Unit 4 Change I.Teaching Aims In this unit, students will be able to: 1.Listen for the main idea and the key information of every paage; 2.Arouse Ss’ interests for the topic of this unit and participate actively; 3.Grasp the language points and grammatical structures ; 4.Learn to talk about “I need a change”.II.Teaching important points
1.Leon A Speaking, Communication 2.Topic understanding and content understanding of each paage 3.Improving the students\' listening and speaking ability
III.Teaching difficult points 1.Leon B Video Course 2.Speaking with logical thinking 3.Vocabulary about the topic
IV.Teaching Methods 1.Task-based teaching in while-listening procedure 2.Listening and practicing 3.Speaking and communication 4.Media instruction 5.Communicative Methods: answering, discuion, presentation, team work...V.Teaching hours
10 cla periods
VI.Teaching Procedures
1.Lead-in / Warming up What’s your dream? Have you ever thought about doing something for these children to help them realize
1 their dreams?
Could you say something about Kofi Annan Ghana , the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations?
2.Leon A : Vocabulary Link
1.Direct Ss’ attention to the pictures.Present the vocabulary.Have them read the sentences and number the pictures.Check answers.
2.Have Ss work in pairs.If there is one student left, ask him or her to join a pair to make a group.Tell Ss they will interview one another, asking and answering the questions: What changes do you want to do...? Present the listed situations and people.Answer any questions about vocabulary.Ask Ss to fill in the blanks before practicing the model conversation.Have Ss create more conversations.Invite one or two pairs to give a demonstration to the cla.
3.Leon A : Listening
1.Familiarize students with the new words in activity one.Have them read the new words aloud.Present the situation.Tell Ss they are going to hear sth about “New Year’s resolutions”.Have Ss read the statements in the box.Ask Ss to listen and check the confirmed statements.Play the recording .Check answers.
2.Present the situation.Tell Ss they will hear a conversation between Mike and
2 Paula.Ask Ss to listen and number the objects in the order they hear them.Play the recording .Check answers.
Tell Ss to listen again and complete the sentences.They must either circle the correct answers or fill in the blanks.Play the recording.Check answers.
3.Present the situation.Tell Ss they will hear a interview about Yeliz’s story.Have them read the questions so they know what information to listen for.Ask Ss to listen and write short answers to the questions.Play the recording.Check answers.
Have SS read the short summary.Tell them to listen to the talk again and fill in the blanks with the words they hear.Play the recording.Check answers.
4.Introduce the situation.Explain that Ss will listen to a talk about finding your dream.Tell Ss to read the steps as listed in the table.Have them listen to the talk carefully and write their answer.Play the recording.Check answers.
Have Ss listen to the talk again.Play the recording.Check answers.
5.Present the situation.Tell Ss they will hear a talk about their dreams.Ask Ss to read the questions so they know what to listen for.Have them listen carefully and write short answers to the questions.Play the recording.Students write down their answers, then the teacher checks the answers.
Have Ss listen to the paage again and complete the sentences by filling in the blanks.Play the recording.Check answers.The talk again and fill in the blanks with
3 the words they hear.Play the recording.Check answers.
4.Leon A : Pronunciation
1.Remind students when they should reduce want to.Play the recording.Have Ss work in pairs to practice the conversations.
2.Have Ss listen and read the sentences.Play the recording.Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the sentences.Check their pronunciation..
5.Leon A : Speaking and communication
Activity One
1.Introduce the situation .Explain that When making requests, could is a little more polite than can.If your response to a request is negative, you usually give a reason.Ask Ss to listen and fill in the blanks with the words they hear.Play the recording.Check answers.Elicit or explain that Conversation 1 is informal and
4 Conversation 2 is formal.
2.Put Ss in groups of three.Present the conversations again.Ask Ss to listen and read along in their groups.Play the recording again.Ask Ss to practice the conversations in groups.Remind Ss to keep eye contact with their group members while speaking.
3.Ask Ss to work in groups of three.Ask Ss to read the model conversation.Answer any questions about vocabulary.If neceary, play the recording.Elicit or explain to Ss who the famous celebrities are. 4.Have Ss work in groups of three.Each student should role-play a famous person.Have Ss work in their groups to create and practice a new conversation where they introduce each other.When all groups
Activity Two
1.Have Ss work individually to write three sentences about themselves, and another three sentences about themselves.
2.Collect and redistribute the papers.
3.Model the activity for Ss.
Have Ss stand up with their papers and walk around asking and answering
5 questions.
6.Leon B: Video Course Plans and Dreams
Global Viewpoints Making change
1.Say the list of vocabulary items aloud as Ss repeat for pronunciation practice.If neceary, explain the meaning of the words.Have Ss complete the sentences using the correct words from the New words.Check answers.
2.Explain to Ss that they are going to watch several people talking about plans and dreams.Before viewing, have Ss read the statements so they know what to watch and listen for.Ask Ss to watch and circle True if the statement is completely correct.If it is False, they must listen for information to correct for it.Play the video.Check answers.3.Tell Ss they will watch the interviews.Ask Ss to fill in the miing words as they watch the video.Play the video.Check answers.Goals, plans and dreams 1.Read the underlined words aloud for pronunciation practice.Ask Ss to complete the sentences using the underlined words.Check answers.
Present the situation.Tell Ss they will watch people talking about goals, plans and dreams.Ask Ss to read the text so they know what to watch and listen for.Explain to Ss that they are to fill in the miing words as they watch the video.Play the video.
6 Check answers.
7.Leon B: City Living Mike needs a change 1.Have students look at the pictures and read the story line aloud.Check Ss comprehension.You may have Ss predict what they think happens in the video. 2.Have Ss use the information from the pictures and captions to complete the sentences.Checks answers.8.Leon B: City Living Mike needs a change “While You Watch”
1.Before viewing, have Ss read the sentences so they know what to watch and listen for.Ask Ss to watch and then match the sentence parts to make true sentences.Play the video.Check answers.2.Give Ss time to study the pictures and sentences.Tell Ss: While you watch, write the number of the picture next to the correct sentence.When the video is finished, you will have time to label the pictures.Play the video and allow time for Ss to answer. Check answers.3.Give Ss time to study the pictures and questions.Ask Ss to pay attention to what people say in the video.Play the first episode of the video.Check answers.4.Give Ss time to study the pictures and questions.Ask Ss to pay attention to what people say in the video.Play the second episode of the video and allow time for Ss to
7 fill in the blanks.Check answers.Cla work: Show the script of the second episode of the video on the screen.Explain that some of the words are miing.Play the 2nd episode and ask Ss to act out the lines of the script as a cla.Check answers.
5.Give Ss time to study the pictures and script.Play the third episode of the video and allow time for Ss to fill in the blanks.Check answers.6.Give Ss time to study the question.Play the whole video once again and allow time for Ss to answer.Check answers.
9.Leon B: City Living Mike needs a change “After You Watch”
1.Read the useful expreions dialogues aloud, emphasizing the expreions in blue.Encourage students to think of how the phrases were used in the video before matching the expreions to the definitions.The teacher checks the answers.2.Read the examples given from the video.Have Ss fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.Check answers.
3.Ask Ss to write a short summery of the City Living story.
VII.Aignments 1.Oral practice: I need a change (pair work or group work) 2.Write a short summary of the City Living story 3.Dictation 4.Preview & preparation: Unit Five
