Unit 6 Hobbies
Lecturer: Cai Jie
Teaching Objectives:
Students (Ss) will be able to:
Have a deeper understanding about different shopping behavior of men and women.
Mastering the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. How to talk about one’s hobbies. Master the Grammar of Tenses
Translating skill：Translation of Tenses
Writing and replying to Invitation Letters.
Teaching Focus:
Vocabulary: enrich, be crazy about doing, assistant, in stock, promptly, proceeds, lightly, substitute, persuade, patience, opposite, companion, in advance, to one’s satisfaction, base…on / upon, in every respect, make up one’s mind, strength, exactly, poverty, go back to liquid, estate, suffer from, be equal to, before long etc.
How to talk about one’s hobbies. Master of the grammar of Tenses
Time Allotment:
1st period Warming-up Activities; Listening and Speaking 2nd period Pre-reading, While-reading, Text structure analysis; further understanding 3rd-4th periods 5th-6th periods Study for language points; group discussion, exercise checking Summary of reading; Stylistic comments; check exercise; Further reading 7th-8th periods Further reading/translation exercise/writing Practice Teaching Methods:
Explanation
Group discussion
Questions and answers Multi-media Performance
Teaching Procedure: 1st Period
1. Warming up for the new class:
What do you enjoy doing the most
Are your hobbies good for your work or health Try to explain.
3. Speaking
Dividing the students into groups of four or five Task 1
Ask the students to work in groups and practice sample dialogues
Talk about your favorite outdoor activities with your partner. Talk about one of your favorite movies with your partner. Talk about one of your favorite sports with your partner. Ask the students to work in groups to
1) Understand the short dialogues on Page 121-122 of the Textbook 2) To act out
Task 2
Work in pairs and make a short dialogue based on the information given below. My Hobbies
Listening to pop songs sung by… Listening to famous
How to Enjoy My Hobbies
Listening to the radio Listening to an MP3 playe Act out in front of the class
4 Focus on Listening 1) Word tips:
prefer宁愿，更喜欢 prefer sth.
prefer sth. above all others prefer A to B
prefer doing A to doing B prefer to do sth. prefer doing sth.
prefer to do sth. rather than do sth. prefer+that-clause
enrich v. to improve the quality of something by adding something else . Reading can enrich your mind.
. I have more time to enrich myself/learn more. be crazy about doing sth. 为……疯狂
. The boy has been crazy about computer games for a year.
2) Finish the exercise of listening comprehension on page 124-125
2nd Period
1. Lead-in story:
Is there any gender difference in the shopping behaviors of men and women Give students a short video of FIVE minutes to talk about the different habits of men and women, and ask students to discuss the differences after watching it. 2. Intensive Reading (Text A) Pre-reading:
After the lead-in story and questions, the teacher asks the students to look at the theme of Text A and try to answer the questions as follow: 1. Do men and women have the same experience when they shop 2. What do you usually buy while shopping 3. What is your mother’s shopping behavior
3rd – 4th Periods
1. Warming-up Activities:
Ask some students to share their oral passage with the whole class.
1. shopping for clothes is the same experience for a man as it is for a woman, isn’t it
2. Why does a man go shopping
3. Why can a man simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want 4. “If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it.” In this sentence, what does “produce” mean
5. What does the name “salesman” imply 6. What is a woman’s shopping based on 7. Does a woman buy clothes in haste
8. Why do the husbands just wait but not involve in their wives’ shopping
2. While-reading (Text A) 1) Text Organization
After scanning the whole text, students are required to find the top sentences of each paragraph.
And try to divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea of each part. Part 1 (Para 1-2): Men’s shopping behavior. A man goes shopping because he needs something.
Part 2 (Para 3): Women’s shopping behavior. A woman goes shopping often for leisure
instead of buying what they need.
3). Language points
Explain the difficult words and sentences, including language and grammatical points. Focus:
in advance: before a particular time, or before doing a particular thing . If you’re going to come, please let me know in advance. . They finished the task in advance.
. Is it cheaper if we buy our tickets in advance
consideration [U]. when you think about something carefully . The whole matter needs careful consideration.
take sth. into consideration
. Time factor is what we must first take into consideration. in stock 有现货，有存货
. We don't have the book in stock but we can order it. in store 贮藏着；准备着, 将要发生 promptly: quickly, without delay
. We’ll have to leave fairly promptly if we want to catch that train. . So that we can promptly help you to solve the problem! proceed v. to continue as planned
. The work is proceeding according to plan.
proceed to do…
. She sat down and proceeded to tell me about her skiing holiday.
proceed with sth.
. Please proceed with what you are doing.
. Tell us your name and then proceed with your story.
proceed from …
. All these evils proceed from war.
in this/that case 既然这样/ 那样，假若这样/ 那样 . In this case, price is an important consideration. in no case无论如何不，决不
in the case of至于……，就……来说 in case假使；免得，以防万一 in any case无论如何，不管怎样
in some/many/most cases一些/许多/大部分情况下
imply v. to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly . His silence implied agreement.
. I think freedom does imply responsibility. substitute n. 代用品,替补；代替者, v. 代替
substitute A for B
. The coach substituted Smith for Jones. substitute teacher / doctor in every respect在每一个方面 in this respect 在这点上
. In his respect, they indeed played a critical role in this event. in respect of 关于，涉及 . We reviewed China’s progress of the previous year in respect of economic growth and cultural development.
base on … / upon 把……建立在某种基础上, 基于 be based ... on/upon
. I base my conclusion on facts. . My conclusion is based on facts. . A good marriage is based on trust. . Teaching is an art based on a science. make up one’s mind (to do) 下定决心