7B Unit1 Dream homes
Welcome to the unit
Teaching aims and demands:
New words: dream, palace, capital
Teaching methods: task-based approach
Teaching task: 1. To talk about cities and countries.
2. Have a discussion in groups, and talk about their dream homes.
3. Write articles about students’ dream homes.
Teaching aids: tape recorder
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm-up (presentation)
1. Ask if any students have lived in another country. Elicit from students ideas about an ideal place to live.
2.Do a mini-survey. Ask students which is their favourite place to live.
Ⅱ. Listening
Listen to the tape, answer my question, Which is Eddie’s favourite place to live? Help the Ss to answer.
Listen again, Ss read after the tape recorder, then act it out.
Language points:
1.I’d like to live next to a restaurant.
① would like sth.= want sth
would like to do sth = want to do sth
e.g. Would you like some water?= Do you want some water?
Would you like to go with us? Yes, I’d love/ like to.=Do you want to go with us? Yes, I do.
② next to =beside
e.g. Tom’s house is next to mine.
Jack wants to sit next to me.
2. Learn about homes in different countries.
① learn about
I want to learn more about the world.
② learn from
We should help each other and learn from each other.
③ different → same
in different classes in the same class
Ⅲ. Countries and capitals
1.Ask students to study the pictures on page 3.
2.Say: The capital of
Ⅳ. Discussion (task)
Have a discussion in groups of four to talk about their dream homes. Each group will choose a student to tell us about his / her dream home. Why?
Language points:
The capital of the
the capital of ……
e.g.
The capital of
Ⅴ.Sum-up
Go through the new words and the language points learnt during this lesson.
Ⅵ. Homework
1.Review the contents of this lesson.
2. Write articles about students’ dream homes.
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