高中英语必修7Unit 2 Fit for life-Task

Unit 2 Fit for life-Task
Task Reporting on short-sightedness
Skills building 1: listening for current situations
In this part, you will learn to listen for a current situation, an explanation of the situation, why it exists, as well as how it can be recognized and the problems solved. You are expected to finish a note sheet with the skills learnt in this part.
1. I’d like to ask you some questions:
Do you often watch English news on TV?
How much can you understand?
What problems do you have in listening to the news about current affairs or situations?
Let’s have a discussion about how to improve your listening ability.
2. Read the instructions on page 26. Make sure that you understand how to listen for current situations. You should know that it is important to identify the problem, the explanation, the reasons and the solutions in the report.
Step 1: completing notes
You will listen to a TV programme and take notes to report on the current problem of short-sightedness, which is very common among Chinese teenagers today.
1. Make a survey of short-sightedness in class. You may focus on the following points:
✧number of students who wear glasses
✧comparison of the number to the last year’s figure reasons for the
problem
solutions to the problem
2. Listen to the tape and finish Part A on page 26.
3. Read the instructions of Part B on page 27. You will be divided into groups of four and finish the notes by putting the measures under the correct school. You may have a competition.
4. Read the instructions in Part B and finish the chart on page 27. You may work in pairs.
5. Listen to the radio announcement in Part C and fill in the missing information in the table.
Skills building 2: interviewing someone
This part aims to help you conduct an interview. You will learn how to structure and organize your interview and questions.
1. Go over the instructions on top of page 28. Make sure you understand what each point is about. Make sentences after examples provided. You may discuss and suggest more ways to give self-introduction and to start to ask the questions.
2. Listen to an interview and pay attention to the language the interviewer and interviewee use. You will notice there are some sentences that have not been covered in this part. Write these sentences on the margin of your book and then use them in your own interview.
Step 2: interviewing a doctor
This part is designed to train your speaking skill. By interviewing a doctor, you will apply what you have learnt in Skills building 2 to find out more ways to protect eyesight.
1. Discuss solutions to protecting eyesight in groups. List as many solutions as possible.
2. Go through the sentences structures in the left box and the solutions in the right box on page 28. You should understand each suggestion. Then work in pairs. One acts as the doctor and the other as the reporter. When you finish the interview, you should change roles.
Skills building 3: writing a radio script
In this part, you will read about how to write a radio script and how to organize information for a report properly.
1. Read the instructions at the top of page 29. Try to understand what should be included in script.
2. Read the points one by one and make a sentence for each point. In this way, you will know how to write a radio script. For example:
✧who you are
This is (your own name), who will talk about what our school has decided to do in order to protect our eyesight
✧the subject
What I’m going to talk about in this programme is about what should be done at home to protect our eyesight.
✧the opening
Hi, everyone. It is the news time now.
✧explanation of what the topic is
The topic today is what we can do to protect our eyesight.
✧background information, including the current situation
We can find that more and more teenagers are wearing or need to wear glasses so that they can see clearly. In our school, the number of students who are short-sighted is also increasing.
✧reference to other sources
The reporters of our school radio station have interviewed a famous eye doctor in No. 1 People’s Hospital. The doctor has given some advice on how to protect our eyesight. They also have talked with the headmaster of our school to ask what the school will do to solve the problem.
✧Recommendations
The doctor suggests that we should…
The headmaster says that our school will…
✧closing
Thank you for listening to my report.
Step 3: writing a report for the school radio station
In this part, you are required to write a radio script for a programme on
short-sightedness for the school radio station. The script is based on the information you have collected in Steps 1 and 2. You are expected to practice the skills you have learnt in the previous Skills building parts.
1. Read the instructions in Step 3. So you can learn that you are going to write a report about short-sightedness with the information you gathered in Steps 1 and
2. Review the results you have collected and the main points you need to include in writing a script.
2. Work in groups of four to write an outline. You may refer to the structure of the report you organized in Skills building
3.
3. Write a script in small groups. Each member should be responsible for a part of the script.。