Unit 6 HobbiesLecturer: Cai JieTeaching Objectives:Students (Ss) will be able to:●Have a deeper understanding about different shopping behavior of men and women.●Mastering the key language points and grammatical structures in the text.●How to talk about one’s hobbies.●Master the Grammar of Tenses●Translating skill：Translation of Tenses●Writing and replying to Invitation Letters.Teaching Focus:●Vocabulary: enrich, be crazy about doing, assistant, in stock, promptly, proceeds, lightly,substitute, persuade, patience, opposite, companion, in advanc e, to one’s satisfaction, base…on / upon, in every respect, make up one’s mind, strength, exactly, poverty, go back to liquid, estate, suffer from, be equal to, before long etc.●How to talk about one’s hobbies.●Master of the grammar of TensesTime Allotment:Teaching Methods:●Explanation●Group discussion●Questions and answers●Multi-media●PerformanceTeaching Procedure:1st Period1. Warming up for the new class:♦What do you enjoy doing the most?♦Are your hobbies good for your work or health? Try to explain.3.SpeakingDividing the students into groups of four or fiveTask 1Ask the students to work in groups and practice sample dialogues●Talk about your favorite outdoor activities with your partner.●Talk about one of your favorite movies with your partner.●Talk about one of your favorite sports with your partner.Ask the students to work in groups to1) Understand the short dialogues on Page 121-122 of the Textbook2) To act outTask 2Work in pairs and make a short dialogue based on the information given below.My Hobbies♦Listening to pop songs sung by…♦Listening to famousHow to Enjoy My Hobbies♦Listening to the radio♦Listening to an MP3 playeAct out in front of the class4Focus on Listening1) Word tips:●prefer宁愿，更喜欢prefer sth.prefer sth. above all othersprefer A to Bprefer doing A to doing Bprefer to do sth.prefer doing sth.prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.prefer+that-clause●enrich v. to improve the quality of something by adding something elsee.g. Reading can enrich your mind.e.g. I have more time to enrich myself/learn more.●be crazy about doing sth. 为……疯狂e.g. The boy has been crazy about computer games for a year.2) Finish the exercise of listening comprehension on page 124-1252nd Period1. Lead-in story:Is there any gender difference in the shopping behaviors of men and women?Give students a short video of FIVE minutes to talk about the different habits of men andwomen, and ask students to discuss the differences after watching it.2. Intensive Reading (Text A) Pre-reading:After the lead-in story and questions, the teacher asks the students to look at the theme of Text A and try to answer the questions as follow:1. Do men and women have the same experience when they shop?2. What do you usually buy while shopping?3. What is your mother’s shopping behavior?3rd– 4th Periods1.Warming-up Activities:Ask some students to share their oral passage with the whole class.1. shopping for clothes is the same experience for a man as it is for a woman, isn’t it?2. Why does a man go shopping?3. Why can a man simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want?4. “If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it.” In this sentence, what does “produce” mean?5. What does the name “salesman” imply?6. What is a woman’s shopping based on?7. Does a woman buy clothes in haste?8. Why do the husbands just wait but not involve in their wives’ shopping?2. While-reading (Text A)1) Text OrganizationAfter scanning the whole text, students are required to find the top sentences of each paragraph. And try to divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea of each part.Part 1 (Para 1-2): Men’s shopping behavior. A man goes shopping because he needs something. Part 2 (Para 3): Women’s shopping behavior. A woman goes shopping often for leisure instead of buying what they need.3). Language pointsExplain the difficult words and sentences, including language and grammatical points.Focus:●in advance: before a particular time, or before doing a particular thinge.g. If you’re going to come, please let me know in advance.e.g. They finished the task in advance.e.g. Is it cheaper if we buy our tickets in advance?●consideration [U]. when you think about something carefullye.g. The whole matter needs careful consideration.take sth. into consideratione.g. Time factor is what we must first take into consideration.●in stock 有现货，有存货e.g. We don't have the book in stock but we can order it.in store 贮藏着；准备着, 将要发生●promptly: quickly, without delaye.g. We’ll have to leave fairly promptly if we want to catch that train.e.g. So that we can promptly help you to solve the problem!●proceed v. to continue as plannede.g. The work is proceeding according to plan.proceed to do…e.g. She sat down and proceeded to tell me about her skiing holiday.proceed with sth.e.g. Please proceed with what you are doing.e.g. Tell us your name and then proceed with your story.proceed from …e.g. All these evils proceed from war.●in this/that case 既然这样/ 那样，假若这样/ 那样e.g. In this case, price is an important consideration.in no case无论如何不，决不in the case of至于……，就……来说in case假使；免得，以防万一in any case无论如何，不管怎样in some/many/most cases一些/许多/大部分情况下●imply v. to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directlye.g. His silence implied agreement.e.g. I think freedom does imply responsibility.●substitute n.代用品,替补；代替者, v.代替substitute A for Be.g. The coach substituted Smith for Jones.substitute teacher / doctor●in every respect在每一个方面in this respect 在这点上e.g. In his respect, they indeed played a critical role in this event.in respect of 关于，涉及e.g. We reviewed China’s progress of the previous year in respect of economic growth andcultural development.●base on … / upon把……建立在某种基础上, 基于be based ... on/upone.g. I base my conclusion on facts.e.g. My conclusion is based on facts.e.g. A good marriage is based on trust.e.g. Teaching is an art based on a science.●make up one’s mind (to do) 下定决心e.g. I made up my mind to study harder.e.g. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it.make up one’s mind that …e.g. She made up her mind that, no matter what happened, she would stay there.change your mind 改变主意bear/keep sb/sth in mind牢牢记住cross/enter sb’s mind 想起来，想过be out of one’s mind 发疯了bring/call sth to mind 回想起来●companion n. a person who is frequently in the company of anothere.g. They’re drinking companions.companionable adj. 友善的company n. v. 陪伴in company with 连同，一道e.g. I, in company with many others, feel this decision was wrong.in the company of与... 一起e.g. It is in the company of such music that I feel most at home.●apparently adv. used when the real situation is different from what you thought it wase.g. She looks about 10 but apparently she’s 14.e.g. But apparently time has not solved any of our problems.something seems to be true, although it is not certaine.g. Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of bad temper.4) Explain some difficult sentences, encourage students paraphrase some sentences.4. Post-reading ExercisesReading comprehension exercises (see textbook P129-131)5AssignmentReview the phrases and expressionsTry to retell the Reading Text A5th– 6th Periods1.Lead-inAsk several students to retell the Reading Text A.2.Extensive Reading Text B1)Pre-reading：discussionStudents are required to discuss the topics in a group of four or five,Do you like drinking tea?Do you know how many kinds of tea are there in China?Green Tea / Black Tea / Oolong Tea / Brick Tea / Scented TeaGive a brief instruction about the afternoon tea in Britain. And showing a short film about ten minutes about the afternoon tea in Britain.2) While-reading: Scanning1. Scanning and find these statements True or False?T 1. This passage tells the r eader what part tea plays in British people’s life.T 2. “To take some slight refreshment” means to drink some tea and eat some cakes to bring back one’s strength and energy.T 3. The English custom of afternoon tea has been observed for over two hundred years.F 4. In fact, the English custom of afternoon tea, it is said, goes back to the early eighteenthcentury.T 5. Today Englishmen drink more tea than any other nation.F 6. Tea only grows in warm countries. The British first heard of tea in 1598.F 7. In Britain tea is very expensive.F 8. Life is far from cheerful for many of those who produce tea in other parts of the world.3) Explain some key words and language points in Text B.●customary: usual, traditional adj.习惯的；通常的e.g. In my village, it is customary for a girl to take her mother’s name.●go back to 返回到，追溯到e.g. It’s a tradition that goes back at least 100 years.●suffer from: v. to experience physical or mental paine.g. Our town suffered from floods last year.e.g. She suffers from headaches.e.g. All over the world many people still suffer from hunger .●bring back拿回来；使…恢复；使…回忆起来e.g. This win will bring back our long lost confidence.e.g. Warm home may bring back our sense of safetybring back to memory / bring back to one’s mind●average n.平均数，平均；一般水平，中等水平e.g. The boy’s work at school is above (the) average.e.g. The average age of the boys in this class is fifteen.be well (quite) up to the average 完全达到一般水平below the average 在一般水平(或平均数)以下on (the) average 按平均值，平均来说，平均起来，一般说来；通常[亦作on an average]●in times of 处于…时刻，正当…时in times of trouble患难时期，困难时期in times of war / crisis / prosperity / peace / danger●deal in: to buy and sell particular goods as a businesse.g. We deal in hardware but not software.e.g. I’ve dealt in motorcars for twenty years.●poverty n. the condition of being extremely poore.g. The novel shows a surprising poverty of imagination.e.g. The real poverty is ignorance, not want of money.poverty gap / level / line●be equal to 相等的，相同的, 胜任e.g. The task took quick thinking, but John was equal to it.e.g. Helen is quite equal to Jack in brains.●before long : soonlong before: long agoe.g. Long before, there was a big museum.e.g. I hope I can write to you before long.AssignmentReview the phrases and expressions \7th –8th Periods1.Post-reading of Text BDo the exercises and check the answers. （133-134）2.Translation Skills: (Tenses)3Writing: (Invitation Letters)1) Explanation of Leave-taking Memo or Notes邀请信有两种形式：正式邀请信和非正式邀请信。