Period2AsamplelessonplanforLearningaboutLanguage

1、Unit 1 Living wellPart 1 Teaching Design第一部分教学设计Period 2 A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language(Revise the Infinitive)IntroductionIn this period students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and leann to use some useful wordsand collocations, and then to discover and revise the

2、infinitive. The following steps of teaching may betaken : warming up by working on the type of writing and summary ofMarty sstory , learning about the Infinitive , listening, reading and completing , learning and finding , makingsenten ces with the Infin itive and clos ing dow n by readi ng a poem i

3、n En glish.ObjectivesTo help stude nts revise the infin itiveTo help students discover and learn to use some useful words and collocationsTo help stude nts discover and lear n to use some useful structuresProcedures1.Warming up by working on the type of writing and summary of Marty storyIt is import

4、ant to find main ideas when reading. Main ideas help you remember importantinformation. The main idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph. The topic tells what all or mostof the sentences are about. The other sentences in the paragraph are called details. Details describe orexplain the m

5、ain idea. Read the text to find the main idea.We shall first go back to page 8 to read the text to complete the table below.Type of writingAn emailSummary of the emailMarty story Thereare not many people in the world like me. Ihave a muscle disease that sometimes makes me very weak.Ihave learned to

6、adapt to my disability. My motto is : live one day at a time.Upun til I was about 10 years old, I was the same as every one else in myclass.Oneof the worst things about my disease is that I don look any differe ntfrom other people. Myambiti on is to work in the computer in dustry whe n 1 grow up.Inm

7、any ways my disability has made me grow stronger and more in dependent.2. Learning about the InfinitiveInfinitiveAn infin itive is the simple prese nt form of a verb used as either a noun, adjective, or adverb. The verb ofthe infin itive is no rmally preceded by the word to. When the infin itive fol

8、lows some verbs as the directobject, the “ to” may be dropped.An infinitive phrase is the infinitive plus any complements and any modifiers of the infinitive andcompleme nts.As a Noun : He helped to write the program.As an Adjective : Lydia was looking for a way to earn money.As an Adverb : He shout

9、ed to get our attention.To Dropped : He helped write the program.In the above examples, the infinitive is italicized and the infinitive phrase is underlined.3. Listening, reading and completingNow you are going to listen to a short paragraph about Zhang Haidi.The model status of Zhang Haidi (Shandon

10、g Province, 1955), widely publicizedin print and in propaganda posters from 1983 on, is an interesting one. ZhangHaidi, also known as Ling Ling, became a paraplegic at the age of five followingfour operations for the removal of tumors in her spine. When she received newsthat her illness was in curab

11、le, she was reported to have attempted to commitsuicide bytaking sleep ing pills, an actio n usually con sidered as a betrayal of the revoluti on and as evide nee ofdisc ontent with socialism, and therefore as the act of a coward. She n ever went to school, but throughdilige nt self-study, she lear

12、ned to read books on politics, literature and medical scie nee. She alsolearned foreign Ianguages, including English, Japaneseand German. She did not only function as a modelbecause of her intellectual accomplishments or her devotion to serving others, but also because . I n LeiFeng, Chin ese youths

13、 had to reach for com munism. In Zhang Haidi, com munism reaches for Chin eseyouths.Now you are to complete the two paragraphs on page 4 choosing the right words from the list.4. Learning and findingWhat is an Infinitive?The infinitive usually occurs with To (for example To go, To come, To wear etc.

14、), except after an auxiliaryor modal verb.It is a verb form that shows no pers on, tense or aspect.EXAMPLES OF THE INFINITIVE :I had to goI must goI want to singTo err is huma nYou dont know herYou may comeThe followi ng verb forms are derived from the Infin itivei/ Imperative (same as Infinitive bu

15、t without To)ii/ Present Simple (same as Infinitive without To but the third person singular takes s)iii/ Prese nt Participle or Gerund (add in g)Now read the text once aga in to find and copy on page 5 all sentences which contain examples of theInfin itive.5. Making sentences with the Infinitive1.

16、To have a muscle disease is very bori ng for any people.2. I do not want to make my body very weak.3. To climb stairs, you n eed some tips.4.1 don want you to drop things while going along the street.5. To bump into a car is dan gerous.6. To make life well worth livi ng you have to lear n to live with what you have.7. He is look ing for ways not to get worse or get older.8. He stayed on to adapt to the life there.9. My motto is to live one day at a time.10. He likes to climb tree, play football and dream about becoming rich overnight.11. I hope to represent my country in th