Unit 4 My Neighbourhood

Lesson 29

Class opening

Greet your studnets. Help the students respond in an apropriate way.

Ask, “Who’s on duty?”Listen to the students’ report. Make sure the next student for “Who’s on duty?” knows who he or she is for next time.

For more ideas and tips on beginning a class, see “teaching Techniques” at the back of this teacher’s guide.

Step1: lead in: Put up a picture about a hockey game and say something about hockey.

Step2: Come to “think about it”.

Step3: Have a discussion; How do you think of Michael?

Step4: Ask the students to read the text and have a further study of the text.

Step5: Point out that many Chinese words students use in their daily life are transliterations (sound translations) from English . For instance, (kafel. Qiaoleli, yimei’er, kekoukele, jiake, tixu shan, hanbaobao, xiangbo and tuofu) are all transliterations of the English words coffee, chocolate, e-mail, Coca, jacket, T-shirt, hamburger, shampoo and TOEFL. Tell students that these transliterations sometimes stand in their way of pronouncing the original English words correctly. For example ,chocolate should not be pronounced as qiaokeli!

Step6: Divide the class into small groups. Ask each group to talk about how their lives are the same as, or different from Michael’s life (the student in the reading). When the students have talked for two or three minutes, ask the whole class to make a chart of similarities and differences with you. Use the blackboard to note down their ideas. Write them down in two columns under the headings Similarities and Differences.

Step7:come to “let’s do it.”

Class closing