Teaching plan for Unit 3 Word Power

Step1. Lead-in

Ask the students:

1. What am I?

2. What are you?

3. Could you tell me what is your father/mother?

Step2 Presentation

1. Tell the students: When you ask sb: “ What is …….” , you are asking about his job. We usually end a job with -er, for eg: worker, farmer, teacher, writer.

Sometimes we end a word with –or. Eg: editor, actor, visitor, conductor, sculptor.

We can also add –ant to a verb, such as servant, assistant

-ent, such as; student

-ist, such as: typist

2. We can also add suffixes to a noun, -ist such as: scientist, artist, pianist

We can call pianist or the person who play violin musician, What do you call a person who works in a library? Librarian. So we also can add –ian to a noun

-er, such as: photograph

3. adj.+ ist such as: specialist

+ ian electrician, technician

4. we have other ways to form a job for example: sportsman, businessman, policeman, postman

5. If we want to refer to a woman’s job, what can we use? For example: actor----actress, waiter---waitress, host---hostess, prince----princess.

Step3 Practice

Look at page 46, Part A. Fill in the blanks. Check the answers with each other. Each student read one sentence.

Step4 Presentation.

I. Let’s play a game: Please guess the job I’m talking about according to my description:

1. What do we call a person who makes works out of a stone or wood?------sculptor

2. What do we call a person who is in charge of a company?------- manager

3. What do we call a person who is in charge of a school?-------- headmaster/ principal

4. What do we call a person who can write music?----- composer

5. What do we call a person whose job is to keep and check financial accounts?---- accountant

6. Who works in a library?------- librarian

II. Turn your books to page 47. Look at Exercise B. Go through the words together.

III. Can you put these jobs into different categories?

Arts: computer, musician, sculptor

Education: librarian, headmaster, professor

Business: accountant, manager, dealer, seller

Step5. Discussion

Work in pairs: What kind of job would you like to do in the future? Why? Discuss for one minute, then I will ask you to report your idea or your partner’s idea.

Step6. Homework

Preview the grammar