Unit 3 Let’s Eat! I.Teaching Objectives 1.Keep in mind adjectives describing foods.(Listening & Speaking) 2.Get the general idea and specific information of 5 activities.(Listening) 3.Practice expreions for offering and suggesting.(Speaking) II.Teaching Focuses and Difficult Points
Leon A Foods We Like 1.Teaching Focuses:
1) Vocabulary link to describing foods.2) Foods-related activities.
3) Expreions for offering and suggesting.4) Pronunciation: sentence stre and rhythm.2.Difficult Points:
Task 1: Foods of the southern United States Task 2: The slow food movements Task 3: Who eats What?
Task 4: Hot, hotter, hottest! Surprising facts about chili peppers Task 5: The healthiest people in the world
Leon B Eating out
1.Teaching Focuses:
1) Useful words and expreions for Global Viewpoint: Favorite foods & International Foods
2) Interviews about foods 3) Video: The spicier the better
2.Difficult Points:
1) Everyday English expreions, such as “man”, “born and raised”, etc. 2) Retelling the story.3) Specific information in the video and the summary.III.Teaching Approaches: topic-oriented, task-inducing, students’ participation IV.Time Allotments Leon A: 2 periods Leon B: 2 periods V.Teaching Procedures:
Periods 1-2 Leon A Foods We Like I.Warm-up Activities (10 minutes) 1.Introduce the topic: food culture.2.Present the vocabulary.Have students fill in the space with the adj.from the box.3.Check answers.II.Listening Activities ( 40 minutes) Activity 1: Foods of the southern United States 1.Pre-listening: Familiarize students with the new words.2.While-listening: First listening to match the picture; Second listening to get the very adjectives for foods.
Activity 2: The slow food movements
Pre-listening: Have students read the useful expreions.1.While-listening: Listen twice to finish the exercises.2.After-listening: Guide students to talk about the topic. Activity 3: Who eats What? 1.Pre-listening: Have students to describe their favorite foods.2.While-listening: Have students to answer the questions.Activity 4: Hot, hotter, hottest! Surprising facts about chili peppers 1.Pre-listening: Have students read the new words.2.While-listening: Listen twice to finish the exercises.First listening to fill in the blanks in the table; second listening to answer the questions. 3.After-listening: check answers.Activity 5: The healthiest people in the world 1.Pre-listening: Have students read the new words.2.While-listening: Listen three times to finish the exercises.First listening to answer the questions; second listening to fill in the blanks; third listening to complete the summary.3.After-listening: check answers.III.Consolidation (15 minutes) 1.Have the students think about the other expreions for describing foods.2.Ask students to talk about their favorite foods in their hometowns.IV.Summary (10minutes) V.Aignments (5 minutes) 1.Review and finish all the remaining listening tasks in this unit.2.Preview Leon B of Unit 3.
Periods 3-4 Leon B Eating out
I.Warm-up Activities (5 minutes) Ask students to talk to each other about their favorite foods.II.Global Viewpoints Favorite Foods (10 minutes) 1.Before You Watch (2 minutes) Task 1: Have students go over different adjectives for describing foods.2.While You Watch (8 minutes) Task 1: Watch the interviews and circle true or false.Task 2: Watch the interviews and interpret what the speakers say into Chinese.Ⅲ Global Viewpoints International Foods (40 minutes) 3.Before You Watch (2 minutes) Task 1: Have students get the definition of different types of international foods and circle the right word.4.While You Watch (8 minutes) Task 1: Watch the interviews and fill in the blanks.ⅣCity Living The Spicer the better (10 minutes) Task 1: Ask students to look at the pictures to predict what they think happen in the video.Task 2: Watch the video for the first time to get Who says it.Task 3: Watch the video for the second time to get What do they say.Task 4: Watch the first episode of the video and fill in the blanks.Task 5: Watch the second episode of the video and act out the episode as a cla.Task 6: Watch the third episode of the video and fill in the blanks with the words you hear.III.Consolidation (12 minutes) 1.Study the expreions from the video and ask students to talk about food culture.2.Deal with the short summary of The Spicier the better.IV.Aignment (3 minutes) 1.Review all the contents in this unit.2.Preview Unit 4 Today’s Trends.
