9A Unit 4 Growing up

After learning this period , the students should be able to

◆master the key words, expressions in this unit.

◆use what they‘ve learnt to talk about the ways or reason they learn about the world. .

Some key words , phrases &sentences

◆  time, whenever through, deal

◆  as soon as, a great deal of, t on one;s mind

what’s on your mind?   What’s up?

You’ve been happy since I first met you..

Don’t wake me up until I finish building it.

I can read them whenever I want to.

As soon as you click the mouse, there’s a great deal of information.

Teacher ask: How old are you?

          How tall are you?

          Do you remember your height when you first came to this school?

Teacher says: You are growing older and taller, so ,you are growing up. What comes into your mind when talking about “growing up”? Encourage the students to talk about the words or sentences about ”growing up”?

Q: Do you feel happy to grow up? Do you want to grow up?

Teacher makes a survey and tells the students that it is necessary for us to grow up. So, boys and girls, do you want to know Eddies’s thought?

Ask the students to listen to the comic strips and answer the following questions:

1What is on Eddie’s mind?

2Will Eddie build his house by himself?

Ask the students to read the dialogue after the recording and then play the role to read . Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation.

Step3: Presentation

Teacher says: Just like what Eddie said，“Growing up is hard.” Growing up also means that you learn more about the world. How do you learn about the world? Show them some pictures to encourage the students to say out the full sentences and finish PartA.

Simon and Millie are talking about how they like to learn about the world .Let’s listen to the conversation and then tell me your favourite way.

Listen to partB.

Ask: How does Mille learn about the world? Why?

    How does Simon learn about the world? Why?

Work in pairs to practice the dialogue.

Sample conversation :

S1:How do you learn about the world?

S2:I like to learn about the world from films.

S1:Why do you like to learn that way?

S2:Because I can see、、、

1on one’s mind

2be worried about(doing)

3Growing up is hard.

4You have been happy since I first met you.

5wake sb up

6learn that way

7through the Internet

8as soon as

9a great deal of

Step5: Practice in class

(See the students’ self-study-sheet )

◆  Revise the contents we’ve learned in this period .

◆  Recite the comic strip fluently .

◆  Finish exercises in <workbook for each period>.

◆  Pre-learn Reading .

After learning this period , the students should be able to

◆understand and recite the key words.

◆learn about Webb’s growing up. .

◆learn the spirit of not giving up and master some reading skills.

Some key words , phrases &sentences ,  e.g.

◆  score leader name, university, simply, national, succeed, although, force, remain, achievement, matter.

◆  try out for, lose heart, change one’s mind, take notice of, etc

◆  My university would invite him to play basketball simply because he was only 17 0 cm tall.

◆  He remained there for about a year before the NBA took notice of him.

1.       Show the Ss pictures about the basketball match and ask: Many people like basketball What about you? Do you like basketball? Some other questions like this..

2.       Ask some questions about Yao Ming: and say: Many people like him. What do you think makes a good basketball player? For example: Does a basketball player need to practice a lot? Is it important for basketball players to have team spirit? Basketball players are always very tall, aren’t they?

1.       Show the Ss the picture of Spud Webb and tell them: Today we’re going to learn about another NBA player. He’s called Spud Webb.

2.       Ask：What do you know about Spud Webb? Let them say sth about him without looking books, then use PPT to learn new words,&finishB1 on P52

  .When and where was Spud Webb born? When did he join NBA?

Step4：Scanning   Read and fill in the table: