4. Teaching Difficult Points

To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

To enable students to grasp the usage of must, might, could and can’t.

3. Teaching Key Points

To learn the key vocabulary words and the target language.

To learn to make inferences using the words must, might, could and can’t.

2. Teaching Aims and Demands

(1) Knowledge Objects

In this unit, students learn to make inferences using the words must, might, could and can’t.

(2) Ability Objects

To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

To train students’ ability to deduce.

(3) Moral Objects

When you are on a picnic, remember to bring litter back to keep our environment clean and tidy.

We’ll benefit a lot by learning proverbs.

1.Status and Function

The topic of this unit is a picnic, In this unit, students learn to make inferences.

Such topic is helpful to activate students’ imagination and improve students’ ability to deduce. Either less or more advanced students will be active in the activities in class. So it’s useful to improve students’ spoken English and communicative competence.

(1) The first period mainly introduces the key vocabulary and the target language to students. Through listening and oral practice, students have a brief understanding of how to make inferences.

(2)In the second period, students learn the exact meanings of the words must, might, could and can’t.

Meanwhile, students practice listening and writing the target language.

(3) When reading an article, students can’t help meeting with some new words. In the third period, students are asked to practise using the target language by talking about the new words, It’s helpful to arouse students’ learning interest and improve students’ listening and speaking skills.

(4) The fourth period gives students further listening and oral practice using the target language by talking about an alien is chasing a man.

In this class, students have a better understanding of the words must, might, could and can’t.

(5) In the fifth　 period, students learn more vocabulary words first, and then practice reading and writing the target language. All the activities are designed to improve students’ reading and writing skills.

(6)In the last period, students learn a lot of proverbs. Proverbs are full of truth and advice. Students will benefit a lot in this class.

根据你家的实际情况，请你写出五条你们家的家规。要放开思路，家规不只是针对孩子的，要尽量使用不同的句型，并把条例连成一段文字。

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　　 Many students talked about the rules that they have in school. At their school, they have to wear uniforms everyday. The problem is that all the students think the uniforms are　 1　 . They think young people should look smart and so they would like to　 2　 their own clothes. Their teachers believe that if they did that, they would concentrate more on their clothes than their　 3　 . But the students disagree. They would　 4　 more comfortable and that is good for studying. If they can’t do that, they should be allowed to design their own uniforms. That would be a good way to keep both teachers and students happy. It’s also probably a good idea for parents to allow teenagers to study in groups during the evening. Sometimes they get noisy　 5　 they can learn a lot from each other. They also think that vacations should be　 6　 . At present they’re too short. Longer vacations would give them time to do things like volunteering. Last summer they had an opportunity to volunteer at the local　 7　 , but they couldn’t because they had to　 8　 to school. It would be a good experience for them because some of them want to be doctors when they grow up.

1.(　　 ) A. ugly　　　　　　　 　　 B. beautiful　　　　　 C. small　　　　　　　 D. smart

2.(　　 ) A. put on　　　　　　 B. wear　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. in　　　　　　　　　　 D. do

3.(　　 ) A. clothes　　　　　 B. study　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. hair　　　　　　　　 D. shoes

4.(　　 ) A. fall　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. fell　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. feel　　　　　　　　　 D. felt

5.(　　 ) A. but　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. if　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. and　　　　　　　　　 D. so

6.(　　 ) A. shorter　 　　　　 B. longer　　　　　　　　　　　 C. smaller　 D. farther

7.(　　 ) A. school　　　　　　 B. hospital　　　　　 C. store　　　　　　　　 D. factory

8.(　　 ) A. leave　　　　　　　 B. come　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. go back　 D. live

3.课堂检测

选择有关情态动词的习题，进行检测，并要求学生解释。

2.教学

(1)复习一些学过的单词: clothing ,fun things,kitchen things,toy car.

(2)让学生看图片，列举出在图片中看见的东西：

Clothing: hat, jacket, T-shirt; Fun things:volleyball,CD, toy car, magazine,book; Kitchen things: plate, cups

(3)Listening

　Listen and match on page 34 each person with a thing and a reason. .

Pay attention to the use of MUST in the sentences.

Then the teacher check the answers.

Play the tapes again, and let the students read after that.

(4)教学操练(Practice)

　小组练习(Groupwork)

小组合作，完成所给句型，进行新知巩固。

(5)拓展Extension

利用所给图片和实物，模仿听力的对话形式，让学生进行各种猜测，体验情态动词的灵活性，熟练掌握情态动词。

1.教学引出重点 must, could, might ,can’t, belong to

展示一些学生的东西hair band, a pair of glasses, an English book, a CD, a notebook ,a bag ……

(从自己的口袋中掏出一把钥匙)问：

T:Whose key is it? S:It’s English teacher’s. T: Are you sure? S: Yes, I am sure.

Write the sentence on the blackboard:

The key must be the teacher’s.

利用学生手中的其他东西进行提问，引出might,could,can’t，通过反复的练习，让学生归纳总结，谈谈他们对几个情态动词的理解，老师引导并帮助总结对某事判断的肯定程度：must:100%;

Could,might:20%--80%; can’t:0%

　 在学生掌握的基础上，利用The key must be the teacher’s.

　　　 The key belongs to the teacher. 引出belong to