Unit 5 I Love Learning English
Lesson 25 A Phone Friend
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions
idea, phone, encourage, follow, repeat, sentence, understand
2. Oral words and expressions
pardon, have a good talk, have an idea
3. Everyday English
May I speak to…?
This is…speaking.
I can’t follow you.
Pardon?
Teaching aims:
1. How to make a telephone.
2. Describe language difficulties in communications.
3. Learn to write a passage with many tenses.
Teaching important points:
1. Know the time difference between China and Canada.
2. How to express when you can’t follow the others.
3. Oral English.
Teaching difficult points:
Use the expressions you learned in this lesson.
Teaching preparation:
telephone, flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Talk about the weather with the students and ask “Who is on duty today?”
Know about who is on duty next time.
Step 2.Introduce the topic to the class.
Ask the class:
1. Why should you spend so much time learning English?
2. How many people speak Chinese in the world?
3. How many people speak English in the world?
4. Why should so many countries use English?
Tell them if they don’t know the answers, it doesn’t matter. What we will learn is about the topic?
Step 3. Play a riddle: You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I? (A telephone.) The teacher asks the question: Can you guess what we will learn in this text?
Step 4. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT!”
1. How often do you make phone calls to your friends?
2. Is it hard to understand your friends when they speak English? If so, what
can you ask them to do?
The students can answer the first question in English. If they can’t answer the second, they can answer in Chinese.
Step 5. Listen to the tape. Write true (T) or false(F).
1. Jenny calls Liming from Canada.
2. Li Jing is Li Ming’s cousin.
3. Li Jing loves learning English
4. Li Jing practice her English by speaking to Li Ming.
Step 6. Ask the students to read the dialogue silently and check the answers. Step 7.Divide the class into several groups. Each group has three people. Read the text in roles in class. Practice for a while then let several groups go to the front to act it out.
Step 8. Come to “LET’S DO IT!”
Make up a dialogue with a partner. Act out a phone call between two friends.
One is in China; the other is in the U.S. Try to use expressions you learned in this lesson.
When the students are making the dialogue, the teacher tours the class. If they meet any trouble, try your best to help them. After five minutes, make sure they are done. Let some students act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Do the others hear it clearly? Ask some questions about their passages in order to test their listening ability.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the reading in the student book.
Summary:
“Pardon”is a very popular expression in English when you can’t follow the others. It is useful in English classes. If the teacher takes the sentence as important spoken English, we can use it more often.
Lesson 26 online phone calls
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions
language, exciting, online
2. Oral words and expressions
Russia, reply, completion, proud, such
United Nations, still, each other, all over the world,
What do you mean by…? Official language
3. Useful expressions
I can’t wait to see you!
Teaching aims:
1. Learn something about English.
2. Encourage the students to learn English well.
3. Grasp the differences in speaking and writing between Chinese and English. Teaching important points:
1. Know about English is an official language.
2. Learn about the English-speaking countries.
Teaching difficult points:
Describe why English is so important in English.
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards, a recorder
Teaching procedures:
Step 1.
Introduce today’s topic. Let the students answer the following questions:
1. Why are you learning English?
2. Do you think it’s easy to learn English well?
3. Which is easier, Chinese or English?
4. What’s the best way to learn English?
Let the students discuss the questions in groups. Then give a report to the class.
Step 2. Let’s learn the words from the tape. Listen to the words in this lesson for several times. Ask the students read after it and imitate. Ask some students read the words loudly in class.
Step 3. Listen to the tape again and answer the following questions:
1. What is Alicia's good news?
2. How does Ms. Bell help Alicia with her English?
3. What did Alicia win?
4. How long will Alicia stay in Canada?
Step4.Read the text silently and check the answers. Then let the students read the text in class. After a while, ask some students to read the text in front of the class.
Step5. Retell the story, but remember not to word for word.
Step6. Come to “LET’S DO IT!”
In a small group, talk about why it is important to learn English. Make a poster about the importance of English and display it in your classroom. Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Let the students search the advertisements, the instructions of the things written in English and English songs before the class. The students will feel English is connected with our life closely. When we see the foreigners in the street, we will understand the importance of learning English.
Lesson 27 A mazing English
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions dictionary
letter, exactly, fact, sentence, quick, fox, lazy, forwards, backwards, therein, even, dig
2. Oral words and expressions
Dig and enjoy!
Teaching aims:
1. Be familiar with the rhythm of the English songs.
2. Cultivate the students’ interests in English through the English songs. Teaching important points:
1. The three difficult words.
2. Learn to sing the song.
Teaching difficult points:
The three long words.
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Something about Lesson 27
Let the students show the English letters that they searched on the Internet.
Divide the class into several groups and discuss the letters. Tell the differences between Chinese and English letters. Can they read and translate the letters? Help them when they meet trouble.
Step 2. Ask the class to try the following tongue twister.
Peter bought some butter. The butter Peter bought was bitter. So Peter bought some better butter, to make the bitter butter better.
Step 3.Play the tape as the students follow their books. Play the tape for several times. Let the students sing after it.
Step 4. Read and translate the sing by the students themselves. The teacher listens and make they are correct.
Step 5. Let’s sing the song together.
Then sing it in rows. Let’s see which row sings the best.
Step 6. Ask some volunteers to sing in front of the class.
Step 7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”
Learn to look up the new words in dictionary is what we learn in this lesson.
Make a list of the ways you use to improve your English. If you don’t understand a word, you should look it up in the dictionary.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
It has been one year since the students went to middle school. They have learned
many English songs, but how many can they sing from the beginning to the end? How many English songs did they learn on the radio or on the TV? If you want to know exactly, how about having an English party? Remember: All the students and the teacher must speak English at the party.
Lesson 28 How do I learn English?
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions
Story book, magazine, newspaper, mistake, silly, look it up in a dictionary 2. Oral words and expressions
… is not here right now? …make a mistake.
Teaching aims:
1. The ability of reading a passage before we learn the new words.
2. Learn to solve the word problems by looking up the dictionary and remember the new words according to their pronunciations.
Teaching important points:
1. Write a passage with many tenses.
2. Know about the ways of learning English well.
3. Learn to look the new words up in a dictionary.
Teaching difficult points:
Write a passage with many tenses.
Teaching preparation:
flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warm up
1. Sing the song “Say the Word”.
2. Try the tongue twister:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Step 2. Play the tape with the books closed. Let them write main points during their listening. Then ask a student to retell what the reading is about.
Step 3.Read the text and answer the following questions:
1. What grade is Teresa in?
2. What language does she speak at home?
3. What does she often read?
4. When does she watch English movies?
5. Where can you find the words for many English songs?
Because the reading is harder, the teacher should check the answers and explain the text when it is necessary.
Step 4. Discussion
Some students may think English is hard to learn. Do they think what is hard to learn English? Ask the students to make a list of the questions they met
in their learning.
Divide the class into several groups and find the right ways to solve the problems. Give them more time to have a further discussion.
Finally the teacher can sum what they say and give them some good advice, too. Step 5. Listen to the tape for several times. Let them read after it and imitate until they can read it correctly.
Step 6. Let some students read the text in front of the class. Encourage them to read loudly and imitate the correct pronunciation and intonation. Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on reading the text.
Summary:
This passage is about the problems that a girl met in her English learning. She has found the good ways to solve them. Some students who are weak in English may have the same problems. So in this class, the teacher should give chance to the poor students. Let them say straight and frankly. At the same time, they can improve their spoken English.
Lesson 29 A door to the world
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions
article, opportunity, knowledge, communicate, connect, encourage…to do
2. Oral words and expressions
most, the door to the world
Teaching aims:
1. Learning English well means opening the door to the world.
2. Know about the differences of writing and expressing between Chinese and English. Teaching important points:
1. Know about the importance of learning English well.
2. Inspire the students learning interest in the ways of teamwork in the class. Teaching difficult points:
The expression: a door to the world
Teaching preparation:
English newspaper
Teaching aids:
Audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1.The teacher asks the class: “Who can say a piece of news in English?”Let some students report news in English. The others listen carefully and then report it in Chinese.
Step 2. Ask the class “Do you know where the news is from?” Some students say it
comes from North, East, West and South. So that’s why it is called news. Step 3. Listen to the tape with the following questions:
1. How do many people learn English?
2. Why is English so important?
3. What does “a door to the world” mean?
Step 4. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then let the students have
a further discussion about the text.
Step 5. Let the students read the text loudly in class. Then ask some students to read the text in front of the class. The others listen carefully to make sure they have correct pronunciation and intonation.
Step 6. Come to “LET’S DO IT”
They can find information about English language and culture in town, city and at home. Search the information and compare with your classmates. Let’s see who has a better neighborhood.
Homework:
Finish off the activity book. Go on the next reading in the student book. Summary:
Search more information about English, which students can do before class. Let them bring some English newspaper to the class, too. The atmosphere makes the students happy. They also feel the importance of English in our life. Oh! We are living in a world in which English is necessary.
Lesson 30 Writing an e-mail in English
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions
pal, Jessica, introduce
2. Oral words and expressions
I’m looking forward to…, but… make a sentence, write to me
Teaching aims:
1. Communicate with the foreigners in letters in English.
2. Stimulate the students’ learning interests in the way of making pen pals. Teaching important points:
1. How to write a letter in English.
2. Have a pal from other countries.
Teaching difficult points:
Use what we learn to write a letter to a foreign friend.
Teaching preparation:
some names and addresses of the foreigners, flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards, some names and addresses of the foreigners
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Take out one picture of your foreign friend and show it to the students.
Say: “This is my pen pal. He lives in the U. S. now. I often write letters to him. What is he like? Do you want to have pen pals, too?”
The students will be very happy to have pen pals. Then let them choose one from the names and dresses of the foreigners.
Step 2. Listen to the words of this lesson. Let the students read after it for several times until they have correct pronunciation and intonation.
Step 3.Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. How tall is Wang Mei?
2. What games does Wang Mei like to play?
3. What is Wang Mei trying to do in her e-mail?
4. What Chinese words does Wang Mei teach Jessica?
5. What is Wang Mei looking forward to?
Step 4. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class. Let some students read in front of the class. Choose who the best one is. Step 5.Divide the class into small groups and let them have a further discussion.
1. What is a pen pal? Do you have a pen pal?
2. Where is Wang Mei’s pen pal from?
Step 6. Come to PROJECT “PEN PAL LETTERS”
Write a letter to a foreigner whom you have chosen. After they are done, let some students read their letters in front of the class. Others listen and find their grammar and selling mistakes.
If some students’have pen pals, let them bring to the school and read their letters to the class.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the next reading in the student book.
Summary:
Ask who has pen pals and let them bring their pen pal’s letters to the school. Read them to the class. Encourage the students to write letters in English and exchange their letters with the others.。
