A d v a n c e W i t h E n g l i s h M o d u l e3Unit 1 The world of our sensesPeriond 1: welcome to the unitAims: ---to give the Ss the idea that soemtimes the senses affect one another and people may be misled by them to help them to realize how they use their senses in their studies and daily life and to teacch them how to make better use of their senses.--- ask Ss to fully participate in the discussion, practise their spoken English, and share their opinions with one another.Precedures:Step 1 brainstormingAsk the following questions:With what do we see and hear?How do we know that a flower has a pleasant smell?How do we know whether a dish is delicious?What do we do when we want to know whether the wather in the basinis hot or cold?How do we know about the world around us? What are the five senses?(Blackboard: see – eyes—sight—lookHear-ears—hearing—soundTaste—tongue—taste—tasteSmell—nose—smell—smellTouch/feel—skin—touch--feel)As we all know almost everyone has five senses. We learn about the world through the five senses and we use them to study, wok and relax.Step 2 sharing informationAsk Ss to read the short passage and the main ideaAsk them to give more examplesLook at the 4 pictures and answer the questions below.Homework: translation事实情况是雾太大，车开不了那么远。
因为恐惧，她能感到自己的心跳。
今天有那么多人迷路，我想帮助他们。
Period 2: ReadingTeaching aims:1 Encourage students speak out to practice their oral English.2 Arose their interest in learning this unit through activities.3 Let them know the importance of senses and know that sometimes senses affect one another and people may be misled by their own senses.Difficult points:Encourage the students to share their opinions by fully participating in the discussion in order to realize how they and other people use their senses in their studies and daily life.Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-in (Pictures 1-3)Lead in the five senses by asking the students their life experiences.The five senses are:The sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the sense of taste, the sense of smell and the sense of touch.They enable us to know the world around us.Step 2: Discussion (Pictures 4-5)What will happen if you lose one or two of your senses?Do you know how blind people can read?Step 3: Reading (Pictures 6-7)A. Read the passage and find the answers to these questions:Do you know how blind people can read?How do the deaf communicate with each other?B. Solve the language problems while reading.Step 4: Sharing information and Observation (Picture 8)A. Question:Do you believe sometimes senses may cheat us and they mayaffect one another?B. Show some examples. (Pictures 9-13)Step 5: Discussion (Pictures 14-15)A. Ask the students the following question and then have a discussion. They are all expected to beinvolved in the discussion, practice their spoken English, and share their opinions with each other.Question: Why are people misled by their own eyes?B. After the discussion the teacher draw the conclusion thatBecause the background or other lines confuse the eyes.Also, what we expect to see can change what we see.Actually, it is more the brain that is confused than the eyes.C. Remind the students that no matter how our eyes may cheat us, we do need our eyes as wellas other senses. So we should protect our senses. We can see that health is very important inour life and good senses also improve our life quality. Maybe the best wayto avoid beingcheated by our senses is that we sense, meanwhile, we think. (Picture 16)Step 6 Consolidation (Picture 17). Review the five senses once again and finish the exercises given on show, which, of course are related to the senses.Step 7 Discussion (Picture 18)Do you know that some famous people are disabled?Raise examples and talk about their contributions.Step 8 Assignments (Picture 19)1.Preview the reading part, do exercise C1 and C2.2.Find information about some more famous people who are disabled and yet make greatcontributions to the world.Period 3: Word powerTeaching aims:1. Enlarge students’ vocabulary2. Let students know more about weather. Teaching important points:Remember these words and try to use them freely. Teaching proceduresStep1. Lead inQuestions for them to answerWhich word is used twice besides the noun street in the two sentences?1.Once out in the street, she walked quickly towards her usual bus stop.2.‘Here we are, King Street.’ he stopped.Step 2. Presentation and exercisesB Complete the report clearly.The air sometimes smells very bad. Do you know what (1) this? One (2) is traffic. Dose anyone have an (3) to the problem of global warming? So far even scientists can’t (4) this question. In some countries you can see people without (5)sleeping on the streets. It’s d ifficult to (6) all the people who need homes. In some other countries, the price of food (7) every year. Poor people often have to go hungry because they cannot afford the (8) .答案：causes cause answer answer houses house increases increaseStep 3. Explain more words of the text.observe(page 2, line 14)As Polly observed the passengers on the train, she sensed that she was being watched by a tall man in a dark coat.释义：a. to see or notice sb / sth 看到注意到观察到b. to watch sb / sth carefully 观察；监视c. to obey rules, laws, etc 遵守（规则、法律等）练习1：猜猜下面各句中的observe的含义与上面哪种释义相匹配。