Unit Four Housing Estates and Surroundings
Lesson One Choosing a flat
1. to talk and write about rooms and flats
2. to make comparisons
3. to ask for and express opinions
Flats/ Rooms
Talking about flats
Asking for and expressing opinions
Making comparisons
Words and expressions:
From the text
From the reading
talk about…
in the center of
need
get… together
face south
messy
have a look (at)
write out
this weekend
Sentence patterns:
Shopping is the most convenient.
The bedroom faces south.
What do you think? (I think so, too.)
What kind of …?
I think …
Structures:
Revisions of comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs
Time: 5 periods
1. to do tuning in and to learn new words
2. to learn text and notes to the text
3. to learn discovering language and to do developing skills―listening and speaking
4. to do developing skills―reading and writing
5. to go over the text, do some dictations and to check exercises
1. Quick responses:
1) Let’s read the text, shall we/
2)
How do you say 第
3) Do you do any warm-up exercises in a PE class?
4) Do you ever do push-ups?
5) Do you ever do waist bends?
6) How much is eleven plus fourteen?
7) How much is seventeen minus five?
8) How much is six times nine?
9) How much is a hundred divided by twenty-five?
10) Which country is the third biggest in the world?
11)
What’s the capital of
2. Numbers (Cardinal numbers and Ordinal numbers)
3. Comparatives and superlatives
1. Answer the questions:
1) How do you like your house/flat?
2) Do you want to move into a bigger house/flat?
3) Do you think public transport is important in your everyday life?
4) Which flat is the biggest of the three?
5) Which flat has the largest sitting room? How large is it?
6) Do you like a flat with a bigger sitting room or a smaller one?
7) Which flat do you like best? Why?
2. A survey on housing conditions. Questions:
1) Where do you live, in a flat or a house?
2) How many rooms does it have?
3) How large is your flat/house?
4) Is public transport convenient?
Name
Flat or house
No. of rooms
Size
Public transport
Tom
flat
4
105
convenient
III. New words
1. Read after the tape.
2. Read by the students themselves. (Correct the pronunciation.)
3. Ask some students to read the words.
4. Let the students remember the Chinese meaning of the words.
(Teacher says English and the students say Chinese.)
5. Read by the students themselves again.
Written work:
Copy the new words and text.
Oral work:
1. Read and recite new words.
2. Preview the text.
Daily talk: Say something about your house/flat.
1. Numbers
2. Comparatives and superlatives
3. New words
1. Answer the questions according to the pictures of the text.
1) How many people are there in the picture?
2) What are they talking about?
3) Does Mrs. Wang think shopping is the most important?
2. Listen to the tape and read after the tape.
3. Read the text by the students themselves.
4. Role-play the text.
IV. Under the useful expressions and phrases. Explain the key points.
1. talk about 談?wù)?/p>
The boys in our class often talk about football, but the girls like to talk about singers.
我們班男生常常談?wù)撟闱颍矚g談?wù)摳璩輪T。
What are you talking about? We are having a lesson now. Please listen attentively.
你們在談?wù)撌裁矗? 現(xiàn)在在上課，請專心聽講。
2. have a look (at) 看一看
Come and have a look at my new computer.
來看看我的電腦。
What’s happening there? Shall we go and have a look?
那兒發(fā)生了什么事了？ 我們?nèi)タ匆豢矗脝幔?/p>
3. a small flat一個小套間
flat 是英國英語，美國英語是apartment.
4． We need to buy a bigger one. 我們需要買一個大一點的套間。
need 既可用作情態(tài)動詞，又可用作表意動詞，如：
You needn’t go now. 你現(xiàn)在不用去。（情態(tài)動詞）
I need to find a job. 我需要找一份工作。（表意動詞）
5. What do you think? I think so, too. 你認(rèn)為怎樣？（用于征求對方的意見時） 我也這樣認(rèn)為。
A: Let’s go there by light rail. It’s both cheap and fast. What do you think?
我們乘輕軌去那兒，這樣既便宜又快。你覺得如何？
B: I think so, too.
我也這樣認(rèn)為。
6. What kind of…?
What kind of T-shirts do you like, the tight ones or the loose ones?
你喜歡什么樣的T恤衫？ 緊身的還是寬松的？
A: What kind of books are you interested in?
你對那種書感興趣？
B: I’m interested in detective stories.
我對偵探小說感興趣。
7. I think… 我認(rèn)為…
I think the room with a balcony is better than the one without.
我認(rèn)為有陽臺的那間房比沒有陽臺的那見房好。
I don’t think living in the suburbs is inconvenient.
我認(rèn)為住在郊區(qū)沒有什么不方便的地方。
I don’t think watching TV is a waste of time.
我認(rèn)為看電視不是浪費時間。
1. Learn the text by heart.
2. Do comprehension check on WB and SB.
I.Revision
1.Recite the text. (whole class)
2.Role-play the text.
3.Check comprehension check on WB and SB.
II.Additional words
decorate the room 布置房間 store room 儲藏室
furnish the kitchen/bathroom 給廚房/衛(wèi)生間安裝設(shè)備配備家具
neighborhood 居民點，街坊，四鄰 community 社區(qū)
III.Discovering language
1.Review the use of “can, may, must, need”.
2.Read the sentences on p115.
3.Answer the questions.
4.Fill in the blanks with should, need, can or may.
IV.Developing skill―Listening
1.Listen to the conversation between Wang Qiang and his parents once.
2.Answer the questions:
1)Is Wang Qiang’s room big or small?
2)Is Wang Qiang a big boy or a small boy?
3)Do they need a bigger flat?
4)Does Wang Qiang father agree with Wang Qiang and his mother?
3.Listen to the conversation again.
4.Answer the four questions on p115.
V.Developing skill―Speaking
Wang Qiang and his father at the housing agency. They are talking about the flats. Suppose one of you is Wang Qiang or the agency and the other is Wang Qiang’s father. Make up short dialogues about the flats according to the following models. Use the word and phrase cues in the box.
VI.Homework
Do language focus on WB.
Fourth Period
I.Revision
Recite the text
II.A survey
Step 1 Conduct a survey on your group members’ housing conditions in the past and at present with the help of the following questions, and then fill in the survey below.
Step 2 Fill in the blanks with proper words, and then tell your classmate about your survey results.
III.Reading
1.Read the passage and decide if the following statements are true or false. Tick the right boxes.
2.Answer the questions:
1)When did the Whites buy a new house?
2)Is the public transport more convenient than around their old house?
3)When are they going to move to it?
4)Why are the sitting room and the bedroom messy?
5)Is father looking for his jacket?
6)Why are they busy?
7)Does Jack know how to pack books?
3.Explain the key points and underline the useful phrases.
1)get … together 把…收攏
Please get all the newspapers together and throw them into the recycling box.
把所有的報紙收攏來，然后扔進回收箱里。
Can you help me get all the books together?
你能幫我把所有的書都收攏起來嗎/
2)messy 亂七八糟
Look at your study. It’s messy. 看你的書房，亂七八糟。
After the party, the garden was messy. 聚會后，花園里亂七八糟。
3)write out 寫出， 列出
The Chinese teacher wrote out a list of books for us to read on the first day of school.
開學(xué)第一天，語
Let’s write out all the things we are going to buy. I can’t remember so many things.
我們把要買的所有東西都寫出來，我記不住那么多。
4)and the public transport is more convenient than that around their old house.
that 指public transport。同一句中為避免重復(fù)往往用代詞that, those, one 或ones 指代前面的主語
The weather in
上海的天氣比北京的好。
The apple on the plate is larger than the one in the basket.
盤子里的蘋果比籃子的大。
5)Maybe it’s in a bag, I’m not sure. 大概在包里，我不肯定。
maybe 也許，大概；用于猜測或?qū)δ呈虏豢隙ā?/p>
Maybe Xiao Li lives on the fifth floor, I’m not sure.
也許小李住在5樓，我不能肯定。
Let’s try another library. Maybe we can borrow the book there.
我們到另一家圖書館去試試，也許在那兒能借到這本書。
IV.Homework
1.Writing on SB.
2.Skill focus on WB.
I.Revision
Dictation
1. The most convenient thing here is shopping.
2. I want to choose a flat in the suburbs.
3. The kitchen has six square metres.
4. Both our sitting room and my bedroom face south.
5. There are many highrises in the center of town.
6. The light rail station is near the crossroads.
II.Ask some students to read out their compositions.
III.Check the exercise in the workbook.
Do skill focus―listening on WB.
IV.Phonetics.
Listen to the tape. Make the stressed syllables of these words.
V.Homework
Go over this lesson.
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