An English Opening—Class for Unit 4 (Book Two)

He said I was hard-working (The First Period)

Teaching Aims and Demands

Aims of basic knowledge

1.Key vocabulary: hard—working  direct speech  reported speech  be mad at  anymore  surprise party  ever  soup opera  told  wouldn’t 

2.Key structures:

1)What did your teacher say? He said I was hard—working.

2)I can speak three languages.

3)What did she say? She said she could speak three languages.

Aims of abilities

1.　Be able to listen for reported speeches in the listening material.

2.　Be able to report what others say.

Aims of emotion and evaluation

Help the students to understand that it is good manners to listen carefully to others.

Teaching Methods

1.　Communicative approach.

2.　Task—based approach.

Key Points and Difficulties

1.　How to report what the others say.

2.　Master the differences between the direct and reported speeches.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Greeting and revision (01)

1.　The teacher and the students greet each other.

2.　Revise the old words in Unit 3.(Read aloud together)

Step 2 Presentation

1.　Look at the screen, read the following words and phrases after the teacher.（02）

hard—working  direct speech  reported speech  be mad at  anymore  surprise party  ever  soup opera  told  wouldn’t

2.　Have the students to read the new vocabulary together .

3.　Get the students to look at the pictures in activity 1a and tell the class what they see in them, encourage one student to read aloud the dialogues while the other student translates these sentences into Chinese.

4.　Listen and number the statements{1—4} in the picture. (1b)

5.　Check the answers.

Step 3 Practice

1． Read the dialogues in 1a together.

2． Look at the flashcards and practice them .(03)

Step 4 Listen

1.　Look at 2a,listen and circle true or false for each statements.

2.　Check the answers.

3.　Ask one student to read the 5 sentences.

4.　Listen again. What did the people on TV say? Circle the correct answers.

5.　Check the answers.

Step 5 Show the flashcards

1.  Look at the Grammar and learn how to change the direct speech into reported speech. (04)

2.  Look at the 7 pictures and change the direct speech into reported speech. (05) (06)

Step 6  Summary

Have the students to summarize yow to change the direct speech into reported speech themselves. (07)

Step 7 Pairwork

Look at 1a again and have a conversation about last night’s episode of “Young Lives” with the following patterns:

A: What happened on “Young Lives” last night?

B: Ben told Lana that Marcia was going to have a surprise party foe her.

Step 8 Grammar Focus

Read the sentences together.

Step 9 Homework

1.　Learn the sentences in the box of Grammer Focus by heart.

2.　Finish off the workbook at page 31and 32.

                                                       　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Liu  Bin

                                                                　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 March 24,2008

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