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1、Unit Tell me about your familyUnit 5 Tell me about your family Objective: Tell me about your family Importance: 1. The new words: cousin niece nephew 2. Sentence patterns: a. There are 6 in my family. b. I have 2 sisters and a brother. Difficulty: The pronunciation of the new words. Teaching Procedu
2、res: Cycle 1 Step 1: Warm-up and Review Get the Ss to watch several family pictures(the first may be the teachers). And talk about the pictures when showing. They might be something like this: 1. This is a picture of my family. This is my father. He likes country music. And this is my mother. She li
3、kes classical music. I have two brothers. Both of them prefer jazz. There are five people in my family. I love my family. 2. This is a picture of Vans family. He is married. He has two children. He has a daughter and a son. He loves his family. Step 2: word power Write the word family in a circle on
4、 the board. Then write the words mother and father around the circle. Ss brainstorm words for family membersand make a list. As needed, teach other family words. Ask Ss to open their books and look at the picture of Sams family tree. First go through each word in the list and on the family tree. The
5、n ask questions like: How many people are there in Sams family? And who are they? How are these people related to him? And ask them to add the words to the family tree. Then check their answers all together. Step 3: practice Draw your family tree on the board while Ss do their work. Describing your
6、own family and encourage Ss ask you questions. Ask Ss to look at Sams family tree on the book, and get individual student to suppose him/her as Dennis or Gray or any other member of the family tree, then describe his/her family to the whole class. Answer any questions Ss may have about additional vo
7、cabulary(e.g., great-grandmother, great-grandfather, grandson, granddaughter, son-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in law, divorced, remarried). Step 4: listening Tell Ss to look at the photos of the six famous people. And ask: 1. Do you know where they live and what they do?(Elicit answers: They live
8、in America and they are famous American movie actors.) 2. But how are the people related? Play the audio program for the Ss to catch the family relationships. Then check answers around the class. Point out that the plural of sister-in-law is sisters-in-law. Ask Ss the pural of brother-in-law. Step 5
9、: conversation Focuse Ss attention on the pictures.Ask “How do you think they are related to Sue?” Books closed half Ss listen for information about the woman and the rest Ss listen for information about the man. Play the audio program and complete the task. Play the audio program again. Ss read aft
10、er the tap. Ss practice the conversation in pairs, correct their pronunciation. Listen to the rest of the conversation and answer two questions. Where do Ritas parents live? What do they do? Step 6: pronunciation Play the audio program. Point out the falling intonation. Ss repeat the statements.ask
11、different Ss to say the statements to check their intonation. Practice the conversation in exercise 3 again. Ss work in pairs. gp around the class and check Sss intonation. Step 7: grammar focus Draw the chart on the board: Usually Right now _ Sues sisiter Sues brother Focuse Ss attention on the con
12、versation on page 31. Ask: “What does Sues sister do? What is she doing right now?” Elicit or explain the difference between the two tenses(simple present = habitual actions; present continous = actions that are happening right now). Ask Ss to underline the time expressions in the Grammar Focus box
13、that show the action is temporary or current:(now, this year, these days, this week, right now and this month). Ss practice the conversations sitting back-to-back or with their cell phones. Ask follow-up questions to get more information. Step 8: home work Recite the conversation Make up a conversat
14、ion talk about your partners family members Cycle 2 Step 1: snapshot Books closed.write these questions on the board: 1. What percentage of homes in the U.S. have three or more televisions? a. 41% b. 61% c. 81% 2. What percentage of families in the U.S. almost always eat dinner together? a. 23% b. 4
15、3% c. 63 ask Ss to guess the answers to these questions. Then elicit their guesses. Books open. Ss read the snapshot to find the answers. Go over the facts about the U.S. Ss then discuss if each fact is positive or negative in small groups. Ss write guess about their own country in second column. Th
16、en they share and discuss their guesses. Step 2: conversation Draw the chart on the board: Where from? Number of brothers/sisters? Typical? 1. Mei-li 2. Marcos Books closed, play the audio program. Ss listen for the answers. Ask Ss to complete the chart if they can. Books open. Play the audio progra
17、m again. Ss look at the piicture and read the conversation silently. Then practice the conversation in pairs. Read the focus question aloud. Ask Ss to make predictions. Ss listen to find out the answer. Step 3: grammar focus Point out the quantififiers in the grammer focus box.(when people dont know
18、 the exact percentage of something, they use words like most or some.) Ask Ss to find two sentences with quantifiers in the conversation on page 33. Ask: “Who is from a big family? Raise your hands.” Then elicit a statement about the class that start with quantifier(e.g. Most students in the class a
19、re feom big families.) ask more questions and elicit more statements with quantifiers. Ss rewrite the sentences individually. Point out that more than one quantifier may be possible. Then Ss go over their answers. Step 4: homework Ss make statements about the facts in the Snapshot on page 33 using quantifiers instead of percentages.