Show the class the text structure on P127 of TB with PPT and allow them 5 minutes to look through the text with the structure in mind.
Give the Ss 10 minutes to read Para.2 to Para.8 again carefully and try to find the answer to the following 4 questions:
Ask the Ss to work in small groups to discuss the questions listed in the exercise of Exploring the Topic on P60 of SB.
Elicit answers from some students and give them helps where necessary.
2) How to use pronouns (“Basic Writing Skills”)
Writing
Understanding and writing timetables/schedules (“Practical Writing”)
Teaching Plan
单元
主题
A Turn in Life
Section B
Text B:Ahead of the Game
Section C
Practical Writing: Understanding and Writing Timetables/ Schedules
教学活动安排建议
Leading In and Exploring the Topic
delight, favorite, hesitate, sight
Phrases and
Expressions
connect with; hit on; glance
through; deal with; get used to;
reflect on; become/be absorbed
in; focus on
To be able to make sentences withdeal with, focus on, every now and then,andbe used to.
To be able to rewrite sentences after models, usingthe structure“the more…, the more”or the expression of“instead of”.
课时安排
8
教育
教学
目标
(学生)
Tolearn the difficulty in fighting the addiction to the Internet and try to develop a good habit of using the Internet.
Tolearn to be positive and helpful.
ahead of; suffer from; be concerned
about; work out; take on; in/within
sight; ever since
Grammar
1) How to use the structure“the more…the more…”and the
expression“instead of”(“Focusing on Sentence Structure”)
1) What is the author’s friend suffering from? Why?
2) What did the author’s friend like to do when they were in college?
3) What did the author’s friend receive one day?
Ask some students to tell their answers to the class and explain why.
Check the understanding of the class by explaining the examples given on P69 of SB.
Tolearn some rules of using pronouns.
To be able tounderstand and write a timetable/schedule.
教
学
设
计
教学
内容
Section A
Text A:30 Days Without the Internet—ASelf-Experiment
Ask each student to write a Chinese schedule for next week and then write an English one according to the Chinese one.
课后学习设计
作业
(学生)
Finish all the exercises in Unit Four.
Unit4 A Turn in Life
Teaching Focus
Text A
Text the Internet—ASelf-Experiment
Ahead of the Game
Vocabulary
offline, disconnect, headline,
3)What benefits can you think of to live without the Internet?
Ask some representatives to share their groups’opinion with the class.
Section A Reading Through
课后
总结
与
反思
（教师）
4) What are theadvantagesof being disconnected from the
Internet?
Ask some students to share their answerswiththe class. Give them some help wherenecessary.
Read the passage in Reading Out on P64 of SB and recite it.
List some other ways to fight Internet addiction besides the ones used in Text A.
Write yourself an English schedule for next week.
Then give the Ss 5 minutes to discuss the following three questions:
1)What do you usuallyuse the Internet for?
2)What will you do if you can’t access the Internet for more thana week?
Section B Reading More
Ask the students to read and be familiar with the content of Text B.
Pair up the Ss in class and allow them 10 minutes to discuss the following questions:
4) What words did his friend find on it?
5) What did his friend do at last?
6) What will you do if you are the friend?
7) What will you do if you the author?
Encourage some volunteers to share their ideas with the class.
Section C Practical Writing
Guide the students to finish the three exercises on P76 to P77 of SB according to the samples given.
To be familiar with the context meaning and the use of those vocabulary of the two texts listed in the above table.
To be familiar with the collocation of those phrases and expressions listed in the above table.
separate, uneasy, major, inform,
distract, replace, remain, surf,
absorb, moreover, focus, delay
ahead, suffer, previous, convince,
hide, disappoint, locate, atmosphere,
Highlight some difficult sentences and elicit explanations from students and give helps where necessary.
Basic Writing Skills