Lesson 80
Teaching aims:
1. Do some listening to train the students’ ability of listening.
2. Do some word practice and let the students know something about the word formation.
3. Do some writing and train the students’ ability of writing.
4. Go through the checkpoint and make sure the students master the grammar and the useful expressions.
Teaching focuses & special difficulties:
1. Train and improve the students’ ability of listening.
2. Learn and revise some words.
3. How to improve the students’ ability of listening.
4. How to improve the students’ ability of writing.
Teaching methods:
1. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening material.
2. Individual or group work to make the students participate in class and train the students’ ability of writing.
Teaching aids:
1. A tape recorder.
2. A projector.
3. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step 2. Listening
T: In this unit, we have learnt something about disabilities. Now, we’re going to do some listening. This story has something to do with the disability. Now, listen to the tape carefully and find out the correct answer to Ex.1 on Page 152.
(Play the tape for Ss to do Ex.1. Then, the teacher may ask one student to say his / her answer. At last, the teacher gives the correct answer.)
T: OK. Now, listen to Part 1 again and finish Ex.2. Listen carefully and try to write down the answers quickly. Then you can discuss in pairs. (Play the tape once more. Then ask some students to say their answers. Finally, the teacher gives the correct answers.)
T: Good. That’s all for Part 1. And, now, let’s listen to Part 2 carefully and try to write down the answers to the questions in Ex.3.After you finish, you can have a discussion with your partner.(Play the tape and stop the tape for a few seconds for Ss to write down the sentences when necessary. Then students have a discussion. Finally, the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.) (If time permits and students are good enough, the teacher can ask students to do the last part of the listening material.)
T: Now, listen to the last part carefully and answer the question in Ex.4.
(Play the tape and then check the answer with the whole class.)
Listening text:
A doctor is talking to a visitor to Britain about her life in the north of England.
(D - Doctor ; V - Visitor)
V: What do you do for a living?
D: I’m a doctor. I treat people with skin diseases.
V: Are you an expert?
D: Yes. I suppose you could call me that! I don’t do any general medicine. I treat people who have trouble with their skin. I do research into skin cancer, and other things. I go abroad to international conferences where I often have to give a talk. I write articles for magazines, so I have a very busy life.
V: What do you do in your spare time?
D: Spare time? I love paintings. So when I go abroad to conferences I try to visit the art museum there. I enjoy music. I play, but not very much now, and I also sing in a group once a week.
V: What do you do when you’re at home?
D: I enjoy cooking. I have a small garden and I grow flowers. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough room to grow any vegetables. When anything in the house goes wrong, I fix it. At the moment, I’m painting my living room.
V: What do you do at the weekend?
D: Cleaning, shopping and cooking! But if the weather’s fine, I try to get out of town for a walk. My house is very close to the mountains and it’s beautiful taking a walk around there.
V: What made you decide to study medicine?
D: I had a serious disease when I was young. So I spent a lot of time in hospital between the age of six and sixteen. In total, I think I had eight operations on my left leg. So I got to know the inside of hospitals very well, and I became very interested in medicine. I can walk now but I can’t run. If I go for a long walk, I’ll feel very tired the next day.
Suggested answers:
Ex.1:
D
Ex.2:
1. skin diseases
2. treat patients,
do research into skin cancer, go to international conferences,
write articles, give talks
Ex.3:
1. going to art museums, playing music, singing in a group
2. cooking, growing flowers, painting the rooms, fixing things when they go wrong
3. cleaning, shopping, cooking and taking a walk
Ex.4:
She had a serious disease when she was young, so she spent a lot of time in hospital. In this way she learnt something about medicine and became interested in it.
Step 3. Word formation
T: OK. Well done! In this unit, we have learnt some words. Now, let’s do an exercise to revise them.
(Show the following on the screen.)
Fill in the blanks with the right words. The first letter of each word is given to help you.
1. A d_______ is a physical or mental injury or illness that prevents someone form living a normal life.
2. If you are sick, you should go to a hospital or a c_____.
3. If you want to read quickly, you must use your eyes and b_____.
4. I often d_____ of living in a comfortable house and going to work in a car.
5. Someone who is n_____ is worried and frightened.
6. Something that is p_____ is likely to be true or correct, or likely to happen.
7. Someone who is d_____ is unable to hear anything.
8. Someone who is b_____ is unable to see.
9. To e_____ means to come into or go into.
10. She went into a b_____ and took a bath.
11. The Spring Festival is a n_____ holiday in China.
12. I s_____ his arm and made him turn to look at me.
Suggested answers:
1.disability 2.clinic 3.brain 4.dream 5.nervous 6.probable 7.deaf 8.blind 9.enter 10.bathroom 11.national 12.seized
T: Now, let’s do another exercise. You must use the right form of the words given. Before you begin, let’s learn two words and a phrase.
(Write the following on Bb:)
a) conduct vt. to lead someone to a place
b) conductor n. someone who stands in front of a group of musicians or singers and controls their performance; someone whose job is to sell or check tickets on a bus, train, etc; someone whose job is to be responsible for a train and the people who work on it
c) at the latest – not less than
(The teacher then teaches the students how to read them and explain their meanings.)
OK. Now, you can do the exercise on the screen.
(Show the following on the screen.)
T: Change the form of the words given to you to complete these sentences.
bath, comfort, hear, chair, music, nation, conduct, hope
1. In the days of silent films,_____ used to play suitable music while watching the film.
2. The army officer has bad _____, as a result of the noise from the guns.
3. When I choose a hotel. I like to have my own _____ with hot and cold running water.
4. _____ conferences are usually held in the Great Hall of the People.
5. There will be 200 of us singing at the concert, so we shall need a _____ to keep us in time.
6. _____ the lecture will finish at 12 noon at the latest.
7. I got to the lecture hall early and chose a _____ seat to sit on.
8. My _____ runs very well along paths, but not so well across soft ground.
(Students prepare for a few minutes, and then teacher may ask some students to say their answers and correct the mistakes if any.)
Suggested answers:
1.musicians 2.hearing 3.bathroom 4.National 5.conductor 6.Hopefully 7.comfortable 8.wheelchair
Step 4. Writing
T: OK. Before we do Part 3, let’s learn one word and one phrase. (Bb: forward, look forward to) Look at the blackboard, and read after me. (to look forward to = to feel happy and excited about something that is going to happen.) OK. Now, let’s look at Part 3 - Writing in lesson 80. In this part, you’re asked to reply to a letter. In your letter you have to answer all the questions and give the information the professor asked for. Before you answer the letter, you must read the given letter carefully and then discuss the problems in groups of four to find out the answers to these questions.
(Ss discuss in groups for a moment.)
T: OK. After class, write the letter in your exercise-book using the information you get in your discussion.
Suggested version:
MApril 25th, 2004
Dear Professor Peterson,
We are very glad to know from your letter that you will come to our school on June 12th to give us a talk on “The Beginning of Space”. All of us are interested in this topic. We are looking forward to your coming that day.
We are sorry to hear that you have your legs broken. We hope that there’s nothing so serious and that you’ll be all right very soon.
Now, about the things that you want to know for sure.
First, luckily, our lecture room is on the ground floor. It won’t be too much trouble for you to get to the lecture room in a wheelchair.
Second, our school will send a car to fetch you at about 8:30 and two students from the Students’ Union will be in the car to meet you. Many of us will gather at the school gate to welcome you and help you out of the car.
It’s so nice of you to bring a video tape with you for a video show. We have a TV and video set in the lecture room. We’ll be very happy to watch it.
Thank you very much!
Yours sincerely, Wang Lin
Step 5. Checkpoint and Homework
T: OK. That’s all for the writing. Now, let’s look at Checkpoint 20. In this unit, we have learnt the Inversion. In order to master it better, let’s do some exercises about inversion. Look at the screen, please. Finish it in five minutes. Then you can discuss in pairs.
(Show the following on the screen.)
Rewrite these sentences using normal word order.
1. Into the classroom came several foreign visitors.
2. Outside the police station crowded many people.
3. At the back of the lecture hall sat a white-haired old lady.
4. Under the table sleeps a brown cat.
5. Not only does our village have a clinic now, but also a hospital.
6. Not a single mistake did he make in the test we had last Monday.
7. After the young lady came four policemen.
8. Only in this way could we find the girl in that village.
(The students prepare for 5 minutes and have a short discussion in pairs.)
Suggested answers:
1. Several foreign visitors came into the classroom.
2. Many people crowded outside the police station.
3. A white-haired old lady sat at the back of the lecture hall.
4. A brown cat sleeps under the table.
5. Our village has not only a clinic now, but also a hospital.
Or：Our village not only has a clinic now, but also has a hospital.
6. He didn’t make a single mistake in the test we had last Monday.
7. Four policemen came after the young lady.
8. We could find the girl in that village only in this way.
T: OK. That’s all for the grammar. After class, you should do more practice to use them freely.
And in this unit, we also learnt some useful expressions. (Bb: dream of, come true, even though / even if, prevent …from, as though, in need of, as a matter of fact, end up, at the latest, look forward to) You must pay attention to them and practise them. And your homework is Ex.3 in Lesson 80 in Workbook. That’s all for today. See you!
Ss: See you!
Suggested answers to Ex.3 in L.80:
1. There is something wrong with my nose. I can’t smell anything strange.
2. Could you speak louder, please? I can’t hear you at the back.
3. Don’t touch the hot pot. It may burn your fingers.
4. Sorry. I can’t see the words below / under the painting.
5. Do you think/feel that the fish tastes delicious?
6. 6.I love wearing cotton clothes because they feel soft and cool in the summer time.
7. Your suggestion sounds wonderful / great / splendid / very good!
8. Her voice sounds very nice/good.
9. Don’t let the children touch the electric wire; it’s too dangerous.
Attachment:
Unit 20 Revision (Page 112)
Suggested answers:
Ex.1.
1.even though 2.Even though 3.even though 4.as though 5.as though 6.as though 7.so far as 8.As a matter of fact 9.As a matter of fact 10.So far as 11.at least 12.at the latest 13.at the latest 14.At last
Ex.2:
1. Never had she left her parents before she went to university.
2. Seldom have I seen such a hard-working man all my life.
3. Only in South America can this kind of snake be seen.
4. Only by working hard will you be able to pass the university entrance exams.
Ex.3:
dumb: 哑的 abilities：能力
Eyesight-aiding devices 视力矫正仪
vision 视力
The topic sentence is “The Chinese Government pay great attention to the convalescence needs of disabled children.”