Teaching aims and demands:
1. Topic: Talk about British Isles---- the UK and Ireland.
2. Vocabulary and useful expressions:
Consist, state, powerful, advantage, narrow, republic, form, mild, influence, basis, mountainous, union, strength, generation, generally, belief, cigarette, proof, own, production, produce, research, coast, foot, employ, bear, grain, wild, westwards, approach;
Consist of, be made up of, make the most of, hold together, lie off, at one point, the Atlantic Ocean, run over.
3. Function:
Practise expressing agreement and disagreement
A. agreement:
I believe that you have got it right.
Surely it must be….
Yes, you are right, but ….
Yes, I agree with you.
B. disagreement:
Don’t you think that…..?
Aren’t you confusing …..?
I don’t think that’s right ….
I don’t think so.
You must be mistaken……
No, you are wrong thinking that …….
I’m afraid you’re wrong …..
4. Grammar:
Noun Clauses (1)---- subject/ object/ predicative/ appositive
What life will be like is the topic for today’s class discussion. (Subject clause)
Can you imagine that what man will look like in 1000 years? (Object clause)
The reason why he didn’t come to school is that he was ill. (Predictive clause)
The news that our football team was defeated is known to all. (Appositive clause)
5. Using the language:
Write a description of a town and the countryside
Period 1 Warming-up & Listening
Type of lesson: Warming-up & Listening
Teaching Aims: Talk about the UK and Ireland
Do some listening and train the students’ listening ability.
Teaching aids: Multimedia, tape-recorder and worksheet
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in
Today we’ll learn a new unit---the British Isles.Yesterday, I told you to search for as much information as possible about the UK and Ireland through the Internet. I’m sure you’ve got a lot. Now I’ll ask some of you to report your findings. Any volunteers?
Step 2. Warming up
1. We’ve talked a lot about England, its places of inertest, its people and their life, its geography, education and so on. Now let’s enjoy some pictures on the screen.
2. Now please look at the following pictures and then tell me:
Do you know the names of the pictures? Do you know where they are taken?
Step 3 Listening
We know that the British Isles are amusing places. It is a wish of many people one day to be able to go there and take language skills there. Here is the Language School at Dublin University. Now we’ll listen to the tape to learn something about the students’ school life there.
1. Some new words in this part:
1). Some names of the teachers: Dave, Flora, Sarah, Julia, Andrew
2. Listen for the first time and choose the best answers:
3. Listen for the second time and finish exercise 1 on page 33.
5. Listen for the fourth time and fill in the timetable on Page 34.
Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:30am
~10:20am Language study
(Dave) Language study
(Dave) Language study
(Dave) Language study
(Dave) Language study
(Dave)
10:30 am~11:20am Conversation Workshop (Flora&Sarah) Computer Lab
(Dave) Computer Lab
(Dave) Reading Workshop (Andrew)
11:30am~12:20am Reading Workshop (Andrew)
12:30p Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00pm
2:50pm Skills (Flora&Sarah) Skills (Flora&Sarah) Skills (Flora&Sarah) Skills (Flora&Sarah)
3:00pm
3:50pm Language Lab (Julia) Language Lab (Julia)
5. Retell the listening material according to the form.
Step 4. Task: Tom is a new student in your class, he knows nothing about your school schedule. As a monitor, you are asked to introduce him something about lesson timetable and your teachers. Now make the dialogue with your partners.
Listening Text:
Good morning and welcome to the Language School at Dublin University. I’m very happy to greet you all to our Summer programme and hope that you will not only learn a lot more English, but also learn about the Irish way of life. Before you go to your classrooms, I want to have a quick look at your weekly timetable with you. Classes are taught from Monday to Friday with four classes in the morning and three classes in the afternoons. One lesson takes up 50 minutes. We start every morning with two lessons of what we call Language Study, which will mostly be grammar and vocabulary. The rest of the morning classes are either spent in the computer lab, or in workshops. There’s a conversation Workshop to practise your speaking skills, one lesson on Tuesday, directly after the Languate Study class and there is a Reading Workshop of two times fifty minutes on Friday morning. There are also two fifty minutes classes in the computer lab which form the third class on both Wednesday and Thursdays.
Lunch is from half past twelve till one o’clock. Each afternoon, except for Wednesday, starts with two lessons of skill practice. In those classes you will mostly practise listening and speaking. On Monday and Tuesday they are followed by a class of fifty minutes at the language lab.
The language lab is open Monday to Friday from half past eight in the morning until eight o’clock in the evening, while the library is open every day, including the weekends, from eight am till ten pm.
Language Study and classes in the computer lab are taught by Dave. Conversation and skills are taught by Flora and Sarah. Reading is taught by Andrew and the teacher who will be with you in the language lab is Julia. If for some reason you cannot come to class, you have to phone your teacher half an hour before class begins.
(If there is not enough time, the following parts can be left as homework).
Step 5. Dealing with the Ex 1-2 on p 109 of Workbook.
1. Listen to the tape and write down the most important information you hear about Wales in the chart
Country Wales
Capital city Cardiff
History Part of England from 1536 until 1955;now one of the four countries that from the UK
Type of land Mountainous
Type of weather Sea climate; wetter and warmer than the rest of the UK
Type of farming Sheep farming
Things to do on a holiday in Wales Hiking/ swimming/ sailing/
Visit castles, churches and festivals
2. Listen to the tape again. Write down the answers to the following questions.
1. How can you see you are traveling in Wales?( 2 things)
1).The landscape is different.
2).Street signs and names of stations are written in two languages: English and Welsh.
2. What do Welsh farmers use dogs for?
To move their sheep from one field to another.
3. Why does it rain a lot in Wales?
Because the wind usually comes from the sea, and when it hits the mountains it starts raining.
3. Listening Text:
Wales is one of the four countries that form the United Kingdom. The Act of Union in 1536 combined west and east Wales into a single state, Wales was considered by the English and later Great Britain and the United Kingdom government as a separate pat of England and Cardiff was named in 1955 as its capital, Since then we speak of “England and Wales” where before only “England” was used.
Travelling from England, you will know when you are in Wales, because all street signs and names of railway stations are written in two languages: English and Wales. Welsh is the original language of the people in Wales. The landscape in Wales is also different from England. While England is mostly hilly, the central parts of Wales are mountainous. It is here that we find the highest mountain in the UK. As it is impossible to grow crops on the mountains, Welsh farmers keep sheep instead. It is difficult to get around the steep mountain slopes, even in a jeep. So the Welsh sheep farmers use dogs to move the sheep from one field to another.
The weather in Wales is warmer and wetter than in other parts of Britain. This is because of the high mountains. The wind here usually comes from the southwest. As it moves across the warm Atlantic Ocean, the wind carries water from the sea. When this wind hits the mountains of Wales, the air rises causing rain to fall.
Wales is popular with holiday visitors. They go hiking in the mountains, or spend their summer days by the sea, swimming or sailing. people interested in history and architecture can visit some of the many historical sites in Wales. Most ancient castles and churches are open to the public. During the holidays, there are festivals too, with singing and dancing. Wales is often called “the Land of song” and its people are famous for their love of poetry and music.
Step 5. Homework:
Preview the next part.