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The third period: Section B (1a-3b)
Step 1 Revision
Task 1:Ask some questions about can you …? What club do you want to join?
Task 2: ask the students to give the ad. Four students a group. Ask one of them to
be the boss. And others are the interviewees. Guide them to use kids, can you help
the kids with …?
Step 2 Presentation
1a Ask the students to guess the music instrument by listening the music one by
one.(Powerpoint Can you play the guitar B. Page 2.)
The music instruments are guitar, trumpet, drums, violin and piano.
Ask the students to read after the teacher when they are looking at the pictures
on PowerPoint.
Ask the students to match the words with the pictures on Page 62 of the book.
The right answers are 3, 1, 4, 5, 2
Step 3 Practice
1b. ask the students to ask and answer questions about the instruments with the help
of the PowerPoint. (PowerPoint Can you play the guitar B. Page 5.)
They can ask and answer the questions like this. The teacher goes round the class
and gives help if necessary.
Can you play the guitar? Yes, I can.
Can you play it well? No, I can’t.
Can he play the violin? Sorry, I don’t know.
Can she play the drums? Yes, she can. She can play it well.
After the practice, the teacher can ask some pairs to act it out in the front. And
the students answer the questions of the teacher after listening to the dialogue.
Ask the students to practice more dialogues with the picture of playing chess,
singing, dancing, swimming, painting, speaking English. Mix with playing the guitar,
playing the violin, playing the drums. Tell the students there are something
differences between playing chess and playing the guitar. Ask them to pay attention
to it. (Powerpoint Can you play the guitar B. Page 6.)
Then ask more pairs to act the dialogues out in front of the class.
Step 3 Listening Practice
2a and 2b. Ask the students to read the words in the box first and ask them to listen
to the recording for the first time. And play it for the second time and ask the
students to circle the words they hear. The answers are sing, dance, drums,
piano.(PowerPoint Can you play the guitar B. Page7、8.)
With the same step, ask the students to do the exercise of 2b. Fill in the chart
with the words in the box. Before doing this, tell the students to write down what
can Bill do , what can’t Bill do and so on.
person can Can’t
Bill Play the guitar sing
Jennifer Sing, play the drums Play the piano
Victor Play the piano Sing, dance2
Step 4 Pair work
2c. Ask the students to read the information in the box. And do the pair work to
tell what Bill, Jennifer and Victor can and can’t do.
They can practice it like this:
A: Can Bill play chess?
B: No, he can’t. But he can play the guitar. And he can play it well.
A: Can Bill dance?
B: No, he can’t. But he can sing. And he can sing very well.
Ask the students to work in groups. Ask and answer like this:
-What can you do?
-I can…,but I can’t…
(I can…and…, but I can’t…or…)(PowerPoint Can you play the guitar B. Page
9.)
Then act it out in front. If you ca n ,you must show ( 展 示 ) it for your
classmates.
3a. Ask the students to read the ad from the school magazine. The teacher can teach
the students how to read the first part: musicians wanted for school music festival.
(PowerPoint Can you play the guitar B. Page 10.)Ask the students to underline
the things they want people to do for the school music festival. Ask the students
to read once more and think about whether he or she can be the musician.
3b. ask the students to complete the following poster with the words in the box.
They can use 3a for help.(PowerPoint Can you play the guitar B. Page 11.)
The answers are: play, guitar, Can, sing, Can, play, drums.
Homework:
Task 1:
3c. Ask the students to write their own poster for a sports day. The teacher can
give some information to the students: play basketball, play volleyball, swim, jump,
and so on. New and more information can be given to the students and they can also
look up in the dictionary. They can also demonstrate their poster.
Task 2:
workbook Page 40-41 Part 5, 6