Crazy English III

课题 Unit 9 Have you ever been to an amusement park?   Period 1

1.Knowledge and Ability Objects

(1)Key vocabulary: amusement; neither

(2)Listening practice.

(3)Target language:

   Have you ever been to an amusement park?

   Yes, I have. I went to Fun Times Amusement Park last year.

   Have you ever been to a water park?

   No, I haven’t.

   Me neither.

   Let’s go to Water City tomorrow.

(4)To train students’ listening and speaking skills.

2.Method Objects in Teaching

(1)Scene teaching method.

(2)Listening and speaking methods.

(3)Pairwork.

3.Sensibility and Value

To be interested in taking part in all kinds of activities in English class.

1.Teaching Key Points

1. Key vocabulary in this period.

2. Target language in this period.

2.Teaching Difficulty

Make conversations freely using the target language.

3.Teaching Aids

1. A tape recorder.

2. A computer for multimedia use.

Teaching Procedures

Step Ⅰ Greetings and Revision

        Greet the class and check the homework.

Step Ⅱ Lead-in

     T: Do you often visit any places on weekends or holidays?

     S: Yes.

     T: Where do you usually go?

     S₁: Parks and zoos on Sundays. There are many kinds of animals in the zoos

        in our city.   

     S₂: On holidays my family and I go to visit some places of interest. I have been to the Great Wall and the Palace Museum in Beijing…

     S₃: …

Step Ⅲ Section A 1a

     T: OK. Now open your books on Page 68. In Part 1a, five places are given. Please read the names of these places. (Teacher writes the names on the blackboard.) Which of these places would you like to visit? Rank them from 1 to 5.

     S _4: Amusement park ______, water park ______, zoo ______ aquarium ______ space museum ______.

     S ₅: Space museum ______, aquarium ______, zoo ______, water park ______, amusement park ______

     S₆: …

Step Ⅳ Read and Act

     Ask students to read the sentences in 1a in pairs. And then ask two or three pairs to act in class.

Step  V  1b

      Listen and try to find out. Have these students ever been to these places?

      Check (√) the boxes.

      Play the tape twice for students and ask them to finish the activity on their own.

      Tapescript:

      Sarah: I’m bored, Claudia. Let’s do something different.

      Claudia: Have you ever been to an amusement park?

      Sarah: Yes, I have. I went to Fun Times Amusement Park last year. Have you ever been to a water park?

      Claudia: No, I haven’t, Sarah.

      Sarah: Me neither. Let’s go to Water City tomorrow.

      Claudia: Well, that sounds fun, but I can’t swim.

      Sarah: Really? I didn’t know that. Well, how about the zoo? Have you been to the zoo?

      Claudia: I’ve been to the zoo a lot of time.

      Sarah: Me, too. And I’ve been to the aquarium also.

      Claudia: So have I, Sarah. I went there on our last school trip.

      Sarah: I know, Claudia. Let’s go to the space museum. I’ve never been there.

      Claudia: That’s a great idea. I went there last year, but I’d like to go there again.

      Ask some students to give their answers and teacher shows the suggested answers on the screen.

Step VI 1c  Pairwork

First ask two students to read the sample dialogue.

S_A: Have you ever been to an aquarium?

S_B: No, I haven’t. How about you ?

Ask and answer questions about the places in the picture in 1c.

Step VII  Summary

T: This class we’ve learned some key words and the target language.

Step VIII  Homework

     T: Learn the new words by heart after class.

Step IX  Blackboard Design