Unit1 The 8th period
Content: Integrated skills
A Teaching aims:
1. To listen for details about changes to Lantau Island.
2. To focus on general meaning by identifying specific details in pictures and general context.
3. To understand and respond to factual information presented in written and oral forms.
4.To respond to information obtained from listening by completing a letter.
Important and difficult points:
Four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
Teaching procedures:
Step1.Revision
1. Review and dictate some past participles.2. Review the opposites.3. Check homework.
Step2.Listening
1. Talk about Daniel and Siomon’s history project.2. Compare the two pictures in P14 A13. Listen①.Listen to get a general understanding of the conversation
②.Listen to complete the sentences in Part A
③.Listen to check by themselves
4.Check the answers
Step3.Complete the letter in A2
1. Complete and check
2. Note:
⑴get a letter from=hear from
⑵go to…for a holiday/go on holiday
⑶thanks(thank you) for sth/doing sth
eg. Thanks for your help/having us.
⑷I’m glad to hear (that)+陈述句eg. I’m glad to hear (that) he has arrived safely/he will come to see me.
⑸There have been many changes in Hong Kong.
=Hong Kong has changed a lot.=Great changes have taken place in Hong Kong.
eg.There have been a park near here for four years.
⑹be in use= be in service
⑺be +V(过分) 被……eg.He is called Tom.People call him Tom. a boy called Tom(过分做定语)
⑻to/in the north of
Canada is to the north of the USA.(并列)Inner Mongolia is in the north of China. (从属)
⑼hope to do/hope +句子 hope sb to do(×)eg.I hope to hear from you as often as before./I hope you can write to me as often as before.
⑽wish sb sth
eg.I wish you a happy new year.
wish sb to do sth
eg.I wish him to have a pleasant trip.
wish + 句子
eg.I wish everything goes on well with you.
⑾be surprised by/at… 某人对…感到惊奇
eg.I was surprised by/at what I saw.be surprised to do I was surprised to meet him in the street.
surprised 指人,对…吃惊/surprising 指物,令人吃惊的
eg.They are surprised to hear the surprising news. ⑿over the years=during the years
3.Review the format of writing letters
4.Read the letter
Step4.Assignment