Unit 7 Enjoy your HobbyLesson 37 What’s Your Hobby?Teaching content:1. Mastery words and expressionshobby, guess, sell, wall2. Oral words and expressionsTeaching aims:1. Understand the information about hobby in the dialogue and catch the key words.2. Use what we learn to describe one’s own hobby.Teaching important points:1. Shopping in western countries.2. Guess one’s hobby is according to his demonstrate.Teaching difficult points:What’s a hobby?Teaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson:new lessonTeaching procedures:Step 1. Take some objects into the classroom, such as: a sweater, books, flowers, pictures… Show them to your class. The teacher asks: “What is a hobby?”Let the students explain “hobby”in English. Listen their answers and sum:A hobby is what you like to do in your spare time.Step 2. e to the first question in “THINK ABOUT IT”. “What hobbies do you have?”Let them discuss in pairs.The teacher may say: “If you have a hobby, talk about it with your partner.If you don’t have a hobby, what hobby would you like to have?”Step 3.Listen to the tape with the following questions:1. What do you like to do in your spare time?2.What hobbies do you know?Step 4. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class. Let the students read the text in class in roles.Step 5. Ask some volunteers to act the dialogue out in front of the class. Have a further discussion about the text.Step 6. e to the second question in “THINK ABOUT IT”. “Look at the pictures. Can you guess what Danny’s hobby is?”Work in pairs and discuss together. Then give a talk to the class. Let’s see whose guess is reasonable?Step 7. e to “PROJECT”Divide the class into several groups and finish the project. When the students are discussing, the teacher walks around the classroom and help them if necessary.Homework:1. Finish off the activity book.2. Review the next lesson according to the activity book.Summary:Guessing the end of the story is a skill that the students must master. So give them chances to practice. Let the students use their imagination to think hard. Discuss in groups and ask the others to make the idea perfect.Lesson 38 Hobbies Are Fun!Teaching content:1. Mastery words and expressions2. Oral words and expressionsTeaching aims:1. Cooperate with others and finish the task.2. Write one’s hobby in English.Teaching important points:1. Talk about likes and dislikes.2. Talk about sequence.Teaching difficult points:verb-ingTeaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:Audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson:new lessonTeaching procedures:Step 1.Let the students show their hobbies to the class. Ask them to introduce their hobbies in detail. Are there any students who have the same hobbies? Let them exchange their experience.Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. What types of hobbies can you think of?2. What new hobby do you like? Why?Step 3. Read the text silently then check the answers. Then read the text loudly in roles.Step 4. Listen to the tape and read after it until the students can read it fluently. Step 5. e to “Gardening with Mary”Step 6. Listen to the tape and read after it until the students can read it fluently. Homework:Work in pairs. Organize the hobbies into the following groups.Lesson 39 Danny’s HobbyTeaching content:Mastery words and expressions: Rex, giant, SwedenTeaching aims:1. How to write a letter and demonstrate clearly what you need.2. Learn more about the life in Western countries.Teaching important points:1. Danny’s hobby.2. Know about Grandpa Giant.Teaching difficult points:Some words and expressions.Teaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:audiotape, flashcardsTeaching procedures:Step 1. DiscussionDiscuss the following questions: “How many people are there in your family?What hobbies do they have?”Make a group with three or four students. Let them report their family members one by one. After all of them report, let the students sum the same and different hobbies they have.Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. What does Danny’s grandpa like?2. Where did Grandpa e from?3. Where did he learn English?4. What is Danny’s hobby?Step 3. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class. Choose who reads the best?Step 4. Listen to the tape again. Then retell the story in a third person.Step 5. e to “LET’S DO IT”This task is easy in English, but it is difficult to finish, because many family members can’t speak English. We can finish the task in Chinese. Then translate it into English by yourselves.Then write a report and present it to your class.Homework:1. Finish off the activity book.2. Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:Writing a letter is a main part of every unit. So the students have many chances to master the skill well. Practice more in order to keep the skill well. As the proverb says: Practice makes perfect.Lesson 40 What’s Paul’s Hobby?Teaching content:1. Mastery words and expressions2. Oral words and expressionsTeaching aims:1. Express one’s hobby in English correctly.2. Get the main ideas from the text according to different reading aims.Teaching important points:1. Describe one’s hobbies in detail.2. v-ingTeaching difficult points:v-ingTeaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:Audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson:new lessonTeaching procedures:Step 1. Let the students talk about their hobbies. Discuss in groups. Then report it in front of the class.Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. What’s Paul’s hobby?2. What does Paul do with his rockets?3. Why does Paul like his hobby?Step 3.Read the text silently and check the answers. Read the text loudly in class.After a while, let some students read the text loudly in front of the class. Step 4.Let the students have a further discussion about the text. Can the students ask other questions? Help them if they need any help.Step 5. Read the text again and retell the text in a third person.Step 6. e to “LET’S DO IT”This subject leaves too much imaginative space for the students. They can give a vivid description about the lost rocket.Do the students write thepassages in first person or in a third person?Divide the class into several groups with three or four students. Discuss their passages and then choose the most creative one to report to the class. Homework:1. Finish off the activity book.2. Go on the next reading to the student book.Summary:The most important in writing is that you can give a vivid description. The students have two chances to practice their writing ability in the text. One is about their hobbies. The other is about “Paul’s Lost Rocket”. Pay more attention to the chances and make full instruction when it is necessary.Lesson 41 Show and TellTeaching content:1. Mastery words and expressions2. Oral words and expressionsTeaching aims:1. Practice students’ writing ability.2. Grasp the words and expressions of expressing one’s hobby.Teaching important points:1. Catch the chance of munication in English.2. Cultivate the interest and courage of learning English.Teaching difficult points:v-ingTeaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:Audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson:new lessonTeaching procedures:Step 1. Sing the song “A Moment Just for Me”Step 2. e to “Chat Show”1.Do you know a lot about your family history?2.Who is the most interesting person in your family?Step 3. Listen to the tape and retell the story.Step 4. Read the text with the following questions:1. What are the students doing?2. Does Brian show their hobby?3. Does anyone else in Brian’s class take stamp collections as their hobbies?4. What’s Danny’s hobby?5. Where does Danny show his hobby?Step 5.Let the students have a further discussion about the text. Check the answers.When the students are discussing, the teacher tours in the class and helps them if it is necessary.Step 6. Have a role-play. During the procession, the students pay attention to their pronunciations and intonations. Correct them when they meet trouble.Step 7.Listen to the tape again. Play the tape for several times. Ask the students to read after it until they can read it correctly and fluently. Homework:1. Finish off the activity book.2. Now retell the story again.Summary:To describe one thing correctly and clearly is the most important thing that you must master in this lesson. Thestudents must pay attention to the sequence when theywrite. They can use the words and expressions about the sequence: first, then, later, finally…Lesson 42 The New ClubTeaching content:Mastery words and expressions: real, take part inTeaching Aims:1. Learn to write a diary.2. Learn about the hobbies that are the same and different.Teaching important points:1. Sum the language rules and use them.2. Describe a thing that happened.Teaching difficult points:v-ingTeaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson:new lessonTeaching procedures:Step 1.Before the class, check how many students can retell the main meaning about the text. Encourage the entirestudents preview the new lesson and askquestions about the text.Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. Where did they show stamp collection?2. Whose hobby did Brian enjoy best?Step 3. Read the text and check the answers. Read the text loudly.Step 4. Have a further discussion about the text: Did Jenny make any new friends?What is her new friend like? Encourage your students to imagine and to say something about him or her.Step 5. e to “LET’S DO IT”Write a passage about someone you know who is a collector. Divide the class into several groups. Then let the students discuss their passages together.Do you think whose hobby is the most interesting? If you want to be a collector, what do you want to collect? Why?Step 6. Practice the using of the v-ingWrite the following sentences on the blackboard. Ask the students to sum the grammar by themselves.Watching TV too much is bad for your eyes.Her job is looking after babies.Seeing is believing.When a verb is taken as the subject, verb-ing is used. Verb-ing can be used as predicative. Ask the students to write a few sentences including verb-ing. Homework:1. Finish off the activity book.2. Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:The teacher should let the students grasp how to learn knowledge but not what to learn. In another word, the students must make the class student-centered not teacher-centered when the teacher arranges the class. They can have the students sum grammars by themselves. Then practice them. The results will be much better than before.Unit ReviewTeaching content:Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 37 to Lesson 42.Oral words and expressions from Lesson 37 to Lesson 42.Teaching aims:1. How to express one’s hobby in English correctly.2. The same and different hobbies in China and western countries.Teaching important points:1. Talk about likes and dislikes.2. Talk about sequences.Teaching difficult points:v-ingTeaching preparation:flashcardsTeaching aids:audiotape, flashcardsType of lesson:review lessonTeaching procedures:Step 1. Show the pictures of Danny’s hobby to the class. Let the students talk in groups about Danny’s hobby. Do the students appreciate his hobby?Step 2. Have a further discussion about Paul’s hobby. Do you think Paul’s hobby easy or difficult? Can you make it by yourself? What do you think it is made of? Do you think it is safe? What do you think it is used be?Step 3. Let the students show their hobbies in class again. Are their collections much richer than before after we learn this unit? Exchange their ideas about each other’s hobby. Some ideas must be very useful. The others sometimes provide what they need.Step 4. Do the exercises on P69 and 70. When the students check the answers, the teacher tours in the classroom and help them if necessary. Find the problems and discuss them with the whole class.Step 5. e to the activity book.Discuss the problems with the students together.Step 6. Sing the song “A Moment Just for Me”, if you have time.Summary:We are in Grade Two now. All the students may think they know a little English. Sometimes they get their knowledge from the TV, radio and puters. Let them present what they learn out of the class, give them a chance to present. Sum the new words and expressions and write them on the blackboard. Let all the students learn together. Thus the students’interests of learning English will be improved. Encourage them to sing foreign songs.。
