教学内容分析与教学目标的确定
本单元的中心话题是饮食文化与家庭生活。围绕这一中心项目，让学生通过问答、对话、阅读、讨论、表演等各种活动熟悉并掌握有关食品的一些词汇及五种基本句型。其中五种基本句型是本单元的语言训练重点和难点。
Lesson57是本单元的第一课，它分为三部分。主要是学习一些食物的名称及讨论“什么国家的人吃什么”的话题，为第二课时的功能项目“agreement or disagreement”打下了基础。本课词汇量大、语言交际项目多、课堂容量丰富，为了提高单位时间的课堂效果，确定教学目标如下：
1．认知目标：通过学习本课，学生应理解并学会正确运用以下单词和句型：kitchen,cupboard,salt,sugar,pepper,oil,wine,beer,fork,spoon,chopsticks,carrot,cabbage,pea,
tomato, soup, cheese, butter So do we./Oh, we don’t./ Would you like to have dinner with me tonight? Could you pass me the cheese, please?
2. 能力目标：通过情景中的操练培养直觉思维能力，提高思维的敏捷性；通过Brainstorming 提高学生质疑能力和多方面、多角度考虑问题的发散思维能力。
3. 情感目标：通过初步学习了解不同国家的饮食文化差异，引导学生热爱生活， 增强世界意识。
教学设想
Lesson 57
Step1 Warming-up
Watch part of the programme “我爱厨房” from CCTV-2.
(1)Brainstorming: Ask as many questions as possible about the kitchen and the cook named Liu Yiwei(刘仪伟).
(2) In groups of four, students write down the English names of as many different kinds of food in the kitchen above or they ate during the winter vacation as possible within three minutes. Teacher will give help jf they need. See which group can make the biggest list.
Step2 Presentation
Bring some real objects like pepper, salt, sugar, tomatoes, carrots, beer, wine etc. to class. Students are interested in tasting these objects. ( learning the new words by watching, tasting)
Show a photo of a kitchen. There is a nice cupboard in it. It’s closed. Ask What’s in the cupboard? Then open the cupboard and show the students the things in it. Then ask What’s in your cupboard at home?
Show a pair of chopsticks and ask Are Americans good at using chopsticks at table? What do they use at table? Learn the new words fork, spoon. Then ask Do you usually help to set the table at home? What is on your table at home during dinner?
Step3 Look, learn and answer
In pairs, get the students to look at the colour picture on page i. Have them ask and answer questions as in the model.
Step4 Presentation
Present this dialogue:
(1) Teacher: I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables for supper.
A boy: Oh, I don’t. I eat a lot of fish.
Teacher: So do I.
Explain that I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables means I often eat fruit and vegetables. So do I means I eat a lot of fish, too.
Practise the following dialogues with students.
(2) Teacher: Does your mother cook meals for your family every day?
Student A: Yes, she does. She cooks nice food for me and dad.
Teacher: So does my mum.
(3) Teacher: I always read English for about half an hour before I go to bed.
Student B: Oh, I don’t. I always read English before I have breakfast.
Teacher: So does my younger sister.
When students understand the dialogues, get them to talk about their daily life like this in pairs.
Step5 Competition
Divide students into two teams. Tell them My foreign friends will come to dinner this weekend. Mr Smith comes from America. Mrs Potter comes from England. Susan comes from France. Mary comes from Japan, Dave comes from Canada. Miss White comes from Australia. Would you like to help me make a shopping-list? See which group makes a better list. Step6 Puzzle dialogues
SB Page1, Part3. Pairwork first. Then check the answers as a class. In pairs, have the students role-play as if they are at a dinner. One of them is a host/hostess, the other is a guest. Walk around and give help where needed. Encourage them to speak freely and use more expressions they like.
Step7 Homework
Collect pictures of delicious dishes, nice utensils and your favorite food, write lines about each picture and decorate the classroom with them. Often talk about the pictures during break.