Teaching Plan for Unit 13, Senior 2
The First Period
首峰中学英语组 雷海红
Content: Warming-up, Speaking and Listening.
Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the new words and the useful expressions of this part.
2.Learn something about water by doing experiment.
3.Do some listening.
4.Improve the students’ speakingability by talking.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Make the students be free to talk about water.
2.Improve the students’ listening ability by listening.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to finish the task of speaking.
2.How to improve the students’ listening ability.
Teaching Methods:
1.Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through with the listening material.
2.Individual , pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.a globe.
2.an empty glass, a bottle of water and a bottle of vegetable oil

Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings and lead-in.
Ask the students to guess a riddle:
It’s very important to all the animals and plants.
It’s also important to human beings.
It’s liquid at room temperature.
Every day you keep in touch with it.
You can’t live without it.
(a thing)
Step II Warming up.
Teacher show the students the globe, and ask many questions.
Task 1: Do some experiments following the instructions in the book.
Experiment 1 Cover a glass of water with a piece of thick paper. Put one hand on the paper and turn the glass upside down. Slowly take your hand away from the paper.
Experiment 2 Pour water and vegetable oil into a glass.
Experiment 3 Put a piece of chalk in water for 24 hours.
Task 2: While doing these experiments , the students are asked to observe carefully and try to describe the phenomena.)
Step III. Speaking
T: In our daily life, water can be used in different ways. Now we will talk about the ways in which water can be used. Look at the pictures on Page 18. The six pictures means six different ways to use water.
Task 3: Choose one of the pictures and discuss the importance of using and protecting our water.
Example: (picture 1)
Water can be used to make electricity. Water energy is clean and safe, but dams sometimes destroy the environment. This is a good way to use water because the water stays clean and can be reused. Everyone benefits from this way of using the water.
Task 4: Make a dialogue with partner by using the useful expressions on P19.
Example(picture 6):
A: Do you know how the water is being used in Picture 6?
B: Water is being used for entertainment.
A: Is it a good way to use water?
B: Yes, because it can help people keep fit and enjoy nature. But if people throw rubbish into the water, it will be dad for us.
Step IV. Listening
(Part 1 on P95, WB)
Instructions:
In this part, the students will hear about diving. Here the equipment needed by a diver is described and explained.
Task 5: Finish the Exercise 1, 2, 3 , P95
Step V. Summary and Homework.
Preview the text and consider the pre-reading questions of it.

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