Lesson 19  The Palace Museum

lesson 19  the palace museumteaching content: 1. mastery words: sky, film, camera, picture, smile, break, tail               2. a dialogue about taking pictures               3. some useful wordsteaching goals: 1. understand the meaning of the text             2. remember the mastery words             3.master the usage of some words and phraseskey points: 1. express taking a picture          2. ask permission to do sth.: may i …?difficult points: 1. express what you see2. express taking a picturepreparations: a picture of the palace museum, a camerateaching aids: audiotape, pictures, a camera, flashcards and slide projectortype: dialogueteaching procedure1.      opening class1)      greet the students in everyday english and make sure they can response correctly.2)      everyday report in english.3)      check the homework and explain if necessary.2.      new lessonstep 1 lead indiscuss the questions in “think about it”have you ever been to the palace museum? if yes, when?what do you know about the palace museum?do you want to live there? why or why not?today li ming and his friends go to the palace museum. the weather is fine. the palace is red and yellow. it’s beautiful. they take some pictures there. now let’s join them.step 2 listen to the tape of the text with the following questions:what happens to jenny?what’s wrong with danny’s nose?what do they do for danny’s nose?what’s wrong with danny’s tail?after listening, discuss the questions with the students. make sure they understand the whole text. deal with any language point at the same time. pay attention to the usage of the following words: sunny, help sb. (to) do sth., careful, fall, breakstep 3 listen to the audiotape again and let them read after it.step 4. have them read the text for a few minutes and then ask some students to act out the dialogue in roles. pay attention to their pronunciation.step 5 practicedivide the class into small groups. ask them to make up a dialogue about visiting the palace museum. encourage the students to use much new vocabulary as they can.divide the class into small groups. ask each group to make up a dialogue about taking pictures. encourage the students to use as much vocabulary from this unit as possible (camera, picture, easy, hard, help, hurt, loudly, quietly, many, everyone, men, women, children, people, quickly, slowly)