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Unit 10You’re supposed to shake hands.
Section A(3a-3c)
Teaching Aims
| 1. Students can talk about customs and what they’re supposed to do.
- relaxed, value, drop by, capital, after all, noon, mad, get mad, effort, make an effort
1. We often drop by our friends’ homes if we have time.
2. If someone invites you to meet him or her at noon, then you’re
expected to be there at noon.
| Teaching Difficulties
| Use the structure “It’s+ adj.+ to do sth.” in reading comprehension.
| Teaching Aids
| multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
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Teaching Procedures
| Tips
| Step 1 Warming up
| | - Show Colombia’s and Switzerland’s national flags to Ss and ask them: Which country’s flags are they?
- T can introduce a little about Colombia and Switzerland to Ss:
- Colombia is a country in South America. It’s famous for its coffee, bananas and flowers. Colombia is also a major producer for coal, oil and emeralds.
- Switzerland is a country in central Europe. It is one of the most economically developed and richest countries in the world. Arounded by forest, mountains and lakes, Switzerland is rich in tourism resources. You can see both natural scenery and Medival ancient cities there. Also, Switzerland is famous for its army knives, watches and cheese.
| | Step 2Presentation & Reading
| | Pre-reading
- Before reading, T can show the first sentence of each paragraph to Ss and ask them to think of what this passage will mainly talk about.
While-reading
- Ask for two volunteers to read each paragraph. Get the volunteers to read “their” opinions out to the class. While they are reading, ask the rest of the Ss to close their textbooks. Remind the readers that they should speak clearly and loudly so that their classmates can hear what they are saying.
3a
- Ask Ss to find out in which country it is OK to be 15 minutes late for dinner.
Answer:Colombia
While-reading
3b
- In pairs, get Ss to pick one column each and fill in the answers. Then get them to share their answers with each other.
Post-reading
3c
- Get Ss to write out the conversation in pairs, after which they can practice it with each other. Remind Ss of what was pointed out in activity 2d — that tone and emotion need to change accordingly, depending on what is being conveyed. The instructions are clear in that Marc is angry, so this emotion needs to come through in the vocabulary used and the emotion in which is delivered.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs. Tell them that Teresa plans to visit China in summer. Ask each pair to give Teresa some information about customs in China. (i.e. greeting, being on time, visiting a friend’s house, making plans with friends, dressing for a party.)
| | Step 3Language points learning
| | relaxed adj. 放松的; 自在的, 它与relaxing都是形容词,二者的区别是:
relaxed的主语通常为人, 例如be relaxed about对……感到放松。
relaxing意为“令人放松的”,其主语通常为物。
(拓展:以-ed结尾的形容词多用来描述人, 说明人因外部原因而产的某种情绪或感受; 以-ing结尾的形容词多用来描述事物, 说明事物本身的特性。)
value既可作名词,也可作动词。作名词是意思是“ 价值;价格”,作动词时意思是“重视; 珍视”。value作名词, 常用词组为be of great value, 意为“很有价值”,等同于be very valuable。value还可以作形容词,意思是“贵重的”。
drop by 顺便拜访,它既可单独使用,也可接表示地点的名词,此时相当于come over to。
on time与in time的区别在于:on time表示“准时、按时”,事情是按计划发生的, 指正好在约定的时间发生, 一般放在句末。in time表示“及时、来得及”,指在约定的时间之前发生。
mad是形容词,意思是“很生气; 疯的”,其常用短语有:
be / get mad at / with sb. 生某人的气
be / get mad about sth. 因某事生气
drive sb. mad 使某人发狂
go mad 发疯
effort是名词,意思是“努力; 尽力”,常用短语有:
put more effort into sth. 更加努力做某事
make an effort to do sth. 努力做某事
without effort 毫不费力
其中make an effort中的an也可以根据情况换成another, every,
one more, no等词。
something interesting意为“有趣的事情”,当something, anything, nothing, everything等不定代词被形容词修饰时, 形容词要放在不定代词后面。
| 此处呈现部分语言点
| Step 4 Summary & Homework
| | Summary
- Ask Ss to do the exercise from PPT P40-41.
Homework:
- Preview the grammar points in U10.
- Do the exercises in students’ book.
| | Teaching Reflection
| In this period, we should practice the key points more in reading and speaking activities. The key points are practicing the structure —it is+adj.+ to do sth.
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