Unit7 Shopping Task: Let’s go shopping Teaching Design
Teaching aim: To learn how to write an article to introduce a shopping mall.
Key points: How to write about a shopping mall
Teaching approaches: Communicative Approach, Task-based Approach, Reading, Writing Teaching procedures: Step I Lead in Free talk
1. How do you spend your pocket money?
2. Your family and friends give you lots of care and help in your life, right? So do you want to buy any gifts for them to thank them? You are good boys and girls. And we should know that buying gifts for others is a way to show your love, and it’s also a good way to spend your pocket money. Everyone should be a person with a grateful heart. Step II Presentation
1. Now, there’s a good timing for us to buy gifts for them. Because a festival is coming soon. Do you know what it is? Yes, it’s Christmas. When is it? December 25th, next Monday.
2. I also want to buy some gifts for my family and friends. Let’s look at
what I’ll buy. A sweater for my mother, a pair of shoes for my father, a book for my sister...and a Christmas card for my teacher. 3. Can you tell me where I can buy them?
A flower shop, a toy shop, a clothes shop...a sports shop
4. There are so many shops. I don’t want to go to many places. Where can I find all these shops in one place? A shopping mall. And I think it’s a good place to meet friends and have fun. Besides the shops we’ve talked about, there are also some other shops in a mall. What is this place? What can we do there?
A supermarket, restaurants(food from different areas), cinema(watch films)
So a shopping mall is really a good place, right?
5. Sunshine Shopping Mall is very good. Do you know anything about it? No? It doesn’t matter. Millie will tell you about it. Please read Millie’s notes and answer the following questions: a. Where is the shopping mall?
b. How many floors of shops are there in the mall? ...
f. Is there a computer games center?
6. Read the notes again and help Millie complete her article. 7. What is your favourite shopping mall?
When writing about it, what should you include?
Let’s look at Millie’s article first: Para.1: name and place
Para.2-4: different kinds of shops and things in the shops Para.5: feeling
8. Now it’s your turn to write about your favourite shopping mall. If you do not know any malls well, write about the Star Shopping Mall. Notes about Star Shopping Mall (work in pairs) Useful expressions
Time for you to write. Take photos of some students’ articles and let them read these articles. Let others find out some mistakes. Step III Homework 1. Complete your writing 2. Finish Exercise 6 of Unit 7 Blackboard design:
Unit7 Shopping Task: Let’s go shopping!
Part1 Name, location, how to get there Part2 How many floors
Different kinds of shops What people do on each floor
Part3 The reasons you like it or your feeling about it