Unit2Ourdailylife

　　period oneteaching target 1 talking about cartoons. 2 talking about daily lives. 3 skimming the passage. 4 learning the new words. 1. ask students the following question: what sentence do students say most often in school? 2. give students some time to look at the cartoon . ask them toread the three sentences in this cartoon carefully. 3. question what can we learn from this cartoon? 4. meaning of this cartoon this cartoon is shown to tell us that something may happen bychance. the question hi asked is an iq one. but lo＂s answer was ＂idon＂t know.＂ but it is the right answer to the question that hiasked. so we can conclude that something may happen by chance thatwe haven＂t expected. and also, this cartoon is about school life. and the main passagein this unit is also about the school life. daily life talk 1.write ＂daily life＂ on the board. write ＂day ＂ daily＂ as well. ask students to guess the meaning of＂daily＂. then have them work out the meaning of ＂daily life＂. introduce daily / a. that happens or comes every day or once aday每日的；每天一次的 introduce: daily english, daily talk 2. question what do you usually do in your daily life? 3 .have students look at the pictures in a andask what do you know about…? ask them to talkabout themselves with these activities by using the followingsentence patterns. i … every day. i … once/twice a week. i never … 4 invite some more able students to talk more about their dailylives. skimming 1. review the meaning of ＂skim＂ with students. invite one or twostudents to tell the meaning of ＂skim＂. 2. ask students to look at the title, the subtitle and the pictureson page 19 in the passage. subtitle / n. subheading副标题；小标题 3. have students finish the exercise in b look and think. similar / a. the same in some ways but not completely thesame类似的；相似的 be similar to 与…相似 be different from 与…不同 expect / v. think that somebody or something will come or thatsomething will happen预料；预计 4. check the answers orally. new vocabulary items 1 life / n. [title] the way that you live生活方式 e.g.an unhappy life 2. whiz / n. [subtitle] one who has remarkableskill专家；奇才；技术出众的人 3. kid / n. [subtitle] a child 小孩；孩子 4 whizz-kid / n. 5. [subtitle] 1. a quite cleverchild/student神童；优等生 2. a clever person who moves ahead inlife very quickly领先者；弄潮儿 6. top / a. highest最高的 e.g.put the book on the top shelf. mary is the top student in our class. 7. business / n. buying and selling things买卖；生意；商业 note that if we are talking about specific companies, business is acountable noun. but if we are talking about trading and makingmoney in general, business is an uncountable noun. businessman - businessmen businesswoman - businesswomen e.g.sony, ford and coca-cola are three big businesses. business is very important to hong kong. e.g.school uniform 8. manager / n. [l16] a person who controls a business, bank orhotel, etc.经理，管理人 9. discuss / v. talk about something谈论；讨论；议论 e.g.we must discuss the problem of old people. 10. client / n. a person who pays another person,for example a lawyer or an accountant, for help oradvice客户；委托人 11. simple / a. easy to do orunderstand简单的；简明的 e.g.this dictionary is written in simple english. 12.achieve / v. do or finish something well aftertrying hard通过努力实现；获得；实现 e.g.i achieved my aim: to run one mile in under five minutes. 13.grade / n. how good something is; the level ofquality of something等级；级别 e.g.achieve a grade which grade of petrol does your car use? 14. fail /feil/ v. not pass an exam ortest不及格；不合格 fail =! pass 15. exam / n. a test of what you know or cando考试 e.g.fail the exam pass the exam 16.collect / v. go and bring somebody or something from aplace领走；接走 e.g.my father collected me from school in the past. 17. attend / v. go to or be at a place wheresomething is happening参加；出席 e.g.will you attend that meeting? 18. continue /ken5tinju:/ v. [l60] 1. not stop happening or doingsomething继续做某事 2. start again afterstopping（停止后）再开始 e.g.we continued working until 5 o＂clock. let＂s have lunch and continue the meeting this afternoon. consolidation 1 copy and recite the new vocabulary items in this period. 2 scan the passage after class.period twoteaching target 1 reviewing the new vocabularies 2 scanning the whole passage 3 analyzing the whole passage a small check-up 1 write out the word according to the given meaning. a) talk about something d__________ b) not pass f__________ c) a quite clever child w__________ d) a kind of test e__________ e) highest t__________ 2 choose a closest meaning to the given word. a) my father collected me from school in the past. a. took me from a person b. brought me to study and enjoy c. brought me to a place b) let＂s have lunch and continue the meeting in theafternoon. a. not stop b. start again c. have c) my sister is the manager of this company. a. the person who takes charge of the whole company b. the person who takes charge of buying and selling c. the person who takes charge of money background this is a magazine article about a (fictitious) girl who runs acomputer business although she is still at school. note the firstline of the title suggests that this might be a regular article inthe magazine, featuring a different person in each issue. reading 1 review ＂scan＂ with students. invite one student or two to tellthe meaning of ＂scan＂. 2 ask students to scan the passage silently in the class. 3 find the facts.  say: from the passage, we canfind out the times of the girl does different activities. and also,we can know a lot about her daily life. so this time, you shouldtell us something about her daily life. 4 read and think explanation on the passage 1 one of the top students in guangzhou this means that cheng na is a good student. but she is not thebest. she is just one of the best students in guangzhou. so here,we use the structure - one of … e.g. baiyun airport is one of the biggest airports in china.  zhongxintower is one of the highest buildings inguangzhou. 2 all of review: some of, most of, many of 3 in one＂s business 4 be at school be at school = study in the school e.g.my daughter is still at school. my daughter is in the school. nb: do these two sentences have the same meaning? why or whynot? be at work = work in the factory 5 get up get up = get out of the bed and stand up e.g.what time do you usually get up? more phrases with ＂get＂: get on/ont climb onto a train, bus, or bicycle get on a train get in/int climb into a car get into a car get off: leave a bus, train, or bicycle get off a bus get out of: leave a car get our of a car 6 put on put on = wear e.g.put on your coat. = wear your coat. opposite: take off e.g.take off your raincoat. you get the floor all wet. 7 school uniform e.g. police officers wear dark-blue uniforms. 8 a family business 9 start the business more useful phrases with ＂business＂: a) go into business b) it＂s none of your business, mind your own business: words thatyou use when you do not want to tell somebody about something thatis private c) on business: because of your work 10 the manager e.g. the general manager of the company the director of the company 11 discuss the business12 at breakfast a) = at breakfast time e.g. we usually talk about our plan at breakfast. b) = having breakfast e.g.they are at breakfast now. we also have: at lunch/dinner/supper 13work on work on = operate e.g.work on my computer = operate my computer 14go to school 15 in one＂s own car own pron. & a. e.g.is this your own camera or did you borrow it? i have my own room. be careful! you cannot use ＂own＂ after ＂a＂ or ＂the＂. you cannotsay: i would like a own room. you should say: i would like my ownroom. of one’s own: e.g.i want a room of my own. = i want my own room. on ones own: e.g.she lives on her own. i can＂t move this case on my own. 16 make a phone call to somebody = call somebody or phone somebody e.g.yesterday i made a phone call to mary. 17 on the way to school on the way to + someplace e.g.on the way to work on the way to library on the way to the usa nb: we use ‘on the way home’. there is not a ＂to＂ before＂home＂. 18 achieve a grades = get/gain a grades 19 in all my subjects 20 fail an exam pass an exam 21 about twice a week one time: once two times: twice three/four/… times e.g.once a year we have christmas once a year. three times a week mary washes her hair three times a week. … times a day/week/month/year/century … 22 collect somebody from school 23have lunch with somebody have breakfast/lunch/dinner with … 24 return to school = go back to school 25 after school = after school is over after class is over after work = after work is finished 26 attend a club = take part in a club 27 computer club 28 ask somebody to do something e.g.lily always asks me to help her with herlessons. mum won＂t ask you to do the housework. will you ask her to attend the party? 29 have violin lessons have … lessons e.g.have art and craft lessons have pe lessons review the names of different lessons together with students. chinese, english, maths, history, geography, physics, chemistry,science, social study, biology, pe, music, etc. 30 take somebody home [ 31 in an hour or two = in one to two hours e.g.you may bring two students or three with you. i will come back in seven days or eight. 32. continue doing something e.g.we continued working until 5 o＂clock. it continued raining all afternoon. 33. go to bed = go to sleep synopsis by paragraph 1 cheng na described her morning routine and the background to herfamily computer business. 2 she is dri ven to school in her own car. 3 she discribes her studies. 4 at lunch time she sometimes has lunch with a businessclient. 5 she describes her after-school activities. 6 in the evenings she works on writing her computer games.consolidation 1 copy the phrases. 2 copy the passage and put it into chinese. period threeteaching target 1 introducing simple present tense a small check-up 1 write out the following phrases. a) go to bed b] have violin lessons c] return to school d] after school e] in ones own car f] at breakfast g] discuss the business h] the manager of the company i] achieve a degrees j] get up language (1) simple present positive 1 have students read the first sentence in the passage. i get up at six, wash and put on my school uniform. (write on theboard) from this sentence, we learn that: she gets up at six, washes and puts on her school uniform. (writeon the board below the first sentence) 2 say: we use verbs in the simple present tense (write ＂simplepresent tense＂ on the board) in these two sentences. but, why do weuse simple present tense here? say: we use simple present tense to talk or write about things thathappen all the time or a number of times. ask students to underline the first sentence on page 23 in atalking about the present. 3 say: from these two sentences, we found that we use ＂get＂, ＂wash＂and ＂put＂ for ＂i＂, but ＂gets＂, ＂washes＂ and ＂puts＂ for ＂she＂.why?  4 spelling rules: a) for i, you, we and they, we make the simple present tense fromthe infinitive of the verb. b) for he, she and it, we add s to most verbs. · i work in a shop. my brother (=he) works in a bank. · it rains a lot in london. · they live in london. mary (=she) lives in oxford