Module 1 Garden City and its neighbours
module 1 garden city and its neighbours
unit 3: the dragon boat festival (i)
language focus:
using adjectives to describe objects.
e.g. a salty rice dumpling / a sweet rice dumpling
using prepositions to indicate time.
e.g. ... in summer. it's on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month ...
asking “wh-” questions to find out various kinds of specific information about a person.
e.g. what do people eat?
what do people do to celebrate this festival?
using connectives to link contrasting ideas.
e.g. kitty loves the sweet rice dumplings, but she hates the salty ones.
using the simple present tense to express preferences.
e.g. loves / hates / likes
using prepositional phrases to describe objects.
e.g. salty ones with meat and green beans / sweet ones without red beans
language skills:
listening:
identify the main ideas of a new topic. listen for specific information.
speaking:
maintain an interaction by explaining.
reading:
read written language in meaningful chunks. understand the connection between ideas by identifying linking words or phrases. recognize recurrent patterns in language structure.
writing:
develop written texts by using appropriate linking words or phrases.
materials:
1. student's book 7a page 10.
2. cassette 7a and a cassette player.
3. workbook 7a page 5.
preparation:
cue the cassette.
i. warming-up:
ii. pre-task preparation:
1. ask students what they like to do and eat to celebrate the dragon boat festival. encourage students to talk about this festival.
2. review and introduce new vocabulary items in look and learn.
3. play the recording: look and learn and look and read. students listen and follow in their books.
4. play the recording again. students listen and repeat.
iii. while-task procedure:
1. students pair up to talk about the rice dumplings they like. have them complete the survey from in circle and write by circling and writing down what they have discussed with their partners. they are required to use the target language in their report, like this: i love ..., but i hate ... / my classmate loves ..., / but ... / we both love ..., but ...
2. ask individuals to read their reports to the class.
3. collect all reports and bind them into a book for circulation in class.
4. conduct a simple survey to find out the most popular kind of rice dumpling among students by counting how many students like a particular kind of rice dumpling. ask some students why they like or dislike a particular kind of rice dumpling.