Lesson 1 A Material World

lesson 1 a material world
teaching aims:
1. to read a text to find out specific facts
2. to review and practice using countable and uncountable nouns and the use of determiners: all, none, both, neither, another, other.
3. to practice students’ expressing ability
teaching difficulties:
to review and practice using countable and uncountable nouns and the use of determiners: all, none, both, neither, another, other.
teaching aids: computer
teaching procedures:
ⅰ. warming up:
t: would you like to be a millionaire? why or why not (show some pictures)
s:
t: what can money buy?
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t: what can’t money buy?
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t: money can make you get something you need. in material world, money is important but remember money is not everything many evils come from greed for money. not all people care about money for example “who wants to be a millionaire? i don’t” says charles gray
  why does he say so?
ⅱ listening
 t: now listen to the cassette you will know why there are such people that don’t want to be a millionaire.
 then ask the students to answer the question.
ⅲ reading
do the exercise2
read the article. decide if the statements below are true (t), false (f) or there is no information (ni)
read the text aloud then answer the questions
1. what was charles’ life like in the past?
2. why didn’t charles want to be a rich man?
3. how did he deal with his money?
4 how about his life now?
5. how does he feel now? good or bad?
discussion
how do you treat the thing?
ⅳ correct mistakes
1. becoming a millionaire seem to be a lot of people’s dreams.
2. have a little money makes you free and happy.
3. the mean man turns back on his old friends as soon as he is successful.
4. there are certainly no signs that charles used to a rich man.
5. i bought a three – bedroom house in new york at last year.
6. i would not go back to be poor for anything.
7. how i wish i would own a fortune $3 one day.
 answers: 1. seem改為seems  2.have改為having
3.turn 后面加his  4 to后面加be 5. 去掉at  6.be 改為 being  7.fortune 后面加 of
ⅴ language points and vocabulary
1. turn one’s back on  不理睬  拒絕
did you really turn your back on his invitation?
你真的拒絕了他的邀請嗎？
turn one’s back to 轉身
the teacher turned his back to his students and found a boy making face.
教師轉過身，發現一個男孩正在做鬼臉。
2. give away 分發， 出賣， 送給人
he is a man who can give away friends for money.
他是一個能為錢出賣朋友的人。
look through your old clothes and see if you have anything to give away.