Unit13 The water planet
Teaching plans
Period1: Warming up, Listening and speaking
Period2-3: Reading
Period4: Language study, Grammar
Period5: Intergrating skills ,Writing, workbook
The First Period
Warming up,listening and Speaking
Teaching aims:
Help the students to learn something about water by doing experiments.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to improve the students’ speaking and listening ability.
Teaching Methods:
1． Doing experiments.
2． Individual or pair work to make the student’s practise their speaking, discussing and listening ability.
Teaching Steps:
Step 1. Lead-in
Show a picture of earth and ask:
1. What is this?
2. What color is it？
3. Why is it blue？
4. How much do you know about water? What would happen if there were no water on our planet?
5. What can we do to protect the water on our planet?
6. What else have you learned about water from your physics and chemistry class?
Step2.Warming up
Please turn to page17 and look at the pictures in warming up. Make some interesting experiments and you can learn more about water.
Step3.listening
SB Page18,it’s about the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel taylor Coleridge and tell the students something about the author. Tell the students to read the questions in the SB. After playing the tape, ask the students to answer the questions.
Step4.Speaking
In our daily life, water can be used in different ways. Now we’ll talk about the ways in which water can be used. Look at the pictures on Page 18. The six pictures mean six different ways to use water. Make some dialogues with your partner about the pictures, using the questions on the SB.
Step5.Language points:
benefit vt.使……受益，對……有利（常和from連用，有時和by連用）
Who stands to benefit most by the new tax laws？什么人可能從新的稅法中得到最大的好處？
He has’t benefited from the experience.他雖有體驗卻無長進。
The Second and Third Period
Reading
Teaching Aims:
1. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
2. Let the Ss know more about the water. Enable the students to realize it is important to protect the water on our planet.
3. Help the Ss to master the new words and expressions.
Teaching Steps:
Step 1. Lead-in
As we all know, we can’t live without water. Water is very important to all the living things on the earth.. Today we will learn something about water.
Step 2.Pre-reading
Look at the titles in the text. Do not read the whole text. Try to guess what it will talk about, thinking of six questions according to the structures on page19.
Step 3.While-reading
1. Fast reading.
Now, let’s read the passage quickly and find out the answers to the questions.
2. Carefully reading.
Read the passage again and fill the chart in post-reading Ex.2 on page 21.
Step 4.Language points
1. range from…to從……到……不等
e.g.(1).Their ages ranges from 25 to 50.
(2).Prices range from 5 dollars to 100 dollars.
2. all the way全程,一直(走完長距離)
e.g..(1).He ran all the way here.
(2).I had to walk all the way.
All the time一直 all the same仍然
3. But the way the water molecule…
the way+in which/that/- clause
e.g.(1).I don’t like the way(in which/that/-)he looks at me.
(2).They admired the way (in which/that/-) she dealt with the crisis.
4.be made up of 由……組成
e.g.(1).The class is made up of fifty students.
(2).The medical team is made up of five doctors and five nurses.
make up 構成,組成,虛構,整理,收拾
e.g.(1).One hundred years make up a century.
(2).She made up an excuse.
(3).The boy made up a story, which was not true.
make up for 補償, 彌補,
e.g.You should make up for the lost time.
be made from由……原料制成 be made of由……材料制成
be made into被制成…… make good use of 充分利用
make sure/certain一定要；保證做到 make up one’s mind決心；決定
5.break down (機器等)壞了,(健康,精神等)垮掉,中斷,(計劃等)失敗,分解,分化,打破,破除迷 e.g.(1).The elevator broke down.
(2).The car broke down halfway to the camp.
(3).His health broke down.
(4).The peace talks are said to have broken down.
(5).Chemicals in the body break our food down into useful substances.
2.break breaks one’s promise/ word break the law/ the rule.
break away from sb.脫離、離開、背棄 break into…闖入、侵占
break…into pieces打碎 break out爆發
6. available adj.可得到的,可利用的;可見客人的,有效的
e.g.(1).This book is not available here.這里沒有這本書.
(2).Attention, please. These tickets are available on the day of issue only.請注意,這種車票僅在發售當天有效.
(3).The lawyer is not available now. 律師現在沒空.
7. mix…with…把……和……混合
e.g. mix wine with water mix joy with sorrow悲喜交集
8.say(文字材料等)寫道,說,說明,表達,假定,譬如說(插入語中)
e.g.(1).Her passport says she is 18.
(2).Can you come to dinner? Say,7:30?
(3).The clock says 11:11.
9.take advantage of : make full use of sth充分利用,趁機利用,占……的便宜
e.g.(1).take advantage of all educational opportunities
(2).That shop took advantage of the customers.那家商店欺騙消費者.
10.give off釋放,發出,散發出,長出
e.g. give off heat/light/smoke/vapour
(1).Chemical changes give off energy.
(2).The tree gave off many branches.
(3).The flower gives off a sweet fragrance.花散發出芳香.
give in屈服、讓步 give up放棄、投降 give sb. a hand幫某人忙
11.be sensitive to sth: affected easily by something
e.g.(1).She is very sensitive to others’ words
(2).He is very sensitive about being small, so don’t mention it.
12.add…to把……加到……上
e.g. (1).add fuel to the flame火上加油
(2).The flowers added beauty to the dinner table.花朵為餐桌增添了美麗
(3).If you add 4 to 3, you get 7.
The Four Period
Word study and Grammar
Teaching Aims:
1. Review Modal Verbs.
2. Do some exercises to review some important words learnt in the last period.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Words Study
In the last three periods, we've learnt some words. Now, let's do some exercises to review them. Do Ex1 on page21, (put the letters in the correct order), and then do Ex2 (complete the sentences by filling in the blanks with the proper words.)
Step 2.Grammar.
省略
The Fifth Period
Intergrating skill
Teaching Aims:
1. Enable the students to realize that it is important to protect the estuary.
2. Improve the student's writing ability.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1.Reading
The ocean is very important to all the living things, which is known to us. Today we will read another passage. It related to water. That is estuary. Now let's read the passage. While reading, try to make clear what is the main idea of each paragraph and find out the answers to the questions on Page 23.
Step 2.Language points
1. provide…for
e.g.(1).The company will provide food and drink for them.
(2).We provide food for the hungry children.
2. have an opportunity to do something
e.g.I had no opportunity to discuss the problem with her yesterday.
3. a variety of
e.g. (1). He left for a variety of reasons.
(2).He has a variety of interests.
4.contribute vt.貢獻出,投稿,捐贈
e.g.He contributed an article to the china daily.
vi.有助于,捐獻, 投稿
e.g.His work has contributed to our understanding of this difficult subject.
Step 3.Writing
SB page 24 find the facts of the questions and then organize the information.