Unit Five Animal Friends
I: TEACHING OBJECTIVES
1. To get some knowledge about pets, especially about dogs.
2. To learn the past continuous tense.
3. To learn how to talk about the past events, make suggestions, express preferences and give reasons.
4. To learn how to write complex sentences.
II: LANGUAGE FOCUS AND
DIFFICULT POINTS
train/ breed/ track/
keep sb. company/ rely on/ tell…apart/ turn up/ cover a distance of/ infect/ pass…on/
prevent…from doing sth./
in addtion to/ in a way/ show
up/ take turns to do or doing sth./
speak highly of/ flock/
scene/ smell out
III: TEACHING
ALLOTMENT: 8 periods
1st period: Warming up exercises and vocabulary
2nd period: Leading into the new lesson:
3rd «4th periods: Text
5th period: Consolidation of what is taught as key points in the text
6th period: Listening practice in class
7th period: Additional reading
8th period: Workbook
Note: speaking part of this lesson is left for the foreign teacher to teach
TEACHING PROCESSE
The First Period
I: Daily talk:
Revision:(by asking the following questions)
1. What’s the English for “春节”？
2. What is the most important holiday of the year for the Western countries?
II: Put the following into Chinese (written
on the blackboard while the students are listening to the tape and reading the
new words and phrases):
A dog is your
friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his
leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
III: Picture talk: Talk about dogs in class
IV: Homework:
1. Read the new words and phrases(on page 82) over and over again
and try to memorize them all.
2. Look up the following new words in your dictionary and explain them in English:
husky Alsatian sheepdog poodle hunt pet company
overcome bite character horrible disease
The Second Period
I: Daily talk:
Check up the homework
II: Preparing for reading:
1. Exercise A1:(talk about the 4 pictures, using the words given: husky/Alsatian/
sheepdog/poodle)
Picture One: A husky is an Eskimo dog. Here you can see eight huskies are
pulling a sleigh, which carries two people. Behind them are
more huskies.
Picture Two: Here in the picture is a very large dog, like a wolf. It is called Alsatian. An Alsatian is watching somebody or something closely and perhaps it is helping the police look for criminals.
Picture Three: A sheepdog is a dog which is trained to help a shepherd to look after sheep.
Picture Four: Here is a corner of a park. A lady was having a rest. Two dogs was with her. One is an Alsatian; the other is a poodle, which is leaning against the lady. A poodle is a kind of dog with thick curling hair, often clipped and shaved into fantastic patterns.
2. Skim and scan the text and do Exercises A2 and A3:
keys
A2: 1¾C 2¾E 3¾D 4¾B 5¾A
A3: 1) According to Paragraph B, dogs can do at least seven kinds of jobs:
(1) work as guards (2) pull carts
(3) smell enemies (4) track the scent of big animals
(5) used in sports (6) used in police work
(7) become man’s pets
2) Bobbie travelled back through the Rocky mountains in the depths of winter. He spent six months on the journey.
III: Getting on to read: Ask the students to read the text and ten answer the five questions on .page 70.
Answers are as follows.
1) (1)Looking after sheep. (2)Finding the way.
2)
The last sentence. That is,
In a way dogs have become man’s friends and working partners.
3) No, they don’t have much difficulty in telling things apart. This is because they can rely on their excellent sense of smell to tell things apart.
4) Sauer worked alone and tracked the thief after covering a distance of 160 kilometers.
Bobbie covered a distance of some 3200 kilometres and turned up at the family home after traveling through the Rocky Mountains in the depths of winter after he was lost.
5) Two major aspects:
(1) The disease is passed on by a bite from an infected dog.
(2) Once symptoms are shown, the infected person will die shortly after. So we should go to a doctor at once if we have been bitten by a dog.
IV: Homework:
1. Listen to the tape of the text , try to recite Paragraphs A,B and C and answer the three questions in the right-handed margin.
2. Memorize all the new words and phrases(Those in Additional Reading may not be included for the time being.)
The Third Period
I: Daily talk:
Check up the homework(The answers to the three questions are listed below)
1.Para.A flock
2.Para.B raise = bring up train = practise in a certain way or gain a certain skill
make = force or cause a person or an animal to do sth.. or cause sth. to happen
breed = Here it used as a verb in the passive voice, meaning to cause…to grow up as…
3.para C This sharp sense = Their excellent sense of smell
II: Begin to explain the key points in the first three paragraphs:
1. guard: v.& n.
keep guard/on guard/off one’s guard/stand guard
guard against 预防; 警惕
e.g. Two guards are guarding the gate of the storehouse.
= Two guards are keeping guard at the gate of the storehouse..
= Two guards are on guard at the gate of the storehouse..
e.g. He guarded against repeating the same mistake.
2. next to:( neighbouring) 在…旁边; 紧靠
e.g. May I bring your chair next to yours?
e.g. He doesn’t like wearing wool next to his skin.
3. flock: n. 群 & v. 聚集；成群地来
a flock of/flocks of… 一群/数群……
e.g. A flock of wild geese flew overhead.
flock about/after sb. 聚集在某人身旁
flock into 涌进
e.g. Crowds flocked after the singer as she left the theatre.
当那位歌唱家离开剧院时人们成群地跟在她身后。
4．scene n.舞台； （事件或故事的）发生地点；（戏剧或电影的）一场（或一段情节）
change the scenes 换幕/换景/改变环境/转移地点
appear/come on the scene 出现在舞台上/登场/出现/受到人们注意
steal/dominate the scene 抢戏；抢镜头/ 成为中心人物或中心事件
flee the scene 逃离现场
e.g. When their first child came on the scene, they had to change their way of life completely.
当他们在第一个孩子呱呱坠地时，就不得不完全改变自己的生活方式。
5．relationship n. pay attention to the word-formation of this word(with suffix: -ship, which means the state,quality,position,or rank)
more for examples:
friendship ownership
professorship leadership
6. breed vt. 培育； 饲养
e.g. a man who is bred at a university 一位受过高等教育的人
e.g. He will be bred to the law/church. 他将被培养成为律师/牧师。
7. smell out discover by means of one’s sense of smell 嗅出；
discover by noticing and understanding certain clues 发觉
e.g. smell out a secret 察觉秘密
e.g. The dog will smell out a thief.
8. in addition to 除……外(还);
e.g. In addition to English, she has to study a second foreign language.
9. in a way 在某种程度上；在某种意义上
cf: in the way 挡道，碍事
on the way 在途中
in this/ that /the same way 用这样/那样/同样的办法
in no way 决不；丝毫不
in a round-about way 拐弯抹角地；间接的
in any way 无论如何；在任何情况下
10．keep sb. company: 陪伴某人；与某人作伴
cf: keep one’s company 陪伴某人；与某人作伴
in the company of… 在……的陪同下；当着……的面
keep company with sb. 与某人交往
11．rely on have confidence in; trust; depend on
e.g. A country should mainly rely on the strength and the wisdom of its people.
12. tell apart distinguish between 区分；分清
e.g. The twin sisters are so much alike that their mother can hardly tell them apart.
e.g. These buildings are designed more or less the same, it’s hard to tell apart which building he is in.
III: Homework:
1. Make sentences with next to/flock/in addition to/in a way
/keep sb. company/rely on/tell apart
2. Listen to the tape of the text , try to recite Paragraphs D and E and answer the two questions in the right-handed margin.
3. Read the vocabulary over and over.
The Fourth Period
I: Daily talk:
Check the homework:
1. Some students will have to recite the first three or the last two paragraphs (whichever they like),while 7 students each will be asked to write down a sentence on the blackboard with what was taught yesterday.
2. Tell the answers to the two questions in their homework.
Para. D Covering a distance of 160 kilometres.
Para. E The previous sentence
― the fact that “sometimes
even the friendliest dog can bring death with its bite.”
II: Begin to explain the key points in
Paragraphs D and E:
1. train vt. 培养; 训练
e.g. We will train him as an animal doctor.
e.g. The students are being trained in medicine.
2. track vt. 追踪；跟踪
e.g. The police used several dogs to track the thieves.
e.g. The scientists are trying to track the lost man-made satellite.
3．cover a distance of …… 走了多长的路程
e.g. The Red Army covered a distance of 25,000 li during the Long March.
4. turn up become visible or appear unexpectedly
e.g. It is five o’clock, but they haven’t turned up yet.
e.g. He didn’t turned up for the meeting.
5. in the depth(s) of 在……正中； 在……深处
in the depth of the ocean/the country/winter/night
在大洋深处/在穷乡僻壤/在隆冬/在深更半夜
6．infect vt. 感染
e.g. The flu virus almost infected the whole class.
e.g. Anyone with a bad cold may infect the people around them.
be infected with (被)感染；沾染上
e.g. be infected with the flu 然上流感
7. pass on 把……传给
e.g. Pass the letter on to your friend, please.
e.g. The news was passed on by word of mouth/from mouth to mouth.
8. prevent vt. 阻止
e.g. Colds are prevented in the winter.
prevent/stop/keep …… from doing sth.
e.g. What prevented/stopped/kept you from coming?
III: Homework
1. Make sentences with what is taught as key points?
2. Do Ex.C2(on page 70)
3. Memorize the vocabulary of this lesson.
The Fifth Period
I: Daily talk:
Check up the homework
1. Ask some students to translation orally with the words and phrases taught yesterday.
2. Check the answers to Ex. C2
II: Structures: The Past Continuous Tense
1. 过去进行时主要表示在过去一段时间内正在或持续进行的动作，常与表示某一时刻或某一段时间的状语连用。
常见句型：
（1） was/were + V-ing … when … did sth.
（2） was/were + V-ing + the past time
2. 不与时间状语连用时，过去进行时可以表示情况逐渐的发展。
3. 过去进行时还可以用来描写故事发生时的背景。
III： Practise in class: Practice C (on p.74)
IV: Homework:
1. Workbook
2. Recite the text.
The Sixth Period
I: Daily talk:
Check the homework
II: Listening Practice:
1. Textbook (p.75)
2. Workbook (p.38 Listening A, B and C)
III: Homework:
1. Get ready for the dictation.
2. Memorize the new words and phrases in the text.
The Seventh Period
I: Daily talk and Dictation
II: Writing practice
III: Scanning:
Additional Reading
IV: Homework: Recite the text
The Eighth Period
I: Check the homework
Check the act of reciting the text
II: Exercise-explanation:
Workbook
III: Homework: Say something about Sauer and Bobbie