Making a difference（The Fourth Period）

the fourth period
teaching aims:
1. revise the language points and grammar－the infinitive in this unit.
2. learn and master the following phrases: take a look at, what if, the other way around
3. do some reading and writing practice to improve the students' integrating skills
.4. learn how to write a descriptive paragraph.
teaching important points:
1. improve the students' integrating skills.
2. help the students write a descriptive paragraph.
teaching difficult points:
1. how to held the students understand the passage better.
2. how to help the students learn to write a descriptive paragraph
teaching methods:
1. doing exercises to revise what we've learnt before.
2. asking-and-answering activity to go through the reading material.
3. discussion to help the students understand the passage better.
4. individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids:
1. a projector
2. a tape recorder
3. the blackboard
teaching procedures:
step i greetings
greet the whole class as usual
stepⅱrevision
t: yesterday we learned the grammar the infinitive. we know that the infinitive can be used as the subject, object, adverbial and so on. now let's do some exercises to see if you have mastered them well enough. look at the screen.
    (show the following on the screen.)
tell the function of the underlined part in each sentence.
 l. (1) to learn about the universe, you need (2) to have a telescope (3)to observe the stars with.
2. it takes time (4) to know a man.
3 please remember (5)to bring me a book.
4. i've got a lot of work (6)to do.
5. (7) in order to catch the first bus, she got up early
6. it is important for us (8)to learn english
  (teacher asks the students to do them one by one. if there is any question, teacher can explain it to them.)
 suggested answers:
 subject: (4) (8)
object: (2) (5)
 attribute: (3) (6)
adverbial: ( 1 ) (7)
 t: let's do another exercise. fill in the blanks, using the infinitive.
   (show the following on the screen.)
l. the goal of stephen hawking's re search is to        and to        is his biggest dream.                 2. the doctor thought he only had three more years to        , which turned out         
3. we took a taxi to         we hurried there, only to         we were unhappy to