Unit 5 International charities
Period 1 Comic strip & Welcome to the unit
一．Teaching aims: 1.Learn ―Comic strip‖ and know a little about international charities and ―be used to doing sth‖；
2.Learn different names of international charities and their functions.
Step 1. Warming-up
1. T: Welcome back to school! I‘m glad to see you again. Did you have a good time during your summer holiday? Would you please tell me something about it?
2. T: You had a good time, maybe. But people in Zhejiang and Fujian didn‘t.
Do you know why? What happened to them?
S: Strong typhoon hit the two places. Lots of people lost their homes and lives. We are sorry to hear that.
T: What can we do then?
S: We can help them.
T: But how?
T: We can help them in many ways. Many charities can also help them. Can you name some charities in China?
S: Project Hope, Project Green Hope, Spring Bud Project and Save China‘s Tigers.
T: Who knows some charities around the world?
(Write on the Bb ―International charities‖ and teach the new word ―international‖)
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show the wall chart and present some charities in the world:
a. ORBIS 奥比斯
Note: It‘s a charity like a flying eye hospital. If people in poor countries have eye problems and they have no money to see the doctor, volunteer doctors will operate on them on a plane. b. Oxfam 乐施会
Note: It‘s a British charity that helps people in many ways.
c. UNICEF 联合国儿童基金会
Note: It‘s a charity that helps children in need.
d. World Vision 世界宣明会
Note: It‘s a Christian（基督教的） charity.
e. WWF= World Wide Fund for Nature 世界自然基金会
Note: It‘s a charity that protects wildlife and nature.
2. Practise reading them again and again.
3. P 75 (Part A)
Step 3 Discussion
1. T: As we know, people in poor areas need a lot of things. What do they need？
（ Get the Ss to discuss）
2. P75 Part B T: What do they need most/least?
3. Get the Ss to make a report like this: I think they need…most/least.
Step 4. Presentation
1. Present some new vocabulary:
a. pocket n. 口袋
pocket money 零花钱
T: I often give my son and daughter some pocket money. Who do you get pocket money from? How much pocket money do you get every week?
b. used to do sth. 过去常常，以前常常
T: I used to give my son only one yuan as his pocket money, but now I give him two yuan. Eg.过去常常帮助别人/过去曾当过主持人/过去曾住在农村/过去不喜欢音乐
c. be used to doing sth.
look forward to doing sth.
T: I like walking. I‘m used to walking after supper.
Eddie likes eating meat. He is used to eating meat.
My husband is very lazy. He is used to getting up late.
d. health care 医疗
T: I think people in poor areas have no money to see doctors. They need health care. Step 5 Comic strip
1. Show the Ss the wall chart
T: What do you think of Eddie and Hobo?
(Get the Ss to speak freely.)
2. T: I think Hobo is not only clever but also kind. He is going to do something kind. Listen to the conversation between Eddie and Hobo and find out:
a. What is Hobo going to do?
b. What time is it now?
c. What does Eddie want to do first?
d. Where will they go?
3. Books open! Get the Ss to raise some difficulty.
a. left 留下，剩下
b. afterwards 后来
c. be kind to sb. 对某人友好
It‘s/That‘s kind of you. 你真好。
d. too … to …太…而不能
I‘m too weak to walk.
=I‘m so weak that I can‘t walk.=I‘m not strong enough to walk.
e. take you to a restaurant 带你去一家饭店
f. next to 靠近，贴近，隔壁
4. Read after the tape and practise reading , then act it out.
5. Complete the following passage:
Hobo hears that Oxfam n______ money. He wants to donate Eddie‘s p______ money to Oxfam. But Eddie wants to have lunch f_____ because it‘s 12 o‘clock. He isn‘t used to g_______ out
before lunch. He pretends（假装） that he is too w_____ to walk. Finally, Hobo d____ to take him to a new r________ next to the Oxfam shop.
The second period
Teaching aims: 1. Understand open questions used in an interview.
2. Infer general meaning from title and context.
3. Predict the meanings of specific words from close context
4. Check understanding by linking parts of sentences.
5. Summarize information by completing notes.
Step1 Ask if Ss. Know anyone who works for a charity, and if so, which charity and what they do.