Period 1 Listening and speaking

Goals:

1. Talk about water and ocean.

2. Practise communicative skills.

3. Improve Ss’ abilities of listening and speaking.

Procedures:

Leading in: by a game. (individual work, approx. 5 mins.)

(The teacher puts up a world map on the blackboard.)

Hi, everyone. Today we are going to learn about water and oceans. Can you find the four oceans of the world on the map? Would you please have a try? Where is the Pacific Ocean?

S1: Ok, The Pacific Ocean lies between Asia and America.

T: Zhang Mi, do you know where the Atlantic Ocean is?

Zhang Mi: It’s among Asia, Africa, Oceania and Antarctic. It’s the longest ocean of the four.

Oceans and Continents

The Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the India Ocean, the Arctic Ocean;

Asia, Africa, Europe, the North America, the South America, Antarctica, Oceania

Task 1: Looking and reading. (individual work, approx. 10 mins.)

1. Look at the experiments on page 17 and explain what happens and why.

2. Ask the students the following questions:

① How much do you know about water?

② Why is water important to us?

③ Why is water important to animals and plants?

④ What can we do to protect the water on our planet?

Task 2: Listening, filling and speaking. (class work, approx. 15 mins)

1. Now we shall have a listening practice. Before we listen to a tape, please go through the exercises first and try to get some information about the passage we are going to listen to.

2. Listen to the first part and answer the following questions:

① Who is telling the story in the poem?

② What does one of the sailors do?

③ What do you think will happen next?

④ Why are the other sailors frightened?

3. Listen to the second part and answer the following questions:

① What happened to the sailors?

② What happened to the mariner? Why?

③ Why is the person telling the story?

4. Work with your partner and see if you can come up with a good, scary story like the one about the mariner. Tell your story to your classmates.

5. Play the tape again and ask the students to write down the key points of the story and then let some of the students retell the story.

6. To make the students understand the passage better, let them listen to the tape once again.

Task 3: Speaking up. (group work, approx. 10 mins.)

1. Divide the students into groups and let each group choose one of the pictures and discuss the importance of using and protecting our water. Ask them to make notes of their discussion and use the notes to report to the class.

2. Let the students make a report in groups and practice it in class.

Useful expressions:

The water is being used to/for…

We should/could…

What will we do if…?

If we…, we can…

It would be better to…

Can you think of a better way…?

Closing up by dictation. (group work, approx. 5 mins.)

To end up, we’ll do a dictation. I’ll read aloud the following poem twice. The first time you just listen for the general meaning; the second time you take some notes. Then you will be given time to write down the poem out of memory and with the help of your notes. Have you finished? Now exchange your work with your partner’s for correction and improvement.

The Ocean

The Ocean, A magical place indeed.

The sun’s so bright,

The birds at play.

The soft scent of salt misting through the air.

From the big powerful thunderous waves.

I love to lie on the white sands of bliss.

This place was blessed with a kiss from the heaven’s above.

Homework:

Ask the students to learn more about water and oceans by looking up the materials on the Internet.

Blackboard Design

Useful expressions

The water is being used to/for… We should/could…

What will we do if…? If we…, we can…

It would be better to… Can you think of a better way…?