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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