Lesson 48
Period: The Fourth Period
Content:
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Learn how to build words.
2. Practise listening.
Language Focus:
1. Word formation
2. the Passive Voice
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showing the teaching aims
II. Revision
Go through some pairs to act out their dialogues written in the exercise books.
III. Listen
Ask the students to read through the questions of Exercise I in the workbook, ask them to guess the answers before listening. Then listen carefully, check the answers with each other. Listen again and repeat.
Answers: 1.B 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.B 6.C 7.C
IV. Word building
Explain that in English, we can make new words by combining two words together for example:
Class + room =classroom, home + work =homework, police + man =policeman
Let the students think of other examples they have learnt. Then look at Exercise 2 in the wordbook, read through the list. Make sure the students can understand the meaning of the words. Pay attention, in American English “woolen” and “traveler” are spelt as “woolen” and “traveled”
V. Practice
Part.2, Divide the students into two groups to practise. Point out that “Which do you think is more interesting? =Which programme (of the two) is more interesting?” And the use of shall to express a decision in I think I shall read a book instead. Get the students to practise all the dialogues. Make up as many as they can. Then act it out in class.
VI. Acting
Let the students read proverbs Exercise 4. Make the students understand the Chinese meaning. Ask them to practise them after class.
VII. Practice
Get the students to look at the Exercise 5 in the workbook and have a discussion.
Ask: What activities do you do every day? What activities do you like most? What activities do you like least? Then ask the students to practise in pairs.
VIII. Writing
Ask the students to look at the pictures, let them really understand the meaning of each picture. Collect some ideas and information. Share with the students. Then try to make up a short story and write it down.
After finishing writing, ask the students to check their partner's work, then ask them to hand in their writings for marking.
IX. Workbook
Do Exercise 3, ask the students to find compound words.
For Exercise 6, do it with the whole class. The answers are:
1. put up 2.put … away 3. put on 4.put … down
5. Put up 6. Put … on 7.put down
Exercises in class
Rewrite the following sentences in another way.
1. I don't like watching TV, she doesn’t like it, either.
________ I ________ she _________ watching TV.
2. We should deal with the problem more carefully.
The problem ________ ________ ________ with more carefully _______ ________.
3. The buses were made in the factory.
They ________ the buses in the factory.
4. Talking in class is wrong.
It _________ right _________ _________in class.
Answers: 1. Neither…nor, likes 2. should be dealt, by us 3. made 4. isn’t, to talk
X. Homework
1. Prepare for the exam.
2. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.