Module 3

Unit 1 The world of our senses
Period 1 Welcome to the unit 江苏教育学院附属中学 张红

Teaching aims:
1 Encourage students speak out to practice their oral English.
2 Arose their interest in learning this unit through activities.
3 Let them know the importance of senses and know that sometimes senses affect one another and people may be misled by their own senses.

Difficult points:
Encourage the students to share their opinions by fully participating in the discussion in order to realize how they and other people use their senses in their studies and daily life.

Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in (Pictures 1-3)
Lead in the five senses by asking the students their life experiences.
The five senses are:
The sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the sense of taste, the sense of smell and the sense of touch.
They enable us to know the world around us.

Step 2: Discussion (Pictures 4-5)
What will happen if you lose one or two of your senses?
Do you know how blind people can read?

Step 3: Reading (Pictures 6-7)
A. Read the passage and find the answers to these questions:
Do you know how blind people can read?
How do the deaf communicate with each other?
B. Solve the language problems while reading.

Step 4: Sharing information and Observation (Picture 8)
A. Question:
Do you believe sometimes senses may cheat us and they may
affect one another?
B. Show some examples. (Pictures 9-13)

Step 5: Discussion (Pictures 14-15)
A. Ask the students the following question and then have a discussion. They are all expected to be involved in the discussion, practice their spoken English, and share their opinions with each other.
Question: Why are people misled by their own eyes?

B. After the discussion the teacher draw the conclusion that
Because the background or other lines confuse the eyes.
Also, what we expect to see can change what we see.
Actually, it is more the brain that is confused than the eyes.

C. Remind the students that no matter how our eyes may cheat us, we do need our eyes as well as other senses. So we should protect our senses. We can see that health is very important in our life and good senses also improve our life quality. Maybe the best way to avoid being cheated by our senses is that we sense, meanwhile, we think. (Picture 16)

Step 6 Consolidation (Picture 17)
. Review the five senses once again and finish the exercises given on show, which, of course are related to the senses.

Step 7 Discussion (Picture 18)
Do you know that some famous people are disabled?
Raise examples and talk about their contributions.

Step 8 Assignments (Picture 19)
1.Preview the reading part, do exercise C1 and C2.
2.Find information about some more famous people who are disabled and yet make great contributions to the world.


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