高中英语 Unit1 School life period 6~7精品教案 牛津译林版必修1

4. What may be the purpose of making a school activity program? →Step 4 Understanding a program Activity 1 Reading

Ask the students to read skills building 1 on page 12 to know about the following questions:

1. What is a programme?

2. What is a programme made up of?

Teachers can ask the students to scan the page and find the answers to the two questions above.

Then check the answers. Suggested answers:

1. A programme is a plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved. 2. A programme includes date, day, time, venue, event/activity. Activity 2 Learning some short forms

Teachers can ask some students to write down the names of months and the seven days of a week on the blackboard. Then ask the students how to write them in short forms in order to save time. If students have some difficulty, teachers should help them to know their abbreviations.

Sample answers:

Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Short forms: Jan. , Feb. , Mar. , Apr. , May, Jun. , Jul. , Aug. , Sep. , Oct. , Nov. , Dec.

Seven days of a week: Mon. , Tue. , Wed. , Thu. , Fri. , Sat. , Sun. Students should also be told about how to write down time in short forms. Time can be presented in several ways: For example, 8 a. m. /08: 00 6: 35p. m. /18: 35

In order to know about whether students have understood them, teachers take some measures to test them. For example, teachers read the following time fast and ask them to write them down.

Date: 1st January—1st/1 Jan Day: Sunday—Sun.

Time: 9 in the morning—9 a. m. /09. 00 4 in the afternoon—4 p. m. /16. 00

Activity 3 Venue

Let the students know what the word “venue” means. Sample answer:

“Venue” refers to the place where events or activities take place. For example: assembly hall, meeting room, 3rd Floor, Park Hotel and so on.

Activity 4 Event

Ask the students to learn what event means. Sample answer:

Events or activities are the most important part of a programme. For example,

Event/activity: a speech on Chinese history/art festival. . . Activity 5 Listening

Ask the students to listen to the tape and finish the timetable. A famous scientist will come to our city and visit some high schools. Listen to his talk and complete his program below: (page 12) Date

Day

Time

Venue

Activity or event

Mon

Datong High School Give a talk

Play the tape for the students to follow, and after the first listening, ask some students to tell the class what information they have got. Check the answers by listening once more.

Complete the timetable. Sample answers: Date

Day

Time

Venue

Activity event

21st Oct. 22nd Oct.

Mon Tue

9: 30 a. m. Datong High School Give a talk 12: 45 p. Guanghu m.

School

High Attend

important school assembly

23rd Oct.

Wed

6: 00 p. m. Xuangming High School Go to the

school concert

Activity 6 completing a timetable for a school programme

Ask the students to read the instructions and timetable. In order to reduce the difficulty, ask the students to know about what they are going to listen to. Teachers may tell them the following:

Next we will hear a talk given by the headmaster about a school program. First, read the guidelines and the timetable to get a general idea about the talk. Then ask the students to listen to the tape and complete the timetable on their own. Later, check their answers.

Tape script: Headmaster:

Next month we are going to have several talks. We have invited eight people with different jobs to give us talks on different subjects. Each class

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can choose up to five talks according to your class timetable. Monitors, you have to make sure you understand when and where each talk is to be given. You also have to be sure about the subjects and who the speakers are, and then report to your class teacher and classmates. First of all, we have a famous writer coming on Friday, the eighth of October. He is going to talk about how to read a novel. The talk will be held in Room Two-oh-one, Building Four, beginning at one twenty in the afternoon. At two fifteen on Monday afternoon, the eleventh of October, a fireman is going to talk about fire prevention, in Room Five-oh-three, Building Three. A student from the USA is going to talk about school life in the USA on Wednesday, the thirteenth of October. The talk will be held at three p. m. We have invited. . .

Monitor 1: Excuse me, Mr Liu, where is the talk about school life in the USA going to be held?

Headmaster: Oh, yes. It will be held in Room Four-oh-four, Building One. Monitor 1: Thank you.

Headmaster: OK. On Tuesday, the nineteenth of October, we have invited a scientist to talk about outer space in Room One-oh-four, Building Two, at eight o’clock in the morning.

Monitor 2: That will be interesting.

Headmaster: I’m glad you like that idea. Now, let’s carry on. A doctor is going to talk about fighting AIDS at half past two in the afternoon on Thursday, the twenty-first of October, in Room Three-oh-six, Building Four. A newspaper reporter from Football Weekly is going to talk about famous football players, at one twenty p. m. on Friday, the twenty-second of October, in Room Two-oh-four, Building Three.

Monitor 3: Is it about football players in China?

Headmaster: Not only that. It is about football players around the world.