Unit 3 Friends from other countries

Foreigners in Garden City (p16)

Learning plan:

l        Language focus:   1. Ss learn how to express countries and nationalities.

2. Ss practice a sentence pattern: People from ____ (country) is ____ (nationality)

3. Some phrases: a crowded city, six million, most of, people from, for example, there be…, more than

l        Teaching procedure:

1.      Warming up

(1)   Ss enjoy some pictures of Olympic in Beijing and talk about countries they know.

Questions: Which country has got the most medals?

         Which sports do you like best?

         Which team do you like best? Where are they from?

         Which country do you support except China?

(2)   Show some national flags to Ss to introduce some countries.

2.      Learn text.

(1)   Play the recording, Ss listen and fill in blanks

Garden City is a _______ city. Over ________ people live there. _______ them are Chinese. There are _________ 28,000 people from Canada live in Garden city. We call them __________. There are also people from the USA, _______, Japan, The UK and _________ in Garden city.

(2)   Read text:

(3)   Ss answer questions without reading in book.

3.      More practice:

1) Show some pictures of some interesting places from different countries, Ss response which country and people and language they use.

2) Do Read, ask and answer on P16.

Exercise:

I. Choose the best answer:

(    ) 1. There are _______ people standing in the square.

A. thousand of                     B. thousands of             C. three thousands         D. three thousand of

(    ) 2. There _____ a lot of milk in the fridge.

A. are             B. be              C. is        D. will be

(    ) 3. What do you call people _______ Australia?

A. from          B. to              C. in              D. of

(   ) 4. -Whose room is this?  -It’s ___________.

        A. Ann and Mary’s                 B. Ann’s and Mary’s 

C. Ann’s and Mary                 D. Ann and Mary

(   ) 5. Do you know what happened ________ Mr King?

        A. with          B. to            C. for         D. from

(   ) 6. My grandfather lives __________, but he has many friends, so he never feels _________.

        A. alone; alone    B. lonely; lonely   C. alone; lonely  D. lonely; alone

(   ) 7. Mother made me ___ at home last Sunday.

        A. stay           B. to stay                      C. stayed               D. staying

(   ) 8. -Must we wait for you after class? –No, you ________. You can leave first.

        A. mustn’t        B. may not       C. needn’t       D. can’t

(   ) 9. Shanghai is the largest city in China ________.

              A. in many ways    B. on many ways   C. in a way            D. on a way

(   ) 10. The teacher asked Ben ______ me a message.

              A. gives                 B. gave                  C. to give                     D. give

II. Fill in the blanks with proper forms:

1. The SPCA promises to look after ________ animals. (home)

2. Don’t make any ________. It is too ________. (noise)

3. At rush hour, the street is ________ with a lot of traffic. (crowd)

4. ________ than thirteen million live in Shanghai. (many)

5.

Country	nationality
Canada
	Japanese
The USA
The UK
Australia
India

III. Reading

  People from the city often take holidays in the country. __21__ walk in the mountains or __22__ bicycles on the country roads. They see many trees, plants __23__ animals. Some think that the clear sky and the moon and bright __24__ at night are the most beautiful things in the __25__. __26__ like to hear the sounds of the animals.

      At first these people__27__ the country. But at last they prefer the city. After a week they are bored. They want to __28__ to the city. Now they want very much to see a film or to be __29__ a busy street. They leave for home in the __30__.

(   ) 21. A. He             B. She               C. They

(   ) 22. A. ride            B. run               C. climb

(   ) 23. A. and            B. but               C. or

(   ) 24. A. sun            B. moon             C. stars     

(   ) 25. A. city            B. country            C. town    

(   ) 26. A. Some          B. Other              C. Others

(   ) 27. A. enjoy           B. hate              C. dislike   

(   ) 28. A. arrive          B. return              C. leave

(   ) 29. A. of             B. over                C. on       

(   )30. A. street           B. city               C. country    

 

Pen friends from different countries (P17)

Language focus: near/ far away from

Teaching period:

1. A contest:

2. Play the recording, students listen and fill in the table:

3. Introduce the continents to the students.

4. Ss do a pair work:

A:  Which country have you visited (or read about in _____)?

B: I’ve visited______.

    ( I’ve read about________.)

A:    Where is it?

B:   It’s near / far away from______.

      / It is east/north-east/… of ______.

5. Language points:

Exercise:

I. Finish the sentences:

1. He lives _______________ schools, so he goes to school by underground every day.

2. My grandpa usually takes a walk to the park _______ our home. (near/far away from)

3.My father came back from the bookshop just now.

 My father ______ just ________ ______   the book shop.

4.He began to learn Chinese in 2001.

   He _____ _______  Chinese since 2001.

5. Kitty went to Beijing three days ago.

Kitty _________ _______ in Beijing for three years.

II. Choose the best answer:

(   )1. –What are you going to do on Sunday? –I have no idea. I ______ go fishing.

        A. can            B. must        C. may        D. shall

(   )2. His son is only 1.2m __________.

        A. long           B. high        C. thin         D. tall

(   )3. Our teacher put a chair in ___________ of the blackboard.

        A. front           B. the front     C. the back      D. middle

(   )4. Shanghai is in the ___________ of our country.

        A. east            B. south        C. west       D. north

(   )5. You can go _________ the river by a boat.

        A. through         B. over         C. across      D. to

(   )6. When the train came, the girl was too __________ to move.

        A. frightened       B. happy        C. amazing    D. careless

(   )7. Don’t read _________ the sun. It’s bed for your eyes.

        A. on             B. under         C. in         D. with

(   )8. There ___________ a sports meeting in our school next autumn.

A. will have    B. is going to have .C. is         D. is going to be

(   )9. -________ are these tomatoes?   -Three yuan.

        A. How       B. How many     C. How much     D. How big

(   )10. We can read the number “2751”___________.

        A. two thousands seven hundreds and fifty-one

        B. two thousand seven hundred fifty-one

        C. two hundred and seven hundred fifty-one

        D. two thousand seven hundred and fifty-one        

Insects（昆虫）live everywhere on land but not in the ocean. There may be over 30 million different kinds of insects in the world although scientists have not studied all of them yet, and many have no names.

Insects are very important in the world. They pollinate（传花粉给）plants and help to break up （分解）the ground. Although some insects can hurt people or plants, other insects kill these dangerous ones. Insects are the food of many other animals.

Some insects are not good for people. In Egypt, thousand of years ago, millions of locusts （蝉）ate all the plants that were growing. There was no food for people to eat and many people died. In Africa today, locusts (蝗虫) still do the same thing.

For most people the worst kind of insect is the cockroach（蟑螂）. It is bigger than many insects and not easy to kill. People can get sick when cockroaches walk on their food. In hot countries there are cockroaches everywhere. Some people think if something happened and most animals died, cockroaches would be the only animals still living.

(   ) 1. The story is about ________.

A. plants            B. our food          C. insects   

(   ) 2. Many people in Egypt died because locusts _____________.

A. ate all their food             B. broke up the ground

C. lived fro a long time

(   ) 3. For people the worst kind of insect is the ______________.

A. locusts        B. cockroach          C. small insect      

(   ) 4. You can’t find insects in ___________.

         A. your house       B. the fields         C. the ocean

(   ) 5. The story tells us ________________.

         A. each insect has its own name     B. insects can hurt people or plants

         C. cockroach is bigger and hard to kill

 

Pen friends from different countries (P18-20)

Language focus: 1. present perfect tense

                2. would like to do

              3. know about

Teaching period:

1. Revision: A letter

        There are ____ _____ people living in Garden City. They are from different _________. _____ ___ them are Chinese. Twenty-eight people are from Canada. It’s ____ _____ ____ China. We call them _________. There are also many Indians in the city. It’s _____ China. They come from _______.

2. Play the recording and fill in the blanks:

3. Try to recite the text according to the table.

4. Brainstorming: What do you want to know about your pen friend?

5. A pair work:

Mr. Hu: Would you like…? What would you like to …?

S1;2;3: I’d like to…

6. Tell T or F:

1)        Kitty choose Joe Smith as her penfriend.

2)        Kitty’s friend is a Canadian.

3)        Kitty is an 11-year-old girl from Garden city.

4)        There are five people in Kitty’s family.

5)        They have a cat named Sam in Kitty’s family.

6)        Kitty likes playing badminton.

7)        At school, Kitty loves Maths and Music best.

7. Finish the letter on Page 20:

Exercise:

I. Fill in the blanks with proper forms:

1. He told me his story in Africa. I think it’s an _______________ story. (usual)

2. Tom is so strong that he can carry the table ______________.  (easy)

3. We were ______________ to meet such a strange me.  (surprise)

4. Many university students want to work in the __________ part of our country after they graduate.  (west)

5. On Sundays the shop assistants are very busy because there are a lot of _________ in the shopping center.  (shop)

6. I’m sure he ________________ the game within 10 minutes because he isn’t good at basketball.  (lose)

7. Madee ___________ ride a bike when she was five years old.  (can)

8. Do you know who __________________ in the pool now?  (swim)

9. It is important ___________ English well.  (learn)

10. Thank you for ____________ us this evening. (join)

II. Finish the sentences:

1. You should feed your pet at the table. (改为否定句)

   You __________ ___________ feed your pet at the table.

2. His sister was very happy.  (改为反意疑问句)

   His sister was very happy, _________ _________?

3. He didn’t come to school today because he was ill. (就划线部分提问)

   _________ __________ he come to school today?

4. The Greens see a film once a month. (就划线部分提问)

   _________ __________ do the Greens see a film?

5. This is an interesting book. (改为感叹句)

   ____________ _______________ this book is!

6. Could you tell me how to get to the museum? (改为同义句)

   Could you tell me the __________ __________ the museum?

7. People can look for some information on the Internet.  (改为同义句)

   People can ____________ the Internet ___________ some information.

8. You should water the flowers every morning.  (改为同义句)

   You _________ _________ water the flowers every morning.

9. I don’t know how I can open the box.  (改为同义句)

   I don’t know _________ _________ open the box.

10. My mother went to bed early, but she didn’t have supper.  (改为同义句)

   My mother went to early ____________ ____________.

III. Reading:

For 14 years, Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls. He won “Most Valuable (有价值的) Player” five times. His nicknames (绰号) is “Air” Jordan—because he jumps high into the air!

He was born on February 17th, 1963. He has two brothers and two sisters. When he was a child, Michael played baseball. Later, he played basketball for his school. He grew very tall—1.98 metres. At university, they did not put them in the basketball team. He was determined to do better. He practiced hour after hour. He thought about seeing his name on the list of players. At last, they chose him for the team.

In 1984, he was college player of the year. He also won a Gold Medal in the 1984 summer Olympics.

After that, he joined the Chicago Bulls. They weren’t a very good team then. But Michael became the captain of his team, and they won the National Basketball Association championships in 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998.

He started a training camp where young people learn basketball. They have to work very hard, but they become very good at the game. Now he also gives a lot of time and money to charities for children. He is a very famous man in America.

81. How long did Michael Jordan play for the Chicago Bulls?

______________________________________________________

82. Why is he called “Air” Jordan?

______________________________________________________

83. How tall is he?

______________________________________________________

84. How did he get better at basketball at university?

______________________________________________________

85. What did he win in 1984?

______________________________________________________

IV. Cloze:

One day two brothers went fishing. They had a dog with them. When they c__86__ near the river, they threw down their caps on a big stone and went to the r__87__ bank to look for fish. It was cold that day, so s__88__ they began to want their caps. They told the dog to go b__89__ for them. When the dog got there, he tired to take both of the caps together in his m__90__ at the same time. It was very d__91__. Then the dog found that one of them was smaller than the o__92__. He put the smaller cap in the l__93__ one, got it down w__94__ his foot and then he c__95__ carry the two caps at the same time.

86. c__________ 87. r_________ 88. s__________ 89. b_________ 90. m_________

91. d__________ 92. o_________ 93. l__________ 94. w_________ 95. c_________