Title 7B Unit 5 Welcome to the unit &Comic strip Teaching objectives:Knowledge objectives:(1) To master the important words, phrases and sentences about amazing things.(2) To understand the concept of things that are unusual.Ability objectives:To learn to talk about something amazing with some new sentence patterns.To use adjectives to describe feelings and opinionsValue objectives：To develop students’ right attitude to life：One is never too old to learn. Teaching key points and difficult points:1. Phrases: come on, be full of, the same size, in the back of the elephants’ feet, What about… 2. Structures: (1) Fish sleep with their eyes open. (2) The Sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth. (3) Our nose and ears never stop growing. (4) Isn’t that amazing Teaching methods: Task-Based Language Teaching Teaching Procedures Designing aims Step1: Free talk Imagine an unusual experience when going back home one day, something followed the teacher all the way, but the teacher didn’t know what it is. Ask the students if they know what it is. Present the word UFO (Unfined Flying Object) 自由谈话引起学生的好奇心，激活学生的思维，营造轻松的学习氛围。问题的答案不唯一，言之有理即可。从而减少学生的害怕心理，引起他们参与课堂过程的积极性。 Step2: Comic Strip Tell the students that Eddie also saw sth in the sky. He talked about it with Hobo. Listen and answer: Did Eddie see a UFO Is it a real UFO Why does Eddie think so Practise the dialogue in pairs and try to act it out 本环节主要训练学生的听说能力，指导学生带着任务进行听力任务的习惯。之后通pair-work的形式，增加学生的操练面，发挥结对教育的作用，使尽可能多的学生参与到课堂中来。 Step3: PresentationShow the students some amazing things in the world, and talk about them;Present the fun facts in the book with the help of the pictures，let the students say something amazing they know if possible. 利用图片呈现课堂教学相关内容,体现形象性和直观性。同时，活跃课堂气氛，利用“信息沟”让学生“活动”起来以保持学生的学习兴趣。在此环节，可以鼓励学生说说自己了解的“amazing things ”或“fun facts”,增加课堂的互动性。 Step4: Practice: Have a competition to go over the fun facts in the book;Play a guessing game to present the students more fun facts in the world;Let the students read the dialogue in Part B as a model, practice similar dialogues. 让学生根据书本示范谈论更过的相关信息，并配以课堂表演，鼓励他们多多使用今天所学的词组、句型、语言点，既为语言知识的运用创造了真实的情境，又提供了小组团队合作的机会。 Step5: ConclusionT: There are a lot of amazing things and fun facts in the world. When we go outside, we can find many unknown things. As the old saying goes “One is never old to learn.” 总结本课时，达成情感目标。 Step6: HomeworkMake up a dialogue with your partner about an amazing thing;Go over the main phrases and sentences. 巩固所学，利用课堂所学知识（包括语言知识及补充内容等）来进行解操练，提高其语用能力。(
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