Unit 5 Abilities(Welcome to the unit and Comic strip)

unit 5 abilities(welcome to the unit and comic strip)

teaching goals:
1. to arouse ss’interest about personal abilities
2. to revise vocabulary about helping people in the community
3. to generate ideas about ways to care for and help others

focuses:
to gain ss’awareness of how they can help others in their community.

difficulties:
to generate ideas about helping others in the community

procedures
step 1 warm-up activities
1. free talk about ss’ abilities.
it’s the beginning of the school year. now i want to know something about your abilities.
can you swim/rid e a bicycle/ fly a kite/ play computer games/ fly?
last term, i asked you to watch the film’ superman’.
how much do you know about superman? (fly, do meaningful things for people in need, fun fast)

2. lead into the modal verb: can/ could (we use can to talk about the present, we use could to talk about the past)

 3. ss practice the patterns about ‘can/ could’ in pairs.
shirley and amy’s conversation.
s: a bird ________ fly, we _______ fly but we ________ do sth meaningful to help others. do you think so?
a:yes, of course. for example, we __________plant tre es on tree planting day.
s: yes. we ________ also clean up the park on sundays.
a: mmm. we __________ collect things for project hope.
s: we_______ also give a seat to someone on the bus
a: if we see an old man in the  street, we_______ help him to cross the road.
s: you are right. we ______ do many things to help others. if everyone can
 help each other, the world will become more and more beautiful.

step 2 presentation/ practice
展示掛圖
1. present hobo and eddie’s outing. ss talk about the comic strips in gr oups.(p38)
2. play the tape for ss to listen and give their answers according to the tape and the pictures. the following questions for them:
  what does eddie think of himself? ( he’s a super dog)
  what do you think of eddie? (he’s showing himself off)
  what message can you get  from eddie? （don’t copy eddie’s example）
3. get some pairs to act out the p art according to the pictures on the slide show.

step 3 activating
1.people have different abilities, some people use them to help others.
what can we do if somebody needs help in the community?
 a. help disabled , ill/ sick, old/ weak , poor people;
b. do some meaningful things: （看掛圖，寫短語what are they doing?）
 planting trees (plant can also be used as a noun, meaning a living thing that grows in the earth. in unit 4 we’ve learnt a sentence’ there’s no plant life without lightning. )