Lesson 20
Teaching Aims :
1. Do the listening and make sure the students understand it .
2. Do the writing and tell the students how to give instructions .
Teaching Important Points :
1. Some key words in the listening material .
2. The ways of giving instructions .
Teaching Difficult Points :
1. Some difficult words and sentences in the listening material .
2. Use correct sentences to describe the pictures in Part .2
Teaching Methods :
1. Individual activity .
2. Pair - work activity
Teaching Aids: 1. a tape recorder
2. a slide projector
Teaching Procedures:
Step I. Greeting
T: Good morning. class.
Ss: Good morning, teacher.
T: Sit down, please, First, Let' s have a free talk about autumn. Who ' d like to give your speech?
S1: I'll try. Autumn is my favorite season, It is the harvest time. People are busy getting in crops. You can see all kinds of fruit such as apples, pears, bananas, and grapes and so on. They are on sale in the market. Besides, the weather in autumn is neither hot nor cold. It' s the right time for travelling.
T: Very good. Now open your books. Let' s begin our lesson
Step II. Revision
1. Check the homework exercise (Ex. 2. Lesson 19.)
2. Go through checkpoint 5. Carefully with the Ss, First let them revise the ways of expressing purpose. Read the three sentences in the checkpoint. Then tell the Ss to make up sentences with the words given. using " to do " " in order to " or " so that "
Suggested answers: (Ex. 1)
1. Mick bought some fish to feed his cat.
2. Peter kept the young plants in the sunshine so that they could grow well.
3. The teacher wrote big letters on the blackboard so that the students could see them clearly
4. Dick' s father put some powder on the soil in order to / to make the trees grow better and stronger.
5. Mick' s mother watered the plants to stop the soil getting dry.
6. Plants need air to keep alive and stay healthy.
3. Go on with checkpoint 5 with the Ss, Read the sentences first, tell the Ss to pay attention to the predicate verbs, Revise the structure of the Passive Voice. Then let the Ss do Ex.2. in the workbooks, let them work in pairs, And then check the answers with the class.
Suggested answers:
1. The doctor is still remembered by all her old school friends.
2. All your questions will be answered by the guide.
3. The word can' t be found in an old dictionary.
4. English is spoken as the first language. by people in many countries.
5. Too many trees were cut down in this area in the past.
6. The book can be bought in some other bookshops.
4. Go over the useful expressions with the Ss and tell them to learn to use them correctly.
Step III. Preparation for listening
[ Wb, Listening, Unit 5 ( P, 131) ]
T: Today we are going to listen to a passage about a farm in England. The farm belongs to Dick and Becky. They also have a tea - shop. People come to the tea - shop to drink tea and have lunch. Please read the words listed in Ex. 1. Then tick the words you hear on the tape, re you clear?
Ss: Yes.
T: OK, Let' s listen to the tape
Step IV. Listening
1. Play the tape for the first time, Then ask an individual student to say the words that he / she hears on the tape, Finally check the answers with the class.
Answers: cows, pigs - ducks, chickens, vegetables, food, eggs, milk, cakes
2. Play the tape again, Before this, teach the new word " muck " (Bb: muck = animal waste) and explain the sentence " Not all the food in the tea - shop is sold or eaten (Bb: Not all the food in the tea - shop is sold or eaten = some of the food in the tea - shop is sold or eaten.) Tell the Ss. Tell them to tick the right sentences after listening to the tape, If the Ss can' t understand the details, the teacher should play the tape for this sentence once again so that the Ss can understand the meaning of the passage. Finally the teacher may check the answers with the class.
Suggested answer s: (Right: 1. 4. 7. 8).
3. Play the tape for the third time. Before this, the teacher should tell the Ss what the diagram means, Make sure the Ss know what to do. Then play the tape, Now and then the teacher may pause the tape for the Ss to write down the words they hear. Finally check the answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers:
ducks cow s ---- TEA - SHOP
pigs FARM milk
fruit eggs 8 kilometres
vegetables chickens ---- SHOP
4. Show the listening text on the screen for the Ss to check how much they hear on the tape
Listening Text:
Dick and Becky have a farm, a shop and a tea - shop in the west of England, They live on the farm, The shop is in a small town, eight kilometres away. The tea - shop is next to the tea - shop. On the farm they have four cows, six pigs, ducks and chickens, they grow their own fruit and vegetables, too, Their two children work on the farm when they are not at school.
The vegetables are taken to the shop. If they are not sold, they are used the next day in the tea – shop. Not all the food in the tea - shop is sold or eaten. So this is taken to the farm and given to the chickens or the pigs. The chickens are not in cages; they run all over the farm. The muck from the pigs is put on the garden to make the vegetables grow better. The eggs from the chickens are sold in the shop; Milk from the cows is also sold in the shop. " But we don' t make them ourselves, " Becky said, " We don' t have enough time,"
Dick and Becky also sell cakes in the shop.
Step V. Writing.
(SB, Lesson 20, Part 2. The Ss are required to write instructions for growing tomatoes,)
T: Look at the pictures. What is the woman doing? S: She is growing tomatoes.
T: Yes, Do you know how to grow tomatoes? Ss: No, we don' t.
T: Look at the pictures carefully. Each picture will tell you a process in growing tomatoes. You can use these words to describe them.
(Bb: seed, sow, shade, tie, water, pick)
If you want to give instructions to someone who wants to grow tomatoes, you should begin like this: Put some soil in a box, --- Now work with your partner and tell each other how tomatoes are grown. Are you clear?
Ss: Yes.
Suggested answers:
1. Put some soil in a box, sow the tomato seed carefully, and then cover it with more soil,
2. Keep the box in the shade.
3. Tie the little plant to a stick,
4. Water the plant .
5. Pick a big red tomato.
Step VI. Workbook
1. Wb, Lesson 20. Ex. 3. In each sentence, here are two words in the brackets; The Ss are required to choose the proper one to fill in the bland. They must know the differences between the two words
Suggested answers:
1. hottest. 2. theirs. 3. northern. 4. pronunciation. 5. spoken, written. 6. thickly
7. getting
2. Wb, Revision Ex, 1, The students are required to complete the sentences with the new words they have learnt in this unit, Make sure the Ss remember all the new words in this unit, while doing this exercise, they must first understand the meaning of each sentence, The first letter of each missing word is given to help the Ss, but they must pay attention to the correct forms of the words while they fill in the blanks. Ask some Ss to write their answers or the Bb, and then check the answers with the class.
Suggested answers:
1. shade, burn. 2. feed, 3. punished. 4 . order. 5. stranger . 6. breaks .
7. purpose . 8. fetch
3. Wb, Revision . Ex , 2. The Ss are required to choose the right word or phrases they have learned in this unit to fill in the blanks. This exercise can be done orally in class . Tell the Ss to read the sentences one by one , Fill in the blanks at the same time .
Suggested answers :
1. D. 2. B. 3. A. 4. C .. 5. A . 6. C. 7. C
Step VII .. Sum up
T: In this lesson , we have revised the ways of expressing purpose and the Passive Voice . We have also revised some useful expressions in this unit we have done a lot of exercises about this , we have done some listening and writing . After class , you must learn by heart all the important language points in this unit . Are you clear ?
Ss : Yes .
Step VIII . Homework
1. Wb , Revision . Ex . 3. The Ss are required to translate some Chinese sentences into English , The teacher may remind the Ss to use some of the phrases learnt in this unit . For example , " so that " can be used in the first sentence and " in order to " can be used in the second one . Tell the Ss to write this exercise in their exercise books.
Suggested answers :
1. please put on your hat so that the sun won' t burn your face .
2. We travel by air in order to save time
3. In fact , I don' t want to stay here for long .
4. Every body must obey the rules .
5. In the past there was only one school in this town .
2. Write the instructions for growing tomatoes in the exercise books .
Step IX . The Design of the Writing on the blackboard
Lesson 20
Listening :
muck = animal waste
Not all the food in the tea - shop is sold or eaten .
= Some of the food in the tea - shop is sold or eaten .
Writing :
seed , sow , shade , tie , water , pick
Step X . Record after teaching