Unit 3 Parks and places in China
Teaching aims:
1. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. I don’t know this place
2. Using prepositions to indicate place e.g. It’s in Shanghai
3. Using demonstratives or proper nouns to refer to places e.g. That’s the Li River
4. Using modals to ask for permission e.g. Can we see the dolphins?
m hungry 5. Using predicative adjectives to describe conditions e.g. I’
6. Using the present continuous tense to describe an action taking place at the time of
speaking e.g. Janet and Simon are going to the top of the mountain 7. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. The tower is very high 8. Ask ‘Wh-’ question to find out places e.g. Where are they going? 9. Using ‘Wh-’ question to find out a person’s identify and various kinds of specific information about a person e.g. Who is the man? What is he doing? Important and difficult points:
1. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. I don’t know this place
2. Using modals to ask for permission e.g. Can we see the dolphins? 3. Using the present continuous tense to describe an action taking place at the time of
speaking e.g. Janet and Simon are going to the top of the mountain 4. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. The tower is very high 5. Ask ‘Wh-’ question to find out places e.g. Where are they going? Time allotments:
There are three periods in this unit
P50 1 period
P51 1 period
P52 1 period
Period 1
Teaching aims:
1. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. I don’t know this place
2. Using prepositions to indicate place e.g. It’s in Shanghai
3. Using demonstratives to refer to places e.g. That’s the Li River
4. Using proper nouns to refer to places e.g. That’s San Ya
Important and difficult points:
Using the simple present tense to express simple truths e.g. I don’t know this place
Teaching aids:
cassette
Teaching steps:
Step1 Warming up
Greetings
Step2 Free talk
Get the students to say the places showing to them: It’s…
Step3 Presentation
1. Ask the class to give a show of hands for the places they have visited 2. Point to one of the pictures and ask: Do you know this place? Get the answers: I know this place. It’s…/I don’t know this place
Step4 Practice
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Point and say. Students put a tick or a cross to show whether they know or don’t know a place.
2. Introduce the places: Tian’anmen Square, Yu Garden, West Lake, Li River, San Ya,
Ocean Park
3. Point to the map of China and ask: Where is…? Is it in…?
4. Play the tape in Point and say. Listen to the dialogue and tell the others the place in the dialogue.
5. Listen and follow the tape
Step5 Production
1. Ask the students to make cards about the places in China and write the names of the places
2. Get the students to ask and answer as a shop assistant and a tourist, they are talk about the places
3. Ask the students to stick their pictures and make a brochure. Get them to arrange their pictures and postcards in a way they like. They can introduce the places they like first.
Step6 Exercise
Workbook page30
Step7 Homework
Grammar practice book 5a page 43
Blackboard design:
Unit 3 Parks and places in China
Tian’anmen Square Yu Garden West Lake
Li River San Ya Ocean Park
I don’t know this place.
I know this place. It’s…
That’s…
It’s in…
That’s…
It’s on…
Period 2
Teaching aims:
1. Using modals to ask for permission e.g. Can we see the dolphins?
2. Using predicative adjectives to describe conditions e.g. I’m hungry
Important and difficult points:
Using modals to ask for permission e.g. Can we see the dolphins? Teaching aids:
cassette
Teaching steps:
Step1 Warming up
Greetings
Step2 Free talk
Get the students to introduce a place
I know this place. It’s… It’s in…/It’s on…
Step3 Presentation
1. Show a picture of Ocean Park. Ask the students if they have visited Hong Kong and
Ocean Park there.
2. Get the students to look at the pictures in Ocean Park. Ask them if they know the
English names of the attractions in the park e.g. Ocean Theatre, Shark Aquarium. 3. Learn the words: shark, dolphin, seal
T: What animals can you see in Ocean Park
Step4 Practice
1. Ask the students to look at the map of Ocean Park in their books T: Where can you see the…?
2. Learn the attractions: Fish Aquarium, Shark Aquarium 3. Divide the students in groups of 6. Each group design a sign for one of the places
listed in their books. Then one come to the front and draw the sign 4. The others guess the signs represent
5. Play the tape: Look and read, students listen and follow Step5 Production
1. Get the students to ask and answer in pairs about the dialogue in Ask and answer
2. Invite pairs of students to act the dialogue in front of the class. Ask the students to
listen carefully and check if their classmates are guessing whether it’s the right place
to go
Step6 Exercise
Workbook page31
Step7 Homework
Grammar practice book 5a page 44
Blackboard design:
Unit 3 Parks and places in China
Fish/Fish Aquarium Shark/Shark Aquarium Restaurant
Divers/Dive Pool Butterflies/Butterfly House
Dolphins/Seals;Ocean Park
Can we see the…?
Yes, let’s go to the …
We can see the… there
Period 3
Teaching aims:
1. Using the present continuous tense to describe an action taking place at the time of
speaking e.g. Janet and Simon are going to the top of the mountain 2. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. The tower is very high 3. Ask ‘Wh-’ question to find out places e.g. Where are they going? 4. Using ‘Wh-’ question to find out a person’s identify e.g. Who is the man?
5. Using ‘Wh-’ question to find out various kinds of specific information about a person e.g. What is he doing?
Important and difficult points:
1. Using the present continuous tense to describe an action taking place at the time of
speaking e.g. Janet and Simon are going to the top of the mountain 2. Using nouns to identify objects e.g. The tower is very high 3. Ask ‘Wh-’ question to find out places e.g. Where are they going? Teaching aids:
cassette
Teaching steps:
Step1 Warming up
Greetings
Step2 Free talk
Ask and answer in pairs
How do you go to…?
Step3 Presentation
T: How do you go to Ocean Park? Get their answers
Step4 Practice
1. Play the cassettes: Look and read. Students listen and get the general ideas of it:
This is a story about Janet and Simon’s visit to Ocean Park
2. Learn the words e.g. tower and island
3. Listen and repeat
4. Ask the students to read the questions in Ask and answer 5. Students work in pairs to give an answer to each question Step5 Production
1. Ask the students to read the story in their books again and to write a similar one
about their visit to a park.
2. Invite individual students to read their story to the class. Then write down the story
3. Put all the stories on the wall to get the others to read Step6 Exercise
Workbook page32
Step7 Homework
Grammar practice book 5a page 45 46 47 48
Blackboard design:
Unit 3 Parks and places in China
tower island
How do they go to Ocean Park?
? Where are they going in picture1/…
What are they doing in pictue1/…?
What are the dolphins doing?
Teaching note: