模块六 Unit 4 (Helping people around the world)
Period 4 Task
Teaching aims：
1. Through a series of activities, help to practise students’ skills of listening,
speaking, reading and writing.
2. In Step 1, by listening, enable students to find out about problems and causes.
3. In Step 2, by introducing different sentence structures while discussing in
groups, help students to make suggestions for the children in northern Thailand.
4. In Step3, this part is mainly about writing a proposal based on the information
on what they can do for those poor children.
Teaching difficulties：
1. To understand the problems and causes by listening
2. To make suggestions and write a proposal based on them
3. To master the language points in this part
Teaching procedures:
Skills building 1: listening for problems and causes
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Ask students to read the guideline on page 58 and then answer your question:
How should we listen for problems and the causes of the problems?
2. Tell the students that we always pay more attention to some specific information.
And then ask students to find out what should be seized while listening to a news
report. Then summarize what has been talked about.
3. Tell students to focus on the problems and causes of them.
1. Problems:
As you can see…/The result is…/As a result, …/ As I said earlier…/ … and so…
This means…/ A common problem is that…
2. Causes:
This is because…/ Unfortunately…/ …because…/ …because of …/ … as …
Step 2 Listening
1. Listen to part A, and tell the students to find out as much information as
possible to fill in the problems and the causes, but not all the information is
included in the recording.
2. Listen to the second part of the report and find out as much information as
possible in the table on page 59.
Step 3 Reading
1. Have students read Part C. Ask them to read for other information needed to
finish the two tables.
2. Talk about some language points in Part C.
Skills building 2: discussion in groups
Step 1 Lead-in
By introducing different sentence structures while discussing in groups, help
students to make suggestions for the poor children in northern Thailand.
1. Making suggestions
I think it would be a good idea to…
I would like to suggest that…
It would be a good idea if we could…
2. Asking for opinions
What do you think?
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
Can you suggest anything else?
3. Expressing agreement / disagreement
I agree / disagree because…
That’s a great idea, but…
I’m sorry but I don’t think that would work because …
Unfortunately, I don’t think that will work.
4. Making conclusions
So to summarize, our group has decided to…
In conclusion, we have decided to…
Step 2 Practice
1. Have students read the instructions and make sure they know what they are
going to do. Divide students into small groups and discuss what other ways
they think of to help these children. Ask them to use the sentence structures
in this part to give suggestions , and express agreement / disagreement.
2. While discussing, one group member should take notes, and another member
should be chosen to report what has been written to help those poor children.
Skills building 3: writing a proposal
Step1 Lead-in
Help students to read the six points in this part. They will learn what components
will be included in a proposal. Make sure what students should do when writing
a proposal.
Step2 Practice
Students will be asked to write a proposal to UNICEF about how to help the hill
tribe children in Thailand with the information they have learnt in steps 1 and 2.
1. Help students form different groups to discuss the answers based on the previous
information.
2. Have students write the proposal and ask each group to present theirs to let others
share their opinions.
Step 3 Homework
Finish the exercises related to the task in the exercise book.
Exercises for students:
一、随堂练习
Listen to Part A and choose the correct phrase for each blank.
(1) A. no running water B. no fresh water C. no underground water
(3) A. no tool B. no mechanical equipment C. no fund
(4) A. little food B. few entertainments C. few clothes or furniture
(5) A. no electricity B. no firewood C. no repairman
(6) A. few forests B. no bus C. no boiled water
Listen to Part B and choose the correct phrase for each blank.
(1) A. lack of money B. lack of builders C. lack of materials
(2) A. Boys don’t go to school. B. Girls don’t go to school.
C. many children don’t go to school.
(4) A. All farming is done by hand. B. All housework is done by hand.
C. All cooking is done by hand.
(5) A. lack of land B. lack of water C. lack of land and water
(6) A. Adults have poor strength. B. Children have poor diets.
C. Old people have poor health.
(7) A. Children don’t grow properly. B. Children die of hunger.
C. Children die of AIDS.
(9) A. Grandparents die of sadness. B. No one takes care of children.
C. Grandparents have to bring up children.
(10) A. Grandparents are old and poor. B. Children become bad.
C. Parents’ love is irreplaceable.
Read Part C and complete the table in Part A and B.
Part A (2) __________________
Part B (3) __________________ (8) _________________
Recording after teaching: