1、The Fifth PeriodTeaching Aims and Demands1Knowledge Objects(1) Key Vocabularyby accident, beverage, thousand, according, according to, ancient, legend, emperor, boil, fire, leaf , nearly, fall into, remain, notice, produce, pleasant, smell, taste, in this way, metal, pie, flying disk, bakery, Bridge
2、port, Connecticut , throw, special(2) The reading passage about tea.(3) The writing passage about the flying disk.2Ability Objects(1) Train the students reading skill on how to answer the questions.(2) Train the students writing skill by writing an article.(3) Train the students speaking skill.3Mora
3、l ObjectsChina is among the leading countries in tea production in the world. Lets learn some history about the invention of tea.Teaching Key Points1The reading passage about tea.2Lots of new words.3The writing practice on the invention of the flying disk.Teaching Difficult Points1To teach the stude
4、nts so many new words in a single class.2To help the students understand the reading passage.3To direct the students to write the article.Teaching Methods1Understanding the passage by answering the questions.2Doing writing practice by writing similar articles to the model one.3Pairwork.Teaching Aids
5、1Some real different kinds of tea and a real flying disk.2A projector.Teaching ProceduresStep Revision1Revise the history of chips by asking the following questions;Were the potato chips invented by mistake?When were they invented ?Who invented the potato chips?How were the potato chips invented?2Di
6、ctate the words below:sprinkle, chef, in the end, by mistake, potato chips, crispy, salty, sweet, sour, thin.3Check the homework.Step 3aThis activity provides reading practice using the target language.First, show the new words in the reading passage on a screen by a projectorPoint to each word on t
7、he screen and teach the children to read it. Do it several times until the students can read each word correctly. Ask some students to read the words to the class to see if they can pronounce each word correctly.Ask the students to read the instructions together.Point to the title of the passage and
8、 say like this, showing a bag of tea to the class, weve learned the history of chips. Now there is a passage about the invention of tea. Please read the article silently by yourselves now and write out the answers to the questions beneath the article.Read these four questions to the class:1What is t
9、he article about?2When was it invented?3Who was it invented by?4How was it invented?Tell them to read the article at least twice. They can try to catch the main idea the first time and answer the questions the second time. Tell them to circle any words or phrases that they dont understand.Ask four d
10、ifferent students to read their answers to the class. Then ask some others to decide if their answers are right. Anyone in the class can provide his or her different answers to the class.Check the answers with the class.Then encourage the children to ask questions on the words or phrases that they d
11、ont understand. Ask other students to explain or define the new words in their own words, but make sure that they can be understood.Have the children correct their answers in writing and read the article loudly several times.Step 3bThis activity provides reading and writing practice using the target
12、 language.Ask the whole class to read the instructions together.Then show a real flying disk to the children and tell the children the name of the toy is a flying disk in English.Youll have to write an article using the notes in the box, The article will tell how the flying disk was invented. At fir
13、st, lets go over the notes in the box. There are some new words.Go over the notes with the class. Point out the new words. Teach them to read and do some explanation at the same time. Make sure that all the students make everything in the notes clear.Then ask the children to look at the contents and
14、 the picture in the right box.Look at the picture in the right box. We can see a flying plate in the animals mouth. And the title of the article has been givenFrom pie plate to flying disk. Also the first sentence has already been given to us. Lets read the title and the first sentence together now.
15、Have the students read together.Find out how the writer combined the phrases in the notes into one sentence and try to say out the next sentence.Let them think for a while. Then ask several ones to say their sentences to the class. The sentences will vary, but have to be correct and meaningful.Then
16、ask the children to make their own sentences with the notes given and note to say out the sentences in proper order to be an article. Let them work in pairs, listen to and help each other.After that, get the students to write their own articles. More around the classroom while they are writing, chec
17、king progress and offering help as necessary.Next, ask several students to share their articles with the class.Correct the mistakes they may have made.If time permits, get the students to work in pairs and check each others article.This activity provides reading and writing practice using the target
18、 language.Read the instructions to the students.There is always something that we hate doing. For example, I hate cleaning the blackboard. What about you?Then ask some children to say the things they dont like doing to the class.After that, continue saying. Now please think of an invention that coul
19、d help you. For me, I want to invent a self-cleaning board with something like a cars windsheld wipers. Then I would never need to clean the blackboard myself. What about you?Get the students to discuss the things they hate doing and the inventions that could help them. Let them work in pairs. Then
20、call the childrens attention to the chart on the right.Get them to look at the sample answer and try to complete the chart first.Ask some children to give their answers to the blanks of use and price. Such as, Use: to write tests instead of me by listening to mePrice: one hundred yuan per penThen ge
21、t the students to fill in the chart with the details of their own inventions. Dont review the task. It will be done in the next task.Step 4bThis activity provides listening and speaking practice using the target language.Read the instructions to the class.Get the students to ask and answer questions
22、 about their inventions in pairs first. Ask a pair to make a model conversation before the whole begin practicing. Ask several pairs to share their conversations with the class.Then tell them to look at the model conversation in the box.Then ask some others to share their presentations with the clas
23、s.They have to state the reason for buying them.Then the class votes for the most popular invention they want to buy.Step SummaryIn this class, weve read an article about the invention of tea. Weve also written an article about the invention of the flying disk. Weve done much reading, writing. liste
24、ning and speaking practice using the target language through groupwork.Step Homework1Review the new words learned today.2Rewrite the articleFrom pie plate to flying disk. Prepare to hand in it next class.3Write out the presentation in activity 4 b.Step Blackboard DesignUnit 10 When was it invented?S
25、ection BThe Fifth PeriodAnswers to the questions in Activity 3a :1The article is about the invention of tea.2It was invented by the Chinese emperor, Shen Nong.3It was invented by accident.Suggested answers for Activity 4a:Problem: writing testsNew inventions: a pen that listens and writesUse: writing tests instead of persons by listening to the ownerPrice: one hundred yuan per pen
