UNIT 9 Do you want to go to a movie?
LESSON 1 – (READING)
1.Language Goals: Talk about movie preferences and make plans.New language: -Do you want to go to a movie? Yes， I do。I want to go to an action movie.
-What kind of movies do you like? I like comedies and documentaries but I don’t like thrillers.-kinds of movies: thriller, war, documentary, comedy, romance, action movie, mystery, fantasy and adventure -descriptions: scary, boring, great, fun, exciting, sad, funny, awesome, fantastic, wonderful 2.Teaching Aids:
Movie posters
Balloon (for grammar focus) 3.Vocabulary Words: film, war movies, action movies, romances or love stories, thrillers, comedies, documentaries, mysteries, fantasies and adventures, exciting, sad, scary, funny, great, fun 4.Teaching Steps:
1.Teacher talks about the movie he/she has seen lately.Make neceary gestures to get the attention of the students (like story telling).2.Ask the students about the movies they have seen recently.Let them write the answers on the board.
3.Write the vocabulary words on the board.Explain clearly the meaning of each word with the use of teaching aid (posters).You may use appropriate gestures to make the explanation simple.Examples: Film – is another English word for movie.
Comedies – are a kind of movies made to make people laugh and feel happy.
Documentaries – are often educational and usually talk about famous historical events and study of a famous people.
Action movies – are simple stories of good people against bad people, where most problems are resolved using physical force.Usually action movies have fighting scenes.
Thrillers – are scary movies with lots of surprises and usually they make people jump. 4.Teacher reads every word with correct pronunciation while students listen.5.Say every word and ask students to repeat after you.6.Group the cla into 5 and ask each group to read the vocabulary words correctly.7.Point to the example (1a): Say number1is (a), action movie.Ask them to match the kinds of movies with the posters.Check the answers afterwards.教学一得：次项活动，帮助学生学习语言和运用语言，提高了学生的学习兴趣，提高了他们的参与意识。 LESSON 2 (LISTENING AND SPEAKING) 1.Sing a song (to the tune of LONDON BRIDGE).
I’m the first one don’t change me, don’t change me, don’t change me, I’m the first one don’t change me-oh no just let me be.2.Pair work: Ask students practice the given conversation (guided by the teacher).Take time to practice the dialog for mastery.Ex.Do you want to go to a movie / Do you want to see a movie? Yes, I do.I want to see a thriller movie.3. Listening: Ask students to do activities 2a and 2b.Tell them to listen carefully.4. Introduce GRAMMAR FOCUS.Give the rules and explain further by giving more examples.Note: A teacher could give additional examples out of the given content such as city – cities… A.Singular Noun
Plural Noun
thriller
thrillers
documentary
documentaries
comedy
comedies action movie
action movies -Read the singular and plural forms of nouns to the students and ask them to repeat.Point out the change from y to ies when the word documentary becomes plural. B.Explain contractions.Blow up a balloon- ask what happened? (It expanded.) Let the air out-ask what happened? (It contracted which means to get smaller.) Ex.do not –
don’t -Point out that present tense questions with want are answered with a form of the verb doI don’t like documentaries because they’re boring.3.Invite pairs of students to say the conversation or dialogue for the rest of the cla.4.Ask students to share their friend’s movie preferences (likes and dislikes), what the person thinks about movies.For example: I have a friend.Her name is Ann.She likes comedies very much but she doesn’t like documentaries because they’re boring.
5.Encourage every student to speak English and correct every mistake for further understanding.教学一得：新目标英语Go for it 的教材选材非常贴近学生的生活实际。每学完一个单元学生就能用英语进行简单的交流。充分体现了学以致用的教学原则。
