Teaching  aims   

  1)  To Learn the new words and expressions.

          2)  .To teach and learn the use of indefinite pronouns.

3).  To be able to retell the text.

Main and difficult point   Using indefinite pronouns

Useful expressions

Teaching processes       Step 1  Warming_up Activities

Have a free talk with the students

Model   A: Did you have a dream last night?

B: Yes, I did.

A: What dream did you have?

B: I dreamt that my classmates and I went to an island with

lots of banana trees. We brought some food for a picnic.

A: Was there anyone else on the island?

B: No. But we are not alone. There are some animals on it.

Step 2   Revision

1 Check the homework

2 Revise far/ farther/ farthest by asking about the dream above.

For example ask Is the island far away? Which island did you go to,

the farther one or the farthest one?

Step 3   Pre_read

Turn off the light in the classroom. Then have the students close their eyes. Tell the students“ you are going to make a picnic in your mind. Think you are on an island with many trees.The wind is blowing and you hear the sea hit the beach. It seems funny and you hear strange noise. You are alone. ” 

  ( Use the computer to play all kinds of sounds such as the sound of

  wind and water etc.)

Give the students a few minutes of silence to thoroughly imagine themselves on the island. Now ask them to open their eyes and their partners discuss the questions. Then call out some students to give their answer  ( Pictures are shown on the screen.)

1)Did you like to go to strange places? Why or why not?

2)How do you feel when you are alone somewhere? Are you afraid?

Step 4  Presentation

(Use the powerpoint to make the moving picures. I’ll show them one by one)          

(Use Pictures to introduce the use of indefinite pronouns.)

1)      A house

A: Is there anybody in the house?

B: Yes, I think there’s somebody in it.

C: No, I don’t think there’s anybody in it./There’s nobdy in it.

2)      Imagine the twins hear the sound before they go to bed

A: Can you hear anything?

B: No. I can hear nothing./ I can’t hear anything

A:There’s something wrong with your ears. I think there is something in my room.

B: Oh, I think may be our dog. Don’t worry about it.

3)      Imagine a group of children are going hiking in the forest. One of them saw the leaves shaking far away.

A: Can’t you see anything?

B: No. I can’t see anything./ I can see nothing.

A: But I’m sure there must be something .There may be dangernous animals there.

C: I’m afraid. Let’s go back.

D: Maybe there’s somebody. Don’t be afraid. Let’s go and find out

Explain the use of anything, anybody, something, somebody, nothing and nobody.

Now show a picture of some children pulling a boat up from the water on the screen. Then tell the story “Are we alone?” Explain the new words by gesture or facial expressions.e.g. happily, lots of and cry. At the same time the teacher introduces new phrases.

e.g. pull…out of

pull… up from

push…out

feel a little afraid

no longer

not…until

Step 5  Reading

Listen to the tape and ask What do the children do on the island? let the students scan the passage to find the answer. Then have them read the passage again more slower. Ask the following questions.

1)      Why did the children pull the boat out of the water?

2)      Where did they put their picnic basket? Why?

3)      Why did Kate feel a little afraid?

4)      What did the children do?

5)      What did they see and what did they do?

6)      How did they feel?

7)      Why did Kate feel afraid again?

8)      Who took their picnic basket away?

9)      What would you do if you were with the children?

Tell them the meaning of all by ourselves, perhaps, no longer and get back. Now play the tape for the students to practice reading aloud.

Step 6  Practice

Divid the class into groups of six.One of them plays the part of a narrator. The others play Lucy, Jim, Kate,Bruce and Ah Fang. Read the text aloud. Change the roles. Then get individual students to read. Act out the conversation in front of the class.

Step 7  Consolidation

1)      Ask the students to do Ex.2

2)      Do Ex.3 orally

Step 8  Homework

1)      Revise the new words and usefull expressions

2)      Finish off the workbook exercises

3)      Revise the reading passage in this lesson and prepare to retell the story.

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