Lesson 41
Teaching objectives and demands:
1. Words and useful expressions: hurricane, Good heavens, be anxious abut, expect, fortunately, warning, be likely to, painful
2. Daily expressions in communication: The expressions of expressing anxiety.
Key points:
1.The words and expressions: see above.
2. Structure of expressing anxiety.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises.
(2) Revise the expressions about the weather. Ask the students for as many expressions as possible.
Step 2. Presentation
SB Page 61, Part 1. Get the ss to tell you what they can see in the picture; what do they think is happening? Read the introduction to the dialogue aloud.
Step 3. Listening
Play the tape of Speech Cassette Lesson 41 for students to follow. After that go through the dialogue and explain the remaining new words.
Step 4. Reading
Get the students to read the dialogue and then go through the grammatical points and structures.
(1) In the hills.
(2) Have been waiting for
(3) There is no need to be worried.
(4) Structure: Is likely to
(5) Grammar: about inversion: There you are.
Step 5. Practice
SB Page 61, Part 2. teach the new word painful. Explain that the ss must match the phrases on the left with the replies on the right. Do the first one with the whole class, then let the ss work though the exercise in pairs. Check the answers with the class. Get the ss to practice the phrases: the first student with the book open, the second ss with the book closed. Explain to the ss that these are all phrases for expressing anxiety, or for enquiring what the matter is.
Step 6. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 41, Exx. 1-3. Ex.1 is compiled to consolidate the dialogue. Get the students to discuss the answers in pairs. Get the students to do Ex.2 orally and then check the answers with the students. Ex.3 can be assigned to students as there.
Homework
(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 41 in the Foundational Exercise Book.
(2) Ex.3 in Workbook.
Evaluation of teaching:
Lesson 42~43
The Hurricane (I~II)
Teaching aims and demands:
1.Words and useful expressions:
Normal, strike, midnight, per, push over, path, block, pole, bring down, branch, bath, lamp, awake, cottage, plastic, blanket, call in altogether, take the place of, surprisingly, weatherman, broadcast, clear away, pipe, or so
2. Develop reading skills
3. Grammar: the past participle as predicative.
4. Structure: have + object + pp
Key points:
1. Words
2. Grammar: see above.
3. Develop reading skills.
Teaching methods: Reading-practice
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises
(2) . Revise the key points of Lesson 41.
Step 2. Presentation
Talk about the picture and ask the four questions at the head of the text.
i. What happens in a hurricane?
ii. Why are hurricanes dangerous?
iii. Which parts of China have hurricanes?
iv. Have you ever been in a hurricane?
Step 3. Skimming
Read the two passages quickly and answer the following two questions:
(1) Why did the hurricane cause so much damage?
(2) Who helped to get things back to normal after the hurricane?
Step 4. Summary of the three texts
Get the students to read the two texts and tell the main idea of the texts. Generalization: This text can be divided into 5 parts as follows:
Part 1(Para. 1~3) General introduction of the hurricane.
Part 2(Para. 4) Some lucky escapes.
Part 3(Para. 5) Help of the army and workers.
Part 4(Para. 6~8) Damage caused by the hurricane.
Part 5(Para. 9) The reason for the hurricane.
Step 5. Language points of the texts
(1) About the hurricane: If it is happens in the Pacific, it is called typhoon; if it is happens in the Atlantic, it is called hurricane; if it is happens in the Indian Ocean, it is called cyclone.
(2) Strike: usually we use hit or strike when we say something unhappy happens.
(3) Lose their lives: die. Similarly we learned lose their sight
(4) :If…had happened…, there would have been…. This structure is used to express the subjunctive mood.
(5) Strong winds, high winds and rushing winds are used to express the similar meaning
(6) Had lucky escapes: had narrow escapes.
(7) Repair the damage: repair the damaged things.
(8) On its way: coming
Step 6.Practice
SB P63, Part 3. Tell the students to tell your partner, and he or she must guess which one you are talking about.
Step 7. Practice
SB P63, Part 4. Fill in the gaps with suitable prepositions. Get the students to do the work individually and then check the work with the class. Answer: See SB P63.
Step 8. Language study
Now get the students to study the structure: have + object + pp. Tell the students to find out the sentences which contains the structure.
Step 9. Practice
SB P64, Part 3. Tell the students to rewrite the sentences using have + object + pp. Do orally with the class.
Step 10. Practice
SB P65, Part 4~6, Practice the structure with the class. Get the students to do it individually and then check the answers with the class.
Step 11. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 42~43, Go through the exercises with the class and assign them as their homework.
Homework
(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 42~43 in the Foundational Ex. Book.
(2) Finish off the workbook exercises.
Evaluation of teaching:
These two lessons were taught in two teaching periods. In Period 1, we end up with Step 5, and in Period 2, we finished the rest steps. In teaching the structure, we taught some supplementary structures which related to “have”.
1. have + somebody + do something
( similar to let somebody do something )
2. have + somebody + doing something
3. gave + something + doing
4. get + somebody +to do something
5. have + object + PP.
Lesson 44
Teaching aims and demands
1. Words and useful expressions:
be anxious about, push over, bring down, call in, take the place of, clear away, or
2. Listening practice
3. Grammar: the past participle as predicative and attributive.
Key points: Useful expressions and grammar
Teaching methods: Listening - practice
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercises.
(2) Revise the key points of Lesson 42~43.
Step 2. Listening
(1) Tell the students turn to Page 155 and read the instructions to get a gist of the listening passage.
(2) Play the tape for the students to answer the questions.
(3) Check the answers with the students.
(4) Post listening activity: get the students to talk about the listening passage.
Step 3. Checkpoint
Go through Checkpoint 11 with students. Tell the students to make up sentences using the phrases in this checkpoint.
Step 4. Oral practice
SB P66, Part 2. Read the instructions and get students to have the oral practice as told.
Step 5. Writing
SB P66, Part 3. First tell the students to look at picture in the work book and then develop a passage. Assign this writing work to the students as their homework.
Step 7. Workbook
Workbook Lesson 44, Ex. 1~3. Get the students to do the two exercises and then check the answers with the students. Exercise 2 has already been assigned to the students as their homework.
Answers: See Workbook P126.
Homework
(1) Finish off the exercises of Lesson 36 in the Foundational Ex. Book.
(2) Revise the key points of this unit.
Evaluation of teaching: