Period 1 Warming up & Listening

Teaching Aims:

1 To help Ss get to know more about water and water has brought us both in our daily life and spiritual life.

2 To develop Ss’ listening ability by listening activities.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points:

1 Getting the Ss to express themselves while doing the experiments shown in warming up.

2 Learning some English poems about ocean and the life of sailors and fishermen

3 Trying to understand what the given passages in listening are talking about.

Teaching Methods:

1 Practising talking about water and ocean.

2 Listening activities

3 Individual, pair, and group work to make every student active in class.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Greetings

Step 2 Revision

Check the language points of unit 12.

Step 3 Lead-in

Get Ss to know the new words of unit 13

Ask Ss a question. Why water is so important for us?

(Not only because it is one of the living elements we have to rely on, but also because it affects us in almost every aspect in our daily life, ranging from every necessities to some activities for entertainment.)

Show Ss a 地球儀 or a map of world.

What’s this? What colour is it? (blue) Why is it blue? (covered by water)

Today we will learn something about water and the ocean.

At the beginning of the class, Let’s do some experiments. (Warming up)

Discuss the questions in warming up.

Step 4 Listening

Do you know some poems about water and the ocean?

We will learn something about it.

Let’s go to the Listening part. It’s about a poem written by an English poet.

Go through the given part of listening.

Listen to tape for the first time to get a general idea about listening material.

Listen to tape for the second time to finish the exercise in part 1 & 2.

Listen to tape for the third time to check your answers.

Step 5 Homework

1 Revise the new words of unit 13.

2 Preview speaking.