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Designed by Zhang Cai Ping
冘 Task: Debating
冘 Topics:
Side A: One thousand years later, man will still be living on the earth.
Side B: One thousand years later, man will be living on the other planet.
冘 Activity time: After learning lesson 66
冘 Purpose: By knowing about the problems that man are facing now, the students are encouraged to think about the ways to solve them. This task is mainly to stimulate the students imagination and creation.
冘 Materials: A survey table, video tapes , A Chinese-English Dictionary
冘 Language skills: listening , speaking , writing.
冘 Language using:
1. The Passive Voice in different tenses
2. The Noun Clauses as the Appositive
冘 Words and patterns promoted:
1.Words: possibility, convenient, transport, possession, satisfy, fairly, practical,
2. patterns: The possibility is that K
The fact is thatK
There is no doubt thatK
The idea that K isK
The suggestion thatK is worth K
It is possible toK
冘 Activity forms: class work , group work, individual work
冘 Operation process:
1.Pre-task
刢 The teacher divide students in groups, four or five a group. Then arrange the task.
刢 The students inquire their neighbours to find out the main problems that man are facing now in their lives .
刢 Group members exchange their ideas ,discuss and then write
a report.
2. While-task
刢 group report their investigation.
刢 According to the different opinions , the teachers divide the students into two big groups.
刢 Each group will be given a short time to discuss and list their strong arguments.
刢 Each group elaborate their views in turns.
3. Post-task
The students choose the best group which gave the effective points and managed to use the new language learned in this unit.
A Survey Table
Name_______ Age_____ Sex____ Occupation__________
What problems do you think man are facing today in their lives?
Areas Problems Suggested solutions
Video tapes: The teacher provides the students some video tapes about:
Climbing the Everest; Polluted rivers, Cutting down trees, fighting against SARS, launching man-made satellites