Unit 1 The Snake Bite
Teaching Aims | 1. Improving Skills | 1 Learn and master different ways of asking about & expressing impressions 2.Practicelistening comprehension and master certain listening skills. 3.Inproving English speaking skills and communicative skills by learning the conversation and other speaking activities. |
2. Enriching Vocabulary | all at once, figure, em, forbid, show up, strike, make for, pick out, light out for, must have done, every now and then, at length, hold on to |
3. Improving Writing skills | Writing logical ntences. |
4. Introduction to Grammar | indirect command with infinitives such as He wanted to e you/Tell him to wait。 |
Teaching Activities |
Do the extended activities to practice students’integrated skills of reading comprehension, translation, writing and to solidate their basic language knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. |
Teaching duration | 8 lessons |
Teaching aids | A recorder |
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Teaching Procedures:
Warming up (for reference): Ask some students how they show their distress and annoyance in life. Have the students demonstrate their writings on the board. Introduce other possible ways to show annoyance or distress such as:
(1) It is annoying
(2) I am not plead at
(3) John was very upt when his father cancelled the family trip to the beach.
(4) You wouldn’t
(5) What a shame!
(6)It sickened me to
(7)It really get on one’
(8)It really get under one’s skin..
Annoy v.tr.（及物动词）
To cau slight irritation to (another) by troublesome, often repeated acts.
使生气，使烦恼：用烦人的，通常是重复性的行为使（别人）生气
To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.打搅，干扰，扰乱：用屡次的攻击使人厌烦或打扰
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To be annoying.招人讨厌，惹人烦恼
He looked annoyed.他好象不耐烦的样子。
We can annoy the enemy by raids.我们可以用空袭骚扰敌人。
Part 1 Comminicative activities
1.Interative listening and speaking
A Students are asked to clo their books and listen to the tape recorder without reading the new dialogue.
B During the listening, students are asked to take some notes about some information of the dialogue.
C After listening, Teacher will read the listening exerci on Page2 and students do the exerci with the help of the notes, which they have just taken down, and the memory of the listening.
D Students talk about their feelings
It sickened me to
It really get on one’
It really get under one’s skin..
E Try to Speak More:
Firstly, students will be asked to read the conversation by role-playing.
Secondly, Teacher will explain some unfamiliar words or phras in the conversation. Such as: sicken, bald and three chickens to one single cage.
Thirdly, students will be asked to point out some expressions that express feelings of distress or annoyance in the conversation.
Forthly, Teacher asks veral students to read the expressions that they have already checked out.
2.Story time.Ask the students to work out a short story in pairs on the picture.
3.What are they for?& 4.More ntences
Teacher will play the tape recorder to let students listen to more ways of expressing distress and annoyance.
* After listening, students will be given a little time to match the expressions with the functions.
* Teacher will read the Actual Words Spoken out one by one while students will read the responding functions.
* Teacher will explain the meanings of some unfamiliar words such as: bugging, pestering and bragging.
Bug: annoy;
Pester: to annoy someone by repeatedly asking questions or making requests, especially when they are paying attention to something el.
Brag: v.tr.（及物动词）
To asrt boastfully.夸耀地宣称
n.（名词）
A boast.自夸
Arrogant or boastful speech or manner.傲慢的话，夸耀的态度
Something boasted of.被夸耀之物
A braggart; a boaster.吹牛的人；说大话者
Games A card game similar to poker.
【游戏】 类似于扑克的一种纸牌游戏
make brag of one's success自夸成功
His wealth is his brag.他夸张他的财富。
He constantly brags about how well he plays football.他老是吹嘘自己足球踢得多么好。
If You Want to Learn More
In the above exerci, we have learnt and practid ways of expressing annoyance and distress in different situations. In this part, additional expressions are listed.
Students will be given a little time to put the given ntences’ numbers into the suitable blanks.
Teacher will check the answers.
Teacher will explain veral important expressions.
i.e. gall sb: to vex sb; to annoy someone or make someone very angry;
get on one’s nerves: to annoy someone, especially by continually saying or doing sth you do not like.
