Teaching contents

Unit2 Heroes - Warm-up / Lesson1 Modern Heroes

Senior 1

Time & date

Teaching objectives

1.       To draw Ss’s attention to the unit objectives.

2.       To warm up the topic of the Unit--Hero.

3.       Ss can use positive and negative adj. to describe character.

4.       To practice extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context.

5.       To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions.

6.       To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous.　　

7.       To talk about recent events (last night, this morning).　　

Main vocabulary and phrases

Brave, calm, cruel, dangerous, generous, honest, humorous, kind, violent…

Learning strategies

Listening to and practicing the new words and expressions ;

Group work in talking about lifestyles ;

Fast reading to get the main idea of the text　　

Guided intensive reading to get specific information 　　

Pair work & group work 　　

Teaching aids

PPT; Flash; text mp3…

Homework Assignments

1.       Review the new words

2.       .

Steps

Time (min)

Contents

Interaction patterns

Skills

Student activity

Teacher activity

Comments(fill after class)

1.

New words

Whole class work

Listening

Speaking

Listen to the teacher.

Read the new words together.

Let Ss read the new words.

Explain the new words (word net-work).　　

2.

Warm-up

(Lead-in)

Individual work

Listening

speaking

Answer teacher’s Qs.

Which one do you choose as your favorite hero/heroine.

What’re the similarities of these people?(Try to use adjectives to describe the persons in the pictures.)(Ex1)

Classifying the adjectives as positive or negative?　　

Showing six different people’s photos and asking:

Which one do you choose as your favorite hero/heroine.

What’re the similarities of these people?

They are brave, unselfish famous (well-known), great, successful, hard-working, kind, helpful…All of them are heroes.(Ex1)　　

Let Ss Classifying the adjectives as positive or negative?　　

3.

Warm-up

(Lead-in)

Individual work

Listening

speaking

Listening Practice.Ex3

Check the answers.

Let Ss do the Ex3.(Predicting first)

check the answers.

4.

Warm-up

(Lead-in)

Guessing games　　

Group work

speaking

Each group will get a card with a certain person given. Try to use the adjectives you learned to describe a hero or a villain. You can’t speak out the person’s name, let other groups guess who he/she is.　　

Guessing 　　

Let Ss play a guessing game.

5.

The passage

(Lead-in)

Whole class work

Listening

speaking

Talk about the first manned spaceship Shenzhou Five.

(Yang Liwei)

Know about some relevant key words in the passage first.

Let Ss talk about the first manned spaceship Shenzhou Five.

(Yang Liwei)

While talking, write down some key words on the blackboard.

(Astronaut  lift off  launch  smoothly separate from release circle the earth land safely   parachute       helicopter 　　

manned  spaceship 　　

)

6.

While-reading

Individual work

Predicting Listening

Speaking

Ex4, predict the right orders of the headings.

listen to the tape and check the answers.

Ask Ss to do the Ex4, predict the right orders of the headings.

Listen to the tape and check the answers.

7.

While-reading

(fast reading)

Whole class work

Individual work

Reading

speaking

find the clue of writing this article:

Time and when--clauses

Fill in the table and finish the when-clause sentences (pair work). Pay attention to verbs’ tense.

Let Ss find the clue of writing this article:

Time and when--clauses

Fill in the table and finish the when-clause sentences (pair work). Pay attention to verbs’ tense.

See appendix.　　

8.

While-reading

Whole class work

Individual work

Reading Speaking

Read the passage carefully:

Do the Ex5.

Check the answers

Let Ss read the passage carefully:

Do the Ex5.

Check the answers.

9.

Post-reading

Pair work

Individual work

Reading

Speaking

1. According to the table, Ss prepare the questions for the interview in pairs. They may need to go back to the text and get more information or use other information which is related to the event.

2. role play an interview between Yang LiWei and a reporter with the reporter asking what happened, what Yang LiWei and how he felt.

3. Acting out.　　

1. According to the table, Ss prepare the questions for the interview in pairs. They may need to go back to the text and get more information or use other information which is related to the event.

2. Ss role play an interview between Yang LiWei and a reporter with the reporter asking what happened, what Yang LiWei and how he felt.

3. Acting out.

10.

Grammar

(PS / PC)

Whole class work

Listening

Speaking

Find out all the when clauses and tell its use (Ex9).

Conclude the forms and uses of PS/PC.(See P92)

Let Ss find out all the when clauses and tell its use (Ex9). see appendix.

Conclude the forms and uses of PS/PC.(See P92)

11.

Grammar

(PS / PC)

Individual work

speaking

Do the Ex10

Let Ss do the Ex10/LanguagePowerEx2345

After class reflection: