to do

(1) 被普遍认为是(2) 适合某事物: 练：(1) 都说这家饭店很好。

(2) 我认为她不适合当老师。

13) argue (with sb.) about… (argue over…) (和某人) 为…. 而争论

练：他们还在为文章细节争执不下。

They are still

the details of the passage.

14) think of … as …

把……看作……；把……视为……

练：I think of this place as my home.

注：下列词组都可表示“把…… 看作……；把……视为……”

consider…. as / to be…. , regard…. . as……

15) What’s up?

怎么了？（=What’s the matter?）

练：What’s up with Tom? Is he drunk or something?

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