The second & third Period
Reading
Teaching aims and demands:
1. Make the students learn some new words and phrases by showing them some pictures or asking
them some questions.
2. Make the students get the main ideas about four different kinds of homes in
other countries.
Teaching importances
How to make the students get the main ideas about four different kinds of homes .
Teaching difficulties:
The students can read the text fluently and correctly.
Teaching steps:
Step 1 Warm-up
1. Ask some students to report their homework about dream homes.
2. Show a photo about their own homes or rooms and say something
about them.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Use the pictures to teach the new words.
balcony
beach sea
ladder (wooden) kitchen (make dinner) sitting room
bedroom (share…with)
2. Complete the following sentences using the new words.
a. In most homes, people cook meals in the ___________. (kitchen)
b. You usually eat meals in a _____________. (dining room)
c. You often sleep in a ____________. (bedroom)
d. The best place to grow flowers is a _____________. (garden)
e. We usually put the sofa in the _____________. (sitting room)
f. People who live next to us are our _____________. (neighbours)
Step 3 Listening
I. Now, let’s listen to the home pages of two foreign students (Stephen and Madee), after you
listen to them, please do some “T” or “F” exercises. Check the answers with the whole class.
1. Stephen lives near the sea.
2. There are more than ten rooms in Stephen’s house.
3. Stephen can’t see the beach from the bedroom windows.
_______
4. Madee lives in a wooden house in the hills.
5. Madee doesn’t have her own bedroom.
_______
6. Madee has a small family.
II. Then listen to the home of other two students (Neil and Anna), then answer some questions.
1. What is Neil’s favourite place?
2. Where does Neil’s dog sleep?
3. What do Anna’s family often do in their bedroom?
4. Who does Anna share a bedroom with?
Step 4 Reading
Ss read the articles by themselves. Then check their reading.
I. Answer some questions: (Stephen and Madee)
1. Where does Stephen live?
2. What can Stephen do on the balcony?
3. Where is the wooden house?
4. How does Madee get into her house?
5. Where does Neil live?
6. Is her flat large?
II. Fill in the blanks: (Stephen and Madee)
1. Stephen l______ in a large house in long b______ , California. It has ____rooms. His
f________ place is the b______. He can play games, r _____ comics and c_____ with friends
there. They sit on the big floor and l______ o_____ at the beach and the sea from the bedroom
windows.
2. Madee lives in a small t_____ in Thailand .She lives w_____ her family in a w_______
house .The house is o______ a river .She c______ a ladder to get into her house .
They have
five r______. There are m_____ people in her family .She doesn’t have her o____ bedroom . It’s
very b______ and q_____ there . But it r_____ a lot .
III. Look at the picture and say something about Neil and Anna:
Neil: in a town near London/ favourite room/ in the kitchen/ make dinner/ watch TV in the sitting
room/ sleep in the garden
Anna: in the centre of Moscow/ in a flat on a busy street/ a nice sitting room/ play games/ share a
bedroom with/ listen to music/ their neighbours
Step 5 Talk about your own homes.
Step 6 Explaine some important phrases and sentences in the text.
Step 7 Homework
1. Listen and read after class.
2. Write about your own homes.
Exercise 2
一．词型转换
1. The __________ (首都) of the USA is Washington D.C.
2. I often __________ (爬) a ladder to get upstairs onto the second floor .
3. Of all the rooms , my __________ (最喜欢的) place is the balcony .
4. The __________ (第九) lesson is a little easy .
5. Each family has only one __________ (孩子) in China .
6. We have a nice __________ (sit) room .
7. Simon is __________ (lie) on his bed .He’s listening to the pop music .
8. Millie is shorter than me .She sits in front of __________ (I) .
9. There are some __________ (shelf) over there .
10. I live with my family in a __________ (wood) house .
二、翻译
1、西蒙想要了解不同国家的人们的家。（learn about）
.
2、别在上课时向窗外看，看着黑板。
（look out of）
.
3、我和我父母住在一所带有花园的房子里。（live…with）
.
4、那里很美，但经常下雨。
（rain a lot）
.
5、他跟他弟弟共用一间卧室。
（share…with）
.
三．首字母填空 (Stephen and Madee)
1. Stephen l______ in a large house in long b______ , California. It has ____rooms. His
f________ place is the b______. He can play games, r _____ comics and c_____ with friends
there. They sit on the big floor and l______ o_____ at the beach and the sea from the bedroom
windows.
2. Madee lives in a small t_____ in Thailand .She lives w_____ her family in a w_______
house .The house is o______ a river .She c______ a ladder to get into her house .
They have
five r______. There are m_____ people in her family .She doesn’t have her o____ bedroom . It’s
very b______ and q_____ there . But it r_____ a lot .