Period 4 Word power
編寫(xiě)： 焦崇艷 吳習(xí)紅 審核：徐覺(jué)慶
Teaching Aims:
Learn to read a map.
Enlarge our vocabulary by learning about school facilities.
Teaching Important Points:
Help the students to find the way and express themselves in English.
Some common techniques to enlarge our vocabulary.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to express themselves in English when finding the way.
Master some techniques to enlarge vocabulary.
Teaching Methods:
Competition to stimulate them to act quickly and actively.
Association to increase their interest and enlarge vocabulary.
Teaching Aids:
A multimedia and the Bb.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Greetings
1. Greet the whole class as usual.
2. Check their homework if any.
Step 2 Reading the map of the school
Introduce some words and expressions related to school facilities.
facilities library lecture hall offices dormitories medical centre classrooms
car park art room garden gym science laboratory stores swimming pool canteen
Review expressions of asking and answering the way.
A: Would you please tell me where the canteen is?
How can I get to the lecture hall?
What is the quickest way to get from the dormitories to Classroom 4?
B: Go along this road and turn left at the third crossing and go past…
Finish exercise A & B to familiarize them with the school facilities.
Step 3 Notice completion
Review the names of the buildings mentioned in part A and help Wei Hua finish the notice in part C. ( the whole class may check together for it is a revision.)
Step 4 Part D: Gym
T: What pieces of equipment can you think of in the gym?
Ss: basketball court, skipping rope, running machine, beam, rings…
T: Now let’s write the number of each piece in the correct box in part D.
Some ways to enlarge the students’ vocabulary:
1. some related words
e.g. words related to basketball: basket, backboard, rebound, ring, NBA/CBA, foul, player, basket support…
2. words of a same group: football, volleyball, golf, table tennis, soccer, baseball, softball, tennis…
3. words of similar meanings
e.g. 表示“可能，可能性”的同近義詞： possible, probably, maybe, can, should, might, may, perhaps…
4. derivation
e.g. compete-competition---competitor---competitive
5. suffix & prefix
( Ask students to give examples of prefixes and suffixes and explain their meanings.)
Step 5 Summary and Homework
Today we have covered word power. In this class we learned to express ourselves in finding ways. After class finish today’s the homework paper.