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The Fourth Period
Teaching Aims:
1.Review all the language points and the grammar—the Attribute in this unit. 2.Learn and master the following phrases: tie up,at stake,go for
3.Do some reading and writing practice to improve the students’ integrating skills. 4.Learn how to write a story. Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ integrating skills. 2.Help the students write a story well. Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to help the students understand the reading passage better. 2.How to help the students complete the writing. Teaching Methods:
1.Doing some exercises to review what they’ve learnt in this unit. 2.Reading and understanding to improve the students’ reading ability. 3.Writing practice to improve the students’ writing ability.
4.Individual,pair or group work to make every student be active in class. Teaching Aids: 1.the multimedia 2.a tape recorder 3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures: Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual. Step Ⅱ Revision T:Yesterday we reviewed the grammar—the Attribute.We know that adjectives,pronouns,adverbs,to do,v.-ing,v.-ed,attributive clauses,ect.are all possible to be used as the Attribute.Now,please look at the screen and do the exercise to see if you have mastered them well enough.
(Teacher shows the exercise on the screen and asks the students to do it one by one.) Underline the Attribute in each sentence and tell what is used as Attribute. 1.The world in which we live is made of matter.
2.The homework for today is to write a six-hundred-word composition about your hometown. 3.This is the laboratory set up by the students themselves. 4.The room facing south is our bedroom.
5.He is always the first to come and the last to leave. 6.She took the second place in the beauty contest. Suggested answers:
1.in which we live(an attributive clause) 2.six-hundred-word(a complex adjective) about your hometown(a preposition phrase)
3.set up by the students themselves(a past participle)
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4.facing south(a present participle) our(a pronoun)
5.to come;to leave(an infinitive) 6.the second(an ordinal numeral) beauty(a noun)
T:You all did good jobs.So much for grammar revision.Now,let’s review the useful phrases and expressions in this unit together.Please look at the screen and finish the exercise by yourself in five minutes.
(Show the following on the screen.)
Complete the sentences using the proper forms of the expressions in the box.
apply...to... add up lose heart take it easy keep up leave behind pull up lose one’s way come to an end be/become accustomed to have no choice but to do... 1.The war soon_______.
2.His wife_______her two little girls.
3.Would you_______that principle_______everyone? 4.Have you_______these figures_______right? 5. _______you_______this kind of weather?
6.The policeman_______the motorist and asked to see his licence. 7.They told us they_______.
8.If this rain_______,all the crops will be ruined.
9.You’ve been working so hard for several months.You must_______and relax over the weekend.
10.The boy_______drop out of the school. 11.Facing any difficulty,we shouldn’t_______. (After a while,teacher checks the answers.) Suggested answers: 1.came to an end 2.left behind 3.apply;to 4.added;to
5.Are;accustomed to 6.pulled up
7.had lost their way 8.keeps up 9.take it easy
10.had no choice but to 11.lose heart
T:Besides,we’ve also learnt a lot about perseverance and success.Tell me which words and expressions in this unit can help us talk about perseverance and success. Ss:Keep up,lose heart,live through,quit,perseverance,continue.... Step Ⅲ Reading
T:Well.Imagine that one cold winter in Alaska,you’re asked to take some medicines to a hospital 700 miles away as soon as possible.How would you do it? Ss:By plane,train,bus or ship.
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T:If they weren’t available to you for some reason,what would you do? Ss:We may try riding a sled drawn by a team of dogs.
T:You’re very clever.But it isn’t an interesting and relaxing journey,is it? Ss:No,it isn’t.
T:OK.Now let’s read a dialogue.It will tell us a true story.Before we read it,we’ll learn some new words.
(Teacher deals with the new words as usual.)
T:OK.Open your books at Page 52.I’ll give you four minutes to read the dialogue quickly and silently and then answer some questions on the screen.Do it as fast as possible.After a while,I’ll check the answers.
(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)
1.When did the Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race begin? 2.Was the first race a competition?
3.What relationship are Miss Welch and Dr Welch? 4.What kind of disease is diphtheria?
5.What would be the only way over 674 miles between Nenana and Nome? 6.How was the vaccine brought to Nenana?
7.Were the children of Nome saved at last?How many miles had the drivers covered in little more than 127 hours?
(Four minutes later,teacher begins to check their answers.) Suggested answers:
1.The Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race began in 1925. 2.No,it wasn’t.But it was a race against time. 3.Miss Welch is a grand-daughter of Dr Welch.
4.Diphtheria is a disease that spreads very fast.If untreated,it would produce a powerful poison that would kill the patient.
5.A relay of dog teams would be the only way at that time.
6.The doctor in Anchorage wrapped the medicine in a quilt and tied it up.A train took the packet from Anchorage to Nenana.
drivers had covered almost 700 miles in little more than 127 hours.
T:Good jobs.Now,look at the screen.I’ll explain some expressions and a sentence pattern to you so that you can use them freely. Ⅰ.Useful expressions: 1.save...from
must do something to save them from ruin. 2.cover a distance of...
Red Army covered a distance of 25 000 li on the Long March. 3.tie up
a moment while I tie up my shoes. 4.at stake
reputation was at stake. Ⅱ.Sentence pattern:
If untreated,it would produce a....(=If it were untreated,it would produce a....) invited,I would attend her wedding.
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