1、Unit 1 Dream homesComic strip and Welcome to the unitI. Teaching aims and learning objectivesBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. understand and act out the comic strip;2. correctly say the name, the capital, a place of interest, the language and the people of the six countries on
2、 page 7.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: palace, town, Canada, France, Japan, Russia, UK, London, country, capital, next to2. New structures: Id like to live next to a restaurant.There are twenty restaurants in town.The biggest one in Fifth Street!Is Tokyo the capital of Japan?III. Foc
3、us of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty1. Read the proper nouns on page 7 correctly and remember them well.2. Get enough information for the conversation from the teachers presentation and the discussion with classmates.3. Talk about the students own favourite countries.IV. Teaching proced
4、uresComic stripStep 1 Lead-inFree talk T: How was your winter holiday?Did you have a good time?What did you do? Where did you go?What was the best part of your winter holiday?T: Great! All of you enjoyed yourselves during the winter holiday. Some visited interesting places and others just stayed at
5、home and still had fun. Just as the saying goes, “East or west, home is the best.” However, even we all think our own home is the best place in the world, we still have our dream homes. Maybe you love your home in the city centre very much, but your dream home is in the countryside. Maybe your small
6、 flat is full of love every day, but you dream of living in a big house. This unit we are going to talk about our dream homes. I think it will be an interesting topic.【设计意图：本课时是寒假过后的第一个新课时，从寒假生活开始聊起能让学生有话可说、有话想说，与同学分享各自精彩的寒假活动，能让课堂气氛很快热烈起来。之后由教师的一段小结性陈述，将话题引入 dream homes 这一单元话题。 】Step 2 Presentation
7、1. Watch and answerT: Eddie and Hobo are also talking about their dream homes. Watch the cartoon and answer the question: Would Eddie like to live in a palace? Do you understand the meaning of this new word “palace”?2. Read and learnT: Lets open the book and tell me where Eddie would like to live.T:
8、 Good! What does “next to” mean in Chinese? And what about “fifth”?【设计意图：通过观看动画了解 Comic strip 的内容，通过设置提问训练学生有目的地看和听。本部分的生词不多，可直接放在听、说、读的环节中呈现。此处在呈现听力问题时，将其中一个生词 palace 呈现并教授；在随后的回答中另一个词组 next to 也呈现出来了。 】3. Language pointsT: Read aloud after the tape and learn the language points.(1) would like to d
9、o = want to do(2) live in a palace(3) live next to a restaurant(4) in town(5) the biggest on in Fifth Street【设计意图：帮助学生学习使用一些重要的句型和词组，并引入本单元 Grammar 部分将会讲到的基数词和序数词的概念，为之后的教学作铺垫。 】Step 3 Practice1. Play roles and practise in pairsT: Work in pairs and act out the story. Ill ask some pairs to act in fro
10、nt of the class. 2. Complete a short story【设计意图：从展示隐去文字的 PPT，让学生分角色朗读，到两人一组表演对话，再到以缺词填空的形式出现的对话内容重现，这是一个有铺垫、有层次的活动任务，帮助学生记忆所学内容，并能灵活运用所学内容，同时表演也能激发学生的学习热情及兴趣。 】Welcome to the unitStep 1 Part A1. Presentation and learnShow pictures to learn about different countries: Japan, the USA, France, Canada, t
11、he UK and Russia.JapanT: Boys and girls, please look at the picture. Who knows the name of this place?T: Yes, its Mount Fuji. There is thick white snow at the top of the mountain all year round. The view in and around this mountain is really wonderful. Do you know which country it is in?T: Thats rig
12、ht. Its in Japan. Mount Fuji is near Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Do you understand the meaning of “capital”? T: What do we call the people who live in Japan? Yes, we call them Japanese or Japanese people. And “Japanese” also means the language that Japanese people speak. T: Weve learnt something ab
13、out Japan. Would you please say something about this picture or this country? For example, the capital of Japan is Tokyo. Whod like to go on?T: Good job! So much for this picture. Now, look at the next picture.2. Look and matchFinish Part A on page 7.3. Complete and sayT: Weve learnt a lot about dif
14、ferent countries. Let me help you remember them well. Look at this table. First, would you please complete it?T: Would you please say several sentences about each country? You can first practise with your partner. Then Ill ask some of you to report one of them to the class.【设计意图：本课时的主要生词基本都是国家、城市和名胜
15、等专有名词，学生较难记忆和掌握。教师设计了三个步骤帮助学生认读这些内容：一、以图片的形式展示该国的名胜，以问题诱导的方式呈现国名、首都、语言、人民、名胜等信息，注意重点教授读音；二、每学完一个国家就要求学生每人说一句相关的话，在练习中进一步熟悉所学内容；三、在六个国家全部学完后，以表格的形式帮助学生进一步巩固，要求学生以一段话来描述一个国家相关的内容。从“词” ，到“句” ，再到“段” ，逐步提高要求，既实现了大量操练，又避免了机械重复。 】Step 2 Part B1. Listen and answer(1) Which picture are Annie and Simon talkin
16、g about?(2) What do you know from their conversation?2. Read aloud3. Make up similar conversations【设计意图：此部分本身的内容比较简单，让学生通过听、读和对话，进一步熟练上一步骤中所学的内容，为下一步提高性活动做好铺垫和准备。 】Step 3 Practice Show pictures of famous people from the six countries and ask the students to do the question chains. Vote for the best
17、question and the best answer.T: Ill show you some famous people from the six countries. Lets do a “question chain”. Six questions for each of them. Lets see who will raise the best question and who will give the best answer. Are you ready? OK. Lets start from .T: Great! Most of you did a very good job. Which question and which answer do you think are the best?【设计意图：本部分出示来自这六个国家的名人，替换课本中的六个名胜，保持学生的新鲜感；question chain 的形式可以让学生保持高度的注意力，进一步巩固、熟练所学知识，同时也是鼓励学生灵活运用所学知识。 】V. Homework1. Tell your parents about your favourite country among the six in English. 2. Review the language points.