Lesson 26

Period: The second period

Content: Lesson 26

Properties: Recorder, pictures

Teaching Objectives: Master some useful expressions. Get the students to know about Edison. Master the Infinitive.

Language Focus:

　　1. Useful expressions

　　2. No matter how…

　　The boy’s father was so thankful that he taught Edison how to send mess ages by telegraph.

Teaching Procedures:

　Ⅰ. Organizing the class

　Ⅱ. Revision

　　1.Check the homework

　　2.Revise the useful expression

　Ⅲ. Presentation

　　Tell the students to look at the picture.

　　And ask them: Do you know who this boy is?

　　Tell the students his full name: Thomas, Alva and Edison.

　　He is a great inventor.

　　Then say: Today we’re going to read a story about this great inventor.

　Ⅳ. Reading

　　1.  Let the students read the story by themselves.

　　2.  Ask the students to close their books and listen to the tape.

　　3.  Answer these questions:

　　(1) Where does Edison come from?

　　(2) Then ask some students to read the text.

　　　　Then explain the useful expression and learn how to use.

　Ⅴ. Practice

　　Have the students the text and make them understand the text (in group, in pairs).

　　Let the students make sentences with the useful expressions,see if they use them freely.

　Ⅵ. Discuss

　　Ask: What else do you know about Edison?

　　Have the students think over.

　　Then give out their answers.

　Ⅶ. Workbook

　　Do Exercise 2 in class.

　　Then check with the whole class.

　Ⅷ. Exercise in class

　　Fill the blanks with the right forms of the verbs:

　　1.            I am very thirsty. I need something ________ (drink).

　　2.            Do you want anything ________ (eat)?

　　3.            I don’t’ know what ________ (do).

　　4.            The teacher told us ________ (not talk) in class.

　　5.            Would you like ________ (play) football with me?

　　6.            I want ________ (let) you ________ (see) my parents.

　　7.            It is raining. You’d better ________ (stay) at home.

　　8.            Don’t forget ________ (bring) the dictionary to me.

　Ⅸ. Homework

　　Finish off the exercises in the workbook.

　　Answers:1.todrink, 2. to eat, 3. to do, 4. not to talk, 5. to play, 6. to let; see　7. stay, 8. to bring.