Teaching Plan for Unit 4

Period 3 Grammar ( Attributive Clause)

Teaching aims: 1) Talk about the Attributive Clause.

2) Students can use the Attributive Clause.

Key points: Students learn how to use the Attributive Clause.

Teaching aids: 1) computer 2) blackboard 3) text-book

Teaching methods: Task-based Approach; Student-centered Approach

Teaching Steps:

Step 1. Greeting.

Greet the students as usual.

Step 2. Revision.

Students read the text aloud one by one.

Step 3. Talk about grammar “ Attributive Clause”

1) Talk about the conjunctions of the Attributive clause

a. People : who, whom, that

The boy who/ that is handsome is Tom.( who acts as a subject, cannot be omitted)

The boy whom./that/who I saw yesterday is Tom.( wjo, whom, that here act as object, can be omitted)

The boy aboyt whom we talked is Tom. ( if there is a preposition, can only use whom, cannot be omitted)

b. things; which , that

Please pass me the cup which/ that is on the desk.

Please pass me the cup which / that you gave me yesterday.

Please pass me the cup about which you talked yesterday.

c. whose

I know a boy whose mother is a doctor.

I bought a book whose cover is beautiful.

Step 4. Practise the Attributive Clause.

1) Class work.

2) Individual work.

Step 5. Use the structure.

Students use the Attributive Clause to describe one object or a person in the classroom..

Step 6. Homework.

Go over the Attributive Clause and do the exercises in workbook.

Teaching plan for Unit 4

Period 2 Reading “ A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”

Teaching aims: 1) Learn about Reading :” A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”

2) Develop the reading skills.

3)learn to protect nature.

Key points: Develop the reading skills.

Teaching aids: 1) computer 2) blackboard 3) tape-recorder

Teaching methods: Task-based Approach; Student-centered Approach

Teaching Steps:

Step1. Greeting

Greet the students as usual.

Step 2. lead-in

Talk about the causes of the earthquake.

Step 3 Pre-reading

“It is always caim before a storm.’

Talk about “ What may happen before an earthquake?”

Students discuss it in the group of 4; Then try to find out as many phonenomen as possible.

Step 4. Reading.

1) Talk about the title of the text.

2) Read the passage, and try to divide the passage into 3 parts.

The first part: Before the earthquake, strange things happened.

The second part: During the earthquake, the city was destroyed.

The third part: After the ear4thquake, people saw hope.

3) Read the text again, and try to anwer the T or F questions in the test-book.

4) Try to filling thr cloze texr according to the text.

Step 5 Discussion

1) Talk about the writing style of the passage .

2) Do the exercised in “Comprehending”.

Step 6 Homework.

1) Find out the usage of the key words in the text.

2) Find out the “Attributive Clause” from the text.

Teaching Plan for Unit 4

Period 4. Using Language

Teaching aims: 1) Studnents practise the languang points of Unit 4.

2) Students learn to use the language points.

3) develop the abilities of using language.

Teaching aids: 1) computer 2) tape-recorder 3) blackboard.

Teaching Steps:

Step 1. Greeting

Greet the students as usual.

Step 2. Daily report

Student gives his report.

Step 3 Warming-up.

Go over the text in Reading. Students read the text aloud one by one.

Step 4 Listening Task.

1) For the first time, students listen to the tape, and answer the T or F questions.

2) For the second listen, students try to answe the questions. ( Teacher can make some pauses to help the students to catch the main information.)

3) Students listen to the third time, then try to follow the tape and practise reading the text aloud.

Step 5. Reading Task

1) Students read the text and answer the questions.

2) Talk about the letter, and try to find out the structure of the letter.

Step 6. Writing Task.

1) Students learn the structure of the letter to the newspaper editor.

2) Students discuss the topic and try to write a letter to the reporter.

Step 7. Homework

Modify the letter.

Teaching plan for unit 4

Period 1 Warming up

Teaching aims: 1) Talk about “Earthquake”

2) Develop students’ speaking abilities

3) Learn to protect nature.

Key points: Lead the students to talk about earthquake and naturalo diasasters.

New words: earthquake; shake; right away; well; rise; crack; pond; pipe; burst; injure; ruin; dirt; destroy; lie in ruins.

Teaching aids: 1) computer 2) tape-recorder 3) projector 4) blackboard

Teaching methods: Task-based Approach; Student-centered Approach

Teaching steps:

Step 1. Greeting

Greet the students as usual.

Step 2. Daily report

Step 3. Lead-in.

1) Talk about the earthquake in Taiwan recently.

Show the vedio about the Taiwan earthquake.

2) Talk about the greatest earquakes in the world.

Step 4. Warming-up

1) Studnets talk about the pictures in warming up.

2) Students imagine the happening after an earthquake.

3) Show the students the pictures of the earthquake , and help the students to describe the pictures.

Step 5. listening ( work-book)

“Why do earthquakes happen?”

new words: Pacific Plate; North American Plate; Indian plate; movement

1) Listen to the tape for the first time and answer the T or F question.

2) Listen to the tape again , then try to fill in the chart.

3) Students talk bout what they’ve learned about the earthquake.

Step 5. Homework

Prepare”Reading

1) Look up the new words. 2)Answer the questions in “Comprehending”