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Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section B（2a-2e）
Language goals
To learn the reading skill and know more about April Fool’s Day.
Key words and phrases
Announce, spaghetti, hoax, sell out , discovery, lady, cancel, officer,
believable, disappear, embarrassing
Teaching
Key sentences
Aims
1. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax,all of the
spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
2.By the end of the day,more than 10,000 people had phoned the
TV station to find out how to get this water.
Teaching Use the words and past perfect tense to tell a story.
Difficulties
Teaching CAI, multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for
Aids teaching
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up&Lead-in
Warming up
Watch a video.
The teacher asks students to watch a video clip about April Fool's
Day from The Big Bang Theory. Then teacher can lead to the
theme of this lesson—April Fool’s Day.
Free talk
1. What day is April 1st?
2. What can people do on April Fool’s Day?
3. What kind of jokes can we play on April Fool’s Day?
The teacher can arouse students’ interests about April Fool’s Day
through the above three questions. Meanwhile, the teacher can also
check how much the students know about April Fool’s Day
according to their answers.
Then teacher asks Ss to know the originates of April Fool’s Day bywatching the other video.
Step 2 Reading &Presentation
Pre-reading
2a 在开始进行阅
Ask students to work in pairs, the share their experience of
读之前，教师
可以引导学生
playing jokes on others.
重点关注每个
(Tip: The teacher can invite some students to share their experiences 段落中的第一
to the class.)
句话，激活学
生对这个主题
While-reading
的了解，并帮
2b 助它们猜出整
篇文章是关于
Ask students to match each paragraph with its main idea.
什么的。
Answers:
Paragraph1- An introduction to April Fool’s Day
Paragraph2 - Examples of funny stories that happened on April
Fool’s Day
Paragraph3 - A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day
通过对前面内
Paragraph4 - One of the most famous trick played
容的掌握来引
Ask students to read the passage and explain the key words and 导学生讲述自
phrases to students. 己的故事，这
个设计旨在检
Ask students to read the passage again and ask them to
测学生对于重
complete the chart on PPT P22 and P23. 点 词 句 的 掌
2c 握，同时对与
学生口语表达
Divide the class into groups of four. Tell students to close their
能力和逻辑思
textbooks. Read the questions aloud to the class one by one, 维能力也有一
then get students to discuss and answer the questions in 定促进作用。
且在口语表达
sequence in their groups. Give students a minute or two to
过程中，教师
discuss and come up with their group answer. After you have 为其设置真实
read aloud all the questions, allow students to open their 情境，让学生
的表达更有条
textbooks and check their answers.
理性，也让平
Answers: 时难以开口的
1.A reporter announced that there would be no more spaghetti
学生有话说。
because spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.
2.It was said that the special water would help people lose
weight.
3.He lost both his girlfriend and his show.
4.It was in October 1938.
5.Orson Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people
believed the story.
2d
Get students to fill in their blanks before sharing their answers
with a partner. Next ask them to look at the sentences again
and share with each other the pattern in the sentences, if any.
They should be able to see that for all the sentences that have“by the time” in it, the answers contain both the simple past
and the past perfect tense. This is because the sentence is
expressing the idea that one thing occurred before another in
the past.
Answers:
1.appeared,rushed 2.found out,had disappeared 3.ended,had called
4.ended,had lost 5.told,had run away.
Post-reading
2e
Divide the class into groups of three or four. Tell students to
share their individual funny stories with the members of their
group. Each group will then vote for the best story, and the
student with the best story in the group will then represent his /
her group and share his / her story with the rest of the class.
After the representatives from all the groups have shared their
stories, the class will vote for the funniest, most embarrassing
and most creative ones.
Step 3 Language points learning
discovery 作名词，可意为“发现；发觉”，还可意 为“被发现的事
物 (或真相、人)”。
cancel在课文中用作及物动词，其过去式和过去分词均为canceled或
cancelled，现在分词为canceling 或cancelling。
believable作形容词，由动词believe去e再加形容词后缀-able构成。
believe believable adj. belief
v. 相信；认定 可相信的；可信任的 n. 信念
unbelievable
adj. 难以置信
Step 4 Exercises,Summary& Homework 一节课后的练
的
习是必不可少
的环节，学生
Exercises
通过练习可以
Complete the exercises from PPT P34-P35. 加强对基础知
Summary 识的巩固。
The T can encourage Ss to summarize the key points of this class
to help Ss consolidate the knowledge.
Homework
Read and recite the new words and phrases .
Do the exercises in students’ book.
In this period, the most important thing is reading. It is a good time
Teaching to train the students' ability of reading quickly and efficiently. In
Reflection reading, they do a lot of exercises too. They learn how to read
quickly and find the main idea in the paragraphs.After reading, they use the words and phrases to tell their own
stories. In this way,they can learn and remember the new words and
phrases well.
