Teaching Design
7A Unit4 Food
Period 1 Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
涟水县实验中学 李峻

Analysis of the teaching material
The teaching material is about‘Comic strip and Welcome to the unit’.In the comic strips, there is a funny dialogue between Eddie and Hobo, which tells the students that they’ll learn something about food in the unit.‘Welcome to the unit’belongs to warm-up activities.In this part, it can arouse the students’ interest in studying food. The students are required to give free talks and share their individual information with each other. By talking about their favourite food, the students will learn some words and expressions about food and learn how to express likes and dislikes.
Teaching goals
1.Knowledge goals
1).Learn the four – skilled words and expressions about food.
hamburger hungry energy never bowl vegetable hate carrot healthy
2) Master some useful phrases:
have a hamburger ,many times a day , walk to
3) Master the following sentence patterns.
What’s your favourite food?
What food do you like?
What about……?
I like/dislike/hate/love……
2.Ability goals
1)Enable the students to discuss the food they like and dislike.
2)Learn how to express likes and dislikes.
3.Emotion goals
1)Enable the students to know the importance to have a healthy diet.
2)Learn to share information with partners in pair and group work.
Teaching important and difficult points
1.Discuss the food the students like and dislike.
2.How to help the students learn how to express likes and dislikes.
Teaching aids
Multimedia recorder
Teaching procedures
Step I Warm-up activities and lead-in(Welcome to the unit)
Get the students to sing an English song ‘AppleTree’ together
(The song is shown on the screen. Begin the class with an English song ‘Apple Tree’ to draw the students’ attention and to arouse their interest in this class.)
T：(After singing) Now, boys and girls, do you like the song?
Ss：….
T：What is the song about?
Ss：Apples.
T：Do you like apples?
Ss：….
T：(Show fruits: Apples、 oranges、 bananas…on the screen)Now, look at the fruits, what is your favourite fruit?
S1：… S2 : … S3: …
Step Ⅱ Presentation
T： Well, look at the foods,(Show fish、rice、hamburgers、cakes、etc. on the screen) what is your favourite food?(Learn some new words by reviewing the learnt names of food using the sentence pattern ‘What is your favourite food?’ and pictures.)
Ss: … S1: … S2：…
T： But I like hamburgers (If some student says he likes hamburgers, the teacher will say ‘Me too.’)
T： (Show the word ‘hamburgers’ on the screen) Read after me, hamburger, a hamburger, two hamburgers (Practice it in time; get the students to pay attention to the plural form of noun)
T： (Pause, show them a real hamburger with chicken, with proper body language) What’s this?
Ss： It’s a hamburger.
T ： It’s a hamburger with…（Pause）
Ss： Chicken.( Help them answer it if necessary)
T： Yeah, but do you think I like hamburgers with chicken? Can you guess?
Ss： Yes…No…
T： Now, you, please, do you think I like it?
S1：… S2：…
T：(Silent, smiling.If the students answer‘No’,the teacher will say‘You are quite right.Idon’t like hamburgers with chicken,but with vegetables’.)
T： (Shaking his head)No, No. I like hamburgers with vegetables, hamburgers with vegetables. (Show them a real hamburger with vegetables. Practice the word ‘vegetable’)
T： Now look at the picture, what’s this?
Ss：It’s…
T： It’s cabbage, cabbage…( Practice it, then learn the new word ‘carrots’ in the same way)
T： As we all know, cabbage and carrots are v
T﹠Ss: Vegetables (Get the students to pay attention to the plural form of noun)
T: Ah! so much delicious food. Oh, I’m hungry (with his hand on the stomach).
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