Teaching aims:
1. Enable the Ss toknow 5 senses and their usages.
3. Help the Ss learn how people can make better use of their senses.
Teaching important & difficult points:
Learn about the 5 senses.
Teaching methods: Discussion
Teaching aids: A computer and a projector
Teaching procedures & ways
Step I Free talk
Say something about their winter holidays:
Did you enjoy yourselves in the holidays?
How did you spend their holidays?
What is the most exciting part of your holidays?
What’s your plan for the nw term?
Step II Presentation
1. Ask the Ss the following questions:
With what can we see ang hear?
How can we know whether a dish is delicious?
How can we know that a flower has a pleasant smell?
What do we do when we want to know whether the water in the basin
is hot or cold?
2. Fill in the form:
We do With the sense
see Eyes sight
hear Ears hearing
Taste tongue/ taste buds taste
Smell nose smell
Touch/ feel everywhere of the body touch
Questions: people who can’t see --- blind
People who can’t hear --- deaf
What would happen if you lost one or two of your senses?
Step III Welcome to the unit
1. Read the instructions and the short passage.
Tick the sentences that they don’t understand.
Sometimes senses affect one another.
For example, people have trouble recognizing taste when the
food is the wrong color.
affect v. = have a bad effect on
Questions: What language is used by the deaf?
How do the blind communicate with each other?
2. Look at the 4 pictures and answer the questions below.
No 1: In the darkness, the sense of hearing & touch
become more sensitive because we can’t see anything; When
we listen to our favorite music, we will close our eyes and just
want to listen with our ears; Wneh we read an interesting story,
we’ll lose ourselves in it and hardly hear anything around
us; When we eat something, we not only taste or smell it, we look
at it as well.
Question: Why are people misled by their own eyes?
The background or other lines confuses the eyes. Also,
what we expect to see can change what we see.
It’s more the brain that is confused than the eyes.
3. Groupwork
Discuss the 3 questions
4. Read the article in Reading in their wormbook.
About Beethoven.
Beethoven / a German composer / deaf / symphony
Abing / Chinese / blind / erhu solos
Step IV Homework
1. Try to make a careful plan for the new term.
2. Preview the Reading.