Teaching plan for Unit 3 Word Power
Step1. Lead-in
Ask the students:
1. What am I?
2. What are you?
3. Could you tell me what is your father/mother?
Step2 Presentation
1. Tell the students: When you ask sb: “ What is …….” , you are asking about his job. We usually end a job with -er, for eg: worker, farmer, teacher, writer.
Sometimes we end a word with –or. Eg: editor, actor, visitor, conductor, sculptor.
We can also add –ant to a verb, such as servant, assistant
-ent, such as; student
-ist, such as: typist
2. We can also add suffixes to a noun, -ist such as: scientist, artist, pianist
We can call pianist or the person who play violin musician, What do you call a person who works in a library? Librarian. So we also can add –ian to a noun
-er, such as: photograph
3. adj.+ ist such as: specialist
+ ian electrician, technician
4. we have other ways to form a job for example: sportsman, businessman, policeman, postman
5. If we want to refer to a woman’s job, what can we use? For example: actor----actress, waiter---waitress, host---hostess, prince----princess.
Step3 Practice
Look at page 46, Part A. Fill in the blanks. Check the answers with each other. Each student read one sentence.
Step4 Presentation.
I. Let’s play a game: Please guess the job I’m talking about according to my description:
1. What do we call a person who makes works out of a stone or wood?------sculptor
2. What do we call a person who is in charge of a company?------- manager
3. What do we call a person who is in charge of a school?-------- headmaster/ principal
4. What do we call a person who can write music?----- composer
5. What do we call a person whose job is to keep and check financial accounts?---- accountant
6. Who works in a library?------- librarian
II. Turn your books to page 47. Look at Exercise B. Go through the words together.
III. Can you put these jobs into different categories?
Arts: computer, musician, sculptor
Education: librarian, headmaster, professor
Business: accountant, manager, dealer, seller
Step5. Discussion
Work in pairs: What kind of job would you like to do in the future? Why? Discuss for one minute, then I will ask you to report your idea or your partner’s idea.
Step6. Homework
Preview the grammar