Lesson 31

Lesson 31: Danny Tells All
Teaching Content:
Oral words and expressions: appendicitis, appendix
Teaching Aims:
Know more about the disease.
Learn more about the hospital in foreign country.
Teaching Important Points:
Know something about the disease and hospital in foreign countries.
How do we feel when we are in hospital?
Teaching Difficult Points:
Demonstrate the feeling in hospital.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1.Warming up
What do you think of Danny? Do you miss him? What do you want to know about him?
Let some students answer the questions in class in oral. Pay attention to the words that they are using. If you think it is necessary to show more words, you can show some new words to them. Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
What’s wrong with Danny?
Where is Danny now?
Let the students answer the questions in class in oral.
Step3.Read the text and encourage students to ask more questions:
S1: Who went to see Danny in hospital?
S2: Brian and Jenny.
S3: What did Danny feel about missing school?
S4: He felt terrible.
S5: Is everyone quiet as Brian reads the letter?
S6: Yes.
S7: What did the doctor take from Danny’s stomach?
S8: An appendix.
Give them hints and let them ask more questions.
Step4. Make sentences with the following language points:
1.I have something to tell you.
They have a lot of homework to do.
2.in hospital; in the hospital
I was ill in hospital last year.
We went to see my uncle in the hospital.
I’m feeling much better.
Much equals a lot, even, far, a little
e to “LET’S DO IT”.
Divide the class into groups. Talk about the questions. After a while, let some students give their report to the class.
Show them more words and expressions about disease with the flashcards.
When the students are discussing, the teacher walk around the classroom and give them help if it
is necessary.
Step6. Homework
Finish off the activity book.
Go on next reading in the student book.
Summary:
We all have been ill. Sometimes illness can’t be avoided. But talking bout the disease is not so easy. We have so many things that we can’t describe correctly. So we must research more words and expressions about the disease. The teacher must help them immediately if possible. Remember to discuss how to keep healthy in details.。