Teaching Plan of Unit Eight in Book III.doc

Teaching Plan of Unit Eight in Book III Teaching Aims: In this unit students are required to: Practice reading strategies such as predicting, skimming, guessing, etc. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich student’s vocabulary; Do some oral work such as pre-reading questions, role play and interaction activities to help to develop the students’ oral communicative abilities; Appreciate the two arguments in this unit and learn some writing skills and practice it along with letter writing; Do some other after-class exercise including listening and translation to improve students’ comprehensive skills. Teaching Emphasis: 1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I; 2. New words and expressions: Shelter, end up with, engross, browsing, retire, indulgent, beckon, tell off, tuck, discreet, poverty-stricken, a nose for, persevere, flick Procedure: (4 hours) 1. Review the main points in last class; 2. Study the new unit: Answer the pre-reading questions orally; Allow students 2 minutes for rapid reading and 5 minutes for writing the main idea of each paragraph; Do the guesswork of vocabulary; Study Text I intensively; Answer the questions of Text I both in SB(student’s book) and WB(workbook) orally; Listen to the tape and study Text II extensively to enlarge their vocabulary and widen the scope of their knowledge; Do oral work; Study the main points of guided writing, including the paragraph writing of persuasive writing, and the letter writing as to make a suggestion; Homework, finish all the exercise both in SB and WB. Language points: 1.?shelter n. u.n. condition of being kept safe, from rain, danger 保护，遮蔽 In the storm, we took shelter under a tree. 我们在树下躲雨。 c.n. sth that gives safety or protection a bus shelter 公共汽车候车亭 ? 2. Whatever Do whatever (pron. anything) you like. 做任何你爱做的事情。 Keep calm, whatever happens. (pron. no matter what) 无论发生什么，保持冷静。 Take whatever measures you think best. (adj. of any sort) 采取你认为最好的措施。 ? 3. be aware of : having knowledge or re