Unit 1 Can you play the guitar?一、单元总揽（一）单元教学内容 话题： Can you play the guitar? 功能：（1）谈论能力（2）辨别乐器语言结构：1、句型：Can you dance? Yes, I can. No, I cant. What club do you want to join? I want to join the music club. What can you do? I can play the piano.2、复习已学词汇：basketball volleyball复习已学句型：Do you like? I like. I dont like. Lets .3、新词汇：Verbs of activity such as dance, swim, sing Names of musical instruments such as guitar, drums, piano, drums, trumpet,4、Grammar focus: Can you dance? Yes, I can. / No, I cant. Can he paint? Yes, he can. /No, he cant. Can she speak English? Yes, she can. / No, she cant. Can you speak English? Yes, we can. / No, we cant. What club do you want to join? We want to join the chess club. I want to join the basketball club.（二）单元教学目标：1、能力目标：（1）学会询问别人所拥有的技能 （2）根据相关信息表达自己所掌握的技能和意愿，想参加何种类型的俱乐部 （3）能够表达自己参加俱乐部的意愿和理由2、知识目标：（1）能听说读写课文中出现大纲要求掌握的单词 （2）要知道play +球、棋、牌play the +乐器 （3）要学会情态动词can的用法及其一般疑问句型的肯定和否定回答 （4）掌握询问别人所掌握的能力的方法3、情感策略、文化等有关目标：（1）通过对人物个性化的了解，认识对方 （2）跨学科学习：语言艺术、审美教育 （3）了解自己的能力，培养情操4、教学方法：直观教学法、情景教学、任务型教学法5、教学用具：录音机、电脑、卡通图片（三）单元重难点1、 本单元重点学习询问别人的能力2、情态动词can及动词play教学是本单元的难点（四）单元教学课时安排建议（4课时）第一课时 Section A第二课时 Section A第三课时 Section B第四课时 Self-check及处理一些练习册二、Teaching ProceduresPeriod 1:Section A1a 1cAdditional materials to bring to classHarmonica and guitar or other two musical instruments to use in the language goal sectionPowerPoint with pictures of basketball, volleyball and some music instruments.Step 1 Revision and lead inThe teacher says I like basketball. Then asks: Do you like basketball/ volleyball? Do you want to join a basketball club?Step 2 PresentationAsk the students to look at the pictures of , there are some clubs in it. Lets look at the clubs. What are they? They are art club, English club, chess club, swimming club and music club. What club do you want to join? Help the students to answer I want to join the art club and so on. If the school has clubs, the teacher can ask the students: What clubs do we have in our school?The teacher writes What club do you want to join? I want to join on the blackboard. Ask the students to practice it.Then introduces the key vocabularies and the words can and cant. The teacher says to the students who say he/she wants to join the basketball club: Can you play basketball? Help the students say Yes, I can. No, I cant. Then repeat with other actions or pictures, such as play volleyball.Show the students the activities the people in each club can do with the same step. Then repeat with dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English and play the guitar with the help of doing the action. Or we can use the PowerPoint to help us to show the students what we can do. The teacher can ask the students to practice the following dialogues with can.Can you dance? Yes, I can. / No, I cant. Can he paint? Yes, he can. /No, he cant. Can she speak English? Yes, she can. / No, she cant. Can you speak English? Yes, we can. / No, we cant. Can you play it well? Yes, I can. / No, I cant.Do the action and read the new words and phrases.Ask the students to practice can and cant. Ask the students to practice can you play it well?At the same time, the teacher write down sing, dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English, and play the guitar on the blackboard. Ask the students to read after the teacher. Step 3 A game To be more familiar with the words and phrases, the teacher can organize a game like this:Write the words and phrases on pieces of paper. Ask one of the students come to the front and choose one of the paper, then do the action. Ask other students to guess what he or she can do. Then exchange.Step 4 ExerciseTask 1:Look at the pictures 1a. Points to the activities the people in each club are doing. Say something about each clubs activity clearly. For example, This is a chess club. See the chess? They are playing chess.Ask the students to match each club activity in the picture with a word from the list. For example: A can dance, so we can write “a” beside dance. The answers are: 1.dance a 2. swim e 3. sing f 4. play chess b 5. paint d 6. speak English c 7.play the guitar g Task 2. Say each conversation with a student in Part 1a. After doing this, play the recording the first time. Students only listen. Play the recording a second time. This time ask the students to listen to the conversations and write a number 1 next to the first conversation they hear, a