Theworldofoursense-wordpower教案.doc

Unit 1 The world of our sense
Word power---教案
Teaching aims: 1. Enlarge students’ vocabulary
2. Let students know more about weather.
Teaching important points:
Remember these words and try to use them freely.
Teaching procedures：
Step 1. Lead in
Write down the following sentences on the blackboard or screen.
1.Once out in the street, she walked quickly towards her usual bus stop.
2.‘Here we are, King Street.’ he stopped.
Then ask Ss which word is used twice besides the noun street in the two sentences.
In the first sentence, STOP is a noun, which means “a place at which someone or something stops”, in the second sentence, stop is a verb, which means “to put an end to what one is doing”.
Step 2 show more examples
1.Read the story fog and find more words that can be used both as a noun and a verb.
2.Explain the meanings of these words when they are used as different part of speech.
1. “Polly leaves work early.”
“Polly works very hard.”
2. “She sensed she was being followed.”
people have five senses.
3. “polly felt a rough hand brush her face ...”
“He was painting the wall with a brush”
4. “Maybe I can help you. which road do you want?” he asked.
“it gives me the chance to pay back the help that people give me ”

Step 3 Exercise1
Like “rest” in the dialogue ,many words in English can have more than one part of speech. In some cases, different parts of speech (usually a noun and a verb) have the same spelling but different menings
Look at the table below,give the right meaning of the words, and judge which part of speech they belong to.
Exercise2
A Find the words listed below in the story and complete the table.

Part of speech
Meaning
Example
rest (line 16)
noun
the remaining part
He wants to see the rest of the world.
(line 50)
verb
relax
My mother told me to rest.
once (line 7)
conjunction
when
Once she finishes her work, she can help you.
(line 42)
adverb
At sometime in the past
I once lived in Beijing.
left (line 2)
verb
(the past tense or past participle of ‘leave’)
went/gone away from a person or a place
I left for work earlier this morning.
(line 43)
adverb
On the side of your body which is towards the west when you are facing north
Look right and left before crossing the street.
still (line 5)
adverb
continuing
I’m still hungry though I’ve just had a big hamburger
(line 28)
adjective
not moving
Can’t you sit still?
B Complete the report clearly.
答案：causes cause answer answer houses house increases increase
Step 4. Talk about the weather.
What words do you often use to describe different kinds of weather ? (questions)
Answers may be cloudy, sunny, drizzy, fine, cold, cool, warm, hot, dry, wet, rainy, snowy and foggy

Sentences used in a weather report:
It will be cloudy/overcast/drizzly…
The morning/afternoon will be …, with heavy showers around lunchtime.
A thin mist/cloudy weather will develop.
A thin mist will turn to fog.
Practice:

The morning will be fine, with showers in the afternoon.

A mist/fog will develop in the morning and the afternoon will be sunny.

It will be overcast in the morning and there will be snow in the afternoon.

Step 5. Finish the related exercises in the textbook.
Part B
Answers:
(1)warm (2) fine (3) sunny
(4)cloudy (5) cooler (6) overcast
(7) rain (8) cold (9) thunder
(10) lightning (11) storm
Step 6. Discussion.
1.What kinds of weather do you prefer?
2.Please forecast the weather of tomorrow.
Step 7 Consolidation
双基提要
Words: thunderstorm, floods, tornadoes, snowstorm, overcast, drizzly, fog, mist, showers, lightning, occasional, afford
Phrases: in some cases, so far, go hungry, look up, fetch my umbrella, weather forecast
课堂反馈
I. Fill in the blanks with words from the sentences, changing the forms if necessary.
1. Please be ____________. We have enough seats for everybody to sit on.
2. Every year we ___________ trees on May, 12th. Trees and other plants provide us with fresh air.
3. Do remember _______________ the flowers every day. It will die from lack of water.
4. Go __________ down this road and you’ll see another straight road across it.
5. The policemen _______________ all the witnesses but none of them could give a definite answer to the question.
6. The old man ________________ the two World Wars. He is a man of lots of experiences.
7. While I was ______________ for my holiday last night, I found a pack of my clothes missing.
8. Don’t look back when a wolf is already on your __________.
9. The head of our school are ___________ for Hong Kong on a visit to a school there.
10. They are close friends. They always stand ___ to each other as if they were tied together.
II. Translate the following.
1. A: Beautiful day, isn’t it?
B: Yes, it’s not like what the radio said at all.
A: I wish it would stay this way for the weekend.
B: As long as it doesn’t snow!
2. What bad/good weather!
3. Most of North and South China will have a cold wet day.
4. It will be cloudy/rainy at times.
5. The temperature will stay above zero in the day-time, but at night it will fall below zero again.
6. The weather is improving／worsening.

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