Unit 1 A Trip to Beijing

Teaching content:

1. Mastery words:

may, go shopping, trip, city, from, kilometer, hard, great, eat, ask,

live

2. Talking about distance.

3. May I …? Yes, you may. / No, you may not.

Teaching aims:

  1. Master some new words.

  2. Understand the meaning of the text.

  3. Pattern: May I …?

Key points:

1. May I…?

Yes, you may. / No. you may not.

  2. too…to…

Teaching difficult points:

the usage of “too…to…”

Preparation：

Prepare some pictures of Beijing.

Teaching aids:

Pictures and tape recorder.

Type of lesson:

Dialogue.

Teaching Procedures:

1．Class opening

Greet the class in English.  Ask them some questions about their holidays such as “What did you do in your holiday? Were you busy in your holiday? Describe an interesting thing in your holiday.” Help them express themselves.

2．New lesson

Step 1. Lead in

      Introduce the topic for Unit 1. Ask the class to discuss the questions in “Think about it”. First ask the students：

      Where did you go in your holiday?

Did you go to Beijing? Where is Beijing？

What direction is Beijing from our hometown?

Which place is it in the picture? (Use some pictures such as Tian’anmen Square, Tiantan, and the Great Wall and so on.)

      Help them answer the questions.

Step 2. Let the students listen to the tape of the dialogue with the following questions:

Who will go to Beijing with Li Ming？

       What does Li Ming want to do in Beijing?

Step 3. Answer the questions and discuss the dialogue with the class again. Deal with the language points at the same time (on the blackboard or the slide projector). Make sure they understand the meaning of the dialogue and know how to express distance and use May I…?

Step 4. Play the audiotape again and have the students read after it.

Step 5. Practice

Ask the students to read themselves .Walk around and deal with any question they have. Have them act out the dialogue in groups. Correct their pronunciations at the same time.

Step 6. Do the following exercises: Take a pen from a student and ask “May I use your pen?” help him answer “Yes, you may. / No, you may not.” And then let the students do the exercise in groups using some things on their desks.

Step 7. Exercises

Do the exercises in the activity book.

3. Class closing[来源:Zxxk.Com]

(1) Finish the activity book.

(2) Read the text in Lesson 1.

(3)    The next reading in the student book.