7B Unit2 Welcome to Sunshine Town

Comic Strip

Teaching aims and demands:

1. Make suggestions about visiting places and doing activities

e.g. Let`s go swimming.

2. Use “How much” and “How many” , “no” and “none” to express quantities .

Warm-up activities

1. Ask Ss to read Comic Strip. And ask my question “How much money does Eddie have?”

2. Read the dialogue again , then ask them to act it out .

3. Language points

(1).There is no dog food, Eddie!

No=not any

e.g. I have no coats like this .=I don’t have any coats like these.

(2).How many tins of dog food can we buy with that?

e.g. We write with pens.

Welcome to the unit

Teaching aims and demands:

New words: badminton

Teaching aims:

1.To revise vocabulary about activities and places in new situations

2.To make suggestions about visiting different places

Teaching procedures:

1. Ask Ss to do Part A and B on their own using the information provided in the pictures prompts

2. Ask Ss about what they can do in their local areas. Then ask them to write four sentences about what they like and could do in their areas.

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Reading

Teaching aims and demands:

New words: underground, air, pollution, area, country, lake, building, such, place, like, close, far, hey, until, souvenir, so, western, local, theatre, teach, dirty, take, less

Teaching methods: task-based approach

Teaching task: 1. To read and learn about something about Sunshine Town..

2. To grasp the main idea of each paragraph..

3. Ask Ss to write an article to introduce their own home town, using the context as a model.

Teaching aids: tape recorder, pictures

Teaching procedures:

1.Ask some students some questions “Are there any tall buildings in your home town?” “What can you do in your town?”, etc..

2.Presentation

(1).Use the pictures to teach the new words.

underground air pollution lake building theatre

(2) Now let’s listen to the tape and say “T” or “F” according to the text. Check the answers with the whole class.

① It takes 40 minutes to walk to the center of Beijing from Sunshine Town.

② There is less air pollution in Sunshine Town.

③ Many students live in tall buildings.

④ There are only two shopping malls in Sunshine Town.

⑤ You can eat Beijing Duck in Sunshine Town.

⑥ You can enjoy Beijing Opera at the theatre.

(3) Ask Ss to read the text after the tape.

(4)Language points:

① It is only 40 minutes from the center of Beijing by underground.

= It takes 40 minutes to go to Sunshine Town from the center of Beijing by underground.

② There is less air pollution in Sunshine Town than in other areas of Beijing.

Less…than…→more…than…

e.g. There is less water in this glass than in that one.

I have more books than he.

③ Here is such a tall building. such+a/an+adj.+n.(single)

e.g. such a beautiful garden

such an interesting story

④ be close to =be near→ be far from

⑤ We do not have to go far if we want help with our homework

If……+clause……,……clause…… 如果……,……

⑥You can choose any food you like in Sunshine Town.

Any:任何 you like修飾前面的food

⑦ If so, you are in the right place.

so這樣,指前面一句的意思

If so=If you would like to eat Chinese food.

e.g. Tom is a good boy. Do you think so?

⑧ Why don’t you visit our local theater with us?

Why don’t you do=Why not do

e.g. Why don’t you go swimming?

Why not come with me?

(5) Sum-up

Go through the new words and language points.

Homework

Finish the Ex of Page24 and 25.

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Vocabulary ﹠ Grammar

Teaching aims and demands:

New words: waiter, shopper, cashier, sick, hospital, ham, clip, beef, fork, plate, each, loaf, packet, carton, Coke, either, right, thirsty, finger, hold, week, group, exchange

Teaching methods: task-based approach

Teaching task:

1.To develop an understanding of names of occupations and names of related places

2.To use names of places to describe their functions

3.To use “How much” and “How many” to talk about quantities.

4.To use “no” and “none” in the context of quantity.

5. To recognize and use the definite article.

Teaching aids: tape recorder

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warm-up

Ask the Ss to talk about what their parents/uncles……do

Ⅱ. Vocabulary

1. Revise the names of occupations and names of related places.

2. Learn new vocabulary and spelling

waiter cook teacher student doctor nurse shopper cashier

restaurant school hospital supermarket

Ⅲ.Grammar

1. Revise the key vocabulary about food items

Ask Ss to identify countable and uncountable nouns of food.

2 .Complete the sentences

How many +countable nouns(pl.)

How much + uncountable nouns

e.g. How many apples do you need?

How many eggs do you have?

How much Coke do you need?

3. Complete the conversation with “no” or “none”

(1) no =not any no +noun.

e.g. She has no friends.

No ones knows.

There is no water in the glass at all.

(2) none prep. 沒有人或沒有東西

e.g. None of them are listening to you.

Is there any time left? No, none at all.

4. The article “a”, “an”, “the”

(1)表示某人(事物)某一種類 My father is a driver.

Do you like an apple or a pear?

(2)表示某一事物中的任何一個 An elephant is bigger than a horse

A monkey can climb trees.

(3)表示某人某物,但不具體說明何人何物 A student from Class Two runs fastest.

A man is calling now.

(4)表示數(shù)量有”一”的含義 There is a book on the desk.

A panda has a mouth, a nose and two eggs.

(5)用于固定詞組 half an hour, a lot of, have a rest, a moment ago

(6)上文提過,下文重復(fù) I have a new pen. The pen is a present from my dad.

(7)世界上獨一無二的事物 the sun, the moon

(8)序數(shù)詞前,表示方位的名詞前,形容詞最高級前 the first, in the south, the best

(9)樂器名詞前 play the piano

(10)在復(fù)數(shù)姓氏前 the Browns(=the Brown family) are going to Shanghai for a holiday.

(11)一些形容詞前表示一類人 the rich, the old

(12)專有名詞和習(xí)慣用語中the Great Wall, by the way, in the morning

(13)不用冠詞的情況

① 節(jié)目,星期.月份,季節(jié),年,學(xué)科前 in summer, in August, on Sunday

② 一些專有名詞,不可名詞,稱呼和頭銜前 China, Grade Two, Mr. Li, Dr. Liu

③ 表示顏色,語種和國家前 in purple, Japanese, England

④ 一些短語中 have breakfast, play football

Ⅳ. Discussion (task)

Have a discussion and find out the use of the article.

Ⅴ.Homework

1. Review the contents of this lesson.

2. Do the Ex of the workbook.

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Integrated skills and Study skills

Integrated skills

Teaching aims and demands:

1. To listen for detail and abstract information about making arrangements.

2. To order information from a tour guide’s introduction.

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Bring some pictures about famous local places to class. Ask a few very general questions. “Do you like the place?” “Have you visited there?”.

Ⅱ. Go through some key vocabulary items in PartA1&A2: exhibitions, golden thrones, pottery

Ⅲ. Tell Ss to fill in the table in PartA2 carefully, then check the answers.

Ⅳ. Notes

Baohe Palace---works of art

這里的works作可數(shù)名詞,是 “作品”, “著作”的意思,而work作為不可數(shù)名詞是 “工作”之意.

e.g. I like reading the works of Shakespeare.

At last I found work in the city.

Ⅴ. Explain to Ss that they will listen to a tour guide’s introduction. Listen to the recording. Ask them to do the task on their own first, then check answers.

Ⅵ. Ask Ss to read Simon’s notes in PartA4. Play the recording again and ask Ss to complete PartA4. Check answers as a class.

Part B

Ⅰ. Read after the tape.

Ⅱ.Two Ss in a pair and role-play the conversation

Ⅲ.Ask Ss to make a new dialogue. Using the dialogue in Part B as a model.

Ⅳ.Talk to Ss about making arrangements.

e.g. visiting friends, going to cinema, going to a restaurant.

Pronunciation

Ⅰ.Teaching aims

To recognize the number of syllables in a word from listening and reading.

Ⅱ.Teaching the new material

1. Talk to Ss about the sound and intonation of English.

2. Say a few simple words which Ss know well. Ask Ss how many beats they can hear.

girl, boy, dog, home

tea.cher, bro.ther, sis.ter, stu.dent,

to.mor.row, yes.ter.day, cin.e.ma

3. Go through the examples in Part A

4. Listen to the tape and write the number of syllables they hear for the words in Part B.

5. Check answers.

6. Ask Ss to do the puzzle in Part C.

7. Play the recording for Part D. After checking the answers, ask more able Ss to write the number of syllables they hear

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Main task ＆ Checkout

Teaching aims and demands:

Teaching methods: task-based approach

Teaching task:

1. To become familiar with a new text-script.

2. To organize language and descriptions to achieve interest.

3. To read a video script to the class.

4. To assess recognition of things we can find in a town.

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warm-up

Ask the student to have a free talk.

Ⅱ. Main task (Part A)

1. Talk to Ss about the purpose of writing a video script. It is important to engage students’ interest at this stage as free writing takes a lot of courage.

2. Encourage them to bring in pictures, and make sketches and drawings to go with their texts.

3. Tell Ss that they need to organize pictures and text. They can use the planning notes on Page 35 as a guide.

4. Go through the notes under “Town” and ask Ss to choose 2 or 3 items.

5. Ask Ss to describe some items on the “things to do” list, e.g. where they can do things and how they feel about it.

6. Ask Ss to write about their home town. Ask Ss to focus on writing for a specific audience, the British exchange Ss.

7. Then ask Ss to work on their own to number the items in the order of how much they like each item. Next, ask them to write down on the right side of the paper some reasons.

Ⅲ. Main task (Part B)

1. Ask Ss to work in pairs. Have them read John’s video script in Part B1 and discuss his home town. Then invite comments, e.g. Do you and your partner like John’s home town? Why?/Why not? Would you and your partner like to visit it? Why?/Why not?

2. Ask Ss to plan their own video script using the questions in Part B2 as a reference.

3. Ss rewrite their video scripts on a separate sheet of paper and add illustrations.

Ⅳ. Checkout (Part A)

1. Ask Ss to write down the key language items they learned in this unit. Ask some of them to write on the Bb.

2. Ask Ss to read the gapped conversation first before completing the sentences. It’s important for them to have a general understanding of text and the context.

3. Set a time limit. To encourage Ss to read the conversation before writing.

4. Check the answers.

Ⅴ. Checkout (Part B)

1. Tell Ss about word-search puzzles if they are unfamiliar with them.

2. Set a time limit of 5~10 minutes.

3. Ask more able Ss to make a word snake of their own.

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