冀教版英语必修3 Unit4 Attitudes towards Our Elders (听说)

Unit2 Section 2

Listening vocabulary and speaking

THE GENERAL IDEA OF THIS SECTION

This section about the listening of two topics:how to pass down culture ;the

conversation about the Qingming festival.This will help us to know more culture

heitages and let Ss know how culture passes down from one generation to

generation.

TEACHING AIMS

Train Ss listening ability

Learn some useful words and important expressions

Encourage Ss tto use more words we have learned to describe attitutues towards the

elders.

TEACHING IMPORTANT POINTS

Help Ss to understand heritages and customs better.

Learn and master some important words and phrases and oral English in this section.

Improved the Ss listening ability.

TEACHING DIFFICULT POINTS

How to help Ss improve their listening ability and understand the listening passage

better.

How to help them get and understand the spirit of traditional customs

TEACHING METHODS

Listen—and—answer activity to help the Ss go through the listening text.

Individual pair work or group work to practise speaking.

Discussion and talking to study listening and speaking

TEACHING AIDS

A tape recorder

A multimedia

A blackboard

TEACHING PROCEDURES

Step l Revision

T last class,we learned section 1 and learned different attitutes towars the elders in

western countries.Have you remembered what is “a nursing home” and “ a seniors’

lodge” meaning?

S1: A nusing home means a hospital espcially for old people;a senior lodge means an

apartment for old people.

T What incident caused Mary to worry about her grandmother?

S2 That her grandmother will be sent to a nursing room.

T What activities did Mary enjoy doing with her grandmother?

S3 Baking buns,taking care of the garden and playing cards

Step 2 Vocabulary

Next,we will do the first part of listening .Before listening,let’s first learn some new

words .

Step 3 Listening

T Then please turn to page 41.Listen to the passage and finish the multiple choices.

SUGGESTED ANSWERS: 1 c 2 a 3 b 4 c.

T Next,let’s go on the second part.It is a conversation about the Qingming

festival.After that,pls answer the questions.

SUGGESTED ANSWERS:

1 Because Jenny wants to invite Li Ming to her dad’s birthday party next Saturday.

2 When Jenny asks Liming about what he does during Qingming,the first thing he

metions is that he visit the graves of his ancestors and cleans them.He sweeps the

graves,removes any weeds that have grown beside the graves,and makes any

necessary st year,he remembers that they repainted his great-grandmother’s

grave,because the writing was starting to fade.

3 The English translation of the word Qingming is “clean and bright”

4 English—speaking people call the Qingming Festival “Grave Sweeping Day”

5 Jenny has only been to a graveyard once in her life.

6 Rememerance Day is a day when to remember the soldiers who died during World

WarI and World War II.

Step 4 Speaking skills

T Well done,after class listen to the tape more and more and you will improve your

listening ability.One of the effective way to improve your English listening ability is

that you’d better learn more useful everyday English.Some of the useful expressions

or important sentences usually appear in the informal daily talking .Now,please look

at the following conversation and manage to say what it means.

Talking on the phone in another language makes many people nervous.In

English,knowing a few common phrases can make this task much easier!Let’s watch

how Li Ming,Jenny and Jenny’s mom do it.

Situation 1:Li Ming wants to talk to Jenny but somoene else answers the phone.

Jenys mother:Hello!

Liming:Hello,may I please speak to Jenny?

Jenny’s mother:Yes,just one moment.

Jenny:Hello?

Liming:Hi Jenny,it’s Liming.

Jenny:Oh hi,Liming,how are you?

T Now ,notice phone conversations compare to conversations in person.How do

Jenny and Liming greet each other over the phone?HOW DO THEY SAY GOOD

BYE?

Situation 2 Liming wants to talk to Jenny,and she answes th phonee.

L hello,is Jenny there?

J Yes,speaking. L Hi Jenny ,it’s Li ming.

J Oh hi, Li ming,how’s it going?

Here are some more phrases for you to try.

MAY I PLEASE SPEAK TO _________?

COULD I SPEAK TO_______________?

Yes,just one moment

Yes,just a minute

Yes,just hang on a second

IS ________THERE?

I’D LIKE TO SPEAK TO________.

__________,PLEASE.

Yes,speaking

Speaking

Yes,this is____________.

TASKS:

1 Ask Ss discuss the meaning of the simple sentences uused in the daily talking

2 Make the similar conversation according to the similar situations .

Step5 Summary and homework

T In this section,we do some listening and some exercisess, Try to improve your

listening ability after class by listening to the tape more and more.Sutdy how to use