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Unit 8 Celebrating Me!
Lesson 43 What Makes You Unique?
Teaching content:
Mastery words and expressions: describe, ourselves, myself, personal, yourself, else, anything
Oral words and expressions: unique, talent, strength, think of…as, think about
Teaching aims:
1. Learn about the foreign culture.
2. Show encourage to sb.
Teaching important points:
Introduce one’s hobbies, talents and virtues.
Teaching difficult points:
Show encourage to sb.
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Talk about the subject in this unit: Celebrating Me! In this unit we will find one’s talents. Why are we different from others? Li Ming will give a report to the class to show his talents to the others.
Step 2. Come to “Chat Show”
Let the students answer the questions:
1. What do you think of yourself? How are you unique?
2. Are you proud of yourself? Why or why not?
Talk with the partners for a while. Then let some students come to the front and share their ideas with the others.
Step 3. Listen to the tape. Can the students retell Li Ming’s trouble in a third person?
Let them try.
Step 4. Have a further discussion about Li Ming’s e-mail. Ask the students:
1. Can you help him?
2. What’s your advice?
3. Do you have the same trouble like him?
Step 5. Listen to Part 2. This e-mail is from Jenny. Let’s see Jenny’s advice together.
1. Do your classmates like you? Why do they like you?
2. What makes you a good student?
3. Are there many special things you do?
4. Do you have special talents?
Step 6. Listen to the tape again. Let’s have a further discussion about the two e-mails.
Step 7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”
Divide the class into several groups. Write the letter and then share your letter with the others in the group. Let every group choose a best one to read in front of the class. Let’s enjoy together.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
The teacher can suppose a situation the same as Li Ming. If you ask the students to describe themselves in their reports, what trouble will they meet? Let them write down their difficulties. Are they the same as Li Ming’s? Please try.
Lesson 44 Georgia Plays Basketball
Teaching content:
Mastery words and expressions.
Teaching aims:
1. Listen carefully, know the subject and get the main information.
2. Let the students’ have confident in them.
Teaching important points:
What makes you unique?
Teaching difficult points:
Learn to introduce yourself.
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Talk about the students’ favourite sports. How many students like football? What do they know about the basketball? The teacher introduces something about the basketball to the students, too.
Then discuss questions in “Chat Show”
1. What’s your favorite sport?
2. Can you think of any famous basketball players?
Step 2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”
Divide the class into several groups. Discuss the two questions together. Every group chooses the best answer and report it to the class.
Step 3. Listen to the tape with the following questions:
1. Where does his family come from?
2. How old is she?
3. Is her sister good at football?
4. What does Georgia mean by “the game was almost over”?
5. What’s her ambition?
Step 4. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class.
Step 5. Let some volunteers read the text in front of the class.
Step 6. Have a further discussion about the text.
1. What do you think of Georgia?
2. Do you think her life interesting?
3. Does she strive to make her ambition come true?
4. What’s your ambition?
5. What can you learn from Georgia?
Step 7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”
Work in groups and complete the task. Each student writes a passage and reports it to the others in the group. Every group chooses a passage and shares it with the class.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Retell the story.
Summary:
Let’s begin the class with the students’ interests, which must be attractive. Organize the activities. Give them more time to speak and write English in class. Ask the students to research on the Internet about the information we learn today. Thus we can improve their abilities of learning by themselves.
Lesson 45 Be Yourself!
Teaching content:
Mastery words and expressions.
Oral words and expressions.
Teaching aims:
1. Cultivate the ability of describing the other or one’s own experiences.
2. Make more chances to communicate with the others in English.
Teaching important points:
How to introduce oneself.
Teaching difficult points:
The sequence of demonstrating one thing.
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Let’s sing the song “You Are You” together.
Step 2. Try this tongue twister:
So see’s saw sawed seesaw.
But is was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because see’s aw sawed Soar’s seesaw!
Step 3. Look at the pictures in this lesson and guess:
1. Do you like to talk about yourself to others? Why or why not?
2. What are your strong points and weak points?
Step 4. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What are the girl’s problem?
2. What are Sue’s suggestions?
Step 5. Read the text silently and check the answer. Then read the text loudly in class. At the same time, the students walk around the class and help the students at any time.
Step 6. Ask the students to spot some words, phrases, expressions or sentence patterns that stand in the way of their understanding. Here is the list, which can help the students write their own reports:
It is time for sb. to do sth.
be nervous about
feel confident / proud
begin by doing something
members of the Young Pioneers
make oneself / ourselves strong
strive to do something well
go to university
give somebody the confidence to do something
Step 7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”
Work in groups with three or four people. Write down the famous person whom you admire. What is he like? What do you want to learn from him? If you want to be him, What do you want to do now?
Share your ideas with the partners.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Lesson 46 My Dream
Teaching content:
Oral words and expressions.
Teaching aims:
1. Learn about the foreign culture.
2. Cultivate the students to take correct attitude towards the future.
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. In class, Chat show.
Then discuss questions in “Chat Show”
Step 2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”
Divide the class into several groups. Discuss the two questions together. Every group chooses the best answer and report it to the class.
Step 3. Listen to the tape with the following questions:
Step 4. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class.
Step 5. Let some volunteers read the text in front of the class.
Step 6. Have a further discussion about the text.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Sing the song together if we have time.
Summary:
The songs in our text are very typical. All the students love to sing it. The beautiful rhythm and the lyric makes the students moved deeply. Sing the foreign is also a good way to have the sense of the foreign culture. Some words of the song has the meaning of education. The teacher can have a good use of it.
Lesson 47 I Made It!
Teaching content:
Mastery words and expressions.
Oral words and expressions.
Teaching aims:
1. Cultivate the ability of learning by oneself.
2. Learn the foreign culture.
Teaching important points:
1. Guess the main ideas of the text according to the pictures.
2. Correct a composition with the help of the teacher.
Teaching difficult points:
Some words and expressions: because, because of, correct the mistakes
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step1. Let the students talk about the topic “Why you are unique” in the class. Ask some students to speak in front of the class.
Step2. Present this riddle to the class: What is black and white and red (read) all over?
Step3. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”
What words do you think are hard to spell? Why are these words so difficult?
Divide the class into several groups and discuss the two questions together. Write the words down and share them with the others in your group. The teacher sums the words. Let every group write their answers on the blackboard.
Step 4. Listen to the tape with the following questions:
1. Why is Peter not good at English?
2. What mistakes does Peter make? Can you make examples?
3. What does Miss Martin say in order to encourage Peter?
Step 5. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read it loudly in class.
Step 6. Read the text in roles. Let some students act it our in front of the class.
Step 7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”
Finish the task in groups with three or four students in one class. When the students are talking, the teacher walks around the class. Let the students speak English as often as possible. When they can’t express themselves, the teacher can help them.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Discussing in groups is a usual technique that the teacher often uses. When the students are talking, the teacher asks them to speak English. “Practice makes perfect”. We believe the proverb and give the students more time to speak English in class.
Lesson 48 Li Ming’s Report
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions.
2. Oral words and expressions.
Teaching aims:
1. Have confident in yourself.
2. Cultivate the students’ abilities of learning by themselves.
Teaching important points:
1. Find one’s virtues and improve the interest of learning English.
2. Learn to introduce yourself.
Teaching difficult points:
project pronouns, possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Make sentences with project pronouns, possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns. Some able students can say a passage and sum the pronouns with the students.
Record some meaningful sentences and analyze them. Write some sentences including mistakes on the blackboard. Let the students correct them together.
Then introduce yourself and answer “Who are you?”
Step 2. Listen to the tape and read after it. Let the students have a further discussion about the text.
1. What’s Li Ming good at?
2. How does Danny help Li Ming?
3. Does his teacher also give him some advice?
Step 3. Come to “PROJECT”
We have learned many words about our talents. So the task is easy to the class. The students can write outlines first. Show your photographs to your partners. If you can’t write the report like Li Ming, you can ask others for advice.
Divide the class into several groups. What do they like about each plan? What would they change? What illustrates or photographs will they use? Instruct students to revise their outlines, as needed. Make sure students use what they have learned in their discussion and communication with one another.
If the project cannot be finished in one lesson, it can last for two or three lesson.
Homework:
Describe yourself and why you are unique.Write a report about yourself
with drawings or photographs.
Summary:
The best way to learn English is to use what we learn. This task in this lesson is to use the phrases that we learned in these lessons. Show their photographs to the others. It is a very good way to stimulate students’ interests of learning English. Help them to finish the task. Display the result in the English Corner.
Unit Review
Teaching content:
Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 43 to Lesson 48.
Oral words and expressions from Lesson 43 to Lesson 48.
Teaching aims:
Learn the foreign festivals and culture.
Cultivate the students’ interests of learning English.
Teaching important points:
Improve the students’ abilities of comprehension.
Finish one project in groups and correct compositions with the help of the teacher.
Teaching difficult points:
Use some words and expressions: talent, confident, decorate…
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
review lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step1. PROJECT: “All About Me” Report
Type: group discussion, individual work
Lesson time: 15 minutes
Description: The students write and illustrate a report about themselves. First, they plan the report. In small groups, they share, discuss and revise their plans, and then they each write a report based on their plan.
Objective: To learn vocabulary for personal description.
Resources needed: The students can illustrate their reports with photographs, drawings or magazines cutouts.
Step 2. Practice
The students exchange their reports and correct the mistakes with the help of the teacher. After finishing, return them to their owners. Then let the owners check the reports that changed just now. Does it still have mistakes? Check it correctly.
Step 3. Play a game
One student says a festival; the others say when, where and how it celebrates. How many festivals can they display? Put all the information about one festival together. Now the students can understand a festival easily. The students can search the Internet before the class.
Step 4. Do the exercises on P126 and 127. The teacher walks around in the classroom. Help them if necessary.
Step 5. Collect some problems that most of the students don’t understand and explain them on the blackboard in detail.
Step 6. Have a further discussion about the exercises.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Sing the song “You Are You”.
Summary:
The review lesson can’t be boring. The teacher must make it interesting and lively. At the same time, practice the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students can have a good use of the things at hand.
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