Unit 6 The truth can be stranger than fiction
Teaching objectives: 1.To learn and remember the common English expreions of famous world wonders; 2.To introduce some listening skills of CET4 and finish some exercises related to the unit topic;
3.To master the relevant sentences of study and establish relationship in oral communication .Teaching contents: 1.Warm-up activity 2.Part I lead-in 3.Listening Practice, including Part II Basic listening practice, Part III Listening in-Task 1 and 3, and Part VI Further listening and speaking-Task 2.4.Summarize useful words and expreions.5.Group discuion and presentation: describe world wonders and their features.6.Introduction and strategies of CET4 listening comprehension.Teaching focus: Important points: 1.Remember words and expreions related to famous world wonders, like mascot, monitor, crucify, unrest, ambiguity, launch, talisman, resemble, abduct, get one’s fingers croed, pull off, count someone in, lucky charm, go nuts.2.Master listening strategies for CET4 by practicing listening materials from text book and CET4 samples.Difficult points: 1.How to describe the features of the world wonders and memorize some key words.2.How to master listening skills for CET4.Teaching methods: Task-based and Communicative teaching methods.Teaching aids: Multimedia Teaching periods: 3 periods
Teaching procedures: Period 1: 1.Warm-up Activity: review unit 5 and check how much Ss have done for this unit. 2.Part I Lead in: this part is about some strange truth and mystery.3.Mysteries in the picture.Teacher will ask Ss to discu them and then talk about them.4.Listening practice: 1) Practice listening skills by Part II Basic listening practice and Part III Listening in-Task 1 which are about magic tricks.Ss need to preview options and are taking key words down for short conversations while listening.2) This part will go to Period 2.
1 Period 2 1.Continue to practice listening skills: 2) Part III Listening in-Task and Part VI Further listening and speaking-Task 2 which are about views on Superstitions or real bad luck.Besides preview and key words, Ss also need to judge the speakers meanings by theirs tones.2.Teacher will summarize some useful words and expreions in the selected listening materials.
3.Teacher will ask Ss to discu what they have listened in groups and choose one or two candidates to expre their ideas group by group.Questions which will be offered by teacher: 1) How many mysteries do you know? Do you believe in them? 2) Is there anybody around you who is superstitious? What’s your opinion about superstition? 3) What would you do when you found something that cannot be explained by truth and science? Period 3 1.Teacher will introduce new strategies of listening comprehension of CET4, especially news listening and lecture listening.2.Listening practice:
1) Take a whole test of the CET4 listening with new forms.2) Group work: surf the internet to find some frequent-use words of news listening and share in the cla.
