Lesson 41: w w w. go!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: connect, monitor, keyboard, key, enter, mouse, screen, Internet, button, fail, succeed, fantastic, shout, menu, forward, search
Oral words and expressions: space bar, shift, button, connect…to…,turn on
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about the development of the computer.
2. Know about how to use the computer.
Teaching Important Points:
1. How to connect the computer to the Internet.
2. Let the students express it in English.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Some words and expressions in the process of connecting the computer to the Internet.
Teaching Preparation: a computer
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a computer
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Review the last unit:
Make up some sentences with the Modal Verbs: can, could, would, should, may, must, might
I can go almost anywhere on foot.
At first, only rich people could buy cars.
I would like to see hoverboards.
I think someone should invent a transporter, too.
May we leave our car here?
I must go and get new things, or I might have a fit.
Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT.”
Let the students talk about the questions.
Step3. Listen to the tape and finish Exercise2 in activity book.
1) What is Li Ming doing?
2) Can Wang Mei connect the computer to the Internet?
3) What do they see when Li Ming pushes the “on” button?
4) What does the word “fail” mean?
5) Why do they fail to connect to the Internet for the first time?
6) Do they succeed at last?
Step4. Read the text and check the answers in silent. Then read the text loudly for a while. At the same time, the teacher walks around to see if they need any help.
Step5. Practice some language points, such as: connect… to…, make a noise, fail, succeed
Step6. Let some students come to the front and practice. The teacher should choose the similar situation for them.
Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT.”
Divide the class into groups of three of four. Talk about the following questions:
What would you like to do on the Internet? Why?
Are these things possible? Use your imagination.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
This is very abstract to the students who are not familiar to the computer. So the teacher should try to create a vivid situation for them. If you have the lesson in the media room, that is very convenient. If you don’t, please bring them into the computer room to continue the lesson.
Lesson 42: It Only Takes a Moment!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: receive, message, somebody
Oral words and expressions: click, compose, address, printing press, a list of, hear from…
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about the western culture.
2. Know about the differences between the Chinese and Western countries.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn to send an e-mail.
2. How to describe the process in English.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Send an e-mail and explain it in English.
Teaching Preparation: a computer
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a computer
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Let a few students come to the front and demonstrate how to connect the computer to the Internet. At the same time, explain it in English.
Step2. Ask some students talk about the e-mail.
1. What do the students know about the e-mail?
2. Has anyone has sent e-mails to the others? When is your first e-mail? Who did you send it to?
3. Who can demonstrate how to send an e-mail? Can someone explain it in English?
Step3. Listen to the tape and try to retell the main idea, but not word by word.
Step4. Read the text and finish Exercise2 in activity book.
1) E-mail lets us send and receive messages around the _____ in_______.
2) Before we connect to the Internet, we must _______ _______ the computer.
3) If we want to send an e-mail, we must click on “_______”first. And then click on “_______”to type the e-mail address to the person you want to receive the e-mail.
4) Click on “______” to type a few words to describe your e-mail.
5) If you have a new mail, you will see a list of________.
6) When you have finished _______ the message, click on “_______”. The box with the message will close.
Step5. Read the text and find out the good points of the passage. Read it several times until they can read it fluently and correctly.
Step6. Listen to the tape again and imitate after it. Make sure they have the correct pronunciation.
Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Work in pairs and finish the task. Let some students come to the front and act out their dialogue.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in activity book
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Introduce the largest company to the students. Tell them Bill Gates is the father of computers. Give them more time to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the computers. Help them to solve the problems that they meet on computer.
Lesson 43: Books or Computers?
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: machine, which
Oral words and expressions: printing press, modern, by hand
Teaching Aim:
1. Learn about the history of the books.
2. Know about the fountain of the printing press.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Why is the printing press important?
2. How did books change information?
Teaching Difficult Points:
Find facts about the printing press and about the Internet in this unit.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What is a printing press?
2. How were books made before the printing press?
3. How did books change information?
Step2. Read the text and check the answers. Then read it loudly in class.
Step3. Practice some main language points in the text. Make sentences with the following phrases:
By hand, in a short time, look up
Student 1: I made the model plane by hand.
Student 2: He will finish the work in a short time.
Student 3: If you meet a new word, you can look it up in a dictionary.
Step4. Practice the Modal verbs:
Find the sentences that have Modal verbs. For example:
The printing press could make many books quickly.
I ca find lots of information in just a few minutes.
If you forgot something, you could look it up.
Step5. Talk about the question: Which one is more important, the printing press or the Internet? Why?
Talk about this question in groups. Then write a paragraph to answer the question.
Every group chooses a student to answer the question. Encourage them to speak more.
Step6. Listen to tape for several times and repeat after it. Make sure the students can read it fluently and correctly.
Step7. Talk about the passage in details.
What does the printing press do for us?
What does the Internet do for us?
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Summarize what we learn in the text. Pay attention to the importance of the printing press and the Internet. Let the students discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of the Internet.
Lesson 44: Everybody! Hear This!
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: everybody, tool
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about the foreign culture.
2. Master some beautiful foreign songs.
Teaching Important Points:
1. What can the Internet do in our everyday life?
2. Learn more about the computer.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Know the advantages and the disadvantages of the Internet.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Listen to the tape and feel the rhythm of the song.
Step2. Read the lyric for the student line by line. Let the students read after you. We must read by heart. Thus we can feel Internet reaches far in the world.
Step3. Ask the students to read the text for several time until they can read it fluently and correctly.
Step4. Listen to the tape again and sing after it. Play the tape for several times. We can pause in the learning process.
Step5. Let some volunteers come to the front and sing the song loudly.
Step6. Use the flashcards to make the class interesting.
Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT!”
Divide the class into several groups. Talk about the following questions:
Is the Internet good or bad for the students? Why? Give your reasons to support your views. Let some students present their result to the class.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the reading in the student book.
Summary:
Before the class, ask the students to find some more things that the computer can do. If some students Internet is bad for the students, they must find more information to support their view. Divide the class into two groups and let them have a debate about Internet.
Lesson 45: Wang Mei’s First E-mail
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: till, yet, problem
Oral words and expressions: Anna, I’m sorry, but he isn’t here right now. Can I take a message for you? Please wait a moment/minute. wait for somebody
Teaching Aims:
1. Communicate with the others in western countries.
2. Learn more about the foreign countries.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Making Telephone Calls.
2. How to write an e-mail?
Teaching Difficult Points:
Grasp the words and expressions in making telephone calls.
Teaching Preparation: a telephone
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, a telephone
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Review the language points of making a telephone call.
Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.
1. When did you receive your first e-mail?
2. How often do you receive e-mail from your friend?
3. How will Wang Mei send her message to Li Ming?
If you are in a town, some students may say, “No.” So ask the following questions:
1. Did you see an e-mail? Where?
2. What is an e-mail like?
3. What is an e-mail address like?
4. Do you want to have an e-mail?
Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. Why does Wang Mei phone Li Ming?
2. Is Li Ming at home?
3. Does Wang Mei leave a message for Li Ming? Why?
4. At last, what does Wang Mei want to do/
Step4. Read the text and check the answers in silence. Then read it loudly in class.
Step5. Read the text in roles. Then let some students act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Step6. Practice
Make up a similar dialogue according to the text. Then act it out in front of the class. They can decide the content by themselves.
Step7. Deal with the e-mail.
Let the students summarize the style of the e-mail.
Practice:
Send an e-mail to your friend. Talk about what your opinion is about the Internet. Exchange your ideas with your friends.
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Preview the next lesson.
Summary:
Making telephone calls is an important part in our daily life. So practice more in our class. When the students are in trouble, help them. We must grasp how to make telephone calls and how to send e-mails. If we can’t finish them in this lesson, we can go on in the next one
Lesson 46: Mothers and Fathers Are Special
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: alive, whatever, hero, since, care, take care of, candy
Oral words and expressions: Anna, Dodd
Teaching Aim:
1. Learn about the western culture.
2. Find out the differences about the festivals between China and the western countries.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Know about Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
2. Why are the two festivals becoming more and more popular in the world/
Teaching Difficult Points:
Master the dates and the resources of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Let the students talk about the following question:
1. Remind the festivals in China. What are their meanings?
2. Talk about the festivals in western countries. What are their meanings?
Step2. Talk about Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
1. What do the students know about them?
2. What do people do on that day?
3. Do people in China celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day?
Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What day is Mother’s Day?
2. How do people celebrate it?
3. When was the first Mother’s Day?
4. Do other countries have Mother’s Day?
5. Is there Father’s Day?
6. How did Father’s Day start?
Step4. Read the text and check the answers. Then read it loudly in class.
Step5. Play the tape for several times. Let the students imitate after it until they can read it fluently and correctly.
Step6. Talk about the details of the text. Such as questions like this:
1. Where did Mother’s Day start?
2. Who started Mother’s Day?
3. What’s its meaning?
4. Where did Father’s Day start?
5. What people do on Father’s Day?
Step7. Talk about the following questions. Finish the task in groups.
1. How do you feel Mother’s Day and Father’s Day?
2. If tomorrow is Mother’s Day, what will you do?
3. Which one do you like to have, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day? Why?
Step8. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in activity book,
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
We must teach the students to say “thank you” to their parents in their daily life. They should do what they can do in their life. Except this, they should learn to take care of others. The teacher should creative students’ duty sense. So when they meet difficulties, they will not be afraid.
Lesson 47: I’m Connected!
Teaching Content:
Oral words and expressions: South America, agree
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn to write an e-mail.
2. Grasp the Simple Past Tense.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn more about the computer.
2. Know how to write an e-mail.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Read and master the main idea of the passage.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Suppose you are Wang Mei. Describe the experience that Li Mei has had these days since their family got a computer.
Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. Who helped Wang Mei connect to the Internet?
2. When did Wang Mei send Li Ming an e-mail?
3. How did Wang Mei feel when she connected to the Internet?
Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Then read the text again in class.
Step4. Read the text in roles. Then act it out in front of the class.
Step5. A guessing game
Make up a few riddles about the electric machines. Such as:
1. It is used to talk with somebody far away. We can ask and answer, but we don’t have to write. What is it?
2. We can search information on it and it can tell you the things far away.
3. We can see many programmers on it. It’s very fun. When we are free, we can enjoy it.
Step6. Talk about the next questions:
1. What do you think of the Internet?
2. What can you do with the Internet?
3.What do you like the computer to do in the future?
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.
2. Do the exercises of next lesson.
Summary:
Many students are interested in computers. Internet is a very useful tool on these days. We can use it to do many things, but sometimes it’s harmful to the students. It can make a good student become bad because of the computer games. So warn the students not to lose them selves in it.
Lesson 48: Unit Review
Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 41to Lesson 47.
Oral words and expressions form Lesson 41 to Lesson 47.
Teaching Aim:
1. Learn more about the western culture.
2. Know about the way that we use to keep touch with the others.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. The grammars: the Present Perfect Tense and the Past Perfect Tense.
2. Know what the computers can do.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to make full use of the computers?
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Let’s talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the computers.
Divide the class into two groups. One is for a view. The other is for another.
Step2. Talk about the festivals in China.
1. When is the festival?
2. What do people do on that day?
3. How does it begin?
4. Do you like the festival? Why?
Step3. Let some students come to the front to demonstrate how to send e-mail.
One student act, at the same time, the others say what he does.
Practice for several teams until we have satisfied result.
Step4. Do the exercises in the text. Let the students ask questions. The teacher explains it in class.
Step5. Practice the grammars: the Present Perfect Tense and the Past Perfect Tense.
Explain the differences between the Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past Tense.
--Have you found your watch?
--Yes. I found it five minutes ago.
I have been a teacher for ten years.
When they got there, the film had been on half an hour.
Step6: Let’s sing the song together.
Step7: Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.
2. Read the passages of this unit in activity book.
Summary:
Practice more about the Present Perfect Tense and the Past Perfect Tense. Know about the differences between the Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past Tense. Make up sentences in class. Make up dialogues in different situations.