一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 We’re going to walk up the Great Wall. (Module 3 Plans)
二、Targets for this period:
To get information from the reading material about one’s plans
To understand how to express one’s wish
To give the reasons to answer the purpose in doing something
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-walk up the Great Wall, Chinese culture, make friends, cook, get to
Key structures -Helen is looking forward to seeing her daughter and granddaughter.
Why is Helen going to take the plane to Beijing?
Helen is going to take the plane to Beijing because her daughter and granddaughter live there.
四、Teaching methods:
Task-based approach and bottom-up approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, blackboard
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Lead-in (Homework)
Students act out their dialogues about their plans on this weekend.
Step Two To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 2
1. Students read the words after the tape.
2. Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.
3. To help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.
Step Three Fast reading
1. Students read the passages quickly and match them with the photos. (Activity 1)
Paragraph A: Helen, New York
Paragraph B: Lucy, Nanjing
Paragraph C: Li, Wuhan
2. Students make sentences saying what Helen, Li and are looking forward to. (Activity 2)
Paragraph A: Helen is looking forward to seeing her daughter and granddaughter.
Paragraph B: Lucy is looking forward to going to Disneyland.
Paragraph C: Li is looking forward to the Dragon Boat Festival.
3. Conclusion
1) We can often find out the main idea from the first sentence of a paragraph in English.
2) Language point: look forward to sth / doing sth 期盼（做）某事
e.g. They are looking forward to your coming.
Step Four Careful reading
1. Read the passages and match the questions with the answers. (Activity 3) c-e-a-b-f-d
2. Use “because” to write full answers. (Activity 5)
1) ----Why is Helen going to take the plane to Beijing?
----Helen is going to take the plane to Beijing because her daughter and granddaughter live there.
2) ----Why is Lucy going to learn English?
----Lucy is going to learn English because she wants to make some American friends.
3) ----Why are Lucy and her parents going to stay in a hotel in San Francisco?
----They are going to stay in a hotel in San Francisco because Lucy’s parents have some friends live there.
4) ----Why are Li and his wife going to lie on the beach?
----They are going to lie on the beach because their children like swimming.
3. Language point: because引导时间状语从句；不能与 so同时出现在同一个句子中；
回答 why的提问要用because
e.g He has to stay at home because it’s raining now.
=It’s raining now, so he has to stay at home.
Step Five Detail explanation
1. make friends (with sb) （与某人）交朋友
e.g. The professor wants to make friends with the foreigners.
2. cook (n.) 厨师
(v.)cook sth for sb = cook sb sth
3. get to 到达
e.g. He often gets to school at 7:00 in the morning.
Get home / there / here
4. Why not do sth？ 何不干某事？（表建议）
e.g. Why not go and ask them?
5. be out = be not at home
Step Six To repeat the passage with the tape recorder
Step Seven To use the words in the box to answer the questions (Activity 4)
1. How do you get from New York to Beijing? I take the plane.
2. What do you do in a foreign city? I do some sightseeing.
3. What do you do on the beach? I enjoy the sun and the sea.
4. Where do you stay in a foreign city? I stay in a hotel.
5. Why do you go sightseeing? Because I like foreign culture.
Homework
1. One student ask another some questions and then write down the answers. (Activity 6)
1) What are you looking forward to?
2) What are you going to do?
3) Why are you going to do it?
2. Write a passage talking about the partner’s wish according to the answers. (Activity 7)
… is looking forward to going out on Saturday evening. He’s going to the cinema because he likes films…
3. To finish Unit2, Module3, 点中典
Blackboard designing
Unit 2 We’re going to walk up the Great Wall.
1. look forward to sth / doing sth 期盼（做）某事
e.g. They are looking forward to your coming.
Paragraph A: Helen is looking forward to seeing her daughter and granddaughter.
Paragraph B: Lucy is looking forward to going to Disneyland.
Paragraph C: Li is looking forward to the Dragon Boat Festival.
2. because引导时间状语从句；不能与 so同时出现在同一个句子中；回答 why的提问要用because
e.g He has to stay at home because it’s raining now.
=It’s raining now, so he has to stay at home.
1) ----Why is Helen going to take the plane to Beijing?
----Helen is going to take the plane to Beijing because her daughter and granddaughter live there.
2) ----Why is Lucy going to learn English?
----Lucy is going to learn English because she wants to make some American friends.
3) ----Why are Lucy and her parents going to stay in a hotel in San Francisco?
----They are going to stay in a hotel in San Francisco because Lucy’s parents have some friends live there.
4) ----Why are Li and his wife going to lie on the beach?
----They are going to lie on the beach because their children like swimming.
3. make friends (with sb) （与某人）交朋友
e.g. The professor wants to make friends with the foreigners.
4. cook (n.) 厨师
(v.)cook sth for sb = cook sb sth
3. get to 到达
e.g. He often gets to school at 7:00 in the morning.
Get home / there / here
4. Why not do sth？ 何不干某事？（表建议）
e.g. Why not go and ask them?
5. be out = be not at home