Unit 5 Abilities(Reading I)
unit 5 abilities(reading i)
teaching goals:
1. to introduce and expand vocabulary to describe dangerous situations
2. to guess context from text type, title and picture
3. to infer general meaning from picture, key words and context
4. to identify names and specific places and actions
focuses:
to infer general meaning from picture, key words and context
difficulties:
to guess meaning from picture, keywords and context
procedures
step 1 presentation
1. free talk with ss about how to help people in need in society.
2. lead int o the new items in the period: danger and potential hazards at home. talk about what to do in the case of emergency? can you give us an example? elicit ss’ answers on the bb.
call the police
call 110 for help
call 119 for help
call 120 for help
shout loudly for help
help others by oneself
save themselves
use one’s own wisdom
3. talk about the picture: what can you infer from the picture?
step 2 listening and practicing
1. play the tape three times for ss to listen and find out the answers to the following questions:
① how old is zhang hua?
② what did she do on 10th may? .
③ where did the fire happen?
④ why didn’t mr sun get out by himself?
⑤ how did zhang hua put out the fire?
⑥ how long did zhang hang stay in hospital?
⑦ do you agree with what zhang hua said at the end of the story?
⑧ if you were zhang hua, would you like to do like her? why?
2. ss read through the play and try to find out the topic sentences in the story.
① zhang hua helped her neighbour out of a fire.
② mrs sun, zhang hua’s neighbour was in danger.
③ zhang hua put out the fire with a blanket and helped mrs sun out of the fire.
④ zhang hua was burnt and stayed in hospital for two months.
⑤ zhang hua told people it’s important to be careful with fire.
step 3 reading
1. ss skim the text quickly, focusing on the new words and main points only.
neighbour alone hear heard fire smoke kitchen
hurt pour rush put out blanket burn
neck hospital brought dangerous
2. play the tape for ss to follow together.
3. talk about how to praise zhang hua for his bravery : give him an award for bravery.
step 4 practice
true or false questions about the reading part.
① zhang hua helped his neighbour out of the water. ( )
② zhang hua was staying at home on may 10th . ( )
③ mrs sun hurt her leg in the fire. ( )