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Unit 5 It must belong to Carla马占萍I. Teaching Aims and Demands1. Knowledge Objects(1) Key Vocabulary: drop, symphony, optometrist, appointment, algebra, crucial, count, because of, Chinese-English dictionary, Oxford University(2) Target Language What do you think anxious means? Well, it cant mean happy. It might mean worried. Oh, yes, she is worried because of her test. Here are some earrings. The owner cant be a boy. Well, it could be a boy. The earrings might be a present for his mother.2. Ability Objects (1) Train students reading skill. (2) Train students communicative competence using the target language. Moral Object When you are in trouble, send an e-mail message to your friends to ask for help. Teaching Key Points :Reading practice Oral practice using the target language. Teaching Difficult :Points Key vocabulary Target language. Teaching Methods: Practice method Pair work A game. Teaching ProceduresStep I RevisionRevise the usage of the words must, might, could and cant by checking homework.Ask students to exchange their exercises books and help correct any errors with each other, As they are doing this, move around the classroom offering language support as needed. Then invite different students to say their sentences to the class.Step 3aThis activity provides reading practice using the target language.Call students attention to the picture.Ask students to tell whats happening in the picture.T: Whats the girl doing? Ss: She is using the computer to write e-mail.Point to the parts of the e-mail message.Tell students that this is the message the girl in the picture writes. Say, Right now the parts are in the wrong order. When they are in the right order, they will make a clear message. Now please read the parts carefully. Number them in order. When you are doing this, you will meet with some words you dont know.Dont worry too much about them. Just circle them. Well talk about what they mean later.Get students to complete the task on their own. Point out the sample answer.Say. The first sentence of the e-mail message is Im really anxious, because I cant find my backpack.Check the answers.Step 3bThis activity provides oral practice using the target language.Read the instructions to the class. Point to the sample conversation. Invite a pair of students to say it to the class.SA: What do you think anxious mean? SB: Well, it cant mean happy.SA: It might mean worried. SB: Oh, yes. She is worried because of her test.Write the conversation on the blackboard.Say, You are to talk about the circled words in Activity 3a. Use the words cant, must, could or might as in the sample.Get students to work with a partner. As they work in pairs, move around the classroom helping students with pronunciation and answering any questions they may have. Some time later, stop the activity. Ask different students to share their conversations with the class. Make a list of the words students are talking about on the blackboard.drop v. symphony n. opotometrist n. appointment n. algebra n. crucial adj. count v. because ofPractice the pronunciation of these words and explain the meaning of each word.Optional activityHave students write the new words inActivity 3b as well as other new words in this unit with the letters in scrambled order and then put two spaces after each word. Ask a student to write the correct spelling in the first space. Ask another student to write the meaning of the word in the second space. For example:Step Part 4This activity provides oral practice using the target language.Call students attention to the picture. Get students to name each item in it.Write the new words Chinese-English dictionary and Oxford University on the blackboard. Point to the sample conversation. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class.SA: Here are some earrings. The owner cant be a boy.SB: Well, it could be a boy. The earrings might be a present for his mother.Write the conversation on the black board. Explain the meaning of each sentence.Focus attention on the chart with the headlines Cant, Could/might and Must at the top. Point out the sample answer.Read the instructions to the class.Get students to complete the task in pairs. As the pairs work together, move around the classroom helping students with pronunciation, sentence formation or anything else they ask for help with.Ask some pairs to say their conversations to the class.Note: Answers to the chart will vary.Step SummarySay, In this class, weve learned some vocabulary words, such as drop, symphony.And weve done much oral practice using the target language.Step Homework 1. Read the letter in Activity 3a again for further understanding of the vocabulary words.2. Read the conversations in Activities 3b and 4 again for further understanding of the target language 3. Finish off the exercises on pages 1516 of the workbook.Step Blackboard DesignUnit 5 It must belong to Carla.Section A The Third Period1.Vocabulary words:drop v. symphony n.optometrist n.appointment malgebra n. count v.crucial adj.because ofChinese-English dictionaryOxford University2. Target language: