[初一英语]UNIT 9 Do you want to go to a movie?

LESSON 1 – (READING)

1.   Language Goals:

Talk about movie preferences and make plans.

New language:

-Do you want to go to a movie? Yes， I do。I want to go to an action movie.

-What kind of movies do you like? I like comedies and documentaries but I don’t like thrillers.

-kinds of movies: thriller, war, documentary, comedy, romance, action movie, mystery, fantasy and adventure

-descriptions: scary, boring, great, fun, exciting, sad, funny, awesome, fantastic, wonderful

II. Teaching Aids:

    Movie posters

    Balloon (for grammar focus)

III. Vocabulary Words:

    film, war movies, action movies, romances or love stories, thrillers, comedies, documentaries, mysteries, fantasies and adventures

-exciting, sad, scary, funny, great, fun

IV. Teaching Steps:

1.    Teacher talks about the movie he/she has seen lately. Make necessary gestures to get the attention of the students (like story telling).

2.    Ask the students about the movies they have seen recently. Let them write the answers on the board.

3.    Write the vocabulary words on the board. Explain clearly the meaning of each word with the use of teaching aid (posters). You may use appropriate gestures to make the explanation simple.

Examples: Film – is another English word for movie.

        Comedies – are a kind of movies made to make people laugh and feel happy.

       Documentaries – are often educational and usually talk about famous historical events and study of a famous people.

        Action movies – are simple stories of good people against bad people, where most problems are resolved using physical force. Usually action movies have fighting scenes.

        Thrillers – are scary movies with lots of surprises and usually they make people jump.

    4. Teacher reads every word with correct pronunciation while students listen.

5. Say every word and ask students to repeat after you.

6. Group the class into 5 and ask each group to read the vocabulary words correctly.

7. Point to the example (1a): Say number1is (a), action movie. Ask them to match the kinds of movies with the posters. Check the answers afterwards.

教学一得：次项活动，帮助学生学习语言和运用语言，提高了学生的学习兴趣，提高了他们的参与意识。

LESSON 2 (LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

1.    Sing a song (to the tune of LONDON BRIDGE).

I’m the first one don’t change me, don’t change me, don’t change me,

I’m the first one don’t change me-oh no just let me be.

2.    Pair work: Ask students practice the given conversation (guided by the teacher). Take time to practice the dialog for mastery.

Ex. Do you want to go to a movie / Do you want to see a movie?

Yes, I do. I want to see a thriller movie.

3.  Listening: Ask students to do activities 2a and 2b. Tell them to listen carefully.

4.  Introduce GRAMMAR FOCUS. Give the rules and explain further by giving more examples. Note: A teacher could give additional examples out of the given content such as city – cities…

A. Singular Noun      Plural Noun

          thriller              thrillers

         documentary          documentaries

          comedy             comedies

action movie     action movies

        -Read the singular and plural forms of nouns to the students and ask them to repeat. Point out the change from y to ies when the word documentary becomes plural.

 B. Explain contractions. Blow up a balloon- ask what happened? (It expanded.) Let the air out-ask what happened? (It contracted which means to get smaller.) Ex. do not –  don’t

-Point out that present tense questions with want are answered with a form of the verb do - do, don’t, does, doesn’t

Examples: Do you want to go to a movie?   Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.

       Does he want to go to a movie?   Yes, he does. / No, he doesn’t.

       Does she want to go to a movie?   Yes, she does. / No, she doesn’t.

  5. Ask the question. What kind of movies do you like?

    Encourage students to give more “What kind of…questions” they might be able to ask.  Example: What kind of food do you like? OR What kind of animals do you like?

6. Oral activities (3a and 3b): Read the 2 conversations. Then ask students to read them aloud. Write the sentences from the conversation on the board. Point to the word “and” and say, we use “and” when both ideas in the sentence are the same. We use “but” when the 2 ideas in the sentence are different. Have the students practice more orally.

教学一得：英语是一种语言，重在应用，通过这项活动，教会学生能够学以致用。

LESSON 3 (LISTENING, READING AND WRITING)

1.    Introduce key vocabulary words-used to describe movies (Section B 1a). Ask students to focus on the pictures and let them fill in the blanks individually. Review the answers together. Accept all reasonable answers and correct unreasonable answers. Such as writing sad under comedies.

2.    Have the students listen and circle the description words in 1a that they hear.

3.    Let them listen again. Ask them to list down the words that the characters (Edward and June) use when they talk about the different kinds of movies (2b).

4.    Ask the students to read what Jung says and write the differences between Edward and June (2c)

5.    Give more emphasis on reading practice using the target language under activity 3a. Group the students and ask each group to read the description words correctly.

教学一得：在任何一节英语课中，听，说，读，写四个环节，都是不可欠缺的，或偏重于这个，或偏重于那个。

LESSON 4 – (PRACTICE ORAL ENGLISH)

1.    Review all key vocabulary presented in this unit. Ask students to check all the words they know and find out the meanings of the words they don’t know. (SELF CHECK)

2.    Call on students and ask each of them to give a word and use it in a simple sentence. Example: documentaries  - I don’t like documentaries because they’re boring.

3.    Invite pairs of students to say the conversation or dialogue for the rest of the class.

4.    Ask students to share their friend’s movie preferences (likes and dislikes), what the person thinks about movies.

For example: I have a friend. Her name is Ann. She likes comedies very much but she doesn’t like documentaries because they’re boring.

5.    Encourage every student to speak English and correct every mistake for further understanding.

教学一得：新目标英语Go for it 的教材选材非常贴近学生的生活实际。每学完一个单元学生就能用英语进行简单的交流。充分体现了学以致用的教学原则。

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