Unit 4 Unforgettable experience


Period 1. Listening
Step1, 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 Eistein
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.
3. 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.
Step2 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.
Name Chrissy Jack Dr. Brown Ms. Brown
Job Student Student Doctor Teacher
Address Tianjing Beijing / Tianjing
Age 19 Young Old Middle-aged
Looks Glasses Tall Hat Purple dress



Period 2. Speaking and talking
Step1. Speaking
1. Read the dialogue in P23 in pairs, and act out.
2. Give explanations of some phrases in the dialogue.
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