Unit 1 The changing worldTopic 1 Our country has developed rapidly.Section AI.Teaching aims and demands:1. (1) Learn the present perfect tense, and master the sentence patterns “have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”.(2) Compare the simple past tense with the present perfect tense and find out the differences in their usages.2. Learn how to describe holiday activities.II. Important points:“have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Ask and answer between the teacher and students. Make a conversation about their summer holiday to review the simple past tense.2. Summarize students’activities during the summer holiday and lead to the present perfect tense by the simple past tense..(1) A went to Hainan.A has been to Hainan.Use the same way to lead students to write down “B has been to a community service center”.(2) Lead students to learn the structure of the present perfect tense:Have/has + past participle.Step 2 Presentation1. Create a real situation to present the new words and phrase “proper”,”by the way”,”bell” and “volunteer”. Master “proper”, “by the way” and “bell”. Know the meaning of “volunteer”.2. Listen to 1a and answer the shining questions. Check the answers.Where has Rita been? Where has Jane been? What about Maria?3. Write down the answers on the blackboard. And use figure pictures to show “have/ has been to” and “have/has gone to”. Then explain the differences between them.Step 3 Consolidation1. Listen to 1a again and finish 1b. Retell the dialog according to 1a, and talk about the children’s vacation experience with “has been/gone to”.2. Let students find out something important and difficult in 1a. The teacher writes down the sentences on the Bb and explain them.3. Read 1a in groups and choose several groups to act it out. Finish 1a.4. Work in groups. Make up dialogs like 1a according to students’real situations and act them out I pairs. Finish 1c.Step 4 Practice1. Let students look at the picture in 2 and read the dialogs aloud. Fill I the blanks. Finish2. Let students have a better understanding about the differences between “have/has been to” and “have/has gone to”.2. Learn and master the new words “grandpa”, “chairwoman”and “grandson” by using word formation.3. Let students find different sentence patterns of the perfect tense in this section and practice them.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work..2. Do some exercise about “have/has been” and “have/has gone”. Handwriting：Our country has developed rapidly.Section Aby the way —Where have you been, Jane?There goes the bell. —I have been to …proper Maria isn’t at school. Where’s she?chairwoman —She has gone to …Section BI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Go on learning the usage of the present perfect tense.2. Compare the teenagers’life in the past with that nowadays and lead students to cherish the happy life at present.II. Important points:1. Past Participle2. The usage of the present perfect tenseIII. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Check the work after class.2. Ask and answer between the teacher and students. Review the present perfect tense.Step 2 Presentation1. Show some pictures of disabled children. Make a dialog with students to know whether they have helped disabled children and lead to 1a. Understand the new word “disabed” and master “ever”.2. Listen to 1a and answer the shining questions:(1)Has Maria ever helped disabled children?(2)What did she do to help them?Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students read 1a and find out the important sentences and the sentences with the present perfect tense. The teacher writes them down on the Bb and explain them. Finish 1a.2. Let students observe the past participle of verbs in the five sentences with the present perfect tense on the Bb. Learn the rules of the past participle of verbs. Fill in the blanks in 1b with different forms of the verbs. Master the new words “shut” and “rope”. Know the new word “online”. Check the answers.3. Make a survey about students’summer holidays. Then make up dialog in pairs according to the table in 1b. Encourage students to take part in outdoor activities. Finish 1b.Step 4 Practice1. Show two pctures about the life of teenagers in the past and at present and then make a comparison. Lead to 2a. Learn and master the new words and phrase “describe”, “in detail”, “education”, “develop”and “development”. Understand the words “teenagers”, “childhood”,“support” and “laborer”., Know about the new word “rapidly”.2. Let students listen to 2a and answer the shining question:How did most children spend their childhood in the past?3. Read 2a after the tape. Let students mark the stresses and sense-groups. Then erase the marks. Read 2a aloud in imitation of the tape.4. Read 2a again. Master the new word “granny” and know about the new word “luckily”. Finish 2a. Compare the different lifestyles in the past and at present of Chinese teenagers. Finish 2b.5. Let students listen to 2c and fill in the blanks. Check the answers. Finish 2c.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting:Section CI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Go on learning the present perfect tense.2. Compare the past Beijing with the present Beijing and learn about the great changes in China.3. Inspire students to cherish the happy life at present and to cultivate their patriotism.II. Important points:1. some new words and phrases2. (1)My granny has lived in Beijing for more than forty years.(2)Beijing has made rapid progress and it has already succeeded in hosting the 2008 Olympic Games.III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 ReviewReview 2a of Section B. Let two students come to the front to talk about the different lifestyles in the past and nowadays of Chinese teenagers. Lead to the comparison between the old and today in Beijing.Step 2 Presentation1. Let students look at the pictures in 1a. Discuss with students the differences in life between the old days and today, then lead to the passage and let students master the new words and phrases “communication”, “quick”, “keep in touch with”, “far away”, “sort”, “rapid”, “progress”, “make progress”, “already”and “succeed”. Understand the new words “narrow”, “relative”, “telegram”, “reform and opening-up”and “fax”. Know about “leisure” and “mainly”.2. Let students skim 1a and find out the topic sentence of 1a. Check the answer.3. Let students read 1a and answer the shining questions. Check the answers.(1) Who has seen the changes in Beijing?(2) How long has Kangkang’s granny lived in Beijing.(3) How were the living conditions in Beijng in the 1960s?(4) How can Chinese children study at present?(5) What do people use to keep in touch with their friends and relatives nowadays?4. Let students read 1a by themselves and find out the important and difficultpoints. The teacher writes them down on the Bb and explains the difficult ones.Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students read 1a again and finish 1b. Then check the answers.2. According to the pictures in 1a and the words below them, let students at least two studets for each picture.Step 4 Practice1. Work in pairs. Complete the table according to 1a. Finish 1a.2. Make up dialogs in pairs shining the example in 1c according to the table and finish 1c.3. Lead students to think about the question “Why has Beijing changed so rapidly?” Lead them to cultivate their patriotism.4. Work in groups. According to the table above, let students retell 1a in groups on the basis of 2, Step 3, using the words and sentences they’ve learnt.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting：Section DI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Review and sum up the present perfect tense.2. Learn the basic steps of writing a composition.3. Let students get acquainted with the changes in their hometowns and stimulate their love for their hometowns.II. Important points:1. Some new words and phrases2. The present perfect tenseIII. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Let students listen to the song Spring Has Arrives! Review the present perfect tense and warm up.2. The teacher tells students that he/she likes enjoying music best in his/her free time and ask about students’ leisure activites. Lead to 2.Step 2 Presentation1. Show the pictures in2. Know about the meaning of each picture.2. Work in groups. Make a survey about students’ leisure activities, and then make dialogs according to the example in 2. Finish 2.3. Show a picture of some children who are helping some old people. Lead to 1 by asking and answering between the teacher and students.Step 3 Consolidation1. Listen to 1. Fill in the blanks with the help of the words on the left.2. Listen to 1a again. Check the answers. Finish 1.3. Educate students to respect and care about the old.Step 4 Practice1. Review and sum up the present perfet tense and important sentence patterns together in this topic.2. Listen to 3a and 3b. Then let students compare them with what they have summed up. Finish 3a and 3b.3. Work in pairs. Let students look at the poctures in 4, then discuss the shining question:What changes have taken place in Li Ming’s hometown?Then ask three students to summarize the changes.4. Let students read “Notes” and “Outline” in 4 and learn and master the new words and phrases “composition”, “note”, “consider”, “draw up”, “tool”, and “thanks to”. Learn the basic steps of writing a composition. Finish 4.Step 5 Project/work after classWrite a composition entiled “Changes in LiMing’s Hometown”. Handwriting：Topic 2 China has the largest population.Section AI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Learn the present perfect tense with “just”, “already”, “yet”, “ever”and “never”.2. Talk about population.3. Lead students to care about the population problem and build up right ideasof population.II. Important points:1. yet, probably, call up, European, population, recent, because of, policy, neither2. (1) So do I.(2) Neither do my parents3. the present perfect tense with “just”, “never”, “yet”, “ever”and “already”III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Ask two students to come to the front to talk about the changes of their hometowns.2. Show some pictures that can reflect the large population of China. Practice a dialog with students. Lead to Topic 2 China has the largest population.Step 2 Presentation1. Let students listen to 1a and answer the question: “Where has Kangkang been?” Check the answer.2. Let students read 1a by themselves, and finish 1b. Check the answers. Let students guess the meanings of “yet”, “probably” and “call up” from the context. The teacher gives explanation. Then ask them to master them.3. Let students find out the important and difficult points and the sentences with the present perfect tense. Then write them down on the Bb and help students tounderstand them..Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students read 1a after the tape. Pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation.2. Work in pairs. Let students read 1a, and then act it out. Finish 1a.3. Add another two sentences “Have you ever fed them?” and “Beijing has made rapid progress and it has already succeeded in hosting…”to the sentences in 3, Step 2, written on the Bb. Make students know how to use the five underlined words, then help students to sum up the usages of them.4. Complete the conversation in 2, and check the answers. Teach and let students master “European”. Then act it out in pairs. Finish 2.5. Chain drill. Ask students to make sentences with “just”, “never”, “yet”, “ever” and “already”. Then let them give their sentences one by one in groups.Step 4 Practice1. Let students sing the song If You’re happy. Lead to 3a.2. Listen to 3a and answer the two questions the teacher asked, then check the answers.3. Let students read 3a by themselves and find out the important and difficult points. Then solve them together. Learn and master the new words “recent”and “neither”.4.Let students read 3a again and finish 3b. Then check the answers.5. Work I pairs. First, let students act 3a out. Then let the whole class choose the best pair and give them praise. Finish 3a.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting：Section BI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Go on learning the present perfect tense.2. Learn how to express big numbers in English.3. Talk about the population in different countries.II. Important points:1. the numbers with million and billion.2. some useful sentences(1) It says the world has a population of 6.5 billion.(2) It is increasing by 80 million every year.(3) Which country has the largest population?(4) —What’s the population of the U.S.A.?—It’s…(5) So it is.(6) The population problem is more serious in developing countries.III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Check the homework.2. Let students report the information about China’s population that they have collected. Lead to 1a. Then the teacher sums up.3. Write down the new words “increase”and “billion”on the Bb. Ask students to master the new word “increase”and understand the new word“billion”.Step 2 Presentation1. Listen to 1a and answer the shining questions:(1) What’s the population of the world.(2) Which country has the second largest country?2. Let students skim 1a, find out the numbers in the dialog and make dialogs in pairs according to the chart and examples in 1b. Finish 1b.3. Let students read 1a and find out the important and difficult points. Write them down on the Bb and encourage students to solve the problems. Give students some proper complements.Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students read 1a again and underline the key words. Let students change the dialog of 1a into a short passage and try to retell it with the help of the key words.2. Work in pairs. Let students read 1a and act it out. Finishi 1a.Step 4 Practice1. First the teacher writes a two-digit number, then adds a new digit to the number each time. Ask students to read the numbers, correct them properly when they make mistakes, and then sum up how to read and write numbers in English. For example:22,222,2222,…,22222222222. Let students read the numbers in 2a. Ask students to express the numbersskillfully with the words “hundred”, “thousand”, “million”and “billion”. Help them when necessary and then chenk the answers. Finish 2a.3. Let students listen to 2b and dinish it by themselves. Check the answers.4. Play a number game.(optional)Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting：Section CI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Go on learning the present tense.2. Go on talking about the problem of the increasing population.3. Lead students to have right ideas of population.II. Important points:1. some new words and phrases2. (1) … and about one fifth of the people in the world live in China.(2) … our government has taken many measures to control the population.(3) Thanks to the policy, China is developing quickly and people’s living conditions are improving rapidly.(4)It’s difficult for lots of people to find jobs.(5)…, we are short of energy and water.(6)Most cities are more crowded than before, and the traffic is much heavier. III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Show some cards with big numbers, and let one student read the numbers and the others listen to him/her and write them down. Then check the answers.2. Ask some questions to review Section B, talk about the population problem, and then lead to 1a.Step 2 Presentation1. Let students discuss the questions in 1a. Show same pictures of the problem caused by China’s large population, such as difficult job-hunting, less living space, less water, heavy traffic,environment pollution,etc. The teacher sums up the problems and lets students master the new word and phrases “difficulty”, “be short of” and “so far”. Know about “measure” and “take measures to do sth.”2. Listen to 1a and finish 1b, and then check the answers.3. Let students read 1a and find out the key sentences. Lead students to sum up. Then write them down on th Bb and explain.Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students listen to 1a again write the key words. For example: “the world’s population”, “the largest population”, “one fifth”, “many difficulties”, “policy”, “work well”,…2. using these key words, the teacher leads students to review 1a by asking them questions. Use “one fifth”to lead to “20 percent”, and let students learn and master the new word “percent”. Finish 1a.Step 4 Practice1. Listen to 2a and finish it alone, then check the anwsers. Learn and know about “newborn”.2. Read 2a, finish 2b alone and check the answers.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handriting：Section DI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Review and consolidate the usage of the present perfect tense.2. Know about the life in cities and the life in the countryside in China and Canada.3. Talk about different types of families and know about the advantages and disadvantages of them.II. Important points:1. unless, couple, a couple of, market, excellent, keep up with, relation, belong to2. the present perfect tenseIII. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Check the homework.2. Practice betweenthe teacher and students to review Section C.3. Ask students “Do you like living in a place with a large population or a small one?” and lead to 1a.Step 2 Presentation1. Let students talk about their living conditions freely and discuss the teacher’squestion. Then introduce a student’s living conditions in a town. And let students learn and master the new words and phrase “couple”, “a couple of”, “market”, “excellent”and “relation”. Know about “transportation”.2. Let students read 1a. Learn and master the new word and phrase “unless”and “keep up with”. Then lead students to find out the useful expressions. The teacher explains these exprssions and asks students to master them.3. Let students listen to 1a, write down the key words and phrases as they are listening, and try to retell 1a according to these key words and phrases.Step 3 Consolidation1. Work in pairs. Read 1a and discuss “What are the differences between Sue’s living place and Liming’s?”. Then fill out the table and check the answers. Finish 1a.2. Lead students to finish 1b according to the key words and the table above. Then check the answers.Step 4 Practice1. Discuss the question “Has Canada developed more quickly than China?”, using the present perfect tense.2. Lead students to sum up the present perfect tense(II). Then let them listen to2a and read after the tape. Consildte the usage of the present perfect tense. Finish 2a.3. Lead students to sum up the important phrases and sentences in Topic 2. Then let students listen to 2b and read after the tape. Consolidate the usages of these phrases and sentences. Finish 2b.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting:Topic 3 The world has changed for the better.Section AI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Learn the sentences of the present tense with “for” and “since”.2. Learn the word formation of derivatives.3. Learn to care about and describe social development and changes.II. Important points:1. some new words and a phrase2. the present perfect tense with “for” or “since”III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Competition.(1) Divide students into several groups. Let students give the participle quickly after the teacher says a verb. Then choose the best group and give praise.(2) Show the shining words with a small Bb. Ask students to add some letters to the words make up new words after the examples. Lead to the formation of derivatives: root+suffix, prefix+root.2. Lead students to sum up the rules that govern the formation of derevatives. With the help of these rules, learn and master the new words “discover”, “direct”, “possible”, “fair”, “invention” and “excite”. Finish3.Step 2 Presentation1. Show some pictures of New York. Then ask and answer between the teacherand students. Learn and master the phrase “as a matter of fact”.2. Listen to 1a, and answer the shining questions:(1) Does Bob like living in New York?(2) Were the streets in New York dirty in the past?(3) Can Bob go to plays, concerts and operas every day in New York?3. Let students read 1a, then find out and master the useful expressions in 1a. The teacher explains them. For example:You’ve been in New York for a long time.Oh, you will get used to it very soon if you come.They used to be, but the city has …Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students listen to 1a again and read it with the tape together. Then act it out. Finish 1a.2. Let students write a short passage about New York to compare the differences between the past and present in the streets. Traffic, restaurants and linving place according to 1a. Then finish 1b.Step 4 Practice1. Let students find out the sentences with the present perfect tense in 1a.2. Listen to 2a and choose the right answers. Understand “flood”. Finish 2.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting:Section BI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Go on learning the present perfect tense with “since” and “for” and the differences between the present perfect tense and the simple past tense.2. Learn the word formation of compounds.3. Learn to take care of others and make the world full of love.II. Important points:1. some new words and a phrase2. the present perfect tense with “for” or “since”III. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Review 1a in Section A. Let students find out the sentences with the present perfect tense. Rewrite the sentences, using “since” or “for”.2. Draw a time axis and learn to change the transient verbs in the simple past tense into the continuity verbs in the present perfect tense. Go on learning the usage of “since” and “for”. Finish 2a.3. Let students fill in the blanks with “since”and “for”after the above examples. Then lead students to sum up the rules of changing the transient verbs into the contiuiety verbs.(1) Kate bought a new bike two days ago.Kate has had a new bike two days/ two days ago.(2) Ann borrowed a book a week ago.Ann has kept a book a week ago/ a week.(3) My uncle joined the Party last year.My uncle has been in the Party last year.My uncle has been a member of the Party one year.4. Learn 2b. Finish 2b. Learn and master “secretary”, “engineer”, “fisherman”, “dead”, “army” and “wound”.Step 2 Presentation1. Show a picture of homeless people. Ask and answer the teacher and students. Learn and master the new words and the phrase “medical”, “treatment”, “provide” and “in need”.2. Listen to 1a. Answer the shining questions:(1) What is the article about?(2) How does the program help homeless people?3. Let students read 1a and find out the important sentences. Then the teacher writes them down on the Bb and explains these sentences. Finish 1a.Step 3 ConsolidationLet students read 1a again. Finish 1b and check the answers. Master “conversation”.Step 4 Practice1. Let students discuss what policies our government has carried out to help homeless people. Help students cultivate the spirit of caring about and helping others.2. Learn the word formationof compounds. Addthe “tails”after the words. Students give another word quickly after the teacher says a word, and combine these two words to form a new one. Then the teacher writes it down on the Bb.3. Lead students to sum up the word formation of compounds. Finish 3. Learn and master “granddaughter”, “grandchild”, “ache”, “fire”, “stairs”, “downstairs” and “board”.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Handwriting：Section CI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Talk about community services and acquaint students with them.2. Talk about hot spots of society. Enhance students’ sympathy and sense of social responsibility.II. Important points:skill, drug, steal, purpose, mentionIII. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Show some prefixes, suffixes, roots and several words with a amall Bb. Let students match them in order to review the word formation of derivatives and compounds.2. Show some pictures of homeless people and introduce their miserable lives in order to enhance the students’ sympathy. Ask questions in order to lead to 1a.Step 2 Presentation1. Show a picture of people learning cooking skills. Ask and answer between the teacher and students. Learn and master the new words “skill”, “drug” and “steal”. Understand “disobey”.2. Listen to 1a and answer the shining questions. Check the answers.(1) Edmonton Community Services is a famous organization. What is it famous for?(2) What is the name of the special program in the organization?(3) What does Zack think of the program?Step 3 Consolidation1. Let students read 1a. Lead them to find out the important phrases and sentences. Write them down on the Bb and explain these phrases and sentences.2. Let students read 1a again. Then the teacher leads them to retell it in the form of dialog. Finish 1a.3. Let students finish 1b according to 1a. Check the answers. Learn and master the new words “purpose” and “mention”.Step 4 Practice1. Ask and answer between the teacher and students. Lead to2. Learn and master the new word “war”.2. Show the pictures in 2a. Let students discuss the lives of homeless people suffering from poverty, natural disasters and cruel wars. Then write a passage to express their best wishes. Finish 2.Step 5 Project/work after class1. Free work.2. Do some exersice in TOPENGLISH.Section DI.Teaching aims and demands:1. Review the present perfect tense.2. Review word formation.3. Learn about Project Hope. Inspire students to be sympathetic.II. Important points:1. social, abroad, at home and abroad, pay for, aim (to)2. about Project HopeIII. Teaching procedure:Step 1 Review1. Play the song Devotion of Love in order to create a loving atmosphere and inspire students to be sympathetic.2. Ask and answer between the teacher and students. Lead to “Project Hope”.Step 2 Presentation1. Ask students: (1) What do you know about Project Hope?(2) Have you ever received help from Project Hope? (3) What can we do for it? Let students discuss these questions. Then lead to 1a.2. Show a picture of a Project Hopeschool. Introduce Project Hope to students. Let them know about it better. Master “social”. Understand “aim”.3. Listen to 1a and answer the shining questions:(1) When did Project Hope start?(2) How many poor students have got education with the help of Project Hope?4. Let students read 1a. Lead them to find out the important phrases and sentences. Write them down on the Bb and explain these phrases and sentences.。
