高中英语人教版必修3Book3Unit1FestivalsaroundtheWorld第7课时教案

Period 7

Teaching & learning contents: Using Language—Reading and Writing

Teaching & learning goals:

1. Get students to read the story, understand and get to know the structure of a story.

2. Learn the new language points in the story.

3. Try to write an ending to the story using the hints.

Main points: Reading and writing practice

Difficult Points: The structure of a story, new language points and how to write an ending to a story

Class type: Reading and writing  

Teaching & learning procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Task 1 Revise the communication items learned in the last period.

  Task 2 Ask few groups to present or act their telephone dialogues to the class.

Step 2 Reading

  Task 1 Ask students to talk about what they know about the Double Seventh Day (or Chinese Valentine’s Day) and the story between the Herd boy (Niulang) and waving girl (Zhinu). 

  Task 2 Read the story as quickly as possible to answer the following questions.

  1. Why was the TV story what Li Fang needed?

  2. What was Li Fang afraid that Hu Jin was doing?

  3. How did Li Fang know the manager wanted to shut the coffee shop?

  4. Why do people want the weather to be fine on Qiqiaojie?

  Answers to the questions:

1. The TV story was a sad story about lost love-- the same situation as Li Fang.

2. He was afraid that she was with her friends laughing at him.

3. The manager wiped the tables and then sat down and turned on the TV.

4. People want the weather to be fine so they can meet the one they love.

  Task 2 Scan the text to fill in the blanks in the table to have a clear idea of the two stories and get to know the structure of a story.

  1) A Sad Story of Love

 2) The Story of the Herd Boy and Waving Girl

Task 3 Learn the new language points in the story.

  Some phrases and new words:

  1. turn up 1) 来, 出席(某活动) 2) 把(收音机等)音量开大一些, 其反义短语是turn down.

   eg. I’m very happy you turned up so early.

      When the meeting began, he turned up.

Turn up the radio a little. I can scarcely hear the program.

Don’t turn up the speaker. It’s too noisy.

   turn-phrases:

turn down   拒绝; 把(收音机等)音量调小

turn off     关掉

turn on      打开

turn over   打翻, 翻身, 折腾, 翻阅

turn out    结果是......

turn into   变成; 译成

turn to sb. for help      向某人求助

2. keep one’s word/ promise  守信用

break one’s word 失信

   eg. He is a man who always keeps his word.

Don’t break your word, otherwise, no one will trust you.

    注意：keep one’s word和break one’s word中的名词word不能用复数形式。

   word-phrases:

in a word/in short/to be short  简言之；总之

in other words  换句话说

eat one’s words 收回前言; 认错

have a word with sb. 与某人谈话

have words with sb.与某人发生口角

  3. hold one’s breath 屏息；屏气

   eg. I can hold my breath for about one minute. 我可憋差不多一分钟的气。

      When he saw a snake, he held his breath and his body whole body went cold.

   breath-phrases:

   take a deep breath 深吸气

   take a breath 歇一歇; 喘口气

   out of breath 上气不接下气 

  4. apologize vi.道歉; 辨白 

apologize to sb. 向某人道歉

apologize to sb for (doing) sth  因某事向某人道歉

   eg. I must apologize for calling you so late. 实在抱歉, 这么晚给您打电话。

      I apologized to my teacher for being late.

   related phrases:

   make an apology to sb for (doing) sth  因某事向某人道歉

   apologize for oneself  为自已解辩或辩护

   excuse sb. for (doing) sth  因…...而原谅某人

   forgive sb for (doing) sth  原谅某人做了某事

   pardon sb for (doing) sth  原谅某人做了某事

  5. He would drown his sadness in coffee. 他要用咖啡来解愁。

    drawn…in 淹没；浸泡在……里

   eg. He decided to drown his sorrows in work.

      The old man drowned himself in wine all day. 那位老人整天以酒解愁。

6. It was obvious that the manager of the coffee shop was waiting for Li Fang to leave...

   obvious adj.  明显的；显而易见的

   1) obvious + to + 表示人的名词或代词

   eg. Her disappointment was obvious to her friend.

2) It + be + obvious +that-clause

   eg. It was obvious that she was in danger.

      It is obvious that he is wrong.

   辨析：obvious/apparent/clear

   obvious 是三者中程度最强的，含有“一目了然” 之意。

   eg. It is obvious that you are wrong.

apparent 指具有某些明显的迹象的，侧重与经历推理才能看出结果。

   eg. It was apparent from his face that he was lying.

   clear 作“明白的，清楚的”讲。指不模糊含混，易于观察，了解和识别。

   eg. He seems clear about his plans.   

7. marry 的用法 (revision)

   1) 表示“和......结婚”，“嫁......”，“娶......”时，marry为及物动词，要用marry sb.，而不用marry with sb.

她嫁给了一个律师。

   She married with a lawyer.   (×)

   She married a lawyer.      (√)

   2) 表示婚姻状态, 后接宾语时要用介词to，而不用with.

   她和一位律师结婚了。

   She got married with a lawyer.   (×)

   She got married a lawyer.      (×)     

   She was married to a lawyer.     (√) 

   3) marry和get married 都表示短暂行为，不能和表示一段时间的短语连用，而have been married则表示婚姻状态，可以与表示婚姻状态持续多久的时间状语连用。

他们结婚三年了。

   They have married for three years.  (×)

   They have got married for three years.   (×)

   They have been married for three years.  (√)

They got married three years ago.   (√)

   It’s three years since they got married.   (√)

8. As Li Fang set off for home, he thought...

set off: 动身, 出发; 使（地雷、炸弹）爆炸

   eg. Tom and his father set off for America yesterday.

      We set out at dawn.

The bomb set off among the crowd.

set-phrases:

set about doing sth.   着手（做某事）

    set out             出发, 开始, 启程

   set out to do sth      开始着手（做某事）

    set up              建立，创立 

    set down            写下，记下

set somebody to do something.    使某人开始工作 

    set somebody doing something    使某人处于某种动的状态 

  9. remind vi. 提醒；使某人想起

    用法 1) remind sb. of sth.   2) remind sb. to do sth.   3) remind sb. that

   eg. The picture reminds me of my childhood.

      I reminded him to write to his mother once for a while.

      Please remind me that I must call her up before nine.

  10. forgive vt. 原谅；饶恕  

forgive sb sth           宽恕某人某事

forgive sb for (doing) sth  原谅某人做了某事

   eg. Anyone didn't forgive him his offences. 任何人都不肯饶恕他的罪恶。

She forgave him for telling lies.

      Forgive me for breaking the rule.

Step3 Writing  

  Task 1 Discuss the following two questions in pairs and groups and then give a report to class.

1. Why didn’t Hu Jin come to meet Li Fang on time?

2. What happened to them next?

  Task 2 Get students to prepare their first draft of the ending of the story using their imagination and the hints on P8. And remind the students to pay attention to the tense, spelling and grammar while writing the ending to the story.

Step 4 Summing up, Learning tips and Reading for Fun on P8 

Homework:

  1. Revise and summary the language items learned in this unit.

  2. Write an end to the story.