College English: Viewing, Liestening and Speaking (Band I)
Unit 7 Guns for Trouble?
Teaching objectives:
l Vocabulary: cavalry captain Ukraine Puerto Rico Hispanic Cherokee Indian
Jew Gentile discrimination race creed tough determined
swear almighty principal brag loaded bolt school board
l Function:
Identify the cause of gun violence
Master the expressions of intentions and willingness
Conduct a series of listening and speaking activities related to the theme of this unit
Key and difficult points:
1. Practice the ways of expressing one's intentions and willingness
2. Pay attention to the following expressions:
I would like to... I'm hoping to do...
I plan to... I mean to do...
I'm figuring on doing... I propose...
It is my intention to pursue an MA degree.
That would be very pleasant/ good. I'm looking forward to your good news.
I'd love to... That's a great idea.
To tell the truth, I'm very eager to do...
We'd be delighted ti gave such a colleague. Yes, of course.
I have often wanted to... Fine.
3. Manage the expressions of intentions and willingness
4. Follow and imitate the pronunciation of the native speakers during listening
Teaching method: task-based language teaching method, communicative approach,
audiolingual method, physical response method
Teaching aids: computer, PPT software, discs, audio tapes, video clips, U disk
Teaching procedures: (3 periods)
1st period: Warming up; Listening (Listening practice)
2nd period: Speaking (Oral English practice)
3rd period: Listening and Speaking
Step 1 Warming up (27')
1. Lead-in activities:
Show the Ss some pictures or video clips about crimes happened in society
Discuss the situation in the pictures or movie clips
Share the answers with the whole class
2. Listen and number the statements on page 98
Step 2 Listening Task (75')
1) Listening skills:
v Ask Ss to read through the four options listed on their books
v Ask Ss try to find out the differences and similarities among those four options
v Ask Ss try to guess the question according the the four choices
v Ask Ss to listen to the dialogs carefully and complete the tasks after each section
2) Listening (pp. 99--pp. 102)
Task 1 Understanding ten short conversations
Task 2 Understanding a long conversation
Task 3 Understanding a passage
Task 4 Understanding a movie speech
Ø Ask Ss to listen to the conversations and then choose the best answer to
complete each of the questions
Ø Check up the answers
Ø Explain the words, expressions and the culture related to the theme
Ø Listen again and get the Ss to pay attention to the key words
Ø Listen for the third time after checking up
Ø Try to improve Ss' pronunciation, stress and intonation by imitating
the speech they heard before
Step 3 Speaking (20')
v Explain the useful expressions on page 103
v Get the Ss to listen to the model dialogs without looking at the textbook
v Listen to the model dialogs once more and ask the Ss to imitate the dialog by looking at
the textbook
v Ask Ss to practice the expressions they have just learned before with their partners
v Encourage Ss to try to create and be active in the practicing of the Situational
Conversations--Are You Willing?
v Ss are required to work in pairs and describe a robbery they have seen in life, on TV, or in a film, using some expressions in this unit.
v Ask some pairs to present their reports to the class
Step 4 Listening and Speaking (25')
v Ask Ss to hear a passage and then try to answer and discuss the questions on page 107
Step 5 Summary (2')
Summarize the main idea of this unit: Expressions of intentions and willingness
Step 6 Assignments (1')
l Review the useful expressions in this unit
l Further listening (pp. 108-- pp. 110)
l An oral report on the topic of How to avoid being stolen in a crowed place