Advance With English Module 3 Unit 1 The world of our senses
Periond 1: welcome to the unit
Aims: ---to give the Ss the idea that soemtimes the senses affect one another and people may be misled by them to help them to realize how they use their senses in their studies and daily life and to teacch them how to make better use of their senses.
--- ask Ss to fully participate in the discussion, practise their spoken English, and share their opinions with one another. Precedures:
Step 1 brainstorming
Ask the following questions: With what do we see and hear?
How do we know that a flower has a pleasant smell? How do we know whether a dish is delicious?
What do we do when we want to know whether the wather in the basinis hot or cold? How do we know about the world around us? What are the five senses? (Blackboard: see – eyes—sight—look
Hear-ears—hearing—sound Taste—tongue—taste—taste Smell—nose—smell—smell Touch/feel—skin—touch--feel)
As we all know almost everyone has five senses. We learn about the world through the five senses and we use them to study, wok and relax. Step 2 sharing information
Ask Ss to read the short passage and the main idea Ask them to give more examples
Look at the 4 pictures and answer the questions below. Homework: translation
事实情况是雾太大，车开不了那么远。 因为恐惧，她能感到自己的心跳。 今天有那么多人迷路，我想帮助他们。
Period 2: Reading
Teaching aims:
1 Encourage students speak out to practice their oral English. 2 Arose their interest in learning this unit through activities.
3 Let them know the importance of senses and know that sometimes senses affect one another and people may be misled by their own senses. Difficult points:
Encourage the students to share their opinions by fully participating in the discussion in order to realize how they and other people use their senses in their studies and daily life. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in (Pictures 1-3)
Lead in the five senses by asking the students their life experiences. The five senses are:
The sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the sense of taste, the sense of smell and the sense of
touch.
They enable us to know the world around us. Step 2: Discussion (Pictures 4-5)
What will happen if you lose one or two of your senses?
Do you know how blind people can read? Step 3: Reading (Pictures 6-7)
A. Read the passage and find the answers to these questions:
Do you know how blind people can read?
How do the deaf communicate with each other? B. Solve the language problems while reading.
Step 4: Sharing information and Observation (Picture 8)
A. Question:
Do you believe sometimes senses may cheat us and they may affect one another?
B. Show some examples. (Pictures 9-13) Step 5: Discussion (Pictures 14-15)
A. Ask the students the following question and then have a discussion. They are all expected to be
involved in the discussion, practice their spoken English, and share their opinions with each other.
Question: Why are people misled by their own eyes?
B. After the discussion the teacher draw the conclusion that Because the background or other lines confuse the eyes. Also, what we expect to see can change what we see. Actually, it is more the brain that is confused than the eyes.
C. Remind the students that no matter how our eyes may cheat us, we do need our eyes as well as other senses. So we should protect our senses. We can see that health is very important in our life and good senses also improve our life quality. Maybe the best wayto avoid being cheated by our senses is that we sense, meanwhile, we think. (Picture 16)
Step 6 Consolidation (Picture 17)
. Review the five senses once again and finish the exercises given on show, which, of course are
related to the senses.
Step 7 Discussion (Picture 18)
Do you know that some famous people are disabled? Raise examples and talk about their contributions. Step 8 Assignments (Picture 19)
1.Preview the reading part, do exercise C1 and C2.
2.Find information about some more famous people who are disabled and yet make great contributions to the world.
Period 3: Word power
Teaching aims:1. Enlarge students’ vocabulary
2. Let students know more about weather.
Teaching important points:
Remember these words and try to use them freely. Teaching procedures Step1. Lead in
Questions for them to answer
Which word is used twice besides the noun street in the two sentences? 1.Once out in the street, she walked quickly towards her usual bus stop. 2.‘Here we are, King Street.’ he stopped. Step 2. Presentation and exercises
A Find the words listed below in the story and complete the table. Part of speech Meaning rest (line 16) (line 50) once (line 7) noun verb conjunction the remaining part relax when Example He wants to see the rest of the world. My mother told me to rest. Once she finishes her work, she can help you. lived in (line 42) left (line 2) adverb verb At sometime in the I once past Beijing. (the past tense or past I left for work earlier participle of ‘leave’) this morning. went/gone away from a person or a place On the side of your Look right and left body which is towards before crossing the the west when you are street. facing north continuing I’m still hungry though I’ve just had a big hamburger. Can’t you sit still? (line 43) adverb still (line 5) adverb (line 28) adjective not moving B Complete the report clearly.
The air sometimes smells very bad. Do you know what (1) this? One (2) is traffic.
Dose anyone have an (3) to the problem of global warming? So far even scientists can’t (4) this question. In some countries you can see people without (5) sleeping on the streets. It’s difficult to (6) all the people who need homes. In some other countries, the price of food (7) every year. Poor people often have to go hungry because they cannot afford the (8) .
答案：causes cause answer answer houses house increases increase Step 3. Explain more words of the text. observe
(page 2, line 14)
As Polly observed the passengers on the train, she sensed that she was being watched by a tall man in a dark coat. 释义：
a. to see or notice sb / sth 看到 注意到 观察到 b. to watch sb / sth carefully 观察；监视
c. to obey rules, laws, etc 遵守（规则、法律等）
练习1：猜猜下面各句中的observe的含义与上面哪种释义相匹配。 _____1) The speed limit must be strictly observed. c
_____2)The far side of the moon is difficult for us to observe. a _____3) they are observing her movements. b 链接：observe的常见用法 observe sth
observe sb do注意：此用法在变成被动语态时要加上to。 observe sb doing
observe sb that clause / wh-clause
练习2：完成下列句子的英文翻译。
1. 你注意到她话里有什么奇怪的地方了吗？
________________________________________ in her words? 2. 我没有注意到外面下那么大的雪。
I didn’t _______________________________________ . 3. 他看见一个男人在马路对面走着。
__________________________________ on the opposite side of the road. 4. 他注意到了他们之间发生的事情。
He _________________________________ was going on between them. 5. 他不知道有人看见他上楼了。
He didn’t know he ________________________________ go upstairs by someone.
Keys:(One possible version)
1. Have you observed anything strange
2. observe that it was snowing so heavily outside 3. She observed a man walking