The Fourth Period
Teaching Aims:
1.Review the useful expressions learnt in this unit.
2.Review some word formation.
3.Train the students’ writingability by practising creative writing.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Consolidate word formationlearnt yesterday.
2.Help the students finish the creative writing.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to help the students practisecreative writing.
2.How to improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Methods:
1.Revision method to help the students consolidate the useful expressions.
2.Question-and-answer activity to help the students understand the reading passage better.
3.Discussion method to help the students finish the task of writing.
4.Individual,pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia
2.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ Revision
T:In the last period,we’ve learned some rules of word formation.Do you think knowledge of word formation can help us learn new words?Why?
S1:Yes.Because many English words are formed by adding affixes.So long as you know the meanings of some affixes,and word parts,you will guess the meanings of some new words without looking them up in a dictionary.
T:Quite right.Sit down,please.Now,let’s do an exercise to consolidate it.Please look at the screen,and then fill in the blanks.
(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)
1.submarine=______+______
2.disappear=______+______
3.overturn=______+______
4.Internet=______+______
5.underwater=______+______
6.prisoner=______+______
(After a while,teacher asks one student to do the exercise.Then teacher shows the answers on the screen.)
T:Good.Tell me the Chinese meaning of each word,and point out what the suffixes mean.
Suggested answers:
1.潜水艇 sub+marine sub-=under
2.消失 dis+appear dis-=not
3.打翻 over+turn over-=too much
4.因特网 Inter+net inter-=between
5.在水下的 under+water under-=below
6.囚犯 prison+er -er=person who carries out the action of the verb
Step Ⅲ Reading
T:In the last two periods,we have learnt much about science fiction and known more about Jules Verne,the father of science fiction,who wrote many famous science fiction,such as 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea,Around the World in 80 Days,Journey to the Centre of the World…He combined fact with fantasy cleverly.Now,we’re going to read another passage about science fiction,whose title is the Story of Dr Frankenstein.Open your books and turn to Page 15.Read the passage quickly and then answer some questions on the screen.
(Show the following on the screen.)
1.What did Dr Frankenstein want to do when he was young?
2.After he was sent to university,what did he think of the things taught at university?
3.What attracted his attention?
4.Did he discover the cause of life?
5.Although he knew how to creat life,what remained a difficult work for him?
6.Why did he decide to creat a larger human being than man about eight feet in height?
(Teacher gives them five minutes to read them.After that,check their answers.)
Suggested answers:
1.He wanted to learn the secrets of heaven and earth when he was young.
2.He found all that was taught at university very disappointing and decided to pioneer a new way himself.
3.The structure of the human body and any animal that was alive attracted his attention.
4.Yes.
5.How to prepare a body for it with all its muscles and organs still remained a difficult job for him.
6.Because the small size of the parts slowed down his speed.
T:Well done!Have you any problem in understanding the passage?If any,please ask me.
S4:I don’t know how to translate the sentence “My father was so…a map” into Chinese,and why he said he had
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