Lesson 7 Jenny’s New Skirt教学目标

Unit 2 Great People Lesson 7 What Is the Meaning of Life? 1. Analysis of the Students

The students of Grade 9 have mastered certain vocabularies，expressions and structures. They also have the abilit of self-teaching and working in groups. Most of them are willing to express their opinions in English. 2. Analysis of Teaching Content Lesson 7 is the first lesson in Unit 2, Book 5.This unit focus on the subject Great people Students cares about the subject because it is close to everyone. Lesson 7 mainly talks about the meaning of life, and to be happy to have a successful life.

【知识目标】

1. By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read, understand and use the new words and phrases e.g. meaning, dialogue, successful, survey, be deep in thought, succeed in, be good to…, write down.

2. To master the sentence patterns:

(1) succeed in sth or doing sth.

(2) What does... mean? =What's the meaning of...? =What do you mean by...? 【能力目标】

To be able to talk about the meaning of life. 【情感目标】

To be happy to have a successful life. 【教学重点】

To use the new words and phrases to talk about the meaning of life. 【教学难点】

To use the new words and phrases to talk about the meaning of life. And to be happy to have a successful life. Tape recorder, Multimedia Step 1. Warm-up Free talk: What’s the meaning of life.

Step 2. Presentation Introduce some great people in our country (with their pictures). Explain “neighbours”.

Listen to the passage and tick the sentences mentioned. Become famous.

Have a happy family.

Attend a good university.

Make other people happy.

Have a satisfying job.

Be rich.

4. Read the lesson and answer the questions.

(1)What is Li Ming thinking about? (2)What does Wang Mei think we should do? (3)What does Li Ming’s father always say?

5. Language points: After the history class, Li Ming sits in the classroom, deep in thought.

deep in thought意为“深思，沉思”，还可以用lost in thought表示。其中thought为名词,意为“思考，思索”。

thought是动词think的过去式和过去分词，意为“想，认为”。

What are you thinking about?

think about意为“考虑”，一般可与think of互换，后接名词、代词、动词-ing形式，也可接“疑问词+动词不定式”结构或宾语从句think of意为“考虑，想起，认为”，后接名词、代词或动词-ing形式，常用于疑问句中，与what连用。

think over意为“认真考虑，仔细考虑”，后接名词或代词作宾语，当接代词时，应将代词放在think与over之间。

What is the meaning of life?

meaning为名词,意为“意思，意义”。the meaning of…意为“……的意思/意义”。

(1)mean为动词，意为“意欲、打算”。mean to do sth.意为“意欲/打算做某事”。

(2)询问“……是什么意思?”的常用句型: What does…mean?

What is the meaning of…?

What do you mean by…?

Do you ever wonder about that?

wonder在本句中用作不及物动词，后搭配介词about表示“想要知道,感到疑惑,觉得好奇”,后搭配at表示“感到惊讶”。

(1)wonder作动词时，后常接由疑问词或whether，

if引导的宾语从句及“疑问词+动词不定式”的结构。

(2)wonder还可作可数名词,意为“奇观，奇人”。

(3)wonder的形容词为wonderful，意为“极好的”。

That sounds right to me.

sound为系动词，意为“听起来”，后面常接形容词作表语，有时也可接like构成短语sound like，意为“听起来像”。

sound还可作名词，意为“声音”，指自然界中所有的声音。

My dad always says that we should be good to others.

本句中that引导的宾语从句作says的宾语。

be good to意为“对……好/和善/慈爱”，后接表示人或人格化的词，与be friendly to意思相同。

(1)be good for意为“对……有益”，其反义短语为be bad for，意为“对……有害”。

(2)be good at表示“擅长，在……方面做得好”，at后跟名词、代词或动名词。

I agree.意为“我同意”，是英语中的常用口语，表达同意对话者的意见。

Let’s write these questions down and then survey our parents, friends and neighbours about their thoughts.

write down意为“写下，记下”，是由“动词+副词”构成的短语。write down的宾语如果是名词，放在down前后均可，如果是代词必须放在down之前。

本句中的survey为及物动词，意为“(对……做)民意调查”。

Step 3. Practice 1. Read the lesson and fill in the blanks.

After the history class, Li Ming is deep in thought. Wang Mei comes in, and they start

a ________. Li Ming wonders about the ________ of life. He has many questions about his purpose in life. Wang Mei thinks those questions are________ to answer. They decide to ________ their questions ________, and then ________ their parents, friends and neighbours about their thoughts. 2. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. (1)Work hard and you will be______________ in the future.

(2)I________________ who he was, but nobody could tell me.

(3)What is the_______________ of your visit?

(4)One of our_______________ helped us look after our dog while we were away.

(5)We________________500 people and 75% of them were in favour of the plan.

3. It’s said that happy people can live longer.

What do you need to be happy? Fill in the mind map. Then give a reason for each thing you list. Step 4. Consolidation

Do a survey: What do you need to be happy?

Write down your survey. Step 5. Homework 1. Finish the exercises in the activity book. 2. Recite the new words.