Unit4 Isn’t It Wonderful?
Period 1 Warm-up, Listening and Speaking Teaching aims and demands:
Knowledge goals
1. Students will be able to learn some useful new words and expressions in this part. 2. Students will be able to express excitement and enthusiasm.
Ability goals
1. Students will be able to catch and understand the listening materials. 2. Students will be able to summary the passages..
3. Students will be able to learn and use the expressions of excitement and enthusiasm.
Emotion goals
1. Students will be able to know more about the inventions and the impacts of them. 2. Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork.
Teaching emphasis
1. Guide students to guess the answer before listening .
2. Students will be able to get information and take notes while listening.
3. Students will be able to learn and use the expressions of excitement and enthusiasm.
Teaching difficulties
1. Students will be able to understand listening materials with various English accents. 2. Apply what has been learnt in the real life situation.
Teaching methods
Task-Based Teaching Method
Teaching aids
A multi-media computer
Teaching procedure
Step 1: Warming up
Talk about the great inventions：
air conditioner 空调 car 汽车 computer（laptop computer） 电脑 ipad 平板电脑
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cellphone（mobile phone） 手机 smartphone 智能手机 robot 机器人
TV (liquid crystal TV) （液晶）电视 hair dryer 吹风机 microwave oven 微波炉 washing machine 洗衣机
Questions
1.what’s the most important invention in your daily life? 2.why are these inventions important to you? 3.what’s your favourite one?why?
Example:
I think the cellphone is the most important invention.It used to take days,or even months to get in touch with someone.Now we can talk with relatives abroad anytime we like. ①invention n.发明物 invent v.发明
inventive adj.有创造才能的 inventor n.发明家
②used to do 过去常常，曾经做….. be used to do 被用来做…… be used to doing 习惯于做……
③get in touch with… 与……取得联系 (短暂性) keep in touch with … 与……保持联系（延续性）
eg. 三年前我和他取得了联系。从那以后，我和他一直保持联系。
I got in touch with him three years ago.Since then,I have kept in touch with him.
Step 2: Listening and speaking
A. WHAT INVENTIONS ARE HERE TO STAY?
deaf people---------------------------people who can’t hear
blind people--------------------------people who can’t see things sign language------------------------手语
glove----------------------------------手套（复数，gloves） surf the Web--------------------------浏览网页 turn into-------------------------------变成
full-size keyboard-------------------原尺寸的键盘 type into------------------------------输入…… screen---------------------------------屏幕
Turn into vt 变成
●Joan正在变成一个技艺精湛的音乐家。 Joan is turning into quite a skilled musician.
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●她的理想即将变成现实。 Her dream will into reality. ●那栋楼变成了一个图书馆。
The old building was turned into a library
Tick true or false
1. ( F )Many people understand sign language.
Many people can’t understand sign language.
2. ( T )With the laser keyboard,one can type anywhere.
3. ( T )It’s not easy to type long e-mails into cellphones without the laser keyboard. 4. ( T )The laser keyboard makes it easier to surf the Web.
Fill in the blanks
1. The sign language glove is a great invention for ______________, or people
who________.
2. This glove translates the ____________and displays the words on a small screen. 3. With this invention, your cellphone can turn into a full-size keyboard __________. 4. It’s easy to type text___________and long ____________into your cellphone. Key:
(1. deaf people;can’t hear ) (2. sign language) (3. on any table)
(4. messages;e-mails)
B. ISN’T IT WONDERFUL?
①You’re really into it, aren’t you? ②Are you serious? I’m crazy about it! ③And I just love this screen. ④Wow, it sure looks great. ⑤Isn’t it wonderful？
排序：⑤④③①②
(一)表达喜欢：like /love /enjoy /prefer be crazy /mad about be keen on
be interested in be fond of
have an interest in
（二）afford 承受得起，经得住
eg. We can’t afford the price. How does he afford diamonds?
I can’t afford to pay such a price.
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（三）download 下载 upload 上传
CONVERSATION STRATEGY
Expressing Excitement or Enthusiasm(表达兴奋和热情)
We can use questions and interjections to express strong feelings such as excitement or enthusiasm. For example, we can say Are you serious? Really? We can also start a sentence with Wow,Yes,Oh,Good! ★ start/begin with-------------------以……开始
role—play(pair work)
situation1
Your friend got an ipod and is telling you how great it is.
situation2
You are just back from a wonderful trip to Yunnan.now you are telling your friend
about the beautiful scenery.
Step3：summary
Step 4: Homework assignment:
1.Finish off the Workbook exercises. 2.Preview the Speaking.
Teaching reflection：
本节课为听说课，结合了本单元的重点知识，在课堂上利用丰富的论点让学生们自行口语练习，适时给予辅导，并且给他们充分的锻炼机会锻炼口语以及表达能力。
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Period 2 Reading and Writing Teaching aims and demands:
Knowledge goals
1. Students will be able to learn some useful new words and expressions in this part. 2. Students will be able to read passage A.
3. Students will be able to understand blog better. Ability goals
1. Guide students to learn how to use different reading skills such as skimming, scanning, guessing the meaning in the context, predicting and so on. 2. Students will be able to learn to how to summary.
3. Students will be able to summary a passage with their own words. Emotion goals
1. Students will learn to write a blog.
2. Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork.
Teaching emphasis
1. Enable students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. 2. Let students read and understand the text.
Teaching difficulties
1. Enable students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. 2. Solve the problem in daily life.
Teaching methods
Task-Based Teaching Methods
Teaching aids
A multi-media computer
Teaching procedure Step 1: Revision
1. Check the homework exercises.
2. Ask some pairs of students to come to the front and act out their dialogues.
Step 2: Reading Jan Baker’s Blog
①Blog 博客
microblog 微博 microwave 微波 microsoft 微软
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