Book 7 Module 1 unit 1 The Great Wall

 

Teaching materials：

Book 7 Module 1 Unit 1  The Great Wall

Teaching aims:

1. Be able to master words: more, postcard(s), thousand, kilometer(s), million.

2. Be able to understand and use:

Tell me more about…         It’s a picture of…

How long/big is it?             It’s about …          It’s got …

3. Be able to understand conversations and describe different places and things.

4. Be able to love their hometown and our country.

5. Be able to cooperate with each other.

Key points: To learn to describe things and different places.

Difficult points: How to describe by using numbers.

Teaching aids ：The multi-Media , word cards ,  key sentence structures cards, postcards.

Teaching steps：

Step 1: Warming up and lead-in.

1、Warming up:

T: This is the first time I come to Xiamen, Xiamen is really beautiful, people are very good, so I want to make lots of friends here, do you want to be my friend?   OK ,   I am Sara. Please say Hello to me.

 (Teacher encourages students by using body language)

2、Lead-in:

T: Do you want to be my friends? please introduce yourself first!

   S: (Encourage students try to say) My name’s…   I’m…

   T: (ask another) What’s your hobby?....

T: Do you want to know more about me?

My hobby is collecting postcards. Look, here is my postcards book, they are very beautiful. (Show the word ‘postcard’ and ‘postcards’.)

Step 2: Look and say.

1、Presentation :

①Showing

T: Look at the screen. They are all postcards, this is a picture of panda, look at this one, it’s a picture of …(Introduce the postcards on the screen)

②New words and sentences.

Are they beautiful? Now, let’s play a guessing game.

T: (Take one postcard) please guess what it is about?

It’s a kind of animal, it’s fat and lovely. It has got a … what is it(describe the panda)

S:( Guess) It’s a…

T: Yes, It’s a picture of a panda (Lead to say ‘It’s a picture of…’.)

Tell me more about the panda, ok? (Show the word ‘more’, and sentence ‘Tell me more…’ . )

S: (Lead the student to say some more about panda, and then give the postcard to him.) It is for you!

T: (Take another postcard of the Changjiang River ) It is a river in China, it is very long…(Describe the Changjiang River)

   S: It’s a picture of …( Lead to answer with ‘It’s a picture of …)

T: Tell me more about The Changjiang River.  How long is it? .( Show the sentence ‘How long is it?’)

Look at the screen, I have some answers here, which one is right?

Show the word card ‘thousand’ and ‘kilometre’.

Then lead to say and choose one answer. Check the answer.

   T: The last picture, it is a big city in China, it is in the north, it’s very cold in winter… (Describe Harbin)

   S: It’s a picture of…

   T: Tell me more about Harbin. How big is it?  (Show the sentence ‘How big is it?’)

Show the word card ‘million’. Then lead to say and choose one answer.

Check the answer.

2. Dialogue

(Show a picture of Daming and ask:“ Who ‘s that little boy?”)

T: Daming is visiting America, he is talking something with his cousin, Simon. What are they talking about? Do you want to know? Let’s look the questions on the screen and listen to the dialogue, then answer them.

Are the postcards beautiful?       Is the Great Wall Short?

 How long is the Great Wall?       How big is Beijing?

 How big is New York?

Then check the answer.

Step 3: Pair-work.

1、Orders:

T: Tomorrow I will be free, I want to travel in Xia Men, where should I go? Can you help me? Do you want to be my guider and tell me more about Xiamen? Here are some beautiful postcards, please choose one and describe it, I want to know where the most beautiful it is. OK?

2、Work in pairs:

   Ss choose the postcards and describe in small groups.

   Then write something more about the postcard on the Showing card, then say it out.

3、Share the results:

(Ask some students in each group to be a guider, and introduce their postcards.)

T: I think … is the most beautiful place, I want to go, and I can’t wait, let’s go now, ok? Say goodbye to other teachers.

Step 4:Homework

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Blackboard writing:

                         The Great Wall

It’s a picture of …                                 postcard

Tell me more …                                   more

How long is it?   It’s about … thousand    kilometres

How big is it?    It’s got… million people.