Chapter five Green Orchids
Period One
Teaching Plan
Title:
Senior Book 4,
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge Objective
1. to familiarize the students with some words in the text.
2. to encourage the students to retell the text
Process and Method Objective:
Learn some key language points through certain assigned tasks in which the students’ overall
ability can be improved, that is , reading, listening, speaking, writing,. They are also required to
apply what they have learned into practice.
Emotion , Attitude and Value Objective:
Cultivate the students’ interests in learning English.
Cultivate the students’ ability to cooperate with each other.
Teaching Aids: computer, radio
Teaching Approaches:
1. individual and pair work
2. group discussion
3. cooperative approach
Teaching Procedure:
Pre-task:
Skimming
Look at the pictures only and answer the questions
1. What is the fat man’s job?
2. What is the job of the man on television?
3. How could you describe the fat man’s character?
While-task:
Read the title and glance at the passage
1 What are orchids?
2. what is made from the green orchids.
Para 1-2
Para 1 the moral of the story.
Para 2 two people waited for Saleem.
1 A series of car accidents a series of articles
2 Foreseeforesaw foreseen
He couldn’t foresee my future.
He couldn’t foresee that his trip would be delayed by bad weather.
I foresee that you will have many problems if you marry this man.
3 Consequence result
One consequence of the accident was that the driver lost his life.
The rain was heavy. Consequently the road was flooded.
As a consequence
The rain was heavy and as a consequence the road was flooded.
As a consequence of being in hospital, Shelly decided that she wanted to become a nurse.
Para 3-4 he decides to speak to the engineer by satellite.
4 Growl
vi. Growl at sb. vt. Growl an answer
5 be obsessed with/by
She is always obsessed with TV programmes.
6 Switch on/off
Para 5-7 The engineer is waiting to blow up a river, thus flooding the Pakan Valley (for industrial
purpose)
7 Flash
Vt. He flashed the light in my eyes. 他用灯光迎面照我。
vi. Lightning flashed in the sky. 空中出现闪电。
8 Flash into (想法等)闪现
A good idea flashed into her mind.
His eyes flashed with anger. 他的眼睛露出愤怒之火。
9 Apart
The two schools are two hundred meters apart.
She stood far apart from me. 她远离我站着。
Break…apart 将东西拆开 tear…apart 将…撕开
Apart from
Apart from a few faults, he is a trustworthy friend.
Apart from the cost, the dress doesn’t suit me.
Apart from being heavy, the box is very dirty.
10 Cut down
1) the apple tree was dead and he cut it down. 砍倒,砍伐
2) the car industry cut down production. 缩减, 减少…的量
We can’t cut down our expenses any more.
11 Mental
mental illness 精神病 mental patient
It's very difficult to understand the mentality of people who say such things.
很难理解讲这种话的人的心理状态。 Mentality 心理状态
12 Review
1) 回顾
The old man reviewed his life.
2) 复习,温习
Let’s review Chapter 5.
3) 评论
The New York Times reviewed his new play.
13 care for
喜欢
I don't care for tea. 我不喜欢喝茶。
照顾;照料;抚养
He's good at caring for sick animals. 他精心照料生病的牲畜。
Uncle Dick is very good at caring for sick animals. 狄克大叔照管生病的动物,很在行。
at a distance / in the distance distant
There were some fruit trees at a distance from his home.
The sound of the waterfall may be heard at a distance of two miles.
I could see the mountains in the distance.
Exercises:
Part OneThree Fill in the blanks
need, available, switch to, release, threat, rush, label, practical
1. The __________ of war has depressed business activity.
2. I __________ the suitcase for Shanghai.
3. Attention, please. These tickets are __________ on (the) day of issue only.
4. The driver was __________ to hospital after the car accident.
5. I used to cook on electricity, but I've __________ gas.
6. You should find a more __________ method of getting better grades.
7. I __________ the horse and it ran away.