Unit2 Welcome to the unit
Teaching Aims
1.Make students participate in a discussion.
2.By talking and discussing, students’ spoken English can be practised.
Teaching Important Points
Improve the Ss’ reading ability by scanning the two texts in workbooks.
Teaching Difficult Points
1.How to get the Ss to express their own opinions by talking and discussing.
2.Encourage students to speak freely.
Teaching Procedures
Step1 Greeting
Step2 Brain storming
Ask Ss to answer the following question:
Do you know what kind of medicines or treatments we need when we catch a cold?
Step3 Picture talk
P1:
What does a chemist do?
A chemist’s job usually involves preparing and selling medicines.
P2:
1.Do you know the origin of acupuncture?
Acupuncture has its origin in China beginning before 1000 BC.
2.What can acupuncture do?
Acupuncture can (relieve body pains, help lose weight, help quit smoking)
P3:
What are they doing? The doctors are performing an operation. During the process of an
operation, the surgeons cut open a part of a person’s body and remove or repair a damaged part.
P4:
1.Do you have good eyesight?
2.How can you protect your eyes?
Step4 Discussion
1.Have you ever seen a doctor? If so, what happened?
2.Would you like to do any of the jobs shown in the picture? Why or why not?
Step5 Reading (workbook)
Ask Ss some questions
1.Have you ever heard of a kind of terminal diseases called smallpox? What do you know
about it? Is it deadly now? Why or why not?
2.Can you name some other deadly diseases?
Then ask the Ss to read passage A to answer the questions.
1.Do you like drinking milk?
2.How often do you drink milk?
3.What kind of milk do you like?
4.Do you know how to let milk stay fresh?
Make the Ss go through passage B to answer the question.
Ask the Ss to find out some language points in each paragraph.
1.be deadly to
2.in the late 1700s
3.bring...under control
4.try an experiment on sb.
5.become ill
6.fight disease
Step6 Homework
1.Read the two passages once more.
2.Preview the reading passage.
Thoughts on Design
本节课以说、读为主,是一节导入课。导入课教学应当遵循循序渐进的原则,按照学生温
故知新—探索新知识—使用新知识—巩固新知识的客观规律进行设计,从简至难,话题逐渐引
入本单元话题。引入正文之前给予学生一定的词汇支撑,让学生有词汇可用,有内容表达,引
入话题之后,通过活动设置帮助学生围绕话题进行充分讨论。话题要逐渐升华,通过问题设置、
作业布置引导学生进行深层次的思考。
Teaching Aims
Learn more words about doctors.
Teaching Important Points
Have general idea of the history of acupuncture.
Teaching Difficult Points
Practise their spoken English.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1.How can we keep fit?
2.What will people do when they fell ill?
3.Guessing game: What are the doctors?
Step 2 Pictures talking
In what way do doctors give patients treatment?
Step 3 Discussion
1.Do you know any person related to invention or discovery of medicine?
2.Can you imagine a day without any medicine in this world?
Step 4 Homework
Search for more information about the history of medicine.