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一、Lesson types: 二、Teaching objectives: Listening 1. Learn to predict before listening. 2. Train the skill of catching important details. 3. Create a funny invention based on the mind map. It might be difficult for students to summarize the sentence patterns in these advertisements. Activities Warming up: 1. Lead students to think about the inventions around them and look at the pictures and tell the names of the familiar inventions. 2. Show students some funny inventions – passenger hat, biscuit cup, automatic ice cream cone, 360 degrees camera. Four students read out the short text. Pre-listening: 1. Look at the four pictures of funny inventions on page 54 and describe them in two aspects: (1) What are they? (2) What are they used for? Teacher writes the mind map down. Two minutes for group discussion. While-listening: 1. Listen for the first time and finish exercise A on page 54 – write down the names of these funny inventions. 2. Listen for the second time and finish exercise B – find out what they are used for. 3. Listen for the third time and fill in blanks in each advertisement: (1) When it rains, do your shoes get_____? Of course, they do! But you can buy these _____ Umbrellas For Shoes. They _____ the rain ___ your feet. (2) Do you have to clean the floor at home? _______ your cat can do Justifications 1. Introduce the content background. 2. The interesting inventions will draw students’ attention and get them interested in the topic. 1. Scaffolding for students helps them learn to predict the content of listening through known information. Mind map helps their logical thinking. 2. There are different purposes in each listening. For the first one, students catch important words. For the second one, students understand and make clear the usages. For the third one, students listen for details. 三、Students’ potential difficulties: 四、Five steps, time allocation Step 1 Step 2
a better job than you. Buy these Cleaner Cat Brushes. Then you can sit back and ______! (3) Do you talk too long on the phone? Most people do! ____ time – buy the Exercise Telephone! It _______ five kilograms. Then your calls will be less than five minutes long. (4) Do your friends sometimes come up behind you and make you jump? Do cars come around the corner when you try to _____ the road? Well, it won’t be a problem if you have Two-Way Glasses. You can look at things ______ and in front of you at the same time. Step 3 Post-listening: 1. Groups read aloud the four advertisements. 2. Lead students to pay attention to the sentence patterns of these four advertisements and complete the mind map: Advertisement – 疑问句、感叹句、祈使句 3. Group work: (1) Create your funny invention (draw on A4 paper) and try to sell it. (2) One student comes up and introduces the funny invention of his group. 4. Which group’s invention will you buy and why? 1. The four advertisements have common points, that is, they all used the same sentence structures to sell their products. After the summary, students can have an idea about the language features of advertisement. By creating their own inventions and making advertisements with mind map, they can apply what they learn to use. And it is practical for them in future life because they may come across many advertisements
and they may be the people who need to design advertisements. 2. The last question helps them to think about the practicality of other students’ inventions and give them an opportunity to express their ideas. Step 4 Assignment 结合思维导图，完成一篇题为“My funny invention”的作文，80词左右。 Every student will have something to talk about based on their group’s inventions. it helps them review what they learn as well as writing. Blackboard layout: Funny inventions What are they? What are they used for? Advertisement: 疑问句、感叹句、祈使句