一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 English for the Olympic Games. (Module 6 The Olympic adventure)
二、Targets for this period:
To understand stories about the Olympic Games
To combine sentences using “too” or “also”
To understand the usage of adverbs
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-leave for, the other students, at the back, need to do something, take around, carry, until
Key structures -it’s difficult to do something, for somebody to do something
四、Teaching methods:
Interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, OHP, handouts
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Lead-in: discussion
1. How much do you know about the Olympic Games?
2. What changes do the 2008 Olympic Games bring to Beijing?
3. What would you like to do for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games?
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 Pre-reading (Activity 1)
Students look at the photos and describe them.
Step Four Fast reading
Students answer the questions:
1. Where is Zhang Xiuyun from? She is from Dongsi Neighborhood Committee in Beijing.
2. What is she going to do on Saturday? She is going to learn English.
3. How old is Zhu Guoming? He is 79 years old.
4. Where can you find information about Wang Xiuqin? In paragraph 4
Step Five Careful reading (Activity 2)
1. When does Zhu Guoming get to school? early / late
2. How does the teacher speak to the older students? slowly and loudly / quickly and quietly
3. How do they need to learn English? quickly / slowly
4. How do they need to speak English? well / badly and carelessly
5. How does Wang Xiuqin work? hard / not hard
6. How does she check her vocabulary at home? carefully / carelessly
7. How does she listen to her lessons? quietly / loudly
Step Six To write the complete answers in Activity 2 (Activity 4)
1. Zhu Guoming gets to school early.
2. The teacher speaks to the older students slowly and loudly.
3. They need to learn English quickly.
4. They need to speak English well.
5. Wang Xiuqin works hard.
6. She checks her vocabulary at home carefully.
7. She listens to her lessons quietly.
Step Seven To introduce the adverbs
1. Tell the students that adj. describe the n. that they are in front of.
e.g. She is a quick runner.
2. Tell the students that adv. describe the verb they follow.
e.g. She runs quickly.
3. Tell the students that the form is very often the “adj. + -ly”, but there are a number of exceptions. e.g. good – well, hard – hard
Step Eight To Find out the adverbs which have the opposite meanings. (Activity 3)
well-badly carefully-carelessly early-late clearly-hard loudly-quietly quickly-slowly
Step Nine To retell the story according to the given information. (Activity 7)
Zhang Xiuyun: Saturday morning, from Dongsi Neighborhood Committee, in Beijing, an English class, start at 9:30
Zhu Guoming: 79 years old, get here early, in front of, behind the other students, speak slowly and loudly, hear clearly
Wang Xiuqin: 65 years old, it’s difficult for old people to…, better than, do some sightseeing
take them around
Step Ten Language Points
1. It’s Saturday morning, and Zhang Xiuyun from Dongsi Neighbourhood Committee in Beijing is leaving for school. 这是周六的早晨，北京东四居民委员会的张秀云正要去上课。
leave for a place :去往某地
2. the other students :其他的同学
the other ：其他的。后面既可跟单数名词也可跟复数名词。
e.g. the other girl 另一个女孩
the other books 其他的书
3. It’s difficult to see and hear at the back. 坐在后面很难看清楚，也看不清楚。
1) It’s difficult to do sth. 做某事很困难
e.g. It’s difficult to solve this problem.
2) It’s difficult for somebody to do sth. 做某事对某人来讲很困难。
e.g. It’s difficult for old people to study English.
4. take somebody around a place = show somebody around a place 带某人参观某地
e.g. I would like to take my American friends around Beijing.
5. These popular lesson will continue until 2008. 这种大众英语学习班将一直持续到2008
until 直到… 如果用在持续性动词作谓语的句子中，until 表示肯定。反之，若动词是瞬间性的，则该句表否定之意。
e.g. He usually works until midnight.
They won’t come back until 7pm.
6. need to do sth. 需要做某事（某人做主语）
e.g. Everyone needs to revise for the test.
Step Eleven To translate the sentences into Chinese
1. The plane will leave for New York at 3pm.
2. Some students are playing table tennis, the other students are running.
3. It’s difficult for her to make lanterns because she is only 3 years old.
4. Daming is taking some Australian friends around the Forbidden City.
Step Twelve To write sentences using too or also. (Activity 5)
1. Table tennis is exciting and it’s popular, too.
Table tennis is exciting and it’s also popular.
2. Daming likes basketball and he likes gymnastics, too.
Daming likes basketball and he also likes gymnastics.
3. He likes playing basketball and he likes watching basketball, too.
He likes playing basketball and he also likes watching basketball
4. Cycling is faster than running and Cycling is more dangerous then running, too.
Cycling is faster than running and Cycling is also more dangerous then running.
5. Lingling likes table tennis and she likes gymnastics, too.
Lingling likes table tennis and she also likes gymnastics.
6. I like sports and I like music, too.
I like sports and I also like music.
Notes: too 和also 都可表示“也，还”。too 常用于句尾，并与句子以逗号隔开。also 常用于be动词后或行为动词前。
Homework:
1. To find out more Olympic sports
2. To finish Unit2, Module 6, 点中典
3. To design a new Olympic Sport, according to the following questions:
1) What’s it like?
2) How do people play it ?
3) Do you like it?
4) Why do you like it?