Unit 1 Where is your pen pal from? Teaching Goal: 1. General aims: A. Talk about where people are from B. Talk about nationality, nation and language C. Talk about where people live 2. Particular aims: A. Language Focus. (1). Talk about nationality, people and languages (2). Ask and answer where people live. B. Language goals (1). Change your own information with your pen pals. (2). Ask some questions using where. (3). Ask words somebody talk about. C. Language structures: (1). Where is /are. from? (2). Where do/does . live? (3). What language do /does.speak? D. Useful words and phrases: Words: Canada, France, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom, English, French, Japanese Phrases: come from, live in, live on, a little, in school, at school, tell.about, like going to the movies E. Grammar language: (1). Special question with where (2). Noun changes into adjective word, for example country change into nationality and language and people. F. Teaching difficulties: (1) the names of the countries and the languages. (2) How to use the students learn, especially in writing. G. Learning strategies: (1). Using what you know (2). Deducing (3). Personalizing H. Emotion goals: (1) Students can communicate with their pen pals in English using modern tools(e.g. e-mail, OICQ, MSN) (2) Students are happy to know the geography and the cultures of different areas in the world. 3. Teaching design: Period 1: Section A (1a-2d) Period 2: Section A (3a-4) Period 3: Section B (1-2c) Period 4: Section B (3a-3c) Period 5: Self-check Period One Teaching aims: 1. Learn the countries and cities. 2. Learn to how to ask and answer where the people live. Teaching points: 1. Vocabularies: the words of the countries and the cities, pen pal, live (in) 2. Sentences: Where is your pen pal from? He/She is from. Where does he /she live? He/She lives in. Teaching difficulties: 1. Students learn the new words of the countries and the cities and learn how to ask and answer the people where they live. 2. How to use the special questions with where. Teaching steps: Step 1 Warming-up 1. Share an English song. 2. Greetings. 3. T: What did you do during the winter holiday? Collect different answers(e.g. watch TV, go shopping, play with the computer, etc) Step 2 Presentation 1. T: During the winter holiday, I made some pen pals from different countries on internet. Teach pen pal on the Bb. Ask Ss Do you have a pen pal?(Yes/No.) and show them the map of the world and let the students guess what countries they are from( they can use Chinese if they cant.) Then teach the names of the countries on the map. 2. After learning the names of the countries on the map, show the different flags and let students say the names again. Meanwhile show some stars to present He/She is from. Step 3 Pair work Show the people of cartoons from different countries. Students ask and answer in pairs: Where is.from? He/She is from. Step 4 Listening Work on 1a and 1b. Listen and repeat(1a). Listen and circle(1b). Step 5 Guessing game1 T says some information and ask the students to guess who she is. For example: She is a girl. She is from China. And she plays ping pong very well. Students go on until they guess she is Wang Nan. Then present She lives in Beijing. And show the pictures. Step 6 Learning 1. Look at the pictures, and learn the names of the cities in different countries. And tell them some cultures in the different countries. 2. Work on 2a. Let Ss say like Sydney is in Australia. 3. Ss ask and answer in pairs. Step 7 Listening 1. Work on 2b. Listen and circle. 2. Listen and complete the chart.(2c) Step 8 Homework 1. Copy the new words 5 times. 2. Read the text 3times.And make questions about Jodie in 2c. 3. Finish the exercises in Book1 and Book 2. Period Two Teaching aims: 1. Learn the languages. 2. Talk about nationality, cities people live and languages. Key points: 1. Word: language 2. Sentences: What language do/does.speak? They speak./He/She speaks. Teaching difficulties: Ss use the sentences they learned to communicate with their partners about their pen pals. Teaching steps: Step 1 Warming-up and revision 1. Greetings. 2. Revise the new words and the sentences with the Ss. 3. Game: Where is Sydney? Its in . One by one in groups. See which group does best. (4) 4. Pairs ask and answer the picture using Where is .from? He/She is from. Where does he/she live? He/She lives in . Step 2 Presentation T: They are from different countries. And they speak different languages. Do you know what languages they speak? Talk about the children on the map. See how many languages the Ss know and tea