总 课 题 课题 A day out Welcome to the unit 总课时 课型 8 第1课时 New 1.To introduce foreign cities and popular places of interest. Teaching 2.To activate existing knowledge of the world and identify names aims 3.To guess meaning from pictures Teaching 1.To introduce foreign cities and popular places of interest. focus Difficult points Teaching Task-based approach，Scene pedagogy and Teaching with humor method The second Teaching procedures preparing lessons Step 1: Warm- up activities and elicit the new words. Enjoy some pictures of places of interest around the world. Free talk: T: What places did you visit before? Ss: Beijing、Shanghai--- T: Yes, they are beautiful cities. T: What places in the world would you like to go? Ss: the USA、the White House、England、Harbour Bridge--- T: Yes, they are some foreign countries and places of interest in the world. T: How can we go on a trip? Ss: By bus、by plane、by boat/take a boat. Step 2: Welcome to the unit. T: Amy and Simon’s friends’ went to some places of interest. Read the postcards and match them with the pictures. 1. Read postcard .Ask the students to look for the new words and then learn: greetings , president 2. Look at the pictures and talk about them. T: Now we have known a lot about these world-famous places. Please talk about these places. 2.To guess meaning from pictures 1.To activate existing knowledge of the world and identify names of places and countries 2.To guess meaning from pictures The teacher gives a model with a good student then ask the students to do pair work with their desk mates with the help of these three postcards. Pair work: A: Which ________country do you want to visit, Simon? B: I want to visit_________. A: Which _______do you want to go to? B: I want to go to ________. A: How will you go there? B: I can ____________. A: _______ do you want to go there? B: Because ___________________. A: I hope you will enjoy yourselves./have a good time there. 3. Game: Quick reading and quick answering. The students read more information about these places. And then they do multiply-choices. The White House: It was built between 1792 and 1800. The president of the USA lives and works here. The Eiffel Tower: It was built in 18. It is 324 metres tall. It has 1,665 steps. The Opera House:It was built in 1973.It has 1000 rooms. It’s one of the most famous buildings. Step 3:comic strip: T: Our old friend Eddie will go on a trip. Do you think that Eddie can enjoy himself going traveling? Why? 1. Listen and answer: What is Eddie going to do? Ss: He is going to exercise. 2. Read and answer: What kind of hill is Eddie going to climb? Ss: food hill. 3. Act it out. 4. Tell a story about Eddie with the help of some sentences. Step 4.Try to be a guide: Eddie can have a day out . We will also go on a trip to someplace .But we need a guide, who wants to be the guide? Come on , show us around the place of interest. Hello, boys and girls. I’m your guide. Today I will take you to see _______. It’s in _______. There you can see ___________. You can also ________________. I hope you will ________yourselves. Homework: Finish the postcard and try to find pictures or draw pictures for your postcard. Teaching notes
