Unit 6 Bird watching
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. master the usage of the suffixes -er, -or, -ist;
2. guess the meanings of the new words in contexts.
II. Teaching contents
New words and phrases: speaker, tour, make beautiful sounds, at bird shows, include birds in poems
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Learn to use the suffixes -er, -or, -ist.
Learn how to use some useful expressions.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
Show some pictures and fill in the blanks.
I love teaching English. I am an English __________. (teacher)
He wrote many articles all his life. He was a famous ________. (writer)
She is good at dancing. She is a _________. (dancer)
Singing is their hobby. They are __________. (singers)
He is playing the piano. He is a _________. (pianist)
He has acted in many films. He is an _______. (actor)
【设计意图】利用自我介绍、展示图片导入新课。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Explain the rules
T: Suffixes (-er, -or, -ist) can form nouns for people.
We can add -er, -or and -ist to some words (n./v.) to form nouns for people.
Verb/Noun + Suffix Noun
speak + er speaker
visit + or visitor
tour + ist tourist
2. Offer a tip
Sometimes we need to change the ending of the verb/noun when we add the suffix.
dance dancer
win winner
piano pianist
science scientist
3. Finish Part A
Change the following words into nouns for people by adding the correct suffixes.
4. Offer another tip
加-er, -or, -ist无明显规律可以利用，不过有几个小tips：
er远比or多，如果你实在要猜时，选er吧。
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动作的执行者用er，比如reporter，fighter，cleaner。
结尾单个e的单词用er，比如writer，diver。
ate，it，ct结尾的单词通常用or，比如creator，editor，conductor。
5. Change the words in the box into words and categorize them
【设计意图】了解基本规律后，对所学的后缀做巩固练习，这样能更深刻的记忆所学的词的后缀。
Step 3 Practice
1. Finish Part B on P77
Complete the following sentences with the correct nouns of the words in brackets. Use the plural form if necessary.
Birds are ________ (sing). They can make beautiful sounds. Some _______ (act) can make different bird sounds. It is very interesting.
A lot of ________ (tour) go to the wetlands to watch birds every year. There are many _______ (visit) at bird shows too. Some ________ (art) like to paint birds. The birds in their pictures are really beautiful. Some _______ (write) like to include birds in their poems too.
Birds are part of out lives. They are our friends.
2. Guess the meaning of some unfamiliar words
T: We can use this kind of skill to solve some problems. Try to guess the meanings when we come
across new words.
3. Write an article
T: All in all, we should use some study skills when studying English. If we do like that, we can learn
English more easily.
【设计意图】通过不同类型的练习来巩固所学知识。指导学生利用所学技能解决实际问题，引导学生在阅读中猜测词义，初步培养学生根据词的构成猜测词义的意识。
V. Homework
1. Finish the exercises.
2. Revise how to form nouns for people by adding -er, -or and -ist.
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