Unit 2 What’s the best thing about school?The first period设计者：续雨卿Teaching style:Listening and speakingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Language goals 语言目标a. Key vocabulary重点词汇和短语present, absent, speech, biology, safety, drug, Spanish, French, involve, training, society, disco, athletic, fortunately, secondaryb. Key sentences重点句子If I pass my exams next year, I’ll stay here until I’m 18.Park School is a secondary school, about 20 minutes by bike away from home. We spend the first 10 minutes in our classroom while our teacher checks which pupils are present or absent.PE involves physical exercise, basketball, training in the gym and swimming. 2．Learning ability goals 学能目标Help the students learn how to analyze the article about school life and write about the students’ own school life.Teaching methods 教学方法Listening, speaking and reading.Teaching important/difficult points教学重难点Learn to talk and write about school life.Teaching aids教具准备A tape recorder, a computer and a projector.Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式Step 1: GreetingStep 2: Learn the new words1.Teach the new words:present, absent, speech, biology, safety, drug, Spanish, French, involve, training, society, disco, athletic, fortunately, secondary2.Match the words with the picturesMatch the words with the meaningsEncourage students to remember themStep 3: Warming up and leading-inT: Well done, everyone! Last class, we have learnt Tony told us about Sally’s school.Do you remember?Ss: Yes.T: Can you tell us something about our school? What’s your school life like?S1: Our school is big and clean and beautiful. There are many buildings in our school such as laboratory, swimming pool, computer room…S2: I like our school. We can learn English, maths, Chinese and so on. I like sporting, so every day I can play football on the playground.S3:…T: Good! Now this lesson we are going to talk about Sally’s school life. Do you want to know Sally’s school life? First, look at these pictures on the screen.What can you see?S1: They are climbing a mountain.T: Excellent! This is one of Sally’s school activities. How about the second one?S2: They are dancing.T: Do you want to know more about Sally’s school life? Let’s learn the passage “My school life” written by Sally.Step 4: Listening and readingIn this procedure, let the students listen to and read the passage to do some exercises.1.ListeningT: First, let’s do some listening practice. Please listen to the tape without your books and answer my questions on the screen. OK?Ss: OK! (Ss listen to the tape and choose the best answers on the screen) Questions:1. How old is Sally?A. 11B. 15C. 182. Park school is a _________ school.A. PrimaryB. SecondaryC. High3. How long do they have lunch?A. From 11:05 to 11:20B. An hour.C. Two hours4. What subject don’t they have?A. PEB. ADTC. Chinese5. How often do they have a parents’ meeting?A. Once a month.B. Once a year.C. Once a term.Keys: B B B C CAfter listening, the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.2. Skimming for the main idea.T: Please skim the passage to find out the main idea of each paragraph. After that, the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.P1introduce herselfP2about schoolP3school timetableP4subjectsP5examsP6 activitiesP7like＆dislike3. Reading again.T: According to the listeing, we have got the main idea of the passage. Skim the passage and write a short title for each photo.Two minutes later, the teacher lets the students say their answers.S1: We have had the title for the first photo. The title for the second photo I think is School party or disco: dancing.T: Good! Now read the passage carefully this time, paying attention to the details in Activity 3 and complete the timetable.The sample answers to Activity 3:Step nguage points1. absent adj. 缺席的；不在的【搭配】be absent from work 没上班2. speech n. 演说【搭配】make a speech 做演讲3. safety n. 安全We are worrying about his safety.我们正在担心他的安全。
【延伸】safe adj. 安全的safely adv. 安全地4. either…or… 要么……要么……【辨析】either…or…；both…and…；neither…nor…；5. We have two more lessons before school finishes. 在放学之前我们再上两节课。
more意为“再，又”，常放于数词和名词之间I would like to have two more apples. 我想再吃两个苹果。
before是连词，连接时间状语从句，What do you usually do before you go to bed?在睡觉之前你经常干什么？6. We have a large sports ground where we play football, tennis and do athletics both during and after school hours. 我们有一个大的运动场，我们在上学期间和放学后在那里踢足球，打网球和做运动。
1) where是关系副词，引导的是定语从句，用来修饰现行词ground，如：This is the school where I studied five years ago.这是五年以前我学习的学校。
