Word power: Emotions名师教学视频（文字实录）

教案：

Module 6

Unit 2

What is happiness to you? Word Power

Emotions Teaching aims: Knowledge target: 1. Students will learn the adjectives and nouns to describe emotions.

2. Students can use the emotional adjectives and nouns in a proper way. Ability goals: 1. Students will develop a habit of accumulating words rapidly by thinking of related words.

2. Students will improve their spoken English by expressing and sharing their opinions.

Emotional objective:

Students will be encouraged to work in groups and they will learn the importance of cooperation. Important and Difficult Points: How to guarantee a high efficiency of processing and digesting words in class Teaching approaches:

Task-based Teaching Approach; Situational Teaching Approach

Teaching Aids: a computer, multimedia, chalks, blackboard

Type of class: word power Teaching procedures: Step 1. Self-introduction and Lead-in

Use a short video to lead in. Step 2. Describing the pictures：

1. Show the pictures on the screen for students to describe. Seven groups of pictures will be shown on the screen. They are arranged in the order of happiness, anger, sadness, surprise, fear, curiosity and envy.

2. Show more examples of adjectives about emotions to students. Write down them on the blackboard. Present the adjectives in the order of happiness, anger, sadness, surprise, fear and positive ones as well as negative ones.

3. Students will read all the adjectives on the blackboard together.

Step 3.

Brainstorming Nouns and adjectives

1. Show students the noun forms of some emotional adjectives. Let students know that apart from adjectives we can also have nouns for emotions.

2. Ask students to read the words together.

Step 4. Exercises

1. Students will be required to finish the exercises on Page 22 and Page 23 before class.

2. Check their answers together with the whole class. Students will read aloud their answers one by one.

3. Praise students as much as possible.

Step 5. Idioms about emotions Ask students to guess the meaning of idioms according to the sentences. 1. I don’t know what makes her so angry but she was really hot under the collar . 2. She is extremely irritable(易怒的)—she flies off the handle at the slightest thing. 3. He’s a bit down in the dumps because he’s got to take his exams again.

4. Feeling blue? Don’t you know who to talk to? Phone Depression Hotline, 24 hours a day.

5. A:Was Helen pleased about getting the job?

B: Pleased? More than that. She was on cloud nine. 6. When she scored the winning goal, she was over the moon.

Step 6. A game Rules: 1. The class is divided into 2 groups.(Group one: boys; Group two: girls)

2. Each group should choose one student to present your group. 3. There are three pictures for you. You should make up a story according to the pictures. 4. The points you get is equal to the number of words and idioms you have written.(0ne point for one word or idiom) Use the game to help students remember the words and idioms better.

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One possible sample: When he heard the news that he got 100 scores, he was so happy/ over the moon/ on cloud nine. He told his best friend this good news at once. After having hearing the news, his best friend praised him. He was delighted with him.

Step 7.

Homework 1. Preview “Grammar and usage”, then finish the exercises on Page 25. 2. Search for more words about emotions in the dictionary.

Blackboard Design:

Unit2 Word power ——Emotions 1. happy/joyful/delighted/excited...

2. annoyed/angry... 3. depressed/frustrated/sad...

4. surprised/astonished/shocked... 5. frightened/ scared...

6. curious... 7. jealous/envious... idioms 1. hot under the collar

2. fly off the handle

3. down in the dumps

4. on cloud nine

5. over the moon

6. feel blue

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