Unit2,. Objectives,. Suggested Teaching Plan,. Background Information,. Class Presentation,Preview,Preview,prev.,This unit tells about people who invented new things and helped the development of our society. In the Listening and Speaking section, you will learn how to offer help and express willingness to help. In the Reading and Writing section, Text A tells the story of the blind young man who invented the Braille system; Text B tells how tomatoes become part of the American diet; and Practical Reading includes the copyright page of a book.,grasp the basic skills necessary to offer help and express willingness to help; 2. understand the main ideas of Texts A and B, and master the useful sentence structures and words and expressions found in the relevant exercises of the texts; 3. know how to use the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; 4. know how to fill in a book order form; 5. read the copyright page of a book; 6. understand the difference between the general idea and the details contained in an English paragraph.,. Objectives,After studying this unit, the students are expected to be able to,Obj.,. Suggested Teaching Plan,Suggested Time and Teaching Plan for Unit 2,Time,Contents,Plan,C.,s.t.p.1,2 periods,Preview,The teacher explains the Preview so the students will have some knowledge of what they are about to learn in this unit. Then the teacher asks the students to do the following:,1) Offering Help,Listen to the short talk in Exercise 1 twice and then fill in the missing words;,B. Listen to the whole short talk and then do Ex. 2;,Go through the new words in the first conversation of Ex. 3 and then,s.t.p.2,2) Expressing Willingness to Help,Time,Contents,Plan,Answer the questions about the conversation by way of group discussion or traditional teacher student interaction;,B.,D.,Do Ex. 4 in pairs or groups.,s.t.p.3,C.,Go through the second conversation with the same steps as above;,Time,Contents,Plan,listen to the conversation twice while filling in the missing words;,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.4,Before ending class, the teacher tells the students how to do Ex. 5-10 as their assignment. The teacher also tells the students that they should be prepared to answer the questions in Ex. 9 and give an oral presentation when they next come to class.,3) Listening Practice,Time,Contents,Plan,3 periods,Review of the listening and speaking skills the students have learned,The teacher asks some students to answer the questions in Ex. 9 of the Listening and Speaking section and invites a few others to give their opinions on “To live is to give.” Then the teacher turns to Text A. (This section should be completed in half a period.),s.t.p.5,Time,Contents,Plan,Text A & text-related exercises,The teacher organizes students in group discussion in order to name three inventions or discoveries that they think are the most important in human history, and explain the reasons; then asks one student from each group to,s.t.p.5,1) Starter,report their discussion. If the students have difficulty doing this, the teacher can give them the information provided in the following Part III Background Information, and Some Famous Inventions and Discoveries. (half a period),s.t.p.6,2) Text A,The teacher,Time,Contents,Plan,A.,lets the students answer the text related questions which they have prepared, helps them identify the main idea of each paragraph and analyzes some difficult sentences and some language points while discussing the whole text with the students; (one and a half periods),s.t.p.7,Time,Contents,Plan,B.,guides the students through the exercises, focusing on certain items or leaving some exercises as the students homework, according to the students different levels of English. (one period),s.t.p.7,Time,Contents,Plan,1 period,Grammar Review,1) Grammar Review,The teacher talks about the use of the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs,s.t.p.8,Practical Writing,and, at the same time, asks the students to do the grammar exercises in class.,2) Practical Writing,The teacher tells as well as shows the students how to fill in an English book order form by doing Ex. 12 of Practical Writing, and then requires the students to complete the form in Ex. 13 and do Ex. 14 as well with his/her help.,Time,Contents,Plan,Time,Plan,s.t.p.9,Text B & text-related exercises,Contents,1) Text B,While discussing the text with the students, the teacher calls on the students to pay attention to the structure of the paragraphs of the text, introducing briefly the concept of the topic sentence. Ex.16 and Ex.17 can be done either in or after class.,2 periods,2) Practical Reading,This part should be read as homework by the students themselves.,Practical Reading,s.t.p.10,Basic Reading Skills,3) Basic Reading Skills,The teacher makes the most of Texts A and B, analyzing and explaining some of the paragraphs in the texts and, at the same time, inviting students to analyze others.,Time,