1、Unit 3 Welcome to Sunshine Town!Task I. Teaching aims and learning objectivesBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. use new words and expressions correctly;2. make notes about the hometown before writing;3. write about their hometown.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: ho
2、metown, friendly, raise, grow, wheat, smell, drive, raise cows; grow wheat; smell the flowers2. New structures: Some families raise cows, and others grow wheat.I think it is a wonderful place to live.III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty1. Make notes about the hometown before wri
3、ting.2. Write about the students hometown.IV. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-in1. Memory of Sunshine TownT: Hello, boys and girls, today we will learn Task of Unit 3. Do you still remember the hometown of Class 1, Grade 7 students in Sunshine Middle School? Lets complete the table.【设计意图：通过回忆有关阳光镇的内容
4、，引出“家乡”这一主题。 】Step 2 Presentation1. John notes about his hometownT: You really have a good memory. We have learnt something about Neil, one of the exchange students. Today we will meet another exchange student, John. He wanted to make a video about his hometown, so he made some notes about it. Read
5、the notes and try to remember as much information as you can.2. New words and phrases.T: Time is up. John took some photos of his hometown. Ill show them to you. Can you say something about these photos with the information in his notes?Picture 1: raise cowsPicture 2: grow wheatPicture 3: smell flow
6、ersPicture 4: hear birds sing3. Make notesT: Read Neils notes again. We can find that his notes include these pieces of information.4. Listen and answerT: Before making the video, John wrote a script. Lets listen to it and answer some questions.(1) How do people make a living?(2) What can people do
7、for fun?(3) What are the people like there?(4) How do people go around? 5. Different parts of Neils scripT: How many parts can we divide the scrip into? What does each part talk about?Part 1 (Introduction): name, greetingsPart 2 (Main body): my house, things to do, hometownPart 3 (Conclusion): opini
8、ons, invitationT: Can you find the useful expression?【设计意图：通过不同形式的练习，让学生充分理解文章。 】Step 3 Practice1. Writing stepsT: All right, students. Its time for you to write about your hometown. Before writing, lets talk about the writing steps.2. Writing materialsT: What do you know about Wuxi? Lets have a dis
9、cussion. T: Can you describe what Wuxi is like?Wuxi is a lively city.Wuxi is a historical city.Wuxi is a modern city.Life in Wuxi is like dancing to music.Life in Wuxi is like drinking a cup of tea.3. Make notes about WuxiHometown: about 4650 km2 over 6 million people full of beautiful viewbuses, tr
10、ains, planes, underground, House: Introduce your house and the environment around your house.Things to do: go sightseeingvisit old townsenjoy nice fooddo some shoppingUseful expressions: Hello, I am ./ Im going to is in area. / There are .Some and many others .You can by .You can and you can also .I
11、ts a good place to ./ I hope .4. Writing structureT: Here is my advice. You can divide your passage into five paragraphs. Here is what each paragraph is about. You can borrow some from it.5. Sample writing【设计意图：通过对文章的分析，让学生知道文章的大体轮廓。提供学生一些写作素材，提醒学生在写作中需要注意的地方，并给出范文，让学生自行完成一篇介绍家乡的短文。 】V. Homework1. Write about your own hometown.2. Recite Johns script.