牛津高中英语 M1 U1 word power

M1 U1 Word power
课时：Period 3 Word power
三维目标
1. Enable the students to learn the words and expressions about school facilities.
2. Help the students learn how to master the words and expressions about school facilities and equipment in the gym.
重点难点
This period is dealing with the words and expressions about school facilities with the help of some activities. The students should be able to use these words and sentence patterns freely to talk about school facilities and have a good sense of direction, so that the students will be able to tell how to go to a certain place without difficulty if they have got the chance to go to an English-speaking country. Also, they will be able to tell a foreigner how to find his or her way if they want to.
教学方法
Discussion in pairs or in groups.
Students-involved class activities.
教具准备
A tape recorder and a multimedia classroom.
课前准备
Before the class, ask the students to work in groups to draw a map of their school in Chinese or in English if they can. They can use the map on page six as a guide. Of course, the Chinese maps should be put into English during this period.
教学过程
→Step 1 Greetings and deal with homework
Check the homework exercises.
→Step 2 Lead in
V ocabulary of this period is about facilities at school, therefore, teachers can begin this class with something they are familiar with in their daily lives.
1. Teachers can ask the students the following questions:
Did you get to our school by yourselves or with your parents?
Did you have any difficulty finding our school?
How did you get to our school?
Describe your trip to our school at the beginning of this term/on the first day of this term.
After you arrived at our school, can you get to each building without difficulty? Why or why not?
Who helped you find your dormitory?
If you lost your way, what would you do?
If you were asked how to get to a certain place, how would you show him or her the way?
2. Present the expressions or sentence patterns to ask the way if possible.
3. Sample answers:
Go straight ahead and you will find the teaching building.
Turn left at the first crossing and you will get to the teaching building.
Go down this road and turn left at the second corner, and then you will find the teaching building.
Go three blocks west and you can’t miss the high school.
Turn right at the traffic light and go 50 meters ahead.
If you don’t know the way, you can say:
Sorry, I’m a stranger here myself.
. . .
Expressions to show the way:
1)Walk towards/past. . . /and then walk between. . and. . . You will find. . . at the end of the road.
2)Turn left/right, and walk straight/right/directly on.
3)Take the second turning on the right. /Turn left at the second turning.
4)At the end of the first/second crossing, you will find it on your right/left. You can’t miss it.
5)Take No. 5 bus and get off at the second bus stop. It’s about half an hour’s walk/drive.
→Step 3 Read a map
After the warming up exercises, we will come to the topic of this period.
It is to read a map and think about the route to a certain place on the map. The students are supposed to tell the right direction and describe how to get there.
Meanwhile, they should be able to name the school buildings in English. If they are devoted to the exercise, they will learn some names of the school buildings by heart as these building are the ones they can find in their high school too.
To start the exercise, firstly, we can ask the students to read the thoughts of Wei Hua on page 6 and try to act it out on the map below.
Secondly, we can read t he thoughts to the students and ask them to “walk” on the map meanwhile.
Thirdly, we can ask one of the students to read the thoughts and ask another one of them to come to the blackboard and act out Wei Hua’s thoughts.
After several practice, the students are able to name some of the buildings in English. Then we can ask them to finish part B on page 6.
First, we can ask the students to draw a route for Wei Hua and ask one of them to present it on the blackboard.
Show the route on the map.
Then, teachers can give the students several minutes to prepare for the description. They can be divided into several groups and talk about the route in groups. The students will be in the front before the map to present their work.
One sample answer:
Now I’m at the door of the canteen. First I should turn right, walk to the first crossing and turn left. After that, I have to walk straight on to the end of the road, get the book I want in the dormitory. Then I can return from the same way to the canteen, walk on until the end of the road and classroom four is on my left.
→Step 4 Consolidation
To strengthen the memory of the words and sense of direction, we can give the students more practice.
Ask the students to take out the maps they prepared before class. Let them discuss the map
and put their maps into English first.
One sample map
Practice one On the first day you come to school, you want to get some hot water in the water room. You are at the gate of the dormitory. You ask a schoolmate for help. Make up a dialogue with your partner. One acts as your schoolmate, who knows the way.
One sample answer:
You: Excuse me, pal. I’m a new student here, and I’m not so familiar with the school buildings.
Schoolmate (S for short): What do you think I can do for you?
You: I want to go to the water room to get some hot water. But I don’t know how I can get there.
S: It’s easy. Now we are at the gate of the dormitory. And the room is just in the south of the dormitory beside the store.
You: But where is the store?
S: Go down the road in front of our dormitory and turn left at the first crossing and you will find the store on your left. The water room is next to it.
You: Thank you so much.
S: My pleasure.
Practice two Suppose you were Li Hua, and your classmate Yu Fang in your middle school wants to visit you this Saturday. You live in Room 302 of building 15. Write a letter and tell him/her how to get to your room.
One sample answer:
Dear Yu Fang,
Nice to hear from you again. I’m looking forward to your visit this Saturday. I’m writi ng this time to tell you how to get to my dormitory, so that you will have no difficulty finding my room here.
After you come to the gate of our school, you will find the Science and Technology building on your left, and on your right are the classroom buildings. Between these two buildings there is a road, and please go along the road until the first crossing, where there is the clock tower. Turn left at the first crossing. Go down the road near the river. After you get to the bridge, you will find the can teen in front of you. Turn right there. Go down the road again and you can’t miss the two dormitories on each side of the road, of which the one on your left is the boy’s dormitory, while the one on your right is the girl’s . Don’t go into the wrong buildi ng.
I’m living in Room 302 of building 15. I think you can’t miss it.
Looking forward to seeing you again.
Yours,
Li Hua
→Step 5 Practice
After all these exercises, the students are familiar with the words and expressions about school facilities. Here are some exercises for the students to practice these words.
1. Ask the students to finish part C on page seven.
2. Suppose you were the member of the Students’ Office in the school. You are to write a poster for the union to introduce the new comers to the school. Please write a similar introduction of your school to the one you read on page 7.
→Step 6 Equipment in the gym
This step will get the students to know some English words of equipment in a gym. These pieces of equipment also has something to do with the coming Olympic Games. So it is interesting to the students, and they will be willing to learn these words in English. To master these words the best way is learning during doing or experiencing. If possible, the teacher can lead the students to the gym in the school and learn the names of the equipment when exercising on them.
Practice one
Ask the students to finish part D on page 7.
One sample answer:
1. climbing bars 攀登架
吊环
3. dumb- 哑铃
平衡木
跳绳
篮球场
杠铃
垫子
板书设计
expressions or sentence patterns to ask the way . . . expressions or sentence patterns to show the
way
. . .。