Type of lesson: New Lesson
Teaching aims: Learn to use functional sentences, key structures, and words to introduce one’s friends by listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Teaching contents:
1. Topic: Art & Literature
(1) Talk about art and literature.
(2) Talk about artists, painters and writers
(3) Tell stories
(4) Make decisions and give opinions
2. Functional Sentences: Making decisions and giving opinions.
(1) What shall we do?
(2) Would you like to …?
(3) I’d like to …
(4) Maybe we could …
(5) I’d prefer to …
(6) Which do you prefer, … or …?
(7) Can’t we …?
(8) There are several things we could do.
3. Vocabulary:
(1) Word: literature, comedy, local, exhibition, power, magic, trick, series, forehead, treat, unhappy, habit, villager, shoulder, whisper, stupid, announcement, character
(2) Phrases: a series of, in trouble, come across, believe in, turn around
4. Grammar: Review the Attributive Clause (The Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Attributive Clause)
Period 1 Warming up & Listening
Teaching aims:
1. To get students to know something about art, literature, and famous painters.
2. To train students’ listening ability for catching specific information.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 ------ Leading in (warming up)
1. Ask the students to have a competition to guess the person according to the given information. (Match the information with the given names on page78)
(1) Vincent van Gogh
He is a painter of Holland. He lived in the 19th century. He is famous for his idea of emotional expression in painting. His great works include Bedroom at Arles, Starry Night and Crows in the Wheatfields.
(2) Leonardo da Vinci
He is an Italian painter. He lived during the 15th and 16th century. He is well known for his works like The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. Besides, he is also a sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist.
(3) Pablo Picasso
He is a Spanish painter. He is widely known as the most important artists of the 20th century. But many people say it is not easy to understand his paintings.
(4) Qi Baishi
He is a Chinese painter. He lived a very long life, crossing two centuries, from 1864 to 1957. He is not only good at painting, but also good at making poems and sculpture.
2. Ask the students to find out the right painter of each painting. ( match the given names with given pictures on page 28 Exercise 1)
3. Ask the students in a group of four to discuss what kind of paintings they like and why.
Ex: Where can they see the paintings?
Step 2 ------ Listening comprehension
1. Go through the task with the students and make sure what to do before you play the tape.
2. Play the tape for 3-4 times and give specific instructions of what to do each time.
3. Let students check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class.
I II III
Art Paintings/Picasso Beijing Opera/ Peking A Theatre play – The Tempest
Place Capital Museum Music Hall, on Green Street Grand Theater
Time Monday – Friday 4pm – 8pm Thursday at 7 pm March 3, 7pm
Prices Adults: $5
Children: $3
Groups: $2 (min. 5 people) Adults: $7
Students: $5
Under 14: $3
Groups: $4 Adults: $10
Under 18: $8
Groups: $6
Period 2 Speaking
Teaching aims:
1. To train students’ speaking ability.
2. The students are trained to explain English words in English.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 ------ Leading in
1. Ask students to review the functional sentences of phoning.
(1) Hello. This is …
(2) May/Can/Could I speak to …?
Step 2 ------ Functional sentences learning
Task 1 ------ Inviting someone to a film
1. Ask students to read the situation (Student A part) and fill in the table.
Name Last Chance Under the Moon
Kind Action Romantic comedy
Content The hero has to save his girlfriend who has been taken away by a bad man. A funny film about a girl and her boyfriend who have an adventures vocation.
Attraction The film has lots of actions: fast cars, shootings and fights. The film is sweet and funny and has a happy ending.
Ticket price $ 3 $ 4
Time Sunday 6 pm Sunday 8 pm
Place Red Sun Cinema Green Field Cinema
2. Ask the students to read Student B part.
(1) Which film do you want to see?
(2) What kind of is it?
(3) What is the film about?
(4) What is the most attractive in the film?
(5) How much is each ticket?
(6) When and where is the film shown?
3. Ask students to act out the two situations in turn according to the card.
A: Hello, this is …
B: Hi, … Would you like to …?
4. Ask the students to present their dialogues.
Task 2 ------ Finding out the information of the festival
1. Ask the students to read the given information and the functional sentences.
2. Ask students to act out the situations according to the table.
Time Table
Saturday Sunday
9 am Classical music 9 am Play
11 am Art exhibition 11 am Lunch and Music
1 pm Pop concert 3 pm Art exhibition
5 pm Picnic 6 pm Folk Music Concert
7 pm Rock concert
Ticket Prices
One day Adults -- $ 25 Under 18 -- $15 Groups -- $10
Two days Adults -- $ 35 Under 18 -- $ 25 Groups -- $15
(1) What can I do at the festival?
(2) When is the Pop concert?
(3) What paintings can I see at the festival?
(4) When is the picnic?
(5) Is there any discount for a two-day visit?
(6) What’s the difference between a one-day ticket and a two-day ticket?
Task 3 ------ Summarizing the functional sentences of making decisions and give
opinions.
(1) What shall we do?
(2) Would you like to …?
(3) I’d like to …
(4) Maybe we could …
(5) I’d prefer to …
(6) Which do you prefer, … or …?
(7) Can’t we …?
(8) There are several things we could do.
Period 3 Reading
Teaching aims:
1. To get students to learn something about Harry Potter.
2. To train students’ reading ability.
3. To instruct students to realize the real world in a suitable way.
Teaching procedures:
Part 1 ------ Pre-reading
Step1: Show some pictures of the movie Harry Potter and ask students some questions.
1. Do you know this boy? Who is he?
2. Do you like him? Why?
Step 2: Show students the covers of Harry Potter and introduce the author.
1. Do you know who create Harry Potter you like very much?
2. The author of Harry Potter is a lady named Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Until now Rowling has published a series of books about Harry Potter. They are:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret
Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Part 2 ------ While-reading
Step1: Ask students to read the passage as quickly as possible, and answer the following questions.
1. The passage is about ______.
A. Rowling B. Harry C. magic D. a happy life
Step2: Reading for the detailed information and finish True or False statements on page 81.
1. Harry Potter is a world-famous writer. (F)
2. Harry Potter was born in a rich family and grew up with his mother and
father. (F)
3. Harry Potter is a boy with a scar on his forehead. (T)
4. Harry goes to an ordinary school. (F)
5. Harry learns a lot about the real world at Hogwarts. (T)
6. Harry discovers that it is easy to do the right things. (F)
Step3: Dealing with difficulties in understanding the words and sentence structures.
1. Ask students to find the sentences with the following word in the text and do the words-matching.
(1) It’s a world of magic and wonder, where anything can happen.
Magic: wonder
(2) JK Rowling has written a series of books about Harry Potter.
A series of: a number of things come one after another.
(3) A boy with scar on his forehead.
Forehead: part of a person’s face, above the eyes
(4) Harry has to fight against bad wizards and do the right things.
Wizards: a person who knows magic.
2. Ask students to translate the following sentences.
(1) The magic, many strange creatures and the adventures Harry comes across at Hogwarts help him understand the real world.
魔法、許多魔怪以及哈利在霍格沃茨的奇特經歷幫助他了解了真實的世界。
(2) You must believe in what you do and who you are if you want to succeed in the world - the magic world of Hogwarts and the real one.
如果你想在世界上有所成就，無論是在霍格沃茨的魔法世界，還是在真實世界，都必須對你自己所做的事和你自己的能力充滿自信。
(3) Where someone is born and what a person looks like is not as what he or she grows up to be.
一個人的出身和相貌并不重要，重要的是他或她長大后將成為什么樣的人。
(4) It is not enough to be strong in heat and mind; we must also believe in ourselves and help others if we want to be happy and live a good life.
如果我們想獲得幸福、過上美好的生活，僅僅一直堅強、頭腦聰明還不夠，我們還必須相信自己，并且幫助他人。
Part 3 ------ Post reading
Step1: Ask students to find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Para 1: It is a world of magic and wonders, a world where anything can happen.
Para 2: Harry seems like a normal boy, but his life is miserable.
Para 3: Hogwarts is an unusual school where the students learn about magic.
Para 4: Harry has to fight against bad wizards and so the right things.
Step2: Ask students to discuss the following questions in a group of four, and then ask some of them to answer the questions.
1. What kind of world does JK Rowling describe?
2. How does Harry’s life change?
3. Does any student have strange powers at Hogwarts?
4. What else does Harry learn besides magic at Hogwarts?
5. Why does Rowling use strange creatures in her books?
Part 4 ------ Extension
Step 1: Ask the students to make a dialogue between Daniel and the reporter.
1. Teachers’ presentation ------
The boy Daniel is world famous over night for playing the role of Harry Potter. Now he is often interviewed by many media. Now I want two students a group. One is Daniel, the other is the reporter. The reporter interviews Daniel by asking some questions.
2. Possible questions:
(1) Do you like the role?
(2) Could you introduce something about the role?
(3) What do you think of your role?
(4) What do you learn from the role?
Homework ------
Write a passage about Harry Potter in about 100 words.
Period 4 Word Study
Teaching aims:
Learn to use the following words and phrases:
Teaching procedures:
1. Treat
Read the following sentences and find out the different meaning of the word in the sentence situation in Column B.
A.1) The engineer felt that he hadn't been treated fairly. (a)
2) He treated the animal cruelly. (a)
3) He treated his mistake as a joke. (b)
4) Doctor Li treated many patients in the emergency room yesterday. (c)
5) Marry will treat her sister to the theater tomorrow. (d)
Column B.
a) To act or behave in a specified manner toward.
b) To regard and handle in a certain way. often used with as:
c) To give medical aid to (someone).
d) To provide with food, entertainment, or gifts at one's own expense:
2. used to; be / get used to doing
A. Ask the students to put the underlined phrases into Chinese and get to know the difference between used to and be/ get used to doing
1. He used to play cards a lot, but he gives it up.
2. I didn’t use to like opera, but now I’m getting interested in it.
= I used not to like opera, but now I’m getting interested in it.
3. I’ve lived in Paris for six years now, so I’m quite used to the traffic there.
B. Filling the blanks.
Use; used to; be / get used to doing
1. We ____this knife to cut the bread.
2. This knife ____________the bread.
3. You’ll soon _________________ living in the country.
4. It’s difficult to understand Scottish people if you _______________ their accent.
5. Jack is on school football team. He __________ practising football after school everyday.
6. When I was a child, I _________ take a flashlight to bed with me so that I could read comic books without my parents’ knowing about it.
Keys: 1) use; 2) is used to cut 3) be used to; 4) are not used to
5) is used to; 6) used to
3. make
A. Ask the students to read the sentences to understand the meaning of the word in different situation.
a. make + n + n
John played football very well, so they made him captain of the team.
(使…成為)
b. make + n / pron+ adj
Don’t make it too tight, This is for winter wear. (做的…)
Sit down and make yourselves comfortable. ( 使得…)
c. make + n
Now some people are just interested in making money. ( earn, 掙得)
Yao Ming made over 20 points in one of the NBA games.（get, 贏得）
d. make + sb. + do
The boss made his workers work long hours.
B. Match the structures with the sentences:
a. make + n + n
b. make + n / pron+ adj
c. make + n
d. make + sb. + do
1. How much do you make from working part-time. (c)
2. The teacher made him stay after school because he didn’t understand what the teacher taught in class. (d)
3. The classroom is so big that the teacher had to speak loud to make herself heard. (b)
4. John is a born leader, so we made him our monitor. (a)
4.believe & believe in
A. Compare the meaning of the words, let students tell the similarities and differences of custom and habit according to the sentences.
1) Do you believe the news stories?
2) I believe they will arrive shortly.
3) You can't believe anything she says.
4) Do you believe in God?
5) Some people believe in everlasting life after death.
B. Filling the blanks with believe or believe in.
My father is an engineer. He _______ where there is a will, there is a way so he works hard every day. His manager _____________ him and _______ he can set my father all kinds of task.
5.
a series of; kinds of; a type of; dozens of
1) He saw _________ white arrows painted on the road, but he didn’t understand the meaning of them.
2) Hurry up, there are _________ people waiting for you over there.
3) Cotton is _____________ material.
4) The same ___________ things are produced and sold by many different companies in the U.S.
5) 1) a series of 2) dozens of 3) a type of 4) kinds of
6. forehead ( word formation)
a. Ask the students to explain the word.
Forehead: the part of the face between the eyebrows, the normal hairline, or the front part of something.
Foresee: to see or know something beforehand.
b. Ask the students to guess what the prefix “fore-” means
Fore-: (1) in front of; (2) before; earlier
c. Ask the students to figure out the meanings of the words.
Forearm, foreman, forefinger, forefather, forename, forerunner, foresight, foretell, foreword
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable phrases.
use to; come across; in trouble; a series of; believe in
(1) The key to achieving your goals is that you must ____ yourself.
(2) He________ spend much time having fun, but now he works hard on his lessons.
(3) No matter what difficulty you ____ , you should never give up practicing skiing.
(4) It is good news that there will be ____ funny movies on next month.
(5) We should try our best to help whoever is ____ .
Suggested answer
(1) believe in (2) used to (3) come across (4) a series of (5) in trouble
Period 5 Grammar
Teaching aim:
Revise the grammar ------ the Attributive Clause
Teaching procedures:
Step 1,
Leading in
1. Ask students to guess some riddles.
(1) It is an animal that jumps on its strong legs and carry its young in a bag on the front of its body. (kangaroo)
(2) It is a thing that you hold above your head to keep yourself dry when it is raining. (umbrella)
(3) It is a soft, round fruit that has a red skin and can be eaten in salad or as a vegetable. (tomato)
(4) It is a building where travelers and others may get food and a room to live
in. (hotel)
(5) It is a season of the year when the weather becomes warmer and plants start to grow again. (spring)
(6) It is someone who is trained to help a doctor to look after the sick or
injured. (nurse)
Step 2: Revision
1. Ask students to review definition of the attributive clause and the antecedents, and then ask students to point out the antecedents, relative pronouns and relative adverbs of the following sentences.
(1) This is the doctor who saved the boy’s life.
(2) Please pass me the book which is lying on the table.
(3) She is the new student whom I want to introduce to you.
(4) The novel which Tom bought is very interesting.
(5) The professor whose daughter teaches you English is Dr. Williams.
(6) I know the reason why she studies so well.
(7) This is the room where he put up for the night.
(8) We’ll never forget the day when the People’s Republic of China was founded.
2. Ask students to summarize the relative pronouns and relative adverb.
(1) Which or that is used to introduce an Attributive Clause about things.
(2) Who, whom or that is used to introduce an Attributive Clause about people.
(3) Where is used to introduce an Attributive Clause about places.
(4) When is used to introduce an Attributive Clause about time.
(5) Why is used to introduce an Attributive Clause about reason.
3. Ask students to read the following sentences and to summarize the characters of the antecedents used as subject in the attributive clause.
(1) The house which they built in 1987 stayed up in the earthquake..
(2) The baby who I looked after yesterday is my niece.
When the antecedents used as subject in the attributive clause, the relative pronouns should be who, whom, which, that, or none.
4. Ask students to read the situation and to make the words in right order.
Situation ------
Mrs. Green got married just last month. She is learning to be a good wife. But she really has a headache about buying, keeping and cooking food. Can you give her some instructions?
(1) Don’t / buy /potatoes/ are green
Don’t buy the potatoes which/that are green.
(2) choose / vegetables / fresh
Choose the vegetables which/that are fresh.
(3) choose / fish / fresh / has bright eyes
Choose the fresh fish which/that has bright eyes.
(4) buy your food / from shopkeepers /always busy
Buy your food form the shopkeepers who are always busy.
(5) keep any cream, butter or cheese / you buy / in the fridge
Keep any cream, butter or cheese which/that/_ you buy in the fridge.
(6) put everything / you need while cooking / in a place / find it easily.
Put everything that you need while cooking in a place where you find it easily.
(7) put / the dish / left / after a meal / in the fridge
Put the fish which/that is left after a meal in the fridge.
5. Ask students to write the sentences according to the language environment.
(1) Alice is a real ice-cream fan. She can eat at least two big ice-creams a day. She even said that she was not going to make friends with anyone who didn’t like ice creams.
(2) Mr. Smith’s house was broken into and his expensive camera and golden watch were stolen. The police discovered a red hair in the room. So they are looking for those people who have red hair.
(3) Meat goes bad easily in summer. So do remember to put it in a place where it is cold.
(4) Some women are crazy about shopping. They never make a shopping list. So when they go back home after shopping they always find they have bought a lot of things they needn’t at all.
(5) Twenty-years has passed and the city of Tangshan takes on a new look. However, many people there will never forget the terrible day when the earthquake destroyed the city.
6. Ask students to fill in the blanks with the relative pronoun and to summarize the relative pronoun “that” should be used in what condition.
(1) “The Matrix” is the best movie that I have seen.
(2) English is the most difficult subject that you will learn these years.
------ 先行詞是最高級形容詞或是它的前面有最高級形容詞時
(3) He is the last person that I want to see.
(4) It’s the first American movie of this kind that I’ve ever seen.
------ 先行詞是序數詞,或它前面有一個序數詞時
(5) Which is the bike that you lost?
(6) Who is the woman that was praised at the meeting?
------主句已有疑問詞who 或which時
(7) Do you know the things and persons that they are talking about?
(8) The bike and its rider that had run over an old man were taken to the police station.
------先行詞既有人又有物
(9) You should hand in all that you have.
(10) We haven’t got much that we can offer you.
(11) I mean the one that you talked about just now.
------先行詞是all, much, little, something, everything, anything, nothing, none,
the one等代詞時
(12) The only thing that we can do is to give you some money.
(13) This is the same person that I met yesterday.
(14) Ken is the very person that stole my wallet.
------先行詞前面only, any few, little, no, all, the same, the very等詞修飾時
(15) Edison built up a factory which produced things that had never been seen before.
(16) The man who is at the table is his brother that has been serving in the army.
------有兩個定語從句，其中一個關系代詞已用which, 另外一個用that
7. Ask students to read the following passage and try to join sentences using the attributive clause.
Mary’s Party
Everybody went to Mary’s party last Saturday evening. Everybody had a good
time. Mary cooked the food. It was very delicious. I liked the dress. Lucy was wearing it. It suited her well. I also met someone. I had not seen him for years. His name is James. He said he never forgot the last day in college. On that day, we enjoyed ourselves. James told us that he had just flown from Greece. He had been living in Greece for the past five years. He came back here to give an exhibition. The exhibition is about Greek art.
Everybody who went to Mary’s party last Saturday evening had a good time. Mary cooked the food which was very delicious. I liked the dress which/that Lucy was wearing. It suited her well. I also met someone who/whom/_ I had not seen for years. His name is James. He said he never forgot the day when we enjoyed ourselves. James told us that he had just flown from Greece where he had been living for the past five years. He came back here to give an exhibition which is about Greek art.
8. Ask students to do true or false.
(1) An Attributive Clause is used to tell people more clearly which person or thing is being discussed. (T)
(2) While we are writing a composition, we should use Attributive Clauses as many as possible. (T)
(3) If we can use Attributive Clauses in a proper way, our writing will be
improved. (T)
(4) We use more Attributive Clauses in written English than we do in oral
English. (T)
9．Ask the students to read the sentences and translate the following sentences into Chinese:
1.He who knows nothing but pretends to know everything , is indeed a good-for –nothing.
不懂裝懂，一事無成.
2. He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf.
甘當小綿羊，遲早要喂狼.
3. It’s the first step that costs.
萬事開頭難
4. He who would climb that ladder must begin at the bottom.
千里之行，始于足下。
5. He who is full of himself is very empty.
自滿的人腹中空.
6．Not all that glitters is gold.
閃光的未必都是金子
Period 6 Integrating Skills
Teaching aim:
Get students to know how to write a poster.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1, Fast reading
a) Read the passage and do the exercises. ( Page 120 《豐臺分院紫皮練習冊》)
b) Guessing the meaning of the following words.
Ask the students to match the sentences with the same meaning .
1) whisper
2) stupid
3) password
a) a secret word or phrase that one uses to gain admittance or access to information.
b) to speak quietly and privately
c) lacking or marked by a lack of intelligence
Step 2, Read in details.
1. The Ss ask and answer in pairs.
(1) What was the password?
(2) What was strange with the statue?
(3) Who told them that a password could work much?
2. Ask the students to fill in the blanks with the correct information.
Main characters Tom and Pete
Place of the event Before a statue
Reason for what happens Noise coming from behind the statue
Ending of the event
Step 3, Pre-writing
1. Work in groups of four. Let students discuss what a good poster should have.
1) Colorful and interesting.
2) Necessary information.
2. Discuss the topic they are going to choose.
3. Ask the students to list the necessary information of the chosen topic.
1) What is the name of the film?
2) Why should people watch the film?
3) What is the film about?
4) What stars are in the film?
5) Where will the film be shown?
6) When will the film start?
7) How much are the tickets?
4. Writing
The teacher should do the following before the students write a poster:
1) Go over the requirements of writing, and make sure the students know what to do.
2) Tell the students what they should do before writing.
Step 4. While writing
Get the students to write their own posters.
Step 5. Post writing
Do evaluation after finishing their poster.
1) picture
2) writing skills ( spelling, structure, grammar, capitalicalion)