Unit Four Housing Estates and Surroundings

Lesson One Choosing a flat

1.       to talk and write about rooms and flats

2.       to make comparisons

3.       to ask for and express opinions

Flats/ Rooms

Talking about flats

Asking for and expressing opinions

Making comparisons

Words and expressions:

From the text

From the reading

talk about…

in the center of

need

get… together

face south

messy

have a look (at)

write out

this weekend

Sentence patterns:

Shopping is the most convenient.

The bedroom faces south.

What do you think?  (I think so, too.)

What kind of …?

I think …

Structures:

Revisions of comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs

Time: 5 periods

1.      to do tuning in and to learn new words

2.      to learn text and notes to the text

3.      to learn discovering language and to do developing skills―listening and speaking

4.      to do developing skills―reading and writing

5.      to go over the text, do some dictations and to check exercises

1.       Quick responses:

1)      Let’s read the text, shall we/

2)      How do you say  第29 in English?

3)      Do you do any warm-up exercises in a PE class?

4)      Do you ever do push-ups?

5)      Do you ever do waist bends?

6)      How much is eleven plus fourteen?

7)      How much is seventeen minus five?

8)      How much is six times nine?

9)      How much is a hundred divided by twenty-five?

10)   Which country is the third biggest in the world?

11)   What’s the capital of China?

2.       Numbers (Cardinal numbers and Ordinal numbers)

3.       Comparatives and superlatives

1.       Answer the questions:

1)      How do you like your house/flat?

2)      Do you want to move into a bigger house/flat?

3)      Do you think public transport is important in your everyday life?

4)      Which flat is the biggest of the three?

5)      Which flat has the largest sitting room?  How large is it?

6)      Do you like a flat with a bigger sitting room or a smaller one?

7)      Which flat do you like best?  Why?

2.       A survey on housing conditions.  Questions:

1)      Where do you live, in a flat or a house?

2)      How many rooms does it have?

3)      How large is your flat/house?

4)      Is public transport convenient?

Name

Flat or house

No. of rooms

Size

Public transport

Tom

flat

4

105

convenient

III.             New words

1.       Read after the tape.

2.       Read by the students themselves.  (Correct the pronunciation.)

3.       Ask some students to read the words.

4.       Let the students remember the Chinese meaning of the words.

(Teacher says English and the students say Chinese.)

5.       Read by the students themselves again.

Written work:

Copy the new words and text.

Oral work:

1.       Read and recite new words.

2.       Preview the text.

Daily talk: Say something about your house/flat.

1.       Numbers

2.       Comparatives and superlatives

3.       New words

1.       Answer the questions according to the pictures of the text.

1)      How many people are there in the picture?

2)      What are they talking about?

3)      Does Mrs. Wang think shopping is the most important?

2.       Listen to the tape and read after the tape.

3.       Read the text by the students themselves.

4.       Role-play the text.

IV.              Under the useful expressions and phrases.  Explain the key points.

1.       talk about 谈论

The boys in our class often talk about football, but the girls like to talk about singers.

我们班男生常常谈论足球，而女生喜欢谈论歌唱演员。

What are you talking about?  We are having a lesson now.  Please listen attentively.

你们在谈论什么？ 现在在上课，请专心听讲。

2.       have a look (at) 看一看

Come and have a look at my new computer.

来看看我的电脑。

What’s happening there?  Shall we go and have a look?

那儿发生了什么事了？  我们去看一看，好吗？

3.       a small flat一个小套间

flat  是英国英语，美国英语是apartment.

4． We need to buy a bigger one. 我们需要买一个大一点的套间。

need 既可用作情态动词，又可用作表意动词，如：

You needn’t go now. 你现在不用去。（情态动词）

I need to find a job. 我需要找一份工作。（表意动词）

5. What do you think?  I think so, too. 你认为怎样？（用于征求对方的意见时） 我也这样认为。

A: Let’s go there by light rail.  It’s both cheap and fast.  What do you think?

我们乘轻轨去那儿，这样既便宜又快。你觉得如何？

B:  I think so, too.

我也这样认为。

6. What kind of…?

What kind of T-shirts do you like, the tight ones or the loose ones?

你喜欢什么样的T恤衫？ 紧身的还是宽松的？

        A: What kind of books are you interested in?

你对那种书感兴趣？

        B: I’m interested in detective stories.

我对侦探小说感兴趣。

7. I think… 我认为…

I think the room with a balcony is better than the one without.

我认为有阳台的那间房比没有阳台的那见房好。

I don’t think living in the suburbs is inconvenient.

我认为住在郊区没有什么不方便的地方。

I don’t think watching TV is a waste of time.

我认为看电视不是浪费时间。

1.       Learn the text by heart.

2.       Do comprehension check on WB and SB.

I.Revision

1.Recite the text.  (whole class)

2.Role-play the text.

3.Check comprehension check on WB and SB.

II.Additional words

decorate the room 布置房间       store room 储藏室

furnish the kitchen/bathroom  给厨房/卫生间安装设备配备家具

neighborhood  居民点，街坊，四邻      community  社区

III.Discovering language

1.Review the use of “can, may, must, need”.

2.Read the sentences on p115.

3.Answer the questions.

4.Fill in the blanks with should, need, can or may.

IV.Developing skill―Listening

1.Listen to the conversation between Wang Qiang and his parents once.

2.Answer the questions:

1)Is Wang Qiang’s room big or small?

2)Is Wang Qiang a big boy or a small boy?

3)Do they need a bigger flat?

4)Does Wang Qiang father agree with Wang Qiang and his mother?

3.Listen to the conversation again.

4.Answer the four questions on p115.

V.Developing skill―Speaking

Wang Qiang and his father at the housing agency.  They are talking about the flats.  Suppose one of you is Wang Qiang or the agency and the other is Wang Qiang’s father.  Make up short dialogues about the flats according to the following models.  Use the word and phrase cues in the box.

VI.Homework

Do language focus on WB.

Fourth Period

I.Revision

Recite the text

II.A survey

Step 1 Conduct a survey on your group members’ housing conditions in the past and at present with the help of the following questions, and then fill in the survey below.

Step 2 Fill in the blanks with proper words, and then tell your classmate about your survey results.

III.Reading

1.Read the passage and decide if the following statements are true or false.  Tick the right boxes.

2.Answer the questions:

1)When did the Whites buy a new house?

2)Is the public transport more convenient than around their old house?

3)When are they going to move to it?

4)Why are the sitting room and the bedroom messy?

5)Is father looking for his jacket?

6)Why are they busy?

7)Does Jack know how to pack books?

3.Explain the key points and underline the useful phrases.

1)get … together 把…收拢

Please get all the newspapers together and throw them into the recycling box.

把所有的报纸收拢来，然后扔进回收箱里。

Can you help me get all the books together?

你能帮我把所有的书都收拢起来吗/

2)messy 乱七八糟

Look at your study.  It’s messy. 看你的书房，乱七八糟。

After the party, the garden was messy. 聚会后，花园里乱七八糟。

3)write out 写出， 列出

The Chinese teacher wrote out a list of books for us to read on the first day of school.

开学第一天，语文老师就列出了一系列要我们读的书目。

Let’s write out all the things we are going to buy.  I can’t remember so many things.

我们把要买的所有东西都写出来，我记不住那么多。

4)and the public transport is more convenient than that around their old house.

that 指public transport。同一句中为避免重复往往用代词that, those, one 或ones 指代前面的主语

The weather in Shanghai is better than that in Beijing.

上海的天气比北京的好。

The apple on the plate is larger than the one in the basket.

盘子里的苹果比篮子的大。

5)Maybe it’s in a bag, I’m not sure.  大概在包里，我不肯定。

  maybe 也许，大概；用于猜测或对某事不肯定。

  Maybe Xiao Li lives on the fifth floor, I’m not sure.

也许小李住在5楼，我不能肯定。

  Let’s try another library.  Maybe we can borrow the book there.

  我们到另一家图书馆去试试，也许在那儿能借到这本书。

IV.Homework

1.Writing on SB.

2.Skill focus on WB.

I.Revision

Dictation

1. The most convenient thing here is shopping.

2. I want to choose a flat in the suburbs.

3. The kitchen has six square metres.

4. Both our sitting room and my bedroom face south.

5. There are many highrises in the center of town.

6. The light rail station is near the crossroads.

II.Ask some students to read out their compositions.

III.Check the exercise in the workbook.

Do skill focus―listening on WB.

IV.Phonetics.

Listen to the tape.  Make the stressed syllables of these words.

V.Homework

Go over this lesson.