Unit 4  TV programmes

teaching procedures
step 1. revision
  what do you often do at weekends?
  do you often watch tv?
  how often do you watch tv?
step 2. presentation
  what kind of tv programmes do you often watch?
  (cartoons, movies, mtv, news, sports, cooking, drama, fashion, nature, travle …)
  what kind of tv programmes do your parents watch?
  what about your cousins?
  which is your favorite tv programme?  why?
  e.g.  cooking – you can learn how to cook meals, eat healthy food and keep fit.
travel  --  you can enjoy yourselves, make friends, get a lot of knowledge and learn
more about the world.
mtv – you can relax yourselves.
nature – you can learn a lot and try your best to protect the nature.
(ask the students to answer as much as possible)
  which tv programme do you like least?  why? 
step 3. practice
 work in pairs and practise the dialogue, make as many sentences as possible. then finish part b on page 59. write 1-10 in the blanks. (1= your favourite programme, 10 = your least favourite programme) they are the students’ own answers.
step 4. presentat ion
  most people like watching tv, but do you know something about tv? let me tell you.
  a person who performs in tv programmes, films, etc. is called an actor or actress.
  “ send out programmes on radio or tv” means “broadcast”   (pay attention: the past tense and the past participle of broadcast remain unchanged)
  something that controls a machine from a distance is called “remote control”.
  a tv station is called “tv channel”.
  a room where tv programmes are made is called “ studio”.
  after class, try to find some information about tv on the internet.
step 5. exercise
  millie is visiting the website of a tv station. help jer match the words. write the correct letter
in the blanks of part a on page 59 
step 6. presentation
  we knew that eddie liked watching tv. he thought school was like watching tv. there’s a
dialogue between eddie and hobo.
listen and answer the following questions:
1. what does hobo want to do? what about eddie?
2. how long does eddie have to watch tv every day?
3. what do you think of eddie?  why? can you tell more stories about eddie?
step 7. listen, read and act
  listen and repeat after the tape, then read it together, afterwords work in pairs, finally act the
dialogue out.
step 8. consolidation exercise
改寫句子