Unit 4 Unforgettable experience
Period 1. Listening

Teaching objectives and demands:
1.The activity is designed to encourage students to think about some unforgettable experience and to activate relevant vocabulary.
2.Ask the students to describe a famous person and give examples of situations the person or the accident happened. Use the activity as a brainstorming session done either in groups or with the whole class.
3.Language use: Manipulate listening, speaking practice
Key points:
1. Everyday English for communication.
2. Words and useful expressions
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warm up
1.  Game: Ask students to guess what or whom the teacher is talking about.
1)  He invented the first telephone in the world. ---------- Alexander Bell
2)  He is also a great inventor in America. He invented the phonograph and the electric lamp----- Thomas
Edison
3)  He is a Jewish, and he presented the theory of relativity. ----------- Albert Einstein
4)  He is a very famous cartoon maker. He created Mickey mouse. ----------Walt Disney
5)  They are American brothers. They invented the plane. ------------Laite Brother
2. Tell Ss: We can use attributive clause to describe these persons.
e.g. Alexander Bell is the person who invented the first telephone in the world.
Ask Ss to give other four sentences using the attributive clause.
Tell Ss: All of these people are unforgettable, because what they did have developed human beings’ life. Then please turn to page 22, and look at the four pictures. Please use attributive clause to describe these persons and things.
1) Zhang heng is the man who made the earliest seismograph in 132.
2) Howard carter is the man who found the King Tut’s tomb in 1937.
3) The Titanic is the ship that/which sank after hitting an iceberg.
4) Beijing is the city that/which has got the chance to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
4. Ask Ss to make up dialogues about these pictures and practice.
e.g. ---- Do you know the man in picture 1? ---- He is Zhang heng.
---- What made him unforgettable? / How do you know him? ----- he is the man who made the earliest seismograph.
Step 2 Listening
1. Ask Ss to describe the pictures of earthquake.
2. Brief introduction: Hank Stram lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter. On October 17th, 1989 a strong earthquake took place and killed over 100 people. He was caught in the earthquake. Here we will listen to two passages about his own experience.
3. Ask Ss to read the questions in part1, and listen to the tape twice. Then ask them to work in groups
to present their answers.
a)  When did the earthquake happen? ---------- 5:15pm
b)  Where was the man driving when it happened? -----------on his way to his daughter’s school
c)  What was the first thing he saw? ---------- the car in front started to move from side to side.
d)  What had he been doing before the earthquake? ---------- he had finished his work and gone to the post office.
e)  What was he going to do? -------- he was going to fetch his daughter from her school.
4.  Listen to the tape again to check and the teacher give necessary explanation.
5.  Read these five sentences in part2, and then listen to the tape twice, then fill the blanks.
a)  I found myself in the dark.
b)  Then I remembered what had happened.
c)  It was clear to me now that I had been in an earthquake.
d) Then I heard people climbing towards me.
e)   A team of people had come to see if anyone was under the broken road.
6.   Listen again to check and make some explanation.
7.   Ask Ss to tell the whole story (using first, next ,then, finally)
Step3 Exercise in the workbook (Page 103)
Ask Ss to listen to the tape twice and then complete the table.
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