Task: Amazing things优质课教案设计

Unit 5 Amazing things

Task

Teaching objectives: 1.

To learn amazing facts about sandwiches; 2.

To learn how to organize ideas by using transitional words; 3.

To learn important steps of writing 4.

To learn to write about other amazing things.

Teaching procedures: Step 1 Pre-writing 1.

Enjoy a video about magic. Ask Ss use an adjective describe it.

Ss: amazing 2.

Do you know other amazing things in our daily life? Ss: talk about amazing things they know. 3.

Present some amazing things to Ss. Which one do you like best? Ss: describe the picture and give the reason 4.

Present some pictures and let students make up a story about sandwiches according to these pictures. 5.

Listen to the article and answer the questions: a.

How did it get its name? b.

How did the idea come? c.

Why did it become popular? 6.

Introduce facts about sandwiches according to the information collected. 7.

Find out the linking words of the article and brainstorm other linking words. 8.

Analyze the structure of the article. 9.

Polish the article by replacing some words and expressions. 10.

Steps of becoming a good writer: ideas→structures→draft→polish→a good writer Step 2 While-writing 1.

Introduce four amazing things: TV, crisps, jeans, Velcro 2.

Give basic information about them:

TV the first TV show in the UK in 1926; by 1935, about 2,000 TVs in use; in China, in 1987, about 29 TVs per 100 families, but now most families have at least one TV; now TVs can be as large as 152 inches. Crisps In 1853, in a restaurant in New York; a man didn’t like eating fried potatoes; called for the cook and said the potatoes were too thick; angered the cook, George Crum; cut the potatoes very thinly and gave them to customers; customers wanted more and more. Jeans Levi Strauss, born in Germany in 1829; went to San Francisco in 1853 and worked in a shop selling clothes; poor working conditions, needed very strong trousers; made strong trousers from a tough(结实的)

material called “denim”; called “jeans” by teenage boys and college students later; as informal and casual(随便的) clothes; No one is really sure about why they are called jeans. The tape(胶带) called Velcro invented by George de Mestral from Switzerland; got the idea in 1948; annoyed(惹恼) by burrs(毛刺) (from plants) on his coat and trouser while walking in the woods; difficult to get burrs off his clothes; use the idea to make a kind of tape out of cotton; started a factory to make Velcro in 1952; useful for things like trainers, clothes and bags. 3.

Group work: work in groups of four to write an article titled: Amazing facts about_________ Introduction

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Main body __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Conclusion ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step 3 Post-writing 1.

Share your writing

2.

Make a summary:

Be creative and you can create amazing things.