Unit 16 The sea

教学目标

Teaching aims and purposes
I. Learning knowledge
1. Words and expressions
Four-skill words: sailor; do well; make up one’s mind; bathe; time (vt.) ; spring; beg; beg one’s ; pardon; captain
2. Daily English –how to express wishes
I wish we did / could…
I wish I / we / you / it were…
(It’s a) pity we…
3. Grammar
To learn the use of Ellipsis
4. Use the language
To do reading comprehension of the texts – “The sea” “Salt lakes of the world” “Life in the oceans” so that students will be able to learn things about the sea and the living things in the sea and they can talk and write about this kind of things in English. At the same time finish the related exercises and some other tasks of listening, speaking, reading and writing both in the students’ book and in the workbook in this unit.
II. Developing students’ competence
1. To develop students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing .
2. To develop students’ ability of communication, esp. about expressing wishes.
3. To develop students’ ability of using English by making up dialogues by using the daily expressions and making sentences and writing a short passage with the new words and useful phrases in this unit.
4. To encourage students to find more information related to the texts in this unit in order that they can gain much more and do some discussion about the texts, using the knowledge they have learned in this unit so that they can express their ideas freely in English
5. To develop reading skills: Teach them how to skim over the text to grasp the main idea quickly, and how to scan the text to find out the special information.
III. Moral education
Through the learning of this unit of will get students to know about the sea and the living things in the sea and the nature and the relationship between human beings and the natural surroundings so as to arouse students’ responsibility for protecting our environment and get students to feel it their duty to do their bit for the nature.

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