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教学目标 To understand what colors represent To recognize and understand vocabulary about emotions 教学重难点 To understand what colors represent 集 体 备 课 教学过程： Step 1: Revision Revise different kinds of colours by asking students: What’s your favourite colour? Step 2: Presentation. Tell students that different colours can give people different feelings. Let students enjoy a series of pictures, including different kinds of colours and let students discuss: What’s your feeling after looking at the pictures? Encourage students to say as much as possible. Then teachers make a conclusion: Blue & white can make people calm and peaceful. Blue can also represent sadness and white is the colour of purity. Yellow and orange make you feel warm, happy and contented. Orange represents joy while yellow is the colour of wisdom. Green makes you feel energetic. It represents new life and growth. Red represents power. It is also the colour of heat and strong feelings. Step3 Part A Teaching procedures 1. Read the passage aloud. Ask students to listen to you carefully and follow the text on the page. 2. Ask one student at a time to read a paragraph. After each paragraph, ask students to say which parts of the text they do not understand. 3. Ask more able students what they think about the article. Do they agree with what it says or which part of it do they like most? Encourage more able students to give reasons for their answers. 4. Ask students to tell the class any interesting facts they know about the colors. Part B. Teaching procedures 1. Ask students to read Part A on page 22 and 23 again and use the information to complete Part B1 on page 24. 2. Ask students to work in pairs to complete Part B2. Ask students to raise their hands when they have finished. The first pair to finish the exercise correctly is the winner. 3. After students have finished, give the correct answer to each question. Language points 二次备课

1. Do you know anything interesting about colours? 你知道关于颜色的一些有趣的事情吗？ anything interesting 一些有趣的事情, anything 是不定代词，形容词interesting要放在它的后面。 2. Colours can change our moods and make us feel happy or sad, energetic or sleepy. 颜色会改变我们的情绪，让我们感到高兴或悲伤，充满活力或昏昏欲睡。 make sb. do sth. “使得某人做某事”，后接宾语和宾语补足语。 e.g. The news made her very sad. 3. Wearing blue clothes or sleeping in a blue room is good for the mind and body because this colour creates the feeling of harmony. 穿蓝色的衣服或睡在一间蓝色的房间里对我们的身体和头脑都有好处，因为这个颜色创造出和谐的感觉。 be good for … “对…有利” e.g. Taking a walk after supper is good for our health. 它的反义词是 be bad for wearing是wear的动名词形式，因为它在句中做主语，所以要加ing e.g. Reading in bed is bad for your eyes. 4. I am feeling blue. 我感到伤心。 英语中一些表示颜色的词常常会有另外的喻义。 e.g. a green hand 生手 He is yellow. 他懦弱。 a white lie 一个善意的谎言 5. People who live in cold climates prefer to use warm colours to give their homes a warm and comfortable feel. 生活在寒冷气候下的人们更愿意使用暖色给他们的家带来温暖、舒适的感觉。 prefer “更喜欢”，后可跟名词、代词，也可跟动词不定式或动名词。 教后记：