Unit 1 Welcome back!

Lesson 1

Teaching Objectives: Students should master the dialogues and useful expressions

Language FOCUS: Welcome (back) to…, on duty, have fun (doing sth) , best wishes, this term, the first lesson, call one’s name, because clause traffic (a), on time.

Properties: Tape recorder, some pictures, a calendar

Teaching Procedures:

　　I. organizing the class

　　Teacher: Good morning, class.

　　Students: Good morning, sir.

　　T: Welcome to school.

　　S: (They may have different answers, never mind)

　　II. Warming up

　　After a long vacation, students may feel hard to speak English, so give them a few minutes to talk about their holidays in groups.

　　III. Leading in

　　Go round the classroom and greet them individually “Good morning, welcome back to school” then get them to greet other students in the same way.

　　IV. Presentation

　　Take out some pictures with People doing things happily and show them to the students to learn and practice “have fun doing sth. eg. The children are having fun playing football”, “The farmers have fun working on the farm.” etc.

　　Call students’ names and help them answer “I’m here.” or “Here.” Then explain the phrase “call one s names” .

　　Draw a crowded street (many cars, people, buses and bikes, etc) and teach the phrase “bad traffic”, draw and teach “traffic limits” “traffic signs” to help students to grasp the meaning of “traffic”.

　　First write the phrase “on time” on the blackboard, then give them some example sentences, let them understand the meaning eg. “He lives far from school, but he gets up very early, so he gets to school on time,” etc.

 　　V. Practise

　　Play the tape for the students to listen and read three times, then get them to read out by themselves. Play the tape two more times for them to repeat and practise . At last get them to act out the dialogue in front of the class.

　　VI. Presentation

 　　Show students the calendar, and teach “Teachers’ Day” with a sign on Sept.

10th, “Women’s Day” when point to March 8th, “Children’s Day” pointing to June lst.

　　Get someone to clean the blackboard and say “Thank you for cleaning the blackboard for me.” Get some more students to do things and teach “Thank you for doing sth.”

　　Play the tape once for them to find any problem, then play it again for them to read and practise in pairs.

　　Act it out

　　VII. Exercises in class

　　Fill in the blanks

　　1. Welcome back ________School.

　　2. The boys always have fun ____ basketball (play).

　　3. The students say “here”____ the teacher call their names.

　　4. Mary always gets to school ____ time.

　　5. I m not ____ duty today.

　　6. I made a card ____ my friend Tom.

　　7. Thank you ____ your coming to see me.

　　Answers: 1.to, 2.playing, 3.when, 4.on, 5.on, 6.for, 7.for.

　　VIII. Homework

　　1. To make a card for your teacher, parents or friends.

　　2. To make sentences with: have fun (doing sth) on time, welcome …to

　　IX. Summary

Lesson 2

　　Teaching Objectives: Students should master the dialogue, some useful expressions and the background knowledge in the article about English names

Language Focus:

　　Ⅰ. Useful expressions: think about/of, talk about, the difference between…and…, give a talk

　　II. English names:

　　“Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms” before a last name

　　Properties: Tape recorder, overhead projector

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　I. Organizing the class

　　 Greeting and a duty report (to say something about Chinese names)

　　Ⅱ. Revision

　　Act out a short role play: A teacher is having a class, (the first class) someone is late.

　　Ⅲ. Leading - in

　　Teach the phrase “think about” by gestures and some sentences. eg. Teacher frowns and thinks as well as saying “I’m thinking about the homework for today.”

　　Call two students to the front and say, “Tom’s coat is black. Ted’s coat is blue. The colours are different. The difference is that Ted’s coat is blue and Tom’s coat is black.” Write the words “different” and “difference” on the blackboard and give them more examples, eg. “Do you know the difference between Mary and her sister? Mary is thin, but her sister is fat.”

　　IV. Practice

　　Students look at the picture and listen to the dialogue, then read after the tape, act it out in pairs.

　　V. Leading - in

　　From the first dialogue, we know Jim is going to talk about English names and the difference between Chinese and English names. Before we listen to his talk, let’s work together to see how much we know about that.

　　 … ( Anything is permitted and they are encouraged to speak a lot).

　　Now let’s see what Jim says about names.

　　VI. Reading Comprehension

　　Students read the text by themselves and answer the questions:

　　1. How many names are there in a full name? What are they?

　　2. What’s the order of these names?

　　3. Which name is not often used?

　　4. What are the titles used together with names? How to use them?

　　Students listen to the tape and read after it for several times.

　　VII. Exercises in class

　　Let them do the culture comparing exercise.

　　English name: James Allan Green

　　Chinese name: Zhang Cheng

　　In the English name, family name is   1   , it s also called   2   or   3  name. The given names are   4     5  . The name not very much used is   6   . it’s also called   7  name.

　　In the Chinese name family name is   8  , it s also called   9   or   10 

name. The given name is   11  . It's also called   12   name.

　　The answers: 1.Green 2.last 3.surname 4.James 5.Allan 6.Allan 7.middle 8.zhang 9.first 10.surname 11.cheng 12.last

　　VIII. Homework

　　1. To read the text fluently

　　2. To make sentences with: ① talk about ②think about/of ③be different ④the difference between… and …

　　IX. Summary

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Lesson 4

Teaching Objectives: Students should grasp the pronunciation of some letter clusters and understand the article.

Language Focus:

I. Pronunciation:

　　[ : ] er, ur, ir, or, ear  [a:]ar, a(ss),al    [ u:]ou, ow

II. Useful expressions :

　　 ① make sb sth, - make sth for sb   ② try to do sth  ③ friendly, unfriendly  ④ not…any more   ⑤ ask sb, to do sth  ⑥ help sb, (to) do sth   ⑦ a waste of time

Properties: Tape recorder, Overhead projector, cards

Teaching Procedures:

  　 I. Organizing the class

　　Greeting and a duty report

　　II. Review

　　1. Give some names for them to say which is the family name and which is the given name. And how to use the titles Mr./ Mrs./ Miss/ Ms. Remind them that the titles can only be used with a family name.

　　2. Show a picture for the students to describe in present continuous tense “be doing sth”.

　　III. Pronunciation

　　1. Students follow the tape

　　2. More words to read (on cards)

　　IV. Listening:

　　Students listen to the tape and do the exercise

　　V. Leading - in

　　Teacher: What are you going to do on Saturday?

　　Student: I’m going to…

　　T: Can you make a card?

　　S: Yes, I can.

　　T: Will you please show us your card?

　　S: Sure! (They have done that as homework some days before.)

　　T: Oh, it’s really a nice card. Now let’s see what Tom is going to do before Teachers’ Day (with the questions)

      ① What does Tom’s mum want him to do?

      ② Can he do it? why? or why not ?

      ③ What is the idea Mum thinking out for Tom?

      ④ Do you think it’s a good idea?

      After answering the questions, students follow the tape and act it out in pairs.

      VI Reading practice

      Students read the text by themselves and answer the questions:

      ① Who’s in the story?

      Say something about him, eg, name, nationality, likes, etc.

      ② What’s the mistake the students often make?

      ③ What does he want now?

      ④ Who helps him?

      ⑤ Does he get what he wants?

      ⑥ Can you help him?

      Then play the tape for them to follow.

      Students try to retell the story with the questions as clues.

      VI Language Practice

      Let’s learn seven useful expressions of this lesson

      ① make sb sth ____ make sth for sb.

      ② try to do sth.

      ③ friendly opposite unfriendly (adj)

      ④ not… any more

      ⑤ ask sb. to do Sth.

      ⑥ help sb. (to) do Sth.

      ⑦ a waste of time

      Listen to my sentences and try to understand them

     eg ①I’ll make you a new paper boat→

　　　　I’ll make a new paper boat for you.

　　　②The boy is trying to climb the tree.

　　　③The people are friendly to me.

　　　④You’re not a child any more.

　　　⑤My Dad asks me to buy him some newspapers.

　　　⑥Will you please help me do the cleaning?

　　　⑦It’s a waste of time to listen to him.

　　Then ask the students to make their own sentences with the phrases given above.

　　VIII. Exercises! in class

 　　1. Write out the phonetic symbols.

  　　① bird ② part ③ grass ④how  ⑤ trousers  ⑥world  ⑦ learning  ⑧ clerk ⑨ birthday ⑩ blouse

　　2. To introduce Phillip in 40 words.

　　Answers: ① [ :] ② [a:] ③[a:] ④[ u]  ⑤[ u]  ⑥[ :]  ⑦[ :] ⑧[ :] ⑨[ :] ⑩[ u]

 　　3. Omit

　　IX. Homework

 　　1. Lesson 4, exercise 4, to make up a dialogue in pairs and be ready to act (write out script)

　　2. If they don’t like their English name, they may change it to a new one and make a name card to be placed on the desk.

 　　3. Finish off the workbook

　　4. Go through the checkpoint, answer any question.

　　X. Summary