上海牛津英语8a chaptr4-2上海牛津英语8a chapter4-2.doc

Chapter 4 Teaching Plan Chapter topic: overview Chapter aims: to review language connected with numbers and maths in general. Main passage: numbers as an international language, and includes some information about the history of numbers. Listening section: consists of a quiz about numbers. Language section: there are several exercises about puzzles and games with numbers. Speaking section: practices ways of pronouncing and talking about numbers. Writing section: about using and understanding simple graphs. First Period Ⅰ.Teaching aims: Let students know the importance of numbers as an international language. Let students know the background of the numbers. Teaching procedure: Ⅰ.Warming-up Let students know the importance of numbers by asking some questions. Which class are you in? What time is it now? How old are you? How many students are there in our class? How much is your English book? How tall are you? How much do you weigh? 2. The cartoon: make sure students understand the order of the speech bubbles in the cartoon. In the cartoon, ‘Hi’ is tricking ‘Lo’ by saying that his cat gave the correct answer to a simple sum. The answer was zero, and because the cat did not say anything (‘it said nothing’), it thus gave the correct answer. Ⅱ.Pre-task preparation Tell students they are going to read about an international language---numbers. Ask them what international means. Ensure that students understand the meaning used by or connected with several nations or countries. Ask them what we mean by saying that numbers are an international language. Ask for examples of another international language (e.g., English, French, etc.), an international city (e.g., Shanghai, New York, London, etc.), an international airline (e.g., Cathay Pacific 国泰航空公司) Ⅲ.While-task procedure Tell students that the word digit has two meanings, a number (1,2,3, etc.) and a finger. Then tell them that the words calculator and calculate came from a word that meant a stone. Ask the to guess