Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.学科English年级9班级课型fresh课时5 / 6媒体a tape recorder, CAI课题Unit 12 life is full of the unexpected. Section B 2a 2e话题Unexpected events 功能Narrate past events教学目标知识技能1. Target language: By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.2. Grammar: Know about the past perfect tense: had + v-ed3. Words and expressions;(1) Curriculum words: announce, discovery, lady, cancel, officer, believable, disappear, embarrassing (2) Useful expressions: sell out，take place, play a trick / joke on sb., lose weight, get married 过程方法Train the students reading skill by finishing some tasks of reading情感态度Try to collect the jokes happened on AprilFools Day and share them with your friends学习策略Using background knowledge: carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph can active your own knowledge of the topic and help you guess what the whole text is about.重点1. Guide the students to write stories happened on April Fools Day2. Direct the students to write an article according to the pictures given难点 Direct the students to write an article with the pictures given教学内容及问题情境学生活动设计意图 Step1. Revision Revise the three boys stories happened on April Fools Day Ask three different students to tell their stories to the classStep2. Presentation. 3a1. Show the new words and expressions on the screen .2.Ask the students to read the three articles Not all of them are true, which of these stories is the most believable and which is the least believable And they have to tell the reasons as well AnswersThe first story really happened The radio program was called The War of the World5.Read the article again and ask some questions. （1） What did a radio program announce in 1938?（2） What had happened by the time the authorities revealed the story was a hoax?（3） What did a reporter announce on April Fools Day?（4） What had happened by the time people realized that the story was a hoax?（5） What did a famous TV star once do on April Fools Day?（6） What was the ending of the last story?.3b1. Let the students make sentences with the phrases given, based on the story happened to Nick 2. Ask the students to write a magazine story about Nick in Activities 2a and 2b, using the notes below 3.After several minutes, ask a student to read the completed article to the classThe rest of the class help correct the mistakes the student may have made4. Get them to check each others writing carefully in pairsA sample answer:On April Fools Day Nicks alarm went off He got up and took a shower Then he got dressed and went to school When he got to school, the building was emptyAn hour later the other kids showed upThen he realized that his brother had fooled him His brother had set his alarm an hour earlier. 3c1. Tell the students to make a list ofideas before starting writing The list should include the three parts, what happened first, what happened next, and what you finally realized They can use the notes in Activity 3b as samplesWrite a sample list on the blackboard:What happened first: school gate/metDong/Li Lei/waiting for/on the playground/ran to the playgroundWhat happened next: got to the playground/no one was thereWhat I realized: Dong/fooled me2. Ask the students to write their jokes Tell them they can use the article they wrote for Activity 3b as a model3.Ask some students to read their articles to the class Correct as many of the articles as possible in classA sample writingOn April Fools Day I met Don at the school gate He told me that Li Lei was waiting for me on the playground Then I ran to the playground When I got there, I found no one was on the playgroundThen I realized that Don had fooled me.Part 41. Review the meanings of funniest, most embarrassing and most creative 2. Ask the students to tell their funny story to the class3.The other students vote on the funniest joke, the most embarrassing joke and the most creative joke. Self Check Part 11.Ask the students to fill in the blanks with the words given, change the form of the word if necessary.2. Check the answers 3.Ask students to make their own sentences with the words.rush: As soon as the bell rang, the students rushed to the playgroundrealize: By the time he got to the office he realized that he had locked all his keys at homeinvite: Mr Green invited his good friends to have a big dinner at home last Sundayshow up: We have to finish the task before the boss shows upstay up: Jack stayed up very late last night He couldnt wake