Module One Food and drinks
Unit 1 A surprise birthday party
I. Language focus:
1. Using ‘going to’ to describe events that will occur quite soon
2. Using modals to make a polite request
3. Using formulaic expressions to express exclamations
4. Using formulaic expressions to exchange greetings
II. Language skills:
Listening
l Recognize differences in the use of intonation in questions, statements, and respond appropriately
l Identify main ideas of a new topic
l Listen for specific information
Reading
l Read written language in meaningful chunks
l Recognize recurrent patterns in language structure
l Identify details that support a main idea
l Scan a text to locate specific information
Speaking
l Open an interaction by greeting someone in a appropriate manner
l Maintain an interaction by asking and responding to others’ opinions
l Close an interaction by using appropriate formulaic expressions
III. Materials:
l SB P2
l Cassette 7B
l WB P1
ProcedureI. Warming-up 1. Free talk:
1) Did you have a good time during the winter holidays?
2) What about the Spring Festival?
3) Did you get lucky envelops? How much money have you got?
4) When is your birthday? Is it in January or February?
II. Pre-task preparation
1. a surprise party: there are unexpected events or arrangements as surprises
talk about: the events or activities in the party that were a surprise
2. Review: cartoons, videos, karaoke
3. Read: 1) Listen and follow
2) Listen and repeat
3) Role-play Kitty and Mark
4) Pair work: act out the dialogue
4. Look and speak: 1) Practise the target language
2) Role-play the dialog:
accepting/declining
3) Act out
III. Consolidation
1. oral: 1) Listen and read 5 times
2) Act out the dialogues
2. written: 1) Copy work: phrases
2) WB P1
IV. Notes
Unit 1 A surprise birthday party 2/5
I. Language focus:
1. Using formulaic expressions to show preferences
2. Using modals to ask for suggestions
3. Using formulaic expressions to make suggestions
4. Using formulaic expressions to show agreement
II. Language skills:
Listening
l Recognize differences in the use of intonation in questions, statements, and respond appropriately
l Listen for specific information
Reading
l Understand intention, attitudes and feelings stated in text by recognizing features such as the choice and use of language.
l Recognize recurrent patterns in language structure.
Speaking
l Open an interaction by greeting someone in a appropriate manner
l Maintain an interaction by asking and responding to others’ opinions
l Maintain an interaction by acknowledging, agreeing or disagreeing, replying, asking questions, adding or giving examples, explaining and using formulaic expressions.
Writing
l Develop written texts by expressing ideas and feelings
l Develop written texts by using appropriate format, conventions and language features when writing non-narrative texts.
III. Materials:
l SB P3
l Cassette 7B
l WB P2
l PP P1
ProcedureI. Warming-up 1. Free talk:
Make a telephone dialogue: inviting to a party both accepting and declining
II. Pre-task preparation
1. Review food items: spring rolls, fish fingers, fruit salad
Name more food items: dumplings, rice dumplings cakes, ice cream etc.
2. Look and read: 1) listen and follow
3. Read: 1) Listen and follow
2) Listen and repeat
3) Role-play Kitty and Mark
4) Pair work: act out the dialogue
4. Look and speak: 1) Practise the target language
2) Role-play the dialog:
accepting/declining
3) Act out
III. While-task procedure
1. PP P1: 1) Pair work: discuss with each other
2) Plan a surprise party
IV. Post-task activity
Workbook: P2
V. Consolidation
1. Oral: 1) Listen and read 5 times
2) Act out the dialogues
2. Written: 1) Copy work: phrases
2) GB P2
VI. Notes
Unit 1 A surprise birthday party 3/5
I. Language focus:
1. Asking ‘Wh’ questions to find out specific information about a thing
2. Using quantifiers to indicate countable and uncountable nouns
3. Using ‘need to’ to describe a person’s needs
II. Language skills:
Listening
l Recognize differences in the use of intonation in questions, statements, and respond appropriately
l Listen for specific information
Reading
l Understand the connection between ideas by identifying linking words or phrases
l Recognize recurrent patterns in language structure.
l Recognize the presentation of ideas through headings, paragraphing, spacing, italics, bold print and punctuation
Speaking
l Open an interaction by eliciting a response by asking questions or providing information on a topic
l Maintain an interaction by asking and responding to others’ opinions
l Apply syntactic rules such as subject-verb agreement correctly.
Writing
l Plan and organize information and ideas by deciding on the sequence of content.
l Develop written texts by using appropriate format, conventions and language features when writing non-narrative texts.
IV. Materials:
l SB P4
l Cassette 7B
l WB P3
l PP P2
ProcedureVI. Warming-up 1. Free talk:
1) Have you ever made a cake by yourselves?
2) Come and talk about your experiences.
3) Write the food or drink items on the board, together with the ingredients.
VII. Pre-task preparation
1. Look and read: 1) listen and follow
VIII. While-task procedure
1. Talk and write: 1) refer to P3,4 of SB
2) find out the ingredients for the chocolate cake
3) Pair work: talk about your shopping list by asking and answering
IX. Post-task activity
PP: P2 Draw and write
WB: P3
X. Consolidation
1. Oral: 1) Listen and read 5 times
2) Pair work
2. Written: 1) Copy work: phrases
2) WB P3
VI. Notes
Unit 1 A surprise birthday party 4/5
I. Language focus:
1. Asking ‘Wh’ questions to find out specific information about something
2. Using modals to indicate possibility
3. Using modals to express preferences
II. Language skills:
Listening
l Recognize differences in the use of intonation in questions, statements, and respond appropriately
l Listen for specific information
Reading
l Recognize recurrent patterns in language structure
l Use visual clues, context and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of an unknown word and a complete expression
Speaking
l Maintain an interaction by asking and responding to others’ opinions
l Maintain an interaction by taking one’s turn at the right moment and recognizing other’s desire to speak
Writing
l Develop written texts by using appropriate format, conventions and language features when writing non-narrative texts
III. Materials:
l SB P5,6
l Cassette 7B
l PP P3
ProcedureI. Warming-up 1. Free talk:
1) A chant: Because
II. Pre-task preparation
1. Name the things you need to buy or prepare for
Ben’s birthday party
2. What decorations can you usually find at birthday
parties?
3. What do we blow out on a birthday cake? Candles
III. While-task procedure
1. Pair work: What else may Kitty need to buy?
She may need to buy some
balloons/candles/matches/camera/film
2. PP P3
IV. Post-task activity
1. Review the adverbs of time: first, second, then, next, finally etc.
2. Arrange the steps in logical sequence using the adverbs
V. Consolidation
1. Oral: 1) Listen and read 5 times
2) Recite the steps of making a chocolate cake
2. Written: 1) Copy work: phrases
2) GB P3,4
VI. Notes
Unit 1 A surprise birthday party 5/5
I. Language focus:
1. Using the past tense to talk about events and activities in the past
II. Language skills:
Listening
l Identify main ideas of a new topic
l Listen for specific information
Reading
l Recognize recurrent patterns in language structure
l Recognize format and language features in narrative and non-narrative texts
l Read written language in meaningful chunks
Writing
l Develop written texts by writing paragraphs which present ideas logically
l Plan and organize information and ideas by identifying purpose and audience for a writing task
III. Materials:
l SB P7
l Cassette 7B
l PP P4
l WB P4
l English newspapers and magazines with photos
ProcedureI. Warming-up 1. Free talk:
2) A chant: Who was the first?
II. Pre-task preparation
1. Review the format of a letter
2. Read the letter in Look and read
3. Review: caption(文字说明) look at the newspapers and magazines
4. Match the sentences in Point and match with the pictures
III. While-task procedure
1. Group work: discuss things that can be done at a surprise party
2. Draw pictures to describe the activities
3. Talk about your pictures
4. Complete PP P4
IV. Post-task activity
1. WB P4
V. Consolidation
1. Oral: 1) Listen and read 5 times
2. Written: 1) Copy work: phrases
2) GB P5,6
3) Select some of your photos and write captions
VI. Notes