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Unit 4 Sharing-ListeningTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言 a.词汇和短语: volunteer, clinic, challenging, over the last few years, in the future, in two weeks time, a couple of, developing country, Medecins Sans Frontieres(MSF), Malawi, Sudan, The Fred Hollows Foundation, The Cancer Council, Youth in the city, go blind, belief b. 重点句子: Why did Mary decide to work in the developing countries?Why were conditions in the clinic in the Sudan challenging? In the Sudan, why was it nearly impossible for Mary to get to the clinics when the rains came?2. Ability goals能力目标Improve the students listening ability by listening to Dr Mary Murrays experience as a volunteer with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)3Learning ability goals学能目标Learn to predict what will be heard.Help the students understand time expressions and use them.Teaching important point 教学重点 Learn to make notes while listening to the material and number the events in the order they are heard. Teaching difficult point 教学难点Learn to use time expressions and work together with a partner to describe a persons experience.Teaching methods 教学方法Listening and cooperative learning.Teaching aid 教具准备A recorderTeaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Listening and cooperative learning.Step I Warming Up1. GreetingsT: Good morning /afternoon everyone!Ss: Good morning /afternoon, Sir/ Madam!T: Have you ever helped others? What did you do to help your parents? Or other relatives? Or your friends? Or people in your community? Or people outside your community? Im sure you have a lot to say. Ok, let divide into groups of three and finish the survey form. Then in groups, discuss whether someone who helps the groups on the survey form can be called a “volunteer”.Suggested answers:What do you do to helpName: TomName: HelenName: Mary1. your parents?Clean the floorWash dishesPrepare supper2. other relatives?Lend my books and CDs to themTake care of my cousin while his parents are awayComfort them when they are sad3. your friends?Repair their computersHelp them with the lessonsAccompany them to do shopping4. people in your community?Be a coach of the football loversSing and dance for the eldersHelp my neighbours carry things home5. people outside your community? Plant treesHelp people with disabilitiesReturn the wallet to the loserT: Which one can be called a volunteer? Or what kind of things do volunteers do?S: Volunteer work includes: Be a coach of the football lovers, plant trees, help people with disabilities. T: Correct. Only those who dont work not for rewards especially money and materials, and not forced to do so are volunteers. And not only the person but also the society and the environment benefit from it. For example, Dr Mary Murray was a volunteer with Medecins Sans Frontieres(MSF). Now turn to Page 35, read Exercises 1 and 2, and predict what you will hear in the listening material. You can also discuss with your partner.Sa: Now Jennifer Wells is interviewing Dr Mary Murray about what has happened in Marys life.Sb: She once worked in a clinic in Malawi and Sudan.Sc: Malawi and Sudan are developing countries.Sd: Many children died when she worked in Malawi.Se: Conditions in the clinics in the Sudan were very terrible and challenging.Sf: Medecins Sans Frontieres(MSF) is an organization that provide free medical care to children in poor countries.T: Very good. You see, even without listening to the dialogue you can get much information, if you study the questions carefully. Now lets listen to their dialogue. You will pay attention to the time expressions and number them in the order you hear them. (Show the 11 time expressions on Page 35). And also you will answer as many of the questions in Exercise 2 as you can.Step II Listening(I)(The teacher plays the tape and the students listen to it.)T: Now lets check the answers of Exercise 1 and 2. (The students will answer the questions)T: Now lets listen to the dialogue for a second time. When you are listening, you can check the answers of Exercise 2 and finish Exercises 3 and 4. Learn to make notes about Marys experiences in the table on Page 35. And share your notes with your partner and then with other groups.(The students will makes notes, and share their notes.)T: Ok, lets listen to it for a third time to check the notes.Step III Listening(II)T: Perhaps you may wonder, because we are students, what we can do to help. That is, what can we do to serve communities outside the school? Ok, let do LISTENING in the workbook on Page 70. You are also required to predict what you will hear, according to the four questions.Sa: There are three characters in the material: Jason, Mick and Annie.Sb: They want to raise money to help.Sc: Perhaps they will help children in hospital, or serve soup to the homeless, or protect the environment.Sd: They will spend some time working for their schools Community Care Committee (CCC).T: It couldnt be better. Now well listen and check our prediction and also finish the exercises on Page 70.Step V AssignmentT: Boys and girls, today we have listened to two materials about giving help to others. I do hope all of us will help those who need help. Besides, you should learn to predict what you will hear before listening and pay attention to the time expressions while listening. Homework for today. 1. Finish th