Unit 4 Making the News
3rd period Learning about Language Points
Analysis of the Teaching Material教材分析
The emphasis of this period will be placed on the important new words, expressions and sentence patterns in this unit. In order to make students understand these important points thoroughly, we can first get students to understand their meanings in the context, then give some explanations about them, and later offer some practice to make students master their usages.
Analysis of the Students学情分析
Language points are the fundamental of learning English; however our Ss are all afraid of learning English, especially for some complicated language points.
Teaching Aims教学目标
Knowledge Aim知识目标
1). Get Ss to learn and grasp the important and useful new words and expressions in this part.
2).Let Ss learn the following important and useful sentence patterns.
Ability Aim能力目标
1). Get Ss to use some useful new words and expressions correctly.
2). Enable Ss to make sentences with the useful sentence patterns.
Emotion Aim情感目标
1).Through this lesson, the Ss can better master the basic knowledge in unit 4. Beside, this lesson also can motivate the Ss to develop a good habit of summarizing knowledge.
教学重难点
1. Enable Ss to grasp the usage of such important new words and expressions such as delight, eager, assist, acquire, concentrate, inform, meanwhile, depend, case, accuse, and demand etc.
2. Get Ss to master the patterns
“ 否定词或含否定词短语放句首+部分倒装” “case/stage/situation/point where…”
教学过程
Step1 : Review the text.
Ask the Ss to read the passage on P26.
Step2: Underline some basic expressions and key sentence patterns
basic expression:
go out on a story/ cover a story
have a good “nose” for sth
a trick of the trade
get the facts straight
get the wrong end of the stick
this is how the story goes
a really scoop
key sentence patterns:
1 Never will ZY forget his first assignment at the office of a popular English newspaper.
2.Here comes my list of dos and don’ts.
3. Have you ever had a case where someone accused your journalists of getting the wrong end of the stick?
Step3:study language points
1.delight v. n.
2. eager adj.
3.assist v. assistant n.
4. concentrate / fix(focus) one’s attention on
5. acquire/ gain/ obtain
6. assess v. assessment n.
7. inform v.
8.meanwhile/ in the meanwhile/ at the same time
9.depend/ rely/ count on
10.case n.
11.accuse v.
12. so as (not) to do (句中)
13. demand v. n.
6. 知识结构（板书设计）
Finish the following exercise from p79 to p80 in “学海导航”. (A/B层)
① All parts of the house ______ the windows were in good condition.
A. other than B. more than C. less than D. no more than
② Try not to start every sentence with “the” _____ the beginning of your sentences.
A.Vary B.Decorate C.Form D.Describe
③ 北京以许多名胜古迹而出名。
___________________________________________________.
④选词填空 theme/ subject
The _______ song of the 29th Olympic Games is “You and Me.”
The _______ of the conversation is how to improve our English.
Keys: ①A ② A
③ Beijing is famous/known for many places of interest.
④ theme, subject
Try to recite the language points mentioned in this class. (B/C层)
问题研讨（课堂提问，练习和作业设计）
Finish the following exercise from p32 to p34 in “非常学案”. (A/B层)
①_______, the boss agreed to give me a pay rise.
A. To my much delight B. To my greatly delight
C. Great to my delight D. Much to my delight
②---How often do you eat out?
---________,but usually once a week.
A. Have no idea B. It depends C.As usual D. Generally speaking
③ 英译中：What’s your assessment of the new economic situation?
__________________________________________________.
④ He reads newspaper every day to keep himself ____ about what’s going on in the world.
A. inform B. informing C. informed D. being informed
2. Try to recite the language points mentioned in this class. (B/C层)
Keys: 1. D 2. B 3.你如何评价当前经济形势？ 4. C
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