Unit 24 Consumer Society
Warming-up---教案
In this unit you will
Discuss social issues, talk about society in the past and make suggestions. 1．Listen to a radio news report, a story, dialogues and a song. 2．Use listening strategies for dealing with cultural references
3．Read magazine articles and letters to a newspaper. use reading strategies for summarising. 4．Write a discursive essay.
5．Learn about complex sentences used for persuasion. Teaching Aim:
(1) to get to know sth. about social problems in western countries
begging discrimination violence drugs homelessness inequality poverty racism unemployment abortion (2) to listen to a radio news report (3) to practice speaking
Step 1 Pre-listening
1.Before doing the exercise, introduction of the topic through some pictures and say what the contrast is illustrating
2.Say the key words after practicing pronunciation and word stress.
3.deciding what the biggest problem are in western countries and putting the problems in order of importance.
4. Tell the class your opinions and see how much general agreement there is about the two biggest problems. Present any new vocabulary the class needs to talk about problems in Western countries.
Step 2 Listening
1.listen for the first time and match the topics with the graphs 2.listen for the second time and complete the table
3.check the answers by the listen to the tape again Answers : 2,3,4,1
Step 3 Speaking—talk about trends in British society. Step 4 Exercises
1. have ss look back at exercises 6and 7 .play the tape again and ask them to listen for additional
information about Lucy and Grant that is not in the exercises.
2. do exercise 4 ,have the ss look at the key words ,check that they understand the differences
between some of them .
step 5 Summary
Work in pairs. Use the key words to say true or false sentences about trends in British society. Key Words: Describing Trends
to rise, to climb, to go up, to rocket,to double\\ triple, to be on the increase，to fall, to go down, to decline, to be on the decrease，to fluctuate, to go up and down
step 6 Homework
2012高二英语精品教案Unit24Society-Warmingup(北师大版选修8)
