Unit 1 Dream home
Main task
Teaching Aims:
1.Write an article about your dream home.
2.Enhance students’ ability of expressing English and spoken English.
3.Enrich students’ imagination and raise their interests in English.
Difficulties and main points:
1.How to write a good conposition according to key words.
2.Describe your dream home.
3.Use the information in part A to help students write an article about
their dream home.
Teaching methods:
report , dialogue , writing , drawing and interview
Teaching steps:
Step I Everyday report and questions.
1. What day is it today? What’s the date today? What’s the weather
like today?
2. Whose turn is it to give us an everyday report? Ask a student to give
an everyday report and ask a question about the report.
Step II Revision and introduction
1. Now most of us live in a flat,just like Anna’s home in Moscow.Can you
say something about Anna’s home.
2. A flat is very small for us.So Stephen’s large house must be cool.Do
you think so? Please say sth. about Stephen’s home.
3. A big house is cool and comfortable.But a small wooden house in a small
town sometimes is very beautiful and quiet,just like Madee’s home.
Please say sth. about Madee’s home.
4. Show some pictures. We know sth. about some homes in foreign
countries.Now let’s look at homes in China. Are these rooms beautiful?
Please tell me their names.
5. Please talk about these picture.
What’s in the ...?
What do we often do in it?
Step III A survey
We know much about homes around the world.Now talk in pairs about your
home and then make a dialogue. Finally act it out in front of the class.The
question below will help you.
1.What kind of home do you live in,a flat,a house or a villa?
2.How many floors are there in your house/building?
3. How many rooms do you have in your home?
4.What are they?
5.Do you have a garden?
6.How many people live in your home?
7.Which is your faourite room? Why?
8.Which rooms do you dislike? Why?
Step IV Text “your dream home”
We all have likes and dislikes about our homes now. So I think everyone
has a dream home in the mind, so does Simon. Do you want to know about
Simon’s dream home?
1)Listen to Simon’s dream home. Answer T or F questions.
1.Simon’s dream home is very big.
2.His bedroom and bathroom are on the ground floor.
3.His computer room is on the second floor.
4. Simon has a garden.
5.There is a swimming pool. It is forty metres long.
6.There is a basketball court in his dream home.
2)Read after the tape.
3)Ask and answer some questions in pairs.
1.How many rooms are there in Simon’s dream home?
There are at least 25 rooms.
2. How many floors does Simon’s dream house have?
It has three floors.
3.What does he have in his dream bedroom? Why?
He has a big bed. Because many friends can staywith him at the same time.
4.How many showers and baths are there in a room?
There are 12 showers and 4 baths in a room.
5.Why does Simon want to have so many showers and baths?
Because he would like all his friends to have a shower or a bath at the same time.
4)Retell Simon’s dream home.
Step V Practise
I think you also want to have a dream home.Write an article about your dream home. Use Simon’s
article to help you.If time permits, please draw a picture of your dream home.
Step VI An interview
Do you wantto know more about other people’s dream home? You can be a
news reporter and you can interview your classmates or teachers about
their dream home.The question below will help you.
1.What kind is your dream home?
2.How many floors are there?
3.How many rooms do you want to have in your dream home?
What are the rooms?
4.Do you want to have a garden?
5.How many people will live in your dream home?
6.What else do you want to have in your dream home?
7.What do you want to do in it?
Step Ⅶ Homework
Make a poster about “one’s dream home.”
(You can interview your classmates, teachers or your family. Or you can look for a photo of home
on the Internet to help you, )
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