Unit 1 The world of our sense
Welcome to the unit---教案
Teaching aims:
1. Encourage students to practice speaking english more
2. Arose their interest in learning this unit through activities.
3. Let them know the importance of senses and hold the correct attitude towards the people who lose one of theirs senses
Difficult points:
Encourage the students to share their opinions by fully participating in the discussion in order to realize how they and other people use their senses in their studies and daily life.
Teaching procedures
Step 1:Lead-in
Brainstorming
With what can we see and hear?
How can we know whether a dish is
delicious?
How can we know that a flower has a
pleasant smell?
What do we do when we want to know
whether the water in the basin is hot or cold?
How do we know about the world around us?
The five senses are:
The sense of sight , the sense of hearing , the sense of taste , the sense of smell and the sense of touch.
They enable us to know the world around us.
Fill in the blanks
We do
With
the sense
see
eyes
sight
hear
ears
hearing
taste
tongue/ taste buds
taste
smell
nose
smell
touch/ feel
hands/feet/skin
touch
Step 2: dealing with the short passage on the text(page1)
Do you know how blind people can read?
They can read by touching raised dots which represent numbers and letters. This system is called
Write the words “blind” and “deaf” on the blackboard.
Write “braille”on the blackboard.
Look at the four pictures and answer the question below each picture
What can you see in this picture?
How would you judge the length of the two lines?
How can you prove that the two lines are straight?
Can the symbols be read in only one way?
Why are people misled by their own eyes.
Picture 1
If they look at the white part, you can see a vase,if you look at the black part, they can see two faces.
Picture2
You can use two pieces of paper to cover both ends of the two lines
Picture3
They can place a ruler next to the line. They can also use a ruler draw more straight lines which run parallel to the two lines.
Pictures4
K B R M, or K,13,R,M
Step 3: Sharing information and Observation
show Ss some pictures
Why are people mislead by their own eyes?
Because the background or other lines confuse the eyes.
Also ,what we expect to see can change what we see.
Actually, the brain is confused and not the eyes.
Step 4: Discussion
Read the three questions in the short passage and discuss them in groups of four.
Report your answers to the whole class.
We often use one or two of the five senses more than the others when we need to . For example,in the darkness, the sense of haering and the sense of touch become more sensetive bacause we cannot see anything, when we listen to our favourite music, we may close our eyes and just listen with our ears.when we eat something, we not only taste or smell it, but look at it as well.
I think that when learing english, the sense of sight and the sense of hearing help me a lot. I usually listen to the tape before I read. While I’m listening to the tape, I’ll look at the text. And I often read iit aloud. The combination of the senses best helps me remember what I have learned.
Step 5 Consolidation
Review the five senses once again and finish the exercises given on show, which, of course are related to the senses.
When he got there, he _________ that there was a dark hole. He ________ into it, but could ________ nothing. He ________ with his ears, he could _______ nothing, either. He _________ it for a long time. He _______ something strange. He ___________ the side of the hole. It ______ hot. Suddenly some noises were ________ from the hole. It ________ like someone was cooking inside.
1.noticed 2. looked 3.see 4.listened 5.watched
6.sensed/touched 7.felt 8. haerd 9.sounded
Step6 Discussion
Do you know that some famous people are disabled?
Raise examples and talk about their contributions.
We can turn to the picture.
Step 7 Assignments
1. Preview the reading part，fog.
2. find more information about senses.
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