General aims and demands：

Knowledge and Skills：

1. Recognize and use vocabulary about the theatre.

2. Use “because” and “because of ” to give a reason for something.

3. Use “so” to introduce the result of something.

4. Understand different contexts for using “hope” and “wish”.

5. Pronounce contracted from correctly.

Procession and method：

1. Use teaching cards, slides, real objects etc. in English classes

2. Infer meaning from keywords and context.

3. Check meaning by completing sentences in a conversation.

4. Identify true or false statements based on the reading passage.

5. Generate broken sentences using information from the reading passage

6. Make a poster

Emotion, attitude and sense of valuation：

1. In this unit, the Beijing Sunshine Secondary School students are involved in raising money by organizing a charity show.

2. It focuses on how young people are able to make realistic contributions to charity.

3. It invites students to consider ways of helping others and express their feelings and attitudes to charity events.

The seventh period

Integrated skills

Main points:

1. To recognize key expressions involved in organizing an event;

2. To understand specific tasks;

3. To recognize keywords when asking people to do work;

4. To write a note explaining arrangements for an event.

Difficulties:

To master the usage of fluent English.

Teaching Methods:

Listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating

Procedure：

I. Part A: Working on a charity show

A1. The class 1, Grade 8 students are planning their charity show. They held a meeting to make some decisions about it. Look at Sandy’s notes and answer the questions according to the information.

1. What’s the name of the show?

2. What do they raise money for?

3. When will the show be held?

4. What time will the show begin and finish?

5. How much does each ticket cost?

A2. Sandy has organized another meeting. Help her write down what each student says. Listen carefully. Complete the table below by putting a tick in the correct boxes.

Kitty Sandy Daniel Millie Simon Amy

Design the poster

Organize a play

Be the host of the show

Set up the stage

Sing a song

Ask friends and families to come

① Play the recording through without stopping. Ask students to get the main ideas.

② Play the recording again and check answers.

Who will design the poster?

Who will organize a play?

Who will be the host of the show?

Who will set up the stage?

Who will sing a song? / Who will ask friends and families to come?

A3. Sandy is writing a note to Mr. Wu about the charity show. Help her complete the note. Use the notes in Parts A1 and A2 on page 68 to help you.

A4: Useful expressions

1. talk about doing something討論做某事

They are talking about setting up the stage.=

They are talking about how to set up the stage.

2. The show will be held…被動結(jié)構(gòu)

3. The show will finish at … The show finishes at …

4. do a very important job/do an important job/do very important work

5. volunteer to do

6. cost: v. 某物花費（某人）多少錢：The book cost (me) $30.

II. Part B: Speak up: organizing a charity show

1. Read the dialogue:

①Remind students of their duties, responsibilities and the workload when organizing public events.

②Divide students into pairs.

2.Make similar dialogues: Ask students prepare their own conversation about organizing a charity show, using the conversation as a model.

3. Act out the made-up dialogues.

Homework:

Check the preview paper and complete “integrated skills” in class.

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The eighth period

Pronunciation

Main points:

1. To recognize and use contractions appropriately;

2. To pronounce contracted forms correctly;

3. To generate ideas about designing a poster ;

4. To make a poster and describe the details of a charity show.

Difficulties:

To improve English reading skills;

To raise and strength the interests in English

Teaching Methods:

Listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating

Procedure：

Contractions

Part A: Remind students of different levels of formality when using contractions or long forms. Explain that we usually use contracted forms both in spoken English and in informal types of writing.

1.List the changing forms of “be”(, “do”, “have”, “will”, etc.) with different pronouns and read them.

I am; you are; Amy is not; they do not; It does not; The boy did not; we can not…

2. Try to read them again when two words are linked together.

3.Listen to the tape and try to read after the tape, paying attention to the pronunciation

Part B: Contractions in sentences.

4.Divide the class into pairs and ask them to read loudly the sentences to each other. Ensure the partner pronounce correctly.

5.Play the recording for Part B and tell students to read out one sentence each.

6.Ask five students to read the sentences each and the rest repeat the sentence in chorus.

Homework:

Read the sentences in this part.

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The ninth period

Main task

Main points:

1.To generate ideas about designing a poster;

2.To make a poster and describe the details of a charity show.

Difficulties:

How to make a poster.

Teaching Methods:

Listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating

Procedure：

Part A: Organizing a charity show

1.Make students think what is needed to write on a poster about holding a show.

2.Explain the context, ask students to read the poster and answer the questions:

①What is the name of the show?(Sunshine For All)

②When will they hold the show?(29th April, from 730-930 p.m.)

③Why are they holding a charity show?(To raise money to help poor

children go to school)

④Where will the show be held?(At Beijing Sunshine Secondary School)

⑤Who organized the show?(The Beijing Sunshine Secondary School students)

⑥How much do the tickets cost?(￥20)

⑦Which charity are they supporting?(Project Hope)

⑧What’s the function of Project Hope?

3.Talk about what makes a poster more effective and how to make people notice a poster and become interested in the event.(bright colors, interesting illustrations, relevant information, attractive fonts, etc)

4.Encourage students to make comments about the poster and how they could improve it using different fonts, titles and subtitles, pictures and illustrations, etc.

5.Divide the class into pairs. Ask students to design their own posters based on the model. Choose a charity and plan a programme of events. Pat attention to the following items:

Information should be included:

＊ name of the show ＊ purpose

＊ place ＊ price

＊ data ＊ programme（event/activity）

＊ time ＊which charity you are raising money for and why

6.If students need help with ideas, suggest the following:

China Children and Teenagers’ Fund(中國少年兒童基金會)

China Disabled Persons’ Federation(中國殘疾人聯(lián)合會)

China Charity Federation(中華慈善總會)

China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation(中國扶貧基金)

China Women’s Development Foundation(中國婦女發(fā)展基金會)

7.After completing the poster, look at the one on P71 and replace the underlined words with your own words. Display them in class.

Part B: writing a speech

8.Tell students to work alone to complete the speech, using information from the poster on p71. without referring to it.

9. Read the speech out to the class. Pause at the blanks and ask students to call out the missing words.

10.Ask students to work in pairs to write a speech in part B1 as a model. They should refer to the poster they designed.

Part C: Language points

11.We would like to thank the following people for their help and support.

Thank somebody for something“為某事感謝某人

I thank you for your support.

12.Their families have no money so the children have to go to work instead of going to school

Instead of “代替，而不是“

I will go to school instead of you.

We are going to play football instead of basketball.

We are going to swim instead of hiking.

Homework:

Summarize the key points in Unit 4

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The tenth period

Checkout

Main points:

1.To ensure that students can use “because, because of and so” to talk about reasons and “hope and wish”

2. To review vocabulary related to the theatre.

3. To review the whole unit

Difficulties:

Use “because, because of and so” to talk about reasons and “hope and wish”

Teaching Methods:

Listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating

Procedure：

I. Part A: Charity shows: Review the grammar and vocabulary items that students have learned earlier in the unit.

1. Tell students that in Part A, they will have to use “because, because of, so, hope and wish” to complete the letter.

2. Explain the context that Sandy is writing a letter to her friend about the Beijing Sunshine Secondary School charity show.

3. Read out the letter and pause at the blanks for students to complete.

Part B: Tell students that Part B is a page form Kitty’s diary. She went to the theatre with her parents to see a show and now she is writing about it.

II. Revision of Unit 4

1.Useful expressions

①host, advertise, practise, introduce, donate, poor, camera, introduce, event, success, fan, loudly, seem, generous, support, local, business, duty, audience, curtain, indoors, attention, like, instead, magic, pass, rise, break(different transforms of words)

②give out, a bit, in the beginning, because of, pay attention (to), instead of

2.Useful sentence patterns

①Only if you sleep less during the day.

②I felt very happy when the organizers chose me to be the host.

③It was my job to introduce each star.

④Slowly, everything became a little bit easier.

⑤No time to be nervous any more.

⑥I had to speak loudly because of the noise.

⑦Everything seemed to happened so fast and now it is all over.

⑧I’m nervous because I don’t know how to organize a show.

3. Grammar

①because, because of

②hope and wish

hope/wish to do/ hope that…/wish that clause(過去時)

③conjunction so introducing results.

Homework:

Complete exercise of unit 4 Revision

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