Welcome to the unit国家优质课一等奖

Teaching Plan Liang Yan, Picheng Middle School

Teaching material: 7B Unit 5 Welcome to the unit Teaching aims: Knowledge aims: 1. Grasp some new words, useful phrases and sentences. 2. Learn about four fun facts. Ability aims: 1.

The ability of using some adjectives to express feelings. 2.

The ability of cooperating with partners and talking about fun facts. 3.

The ability of acting the dialogue out with body language. Emotion aims: 1.

Develop students’ interest in finding and sharing amazing things with others.. 2.

Guide students to summarize the ways to find out more amazing things. Teaching emphasis and difficulties: Teaching emphasis: Learn four fun facts and then talk about them. Teaching difficulties: Cooperate with partners and talk about fun facts. Act the dialogue out with body language. Teaching aids: Multimedia Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Lead in Watch a short video about the amazing things that Doraemon can do to lead in

this lesson.

(Purpose: Doraemon should be very familiar to students. Asking several questions about him can make students recall their knowledge. The amazing things that Doraemon does can greatly arouse students’ interest. Therefore, students will be more involved in this lesson. ) Step 2 Presentation

Presentation of four fun facts in Part A on P57. 1. Fill in the blanks according to pictures. 2. Learn new words and phrases. (Purpose: Some funny pictures can make students more interested in this lesson. Asking them to fill in the blanks about fun facts make make students more concentrated and think carefully. Besides, students can grasp the fun facts and new words better.) Step 3 Practice 1. Exercise: Match and fill in blanks. 2. Retell the four sentences. (Purpose: Timely consolidation is necessary. Enough time should be given to students to understand and memorize the fun facts. Moreover, strict checking is also important.) Step 4 Presentation 1.

Listen and answer the question:

--Which pictures are they talking about?

--They are talking about Picture 1 and Picture 4. 2.

Read in groups to find out the words about feelings and important sentences.

words about feelings:interesting, amazing

important sentences: Do you know any fun facts about the world, Amy?

Isn’t that amazing? (Purpose: Questions can make students think carefully.) Step 5 Practice Pair work: make a dialogue to talk about fun facts.

A : Do you know any fun facts about the world?

B : Yes, … .

A : That’s … ! Anything else?

B :

… .

A : Oh, really?

B : Yes. Isn’t that...?

(Purpose: Making a dialogue can help students understand the four fun facts

better. ) Step 6 Presentation Eddie found an amazing thing, too. What’s it? Let’s go and see.

1.

Enjoy the video

of the comic strips and answer questions.

---What did Eddie see?

---A UFO

---What did Hobo see?

---A plane

---Did you see a plane before? Was the plane big?

2.

Use pictures to explain “UFO”

UFO is short for Unidentified Flying Object. (Purpose: The pictures about the UFO can arouse students’ interest.) Step 7 Practice 1.

Fill in the blanks about the dialogue.

2.

Work in pairs: Act it out with the body language. (Purpose: Filling the blanks can help students further understand the dialogue.

And students’ ability of acting can also be developed.) Step 8 Activity 1.

Present two videos about amazing things and ask them questions:

T: What can the elephant do in the video?

Ss: It can draw pictures and play football.

T: Can you do this like the man? Ss: No. 2.

Ask students to share their amazing things with others.

(Purpose: Develop students’ interest in finding and sharing amazing things with

others)

Step 9 Discussion Ask students to discuss how to find amazing things. Work in groups of 4 and talk about the ways to find more amazing things. (Purpose: Develop the ability of cooperating with partners and guide students to

summarize the ways to find out more amazing things)

Step 10 Exercises

Finish the exercises on the exercise book. (Purpose: do some exercises to strengthen the knowledge.) Step 11 Homework

1. Look for more amazing things and share them with friends.

2. Review and finish the exercise

3. Preview the next lesson