Advance With English Module 3 Unit 1 The world of our senses
Periond 1: welcome to the unit
Aims: ---to give the Ss the idea that soemtimes the senses affect one another and people may be misled by them to help them to realize how they use their senses in their studies and daily life and to teacch them how to make better use of their senses.
--- ask Ss to fully participate in the discussion, practise their spoken English, and share their opinions with one another. Precedures:
Step 1 brainstorming
Ask the following questions: With what do we see and hear?
How do we know that a flower has a pleasant smell? How do we know whether a dish is delicious?
What do we do when we want to know whether the wather in the basinis hot or cold? How do we know about the world around us? What are the five senses? (Blackboard: see – eyes—sight—look
Hear-ears—hearing—sound Taste—tongue—taste—taste Smell—nose—smell—smell Touch/feel—skin—touch--feel)
As we all know almost everyone has five senses. We learn about the world through the five senses and we use them to study, wok and relax. Step 2 sharing information
Ask Ss to read the short passage and the main idea Ask them to give more examples
Look at the 4 pictures and answer the questions below. Homework: translation
事实情况是雾太大，车开不了那么远。 因为恐惧，她能感到自己的心跳。 今天有那么多人迷路，我想帮助他们。
Period 2: Reading
Teaching aims:
1 Encourage students speak out to practice their oral English. 2 Arose their interest in learning this unit through activities.
3 Let them know the importance of senses and know that sometimes senses affect one another and people may be misled by their own senses. Difficult points:
Encourage the students to share their opinions by fully participating in the discussion in order to realize how they and other people use their senses in their studies and daily life. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in (Pictures 1-3)
Lead in the five senses by asking the students their life experiences. The five senses are:
The sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the sense of taste, the sense of smell and the sense of
touch.
They enable us to know the world around us. Step 2: Discussion (Pictures 4-5)
What will happen if you lose one or two of your senses?
Do you know how blind people can read? Step 3: Reading (Pictures 6-7)
A. Read the passage and find the answers to these questions:
Do you know how blind people can read?
How do the deaf communicate with each other? B. Solve the language problems while reading.
Step 4: Sharing information and Observation (Picture 8)
A. Question:
Do you believe sometimes senses may cheat us and they may affect one another?
B. Show some examples. (Pictures 9-13) Step 5: Discussion (Pictures 14-15)
A. Ask the students the following question and then have a discussion. They are all expected to be
involved in the discussion, practice their spoken English, and share their opinions with each other.
Question: Why are people misled by their own eyes?
B. After the discussion the teacher draw the conclusion that Because the background or other lines confuse the eyes. Also, what we expect to see can change what we see. Actually, it is more the brain that is confused than the eyes.
C. Remind the students that no matter how our eyes may cheat us, we do need our eyes as well as other senses. So we should protect our senses. We can see that health is very important in our life and good senses also improve our life quality. Maybe the best wayto avoid being cheated by our senses is that we sense, meanwhile, we think. (Picture 16)
Step 6 Consolidation (Picture 17)
. Review the five senses once again and finish the exercises given on show, which, of course are
related to the senses.
Step 7 Discussion (Picture 18)
Do you know that some famous people are disabled? Raise examples and talk about their contributions. Step 8 Assignments (Picture 19)
1.Preview the reading part, do exercise C1 and C2.
2.Find information about some more famous people who are disabled and yet make great contributions to the world.
高一牛津英语(译林版)模块三第一单元教案知识讲解
