Unit 8 Natural disasters
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. use the rules of compounds in reading comprehension and enlarging their vocabulary;
2. use some effective learning methods to optimize their learning results;
3. appreciate one of the language games—English Tongue Twister and speak English more fluently.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words: daughter, granddaughter, son, grandson, board, weekday, headache, toothache, countryside, housework, pancake
2. New rule of word-formation: Create new words by putting two words together.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Consolidate the rules of compound words and enlarge the students’ vocabulary.
Train the students with some effective learning methods to optimize their learning results.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Give the students a show of English Tongue Twister
She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. She’s a seashore shell seller.
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
2. Present three groups of words and lead the students to my topic—compound words
Add the prefix or suffix to form another word —Derivative word
Put two words or more together to form another word —Compound word
Use a word as a different word class —Conversion word
【设计意图】遵循学习激趣性原则，通过英语绕口令这一语言游戏方式导入学习内容，激发学生的学习动机。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Present some compound words
Show some pictures. Help the students learn the new words and expressions.
2. Get the students to know how to create compound words.
a. Show the rule
snow + ball → snowball
earth + quake→ earthquake
super + market → supermarket
b. Offer a tip (Sometimes we need to add a hyphen.)
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north + east → north-east
ten + year + old → ten-year-old
fashion + designer → fashion-designer
3. Divide the words
Help the students remember words by separating the compound words into two words.
4.Write as many compound words as possible
Help the students remember more words by writing compound words as many as possible.
5. Form compound words
Help the students remember more words by forming compounds words.
6. Read and match
Help the students remember new words by matching words with the rule of compound words.
【设计意图】遵循任务梯度性原则，设计任务做到由易到难，由浅入深，让所有学生都能理解和掌握合成词的构词规律。
Step 3 Consolidation
1. Conclusion
Conclude different classes of compound words.
Compound n.: seafood, hotline, grown-up
Compound adj.: English-speaking, warm-hearted, 2-meter-tall
Compound v.: outbreak, overcome, download
Compound adv.: whenever, maybe, somewhere
Compound pron.: themselves, nobody, everything
2. A challenge
Let the students meet a challenge. There are six levels.
Level 1: A terrible __________ (地震) took place in the __________ (西北) of Sichuan in 2008. (earthquake, north-west)
Level 2: The Chinese are a ____________(勤劳的), brave and ___________(爱好和平的) people. (hard-working, peace-loving)
Level 3: A __________ (暴风雪) hit our city. Lots of cars broke down on the ________ (公路). Many drivers rang the ________ (热线) for help. (snowstorm, highway, hotline)
Level 4: It’s said that a _____________ (热心的) ____________ (女警察) helped two __________ (法国人) who got lost in the street last ________ (周末). (warm-hearted, policewoman, Frenchmen, weekend)
Level 5: _________ (无论什么) happens, I believe _______ (自己) to be able to _________ (克服) difficulties. _________ (每个人) should believe ________ (自己). (Whatever, myself, overcome, Everyone, themselves)
Level 6: The park is a _____________ (世界闻名的) _____________ (中国式) garden. It’s made up of a hill, a __________ (人造的) lake and a ________________ (40米高的) tower. ________________ (说英语的) tourists may __________ (下载) English information from the net. (world-famous, Chinese-style, man-made, forty-metre-high, English-speaking, download)
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3. Present some English riddles
4. Encourage the students to sum up the main points as well as the main aims in this lesson
5. Ask the students to fill in the self-assessment form
【设计意图】引入竞争机制和娱乐措施，促进英语学习热情。
V. Homework
1. Find more than 50 compound words learned before in the text book.
2. Use compound words to write a story at least ten sentences.
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