Teaching plan
Unit 6, 8B (Period 1)
Teaching contents: Comic strip and welcome to the unit
Teaching aims: 1. To learn sth. about a charity walk
2. To know which people need help and donation
3. To take action to care for and help the people in need
Teaching important points: about helping people in need
Teaching aids: tape-recorder, computer, epidiascope
Teaching methods: Individual, pair and group work to make every student work in class
Teaching time: 45 minutes
Teaching procedures:
Step1. Warming up
Ss ask questions about each other and the teacher.
e.g. S1→S2, Ss→T: What’s your hobby?
Are you ready to help people in need?
Are you generous?
Do you donate money to charities?
Step2. Revision
Review some Chinese and international charities. T asks Ss about their favourite charities. T shows some signs and names of the charities on the screen, e.g. Oxford, UNICEF, ORBIS, World Vision, World Wide Fund for Nature.
Step3. Lead-in
T reminds Ss of the ways of raising money they have learned and asks them to guess which way Hobo will use to raise money. Then T presents a picture of the charity walk, the new phrase ‘charity walk’ and the new word ‘trailwalker’ (毅行者) on the screen, then explains them.
Step4. Comic strip
1. T plays the tape and asks Ss to listen to the conversation between Eddie and Hobo.
2. T asks some questions about the conversation.(Questions on the screen)
◆ What is Hobo doing?
◆ What will Eddie give Hobo?
◆ What support does Hobo hope to receive from Eddie?
◆ Why does not Eddie think Hobo will finish his charity walk?
3. Ss read the conversation and act it out in pairs. (Two pairs act in front of the class.)
Step5. Group work
T asks Ss: “What things people should take with them on the charity walk?” T gives each group a piece of paper and asks them to make a list of the things which trailwalkers need. Then T shows some of Ss’ notes on the epidiascope, e.g. torch, matches, umbrella, sleeping bags, sticks, medicine box…
Step6. Welcome to the unit
1. T: “Lots of people need help. Do you know which people need help?” T presents new vocabulary on the screen. Ss are asked to match the new words with their meanings:
◆a person cannot see blind person
◆people cannot hear deaf people
◆a part of a person’s body disabled person
does not work properly
◆a person has no home homeless person
◆a person has little money. poor person
T points out that ‘blind’, ‘deaf’, ‘disabled’, ‘homeless’ are all new words. We have learned ‘poor’ before. Ss read the new words after T.
2. T tells the Ss to look at Page 93 of the textbook. Ss label the posters in Part A using the words from the box and tell which people they have helped.
3. T reminds Ss: “Some people with difficulty also try their best to lead a meaningful life.” T shows the pictures of some people on the screen, e.g. Beethoven(贝多芬), Helen Keller(海伦・凯勒), 张海迪,邰丽华(舞蹈《千手观音》的领舞演员)
Ss are attracted by these pictures and eager to say something about these people’s trouble. T uses these examples to urge Ss to work hard.
Step7. A conversation in Part B on Page 93 & listening practice
Ss read the conversation in pairs and fill in the rest part.
T asks Ss to listen to the tape-recorder about a conversation and fill in the blanks. (Materials also shown on the screen)
Step8. Extension activity
T puts some paper sheets in a music box. There is a topic and some instructions on each sheet. The leaders of groups come to the front to draw lots and get a topic back for their own group.
Discuss in groups and act according to the instructions on the paper sheet. These are the topics. (Show on the screen)
Group work :
deaf people
disabled people
How to help homeless people
elderly people
poor people
Ss are interested in this activity, and take an active part in it. After discussion, Ss act out these topics.
Step9. Summary
T: In this class we’ve done different kinds of activities, and learn a lot about the ways and the significance of helping people in need. After class, you can talk more about it in English with your classmates and friends.
Step10. Assignment
1. Read and recite the conversation in the comic strip.
2. Writing: Write an article about helping disabled/deaf …… people?