Unit 8 I’ll help clean up the city parks.
Ⅰ. Analysis of the Teaching Material
1. Status and Function
In this unit, students learn to express what kind of volunteer work they would like to do. And they will know much about the volunteers and volunteer work. And they will learn to choose a volunteer job based on their own skills. Students will understand to do some volunteer work is good for both themselves and the others. All the students will be interested in the volunteers and volunteer work and they will make great progress in English after learning this unit.
(1) The first period mainly provides some new vocabulary to the students, especially some phrasal verbs. Most new vocabulary and phrasal verbs are very useful on helping the children express what they would like to do and what they could do. And the first period gives the children lots of practice in writing, listening and speaking with the target language.
(2)The activities in the second period provide the students much more listening practice and oral practice using the target language. And the students will get chances to practice the phrasal verbs by listening and speaking. All these will help
much in improving the students’ English.
(3) In the third period, students will read an article on volunteers. They will practice getting detailed information from an article. And they will do some writing and oral practice as well. Students can improve their reading skill and know more about the volunteers.
(4) The fourth period provides much practice on understanding and using the new phrasal verbs. It also gives much more listening and speaking practice. Students will enjoy the story of Jimmy and make much progress in listening.
(5) The fifth period will train the students how to make notes based on an article. It also provides some practice on phrasal verbs. Students can do much speaking practice through groupwork as well.
(6)The sixth period is designed to train the students’ writing skill. It also provides some more practice on using the new phrasal verbs.
2. Teaching Aims and Demands
(1) Knowledge Objects
In this unit, students learn to express the volunteer work they would like to do and give suggestions to the others. They will also learn some new phrasal verbs.
(2) Ability Objects
To train the students to use the phrasal verbs, and to train the students’ listening, speaking and writing skills using the target language.
(3) Moral Object
Being a volunteer is great!
3. Teaching Key Points
To help students learn and grasp the phrasal verbs and the target language.
To let students know something about the volunteer work.
4. Teaching Difficult Points
To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills with the target language.
To train the students to use the phrasal verbs.
5. Studying Way
Get students to be interested in volunteer work and do something really on it.
Ⅱ. Language Function
Offer help
Ⅲ. Target Language
1. I’d like to work outside.
2. I’ll help clean up the city parks.
3. You could give out food at a food bank.
Ⅳ. Structure
Phrasal verbs
Ⅴ. Vocabulary
put off, hand out, call up, give away, run out of, clean up, set up, take after, fix up, cheer up, give out hunger, sign, repair.
Ⅵ. Recycling
come up with, put up, think up hospital, park, bank, food, lunch, bike, money, outside, volunteer, advertisement
Ⅶ. Learning Strategies
Sequencing
Deducing
Ⅷ. Teaching Time
Seven periods
The First Period
Ⅰ. Teaching Aims and Demands
1. Knowledge Objects
(1) Key Vocabulary
clean up, hunger, homeless, cheer up, give out, volunteer, food, bank
(2) Target Language
I’d like to work outside.
You could give out food at a food bank.
2. Ability Objects
(1) Train the students to express offering to help with the target language.
(2) Train the students’ listening skill.
3. Moral Object
Offer help to the others as much as possible.
Ⅱ. Teaching Key Points
1. Key Vocabulary
clean up, hunger, homeless, cheer up, give up
2. Target Language
How to express offering to help with target language.
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficult Points
1. Teach the students how to use the new phrasal verbs.
2. Teach the students to express offering to help with target language.
Ⅳ. Teaching Methods
1. Teaching by giving sample sentences and making up sentences.
2. Teaching by showing pictures.
Ⅴ. Teaching Aids
1. A tape recorder
2. Some pictures on volunteer’s offering help
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures
Step Ⅰ Revision
1. Revise the language points in Unit 7.
Ask some questions like this: Where would you like to go on vacation? (I’d like to/I’d love to/l hope to… )Why?
(Because…)
2. Revise the contents in Unit 7. Say to the class like this:
What things Who can say something about Singapore?
do you like there and what things don’t you like about it?
Ask them to give the answers without looking at the books.
3. Check homework by asking some students to read their sentences they’ve made with the verbs. Let them hand in their homework.
4. Dictate ten words in Unit 7.
Step Ⅱ la
This activity introduces the key vocabulary and provides some writing practice.
In this unit we learn to offer to help.
We’ll use some phrasal verbs. Each phrasal verbs has two or three words, such as clean up, cheer up, give out.
Here is an example on how to use clean up. Look at the title of Unit 8. I’ll help clean up the city parks. Repeat it twice, please.
Ask the children to read the title twice.
Then go on saying, "clean up means make a place clean and tidy, put things there in order". Let’s see another example, We should always clean up after a picnic.
Who can explain this sentence in your own, words?
Ask one student to explain the sentence.
He or she may say like this. This sentences means we should burn wastepaper, collect litter and empty bottles, etc.
Then say to the class. Who can make more sentences with clean up?
Ask several students to share their sentences to the class.
Do the same with the other phrasal verbs.
Some sample sentences
1. clean up—make a place clean and tidy, put things in order
We should always clean up the dirty parts of the sea.
2. cheer up—make someone feel happy
The good news cheers everyone up.
3. give out—hand out, distribute
Lin Tao helped the teacher give out the new textbooks to the class.
Read the instructions to the students.
Please look at the picture now. We can see a bulletin board and two children in it. What is the bulletin board about?
Help students to answer: Volunteer Today!
Then continue saying, "Who can tell me the meaning of volunteer?"
Ask one student to try to explain it. Then tell them the meaning of it. Volunteer means a person who offers to do something unpleasant or dangerous. It means a person who offers to help the others sometimes. Volunteer is used as a verb in this lesson.
Draw the students’ attention to the three posters on the board.
We can see one sentence in each poster.
And we can see some people in each poster, too. What are the volunteers doing in each poster? Please work in pairs and talk about the posters.
Give the students a few minutes to talk about what they will say. Let them talk about all the three items. Move around and help the pairs as needed.
Then read the sentences in the posters to the class. Ask the pairs of students to explain what the sentence means in their own words. Or tell what the volunteers are doing in the posters.
For example, for the first poster, a pair might say:
It means there is trash in the park. There are papers on the ground. We can help clean up the park by picking up papers and trash. We can make the park clean.
After the students have finished all the items, ask the students to add some other ways they can help people. Get them to write the ways down in the box below the picture.
At last, ask some students to share their ideas with the class. Write any new words or phrases on the board and explain these words to the class, if necessary.
Some sample answers:
Visit some single elderly people and help them with housework.
Help clean up the neighbourhood.
Cheer up the people who look sad.
Help the teacher give out the papers to the students.
Save money to help the poorer children.
Step Ⅲ 1b
This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.
Call the students’ attention to the two lists in the box in Activity lb. Ask some students to read the eight sentences on the lists to the class. Explain any new words and phrases in it.
Make sure that all the students can understand the meanings of the eight items.
Then get the children to read the instructions together.
Say, we will hear four conversations.
Your task is to match the items in the two lists. We can see the blanks in front of the first line of each conversation. Listen to the conversations and write the letter in front of the first line of each conversation. Put the letters of the second line of conversations in right places.
Point out the sample answer to the class.
Play the recording the first time. Tell the students to only listen.
Then play the recording a second time.
Tell them to write a letter in front of each numbered sentence this time.
Check the answers.
Answers
1. c 2. a 3. d 4. b
Tapescript
Conversation 1
Boy 1: I’d like to work outside.
Girl 1:You could help clean up the city parks.
Conversation 2
Boy 2:I’d like to help homeless people.
Girl 1:You could give out food at the food bank.
Conversation 3
Girl 2:I’d like to cheer up sick kids.
Girl 1: You could visit them in the hospital.
Conversation 4
Girl 1:I’d like to help kids with their schoolwork.
Girl 2:You could volunteer in an after-school study program.
Optional activity
Ask the students to choose a volunteer job they might like to do and draw a picture of it. They can draw a picture like the posters in the textbook. They can also add a sentence describing the job. They may do this in several groups. After they’ve finished, display the pictures on a bulletin board and discuss these pictures with the class.
Step Ⅳ 1c
This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Read the instructions with the class.
Call their attention to the example in the speech bubbles in Activity la. Ask a pair of students to read this conversation to a class. Then let them practice in pairs.
Note their pronunciation of "like to" in phrases such as, I’d like to help hungry people. Tell them English speakers usually pronounce the words "like to" as if they were spelled like-tuh.
Play the I’d like to statements on the recording to demonstrate this pronunciation.
After they’ve finished practicing the sample conversation, ask them to make up similar conversations based on the other two posters. Get two pairs to demonstrate two conversations first. They may say like this:
SA: I’d like to cheer up sick kids.
SB: You could visit sick children in the hospital.
SA: I’d like to help homeless people.
SB: You could give out food at a food bank.
Then let the whole class practice in pairs.
After that, play the recording of activity 1b and let the children read after it twice.
Then ask them to practice similar conversations using the information in Activity 1b.
Step Ⅴ Summary
Say, In this class, we’ve learned how to express offering help. And we’ve learned several phrasal verbs. At last, we did some oral practice using target language.
Step Ⅵ Homework
1. Make up one sentence with each of the following phrasal verbs:
clean up, cheer up, give out
2. Write out three conversations of activity 1c.
Step Ⅶ Blackboard Design
Unit 8 I’ll help clean up the city parks,Section A
The First Period
Phrasal verbs:
1. clean up—make a place clean and tidy, put things in order
We should always clean up the dirty parts of the sea.
2. cheer up—make someone feel happy
The good news cheers everyone up.
3. give out—hand out, distribute
Lin Tao helped the teacher give out the new textbooks to the class.
The Second Period
Ⅰ. Teaching Aims and Demands
Knowledge Objects
(1) Key Vocabulary
clean-up, sign, put off, set up, establish, come up with
(2) Target Language
I’ll help clean up the city parks.
2. Ability Objects
(1) Train the students’ listening skill.
(2) Train the students’ communicative competence using the target language.
(3) Train the students to use the new phrasal verbs: cheer up, set up, come up with, put off/
3. Moral Object
Plan a City Parks Clean-up Day with your good friends and come up with some ideas to tell people about it.
Ⅱ. Teaching Key Points
1. Listening practice with target language.
2. Make communications with target language.
3. How to use the phrasal verbs.
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficult Points
1. Make communications with target language.
2. Use the phrasal verbs.
Ⅳ. Teaching Methods
1. Listening
2. Pairwork
3. Role play the conversation
Ⅴ. Teaching Aids
A tape recorder
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures
Step Ⅰ Revision
1. Revise the knowledge points on Page 60. Ask several students to tell some ways they could help people with books closed.
2. Check homework by asking several pairs to read their conversations which they wrote down.
3. Check homework by asking some students to read their sentences with the phrasal verbs. Let them hand in their homework.
Step Ⅱ 2a
This activity provides listening practice using the target language.
We can see five pictures in Activity 2a.
What can you see in each picture?
Ask five different students to describe the pictures. They may say like this:
Picture 1: We can see a TV screen in Picture 1.
Picture 2: There is a girt putting a sign on the board.
Picture 3: A boy is making a call.
Picture 4: We can see a copy of newspaper with the advertisement.
Picture 5: A boy is giving out advertisements to people.
After that, ask a student to read the words on the TV screen, on the sign and in the newspaper.
We’ll hear some students at a club meeting. They are talking about how their club can help clean up the city parks.
Ask the class to read the instructions together. Tell them to note the box of each picture, they will have to tick in the boxes of the items they hear on the recording.
Now listen to the club members talking about what they can do to clean up the city parks and tick in the right small boxes.
Play the recording the first time.
Students only listen.
Play the recording again. Ask students to check the things they hear.
Check the answers.
Answers
The following pictures should be checked: b c c
Tapescript
Boy 1: OK. Now we need to come up with a plan to tell people about the city park clean-up.
Girl 1: Yeah, but I’m hungry, Bob. let’s have lunch first.
Girl 2: No, we can’t put off making a plan. Clean-up Day is only two weeks from now.
Boy 2: You’re right. Sally, while we talk, I’ll write down all our ideas. Then we can decide which ideas are best.
Girl 1: Um… Well … we could put up signs.
Boy 2: That’s a good idea!
Girl 2: I’11 hand out advertisements after school.
Boy 1: OK. Great! And we could each call up ten people and ask them to come.
Boy 2: Hey, we’ve coming up with a lot of good ideas, aren’t we?
Step Ⅲ 2b
This activity provides listening and writing practice using the target language.
Read the instructions with the class. And let them have a look at the sentences.
Read the first sentence to the students.
Tell them it is a sample answer.
Say, We will hear the same recording again. This time listen carefully to what the students say and fill in the blanks in the sentences.
Play the tape again and the students write out the answers.
Check the answers.
Answers
1. come up with
2. put off
3. write down
4. put up
5. hand out
6. call up
Step Ⅳ 2c
This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Ask students to look at the sample conversation first. Ask a pair to read it to the class.
Ask the class to read the instructions together.
Say. You’ll work in pairs to role play the conversation in Activity 2b.
Each pair will make a conversation like the sample one. You can use the sentences in Activity 2b as a guide.