Unit 1 Festivals around the world (Period 4 Using language Listening and speaking).pdf

精品教案设计资料Unit 1Festivals around the world(Period 4Using languageListening and speaking)Unit 1 銆Festivals around the worldPeriod 4 銆Using language:Listening and speaking鏁欐潗鍒嗘瀽 This is the fourth teaching period of this unit.Asusual,the teacher will first get students to review what they learned in the lastperiod,and then lead in the new lesson.We will mainly deal with listening andspeaking in this period.At the beginning,students listen to a conversation amongyoung people.Carla and Hari are students in Trinidad.Their Chinese friends Li Meiand Wu Ping,are visiting for the Carnival holiday in February.They are joining in aparade for Carnival in Trinidad.This listening activity is not only to offer studentsknowledge about how to celebrate Carnival in Trinidad but to encourage students tolisten and then use what they have heard to help them answer questions.It is animportant exercise because it links skills together and uses them to produce a usefulphone call.Make sure students read the questions before they listen to the tape.Thisis to sharpen their attention and listen for the answers.This will also help them getthe gist of the listening text.The teaching procedures may be as follows:First,letstudents go through the directions,pictures and the questions and guess thelistening text may be about.Play the tape for students to listen to and decidewhether their guessing is right.Second,ask them to listen again for them to answerthe questions.Third,let them listen a third time to check their answers.While theyare listening,the teacher should pause and repeat the key sentences to helpstudents understand.When checking the answers,explain some difficult listeningpoints if necessary.In the end,show them the listening text and let them read andretell it.This step can help students understand and grasp the listening material far精品教案设计资料further.Perhaps some students will find it hard to listen to and understand listeningmaterials.Encourage them not to give up.The more they listen to English,the easierit becomes.The speaking exercise is intended to give students the opportunity topractice a phone conversation using the functional items.So they should learn someexpressions on how to make phone calls and invitations and express and thanks first.Then they are required to create such a phone conversation.During the course,letthem know the polite forms of English are important and should be practiced in avariety of situations.Also encourage them to use vocabulary from the reading andlistening passages.This period places emphasis on developing students 鈥?listeningand speaking ability.We should try our best to encourage students to say something.Don 鈥檛 always correct the mistakes they have made while they are speaking.Otherwise,they would feel reluctant and not say anything more.1.Develop students 鈥?listening and speaking abilities.2.Enable students to masterdifferent listening skills.3.Let students learn how to make phone calls and invitationsand express thanks.1.Get students to listen to and understandlistening materials with various English accents.2.Let students make a phoneconversation using the functional items requests and thanks.鐭瘑1.Get students to learn some useful new words and expressions in thelistening passage.2.Let students learn the following expressions:1)Making phonecalls May I speak to.?Can I ring/call back later?Hold/Hang on,please.I 鈥檒 l ringhim/her up again.Just a moment,please.Sorry,he/she isn鈥檛 here right now.2)Invitations I wonder if you are interested in.I鈥檇 like to invite you to.Wouldyou like.?Could/Would you please.?I鈥檓 looking forward to.I 鈥檇 loveto,but.3)Thanks Thank you so much.Thanks a lot.That鈥檚 very kind of you.You鈥檙 e most welcome.Don 鈥檛 mention it.It 鈥檚 a pleasure.1.Enable students to catch and understand the listening materials.2.Develop students鈥?ability to get special information and take notes while listening.3.Get students to精品教案设计资料learn and use the expressions of making phone calls,invitations and thanks.鎯呮劅1.Enable students to know more about festivals and love their life.2.Develop students 鈥?sense of group cooperation and teamwork.(涓)鈫扴 tep 1 Revision 1.Check the homeworkexercises.2.Ask some students to translate some sentences using modal verbs.1)鎴,浣嗘垜浠?0 骞村墠涓嶄細鐢?2)鎴?3)浠栧彲鑳芥槸鍔犳嬁澶汉銆?4)鏈哄櫒涓瀹氬嚭浜嗘晠闅溿?5)?Suggested answers:1)Some of us can use the computer now,but we couldn鈥檛 ten years ago.2)Can/Could/May/Might I borrow your bike?3)He may/might be from Canada.4)There must be something wrong with the machine.5)You should keep yourpromise.鈫扴 tep 2 Warming up 1.Tell students to turn to Page 6 and we are goingto the part Listening and speaking.2.Ask them to look at the pictures of the TrinidadCarnival and discuss in pairs what kind of activities the Carnival might have.3.Letthem find Trinidad on the map and describe it.4.Have them to predict what kind ofproblems someone might have when going to such a carnival.鈫扴 tep 3 Listening 1.Go through the directions and questions to make sure students know what to do.Letthem guess what the listening material they will hear may be about.Show thequestions on the screen.Part 1:1)What is wrong with Li Mei 鈥檚 clothing andshoes?2)What advice does Carla give Li Mei?Part 2:3)Why is it important for themto have water?4)Why is it difficult for them to hear each other?5)Why do they planto meet at the parking lot at 8 o 鈥檆 lock?2.Play the tape for them to listen to itand decide whether their guessing is right or not.3.Play the tape again.Whenlistening,they work in pairs:one student writes down the answers to Part 1;theother writes down the answers to Part 2.4.They exchange the information and listento the tape again for checking.Let them have the correct answers.5.Give 2 or 3minutes to students to ask questions if they have any.6.Show students the listening精品教案设计资料text and let them read it aloud.Listening text:(Omitted)鈫扴 tep 4 Speaking 1.Show the following form on the screen.Let students read the expressions aloud,andmake sure they understand their Chinese meanings.MAKING PHONE CALLS May Ispeak to.?Can I ring/call back later?Hold/Hang on,please.I鈥檒l ring him/her upagain.Just a moment,please.Sorry,he/she isn鈥檛 here right now.INVITATIONS Iwonder if you are interested in.I 鈥檇 like to invite you to.Would you like.?Could/Would you please.?I 鈥檓 looking forward to.I 鈥檇 love to,but.THANKS Thank you so much.Thanks a lot.That 鈥檚 very kind of you.You鈥檙 emost welcome.Don 鈥檛 mention it.It 鈥檚 a pleasure.2.Suppose the situation:Imagine you have just visited your friends in Trinidad andseen the Carnival.Make a phone call to invite your friends to a Chinese festival.3.Give several minutes for students to prepare for their phone conversations in pairs.4.Ask as many pairs as possible to present their conversations to the class.鈫扴 tep 5Listening on Page 41 Turn to Page 41.1.Ask students to look at the 4 pictures,and inpairs tell as many things as they can from each picture.Then ask them to say whatfestivals they think these pictures are about.2.Tell students they will listen to aconversation between Chen Bin and his American friend,Joey.What is the main topicof their conversation?3.Play the tape for students to listen to and find out the maintopic of their conversation.4.Ask students to look at the chart before they listen tothe tape again.Show the chart on the screen.EASTER In which season?Whocelebrates?The reason for the festival?On which day of the week?What thingsrepresent Easter?5.Play the tape again,and let students listen to it and then fill inthe chart.6.Let students share their information in pairs.7.Play the tape a thirdtime for students to check and have the correct answers.8.Give 2 or 3 minutes forstudents to ask questions if they have any.9.Show students the listening text and letthem read it.Listening text:(Omitted)鈫扴 tep 6 Listening task on Pages 45-46 1.Talk with students about festivals such as Mother鈥檚 Day,Valentine鈥檚 Day,精品教案设计资料Easter,the Cherry Blossom Festival,and so on.2.Turn to Page 45.Ask them to lookat the pictures and then discuss what festival for each picture is.3.Have them listento the tape.Then write the festival name for each picture.4.Turn to Page 46.Askthem to go through the questions and make sure they know what to do.5.Play thetape again for them to listen to and get their answers.6.Two or three minutes forthem to discuss and share their answers.7.Play the tape a third time for them tocheck and have the correct answers.8.Show them the listening text and let themread it.Listening text:(Omitted)鈫扴 tep 7 Summary In this period,we mainly focuson the listening and speaking abilities.They are very important.If your listening orspeaking is poor,you鈥檇 better practice more.The more you listen to or speakEnglish,the better your listening or speaking is.Remember:Practice makes perfect.鈫扴 tep 8 Homework 1.Finish off the Workbook exercises.2.Preview the passagesA Sad Love Story and Winter Carnival in Quebec.(浜?鈫扴 tep 1Revision 1.Check the homework exercises.2.Ask some pairs of students to make upshort dialogues to review modal verbs.Situations:1)You want to invite your friend tocome to a party on Sunday.2)You want to ask your mum for permission to go fishingwith your friends.鈫扴 tep 2 Listening 1.Talk about Carnival and Trinidad withstudents.2.Ask some of students to describe the pictures of the Trinidad Carnival.3.Discuss with students what kind of activities the Trinidad Carnival might have.4.Turnto Page 6.Ask students to read through the directions and questions in Exercise 2,predict the main idea of the listening text and then listen to the tape and give theiranswers.鈫扴 tep 3 Speaking 1.Turn to Page 6.Ask students to read the expressionsof making phone calls,invitations and thanks in the box.Try to learn them by heart.2.Suppose the situation and make a phone conversation in pairs using the expressions.3.Ask as many pairs of students as possible to present their conversations to theclass.鈫扴 tep 4 Workbook exercises 1.Listening 1)Ask students to discuss whatfestival these 4 pictures are about.2)Have them listen to this conversation and find精品教案设计资料out the main topic.3)Let them listen again and take notes to fill in the chart.2.Talking Ask students to read the directions and questions.Then let them make theirrole-play dialogues.3.Listening task 1)Ask students to dictate some festival names tosee if they are familiar with them.2)Let them listen to the tape and write the festivalfor each picture on Page 45.3)Have them go through the questions and then listenagain to find the answers.鈫扴 tep 5 Homework 1.Finish off the related Workbookexercises.2.Make up a phone conversation using the expressions of invitations andthanks.Unit 1 銆Festivals around the world Listening and speakingMAKING PHONE CALLS May I speak to.?Can I ring/call back later?Hold/Hang on,please.I 鈥檒 l ring him/her up again.Just a moment,please.Sorry,he/she isn鈥檛here right now.INVITATIONS I wonder if you are interested in.I鈥檇 like to inviteyou to.Would you like.?Could/Would you please.?I鈥檓 looking forwardto.I 鈥檇 love to,but.THANKS Thank you so much.Thanks a lot.That鈥檚very kind of you.You鈥檙e most welcome.Don鈥檛 mention it.It鈥檚 a pleasure.娲诲姩涓庢帰绌?Imagine you want to invite a foreign friend to join your family鈥檚celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival.In pairs,one as the Chinese student andthe other as the foreign friend,make up a phone conversation to give your invitation,ask and answer questions about the holiday.The foreign friend should express his orher thanks for your invitation.Be ready to act out your conversation to the class.