And show the picture
2. Introduce some new words in the listening passage valley competitor determinedpour carrots
cucumbers pumpkins attack spread like wildfire sigh solid
Step 2 Listening
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions: 1. What does the passage tell us?
2. What do the words in the first column mean?
Crops grown means how their crops grow. Well or bad?
Fertilizer means what kind of fertilizer they use. Organic or chemical? Other plant nutrition means maybe, besides those two fertilizers, they still had some more powerful ones.
Listen to the tape and finish the form
Step 3
Get the students to answer:
2 Why do you think the results from the two farmers are so different?
3 Look at the summaries of the story. Decide which is correct and explain why the others are wrong.
Step 4 Listening text
Hand out the listening material , listen to the tape , then complete the passage with the right answers
Step 5 Listening on Page 48
Listen to the tape ,and Put these stages of turning fertile land into a desert in order.
Fertile farmland. ( )
Soil is blown away. ( ) Plants die. ( )
Land becomes dry. ( ) Not enough water. ( ) Soil turns to sand. ( )
Step 6 Listening text
Give the students the listening material to finish
The fifth period Writing
Step 1 Speaking
Try to find reasons to persuade people to buy your food. These words and expressions
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may help you.
I would rather... I don’t...because... I’d prefer...because... Should I/we...? It’s better to...
This is good value because...
If I have a choice I’d choose... because... What is the advantage of...? You need to...
Step 2 Writing
1 Buy the best fruits here We only sell green food in this shop! Best choice at best price!
Safe, healthy, clean, fresh. Far away from any pollution. 21. No chemical fertilizer, all organic fertilizers 2. Clean air, clean water 3. No poison, no pesticides 4. Home in heaven
Step 3 Speaking and Writing Task on Page 53.
NOTES
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keeping fish in ponds
taking eggs from the best quality fish feeding fish
keeping fish very close together
understanding that fish diseases are a problem trying to stop fish being affected by diseases
removing fish that are the right size for eating or selling delivering fresh fish to the market
Step 4 Sample writing
Show the students the sample writing and ask them to read it. Step 5 Homework
Next time we’ll finish this unit. What we’ll do next period is to check your homework on Page 49 and finish the Project and Checking Yourself on Page 47, Summing up on Page 16, and so on.
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Unit 3 A taste of English humour Teaching goals
1. Target language
verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisper
b. I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted. P22 2. Ability goals Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.
3. Learning ability goals
a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences.
b. Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.
Teaching important points
Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors. Teaching difficult points
Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.
Teaching methods
Using pictures, discussion, reading and imitation. Teaching aids
A recorder and a projector.
Part One: Teaching Design reading (NONVERBAL HUMOUR)
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Aims
To help students develop their reading ability. To help students learn about English humour. Procedures I. Warming up
Warming up by defining “Humour”
What is “Humour”? Does any one of you know anything about humour? Look at the sreen and read the definition of Humour from the Internet. Whose job ...?
This is the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done,
and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody′s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it,
but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn′t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody When Nobody did what Anybody could have done
II. Pre-reading
Telling the truth —Why do you like to laugh at?
I like to laugh at cartoons,for they’re lovely and fun.
I like to laugh at fairy tales. They are amusing and interesting. Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so exceedingly fond of fine new clothes that he spent vast sums of money on dress. To him clothes meant more than anything else in the world. He took no interest in his army, nor did he care to go to the theatre, or to drive about in his state coach, unless it was to display his new clothes. He had different robes for every single hour of the day. III. Reading
3. Reading aloud to the recording
Now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text NONVERBAL HUMOUR. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses between the thought groups. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.
4. Reading and underlining
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