(1)Teaching Aims and Demands
①Knowledge Object
a. Key Vocabulary: lottery, million, medical, research
b. Target Language:
Look. This girl won a million dollars in the lottery.
Wow! What would you do if you won a million dollars?
I’d give it to medical research.
c. Structure
I would/I’d do
②Ability Objects
a. Train students’ listening skill.
b. Train students’ communicative competence.
③Moral Object
If you won a million dollars, you’d buy a big house, buy a car and so forth. Do remember that it’s really being cool to realize your dream through great efforts.
(2)Teaching Key Points
①Target language
②The structure: I would/I’d do
(3)Teaching Difficult Point
The structure. I would/I’d do
(4)Teaching Methods
①Scene teaching Method
②Teaching by induction
③Pairwork
(5)Teaching Aid
A tape recorder
(6)Teaching Procedures
①Step 1 Revision
Review the structure “should be allowed to” by asking students to make sentences about school rules.
②Step 2 1a
This activity focuses on vocabulary and structures introduced in the unit. Read the instructions to the class.
a. Call students’ attention to the words in the box. Ask a student to read them to the class.
b. Say, What would you do if you had a lot of money? Add more ideas to the list.
c. Then share your answers with other students.
d. Get students to complete the task. First individually, then in groups.
e. As they work, walk around the room checking progress and offering any help they may need.
f. Collect answers from students on the blackboard.
Answers will vary but should include a mixture of ideas for helping themselves and others.
③Step 3 1b
This activity gives students practice understanding the target language in spoken conversation.
a. Read the instructions to the class.
b. Read the question in the speech bubble. Explain the word lottery to students.
Say, You will hear teenagers talking about what they would do if they won the lottery. Point to the pictures. Ask students to describe them one by one.
For example, for Picture One, a student might say “If I won the lottery, I’d buy a big house.”
Point out the sample answer. Say: “The first picture you will hear about has the number one on it.”
c. Play the recording for the first time. Students only listen.
d. Play the recording again. This time students listen and number the pictures in the order they hear them.
e. Check the answers.
Answers: 2,1,4,3
④Step 4 1c
This activity provides oral practice using the target language. Read the instructions to the class.
a. Call students’ attention to the conversation in the box. Explain the vocabulary words million and medical research. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class.
SA: Look! This girl won a million dollars in the lottery.
SB: Wow! What would you do if you won a million dollars?
SA: I’d give it to medical research.
b. Write it on the blackboard.
Say: “Pretend you are the people in the picture. Talk with your partner about what you would do if you won a million dollars.”
c. Get students to work in pairs. As they work in pairs together, walk around the room offering language support as needed.
d. After students have had a chance to practice several exchanges, ask pairs to come to the front of the classroom and act out their conversations.
⑤Step 5 Summary
In this class, we’ve learned some vocabulary words and the target language what would you do if you won the lottery? I’d give it to medical research.
⑥Step 6 Homework
If you had a large amount of money, what would you buy? Please write down each item and its cost to see when you will spend the full amount. And bring your lists to class tomorrow.
⑦Step 7 Blackboard Design
Unit 4 What would you do?Section AThe First Period Target language:
A: Look. This girl won a million dollars in the lottery.
B: Wow! What would you do if you won a million dollars?
A: I’d give it to medical research.