七年级Unit4period1教学设计.docVIP

Period 1 Objectives To tell the students what electricity is To tell the students electricity can change into different forms of energy To tell the students how does electricity come to our home Preparations SB 8B, pages 50 and 51 Photocopiable page 1 Teaching procedure Pre-reading preparation Ask the students to look at the title, the picture and the first and last paragraphs on page 50, SB before they read the story. Ask them to try to answer the following questions. Ask the following questions: What is the girl going to buy? Who is looking foolish? Who or what is the servant in the title? Make sure that all the students understand the main idea of the article. Ask: What do you know about electricity? (Electricity is a kind of energy.) Ask students the following questions: What is energy? (The power that makes things work.) How do you feel if you don’t have any energy? (Tired or sleepy.) If you do not have a lot of energy, what can you do to increase your level? (Rest, sleep, eat healthy food and exercise regularly.) What happens if a machine does not have any energy? (It doesn’t work.) How can we supply machines with energy? (Plug them into an electricity source; use batteries or solar panels.) What does electricity look like? (It is invisible.) While-reading procedure Tell the students that they are going to read an article about electricity. Ask the students to skim it on page 50. Tell the students to think about one question: How does electricity get to Benny’s flat? Ask the students to choose the correct words in the box below to label the diagram on page 51: Check the answers orally. 1 light bulb 2 wire 3 cable 4 street 5 power station Ask the students to read the whole article carefully. Pay attention to the colored words in the passage and guess their meanings. Tell the students that they can read the words around each colored word to find out its meaning. It’s not necessary to use a dictionary at first. Ask the students to read the following words fr