2. Teaching Aims and Demands

(1) Knowledge Object

In this unit, students learn to talk about places they would like to visit.

(2) Ability Objects

To train the students’ listening, speaking and writing skills using the target language.

(3) Moral Object

Wherever you travel in the world, you are able to use English.

1. Status and Function

In this unit, students learn to talk about places they would like to visit. This is a topic that students will be very interested in. That will be very helpful to practice using the target language. All the students can make great progress in expressing the places which they would like to visit.

(1) The first period mainly provides some new vocabulary to the students to describe different kinds of vacations. And it gives students practice in listening and speaking on the target language "Where would you like to go on vacation? I’d love to visit Mexico."

(2) The activities in the second period give students more listening and oral practice using more target language. They are helpful to improve students’ listening and speaking skills.

(3)In the third period, students learn to get detailed information from an article. And they will do some writing and oral practice as well.

They will improve their reading, speaking and writing skills and know something about Singapore and some other places all over the world.

(4) The fourth period provides more listening practice to train the students to understand the target language in spoken conversation and write the target language. It also provides some more oral practice using the target language.

(5)The fifth period is designed to train students’ reading and writing skills.

(6)The activities in the last period are used to train students’ writing skill.

3. It just uses the sound of music as its power.

Step Ⅵ Summary

We have read a very wonderful article about robot. And we have discussed our own robots. We have done much practice on comprehension.

Step Ⅶ Homework

Read the article in Activity 2 again for further comprehension.

2. It can dance to different kinds of music.

1. It looks like a pretty girl.

5. Some robots will look like spiders and snakes.

Step Ⅴ Part 5

This activity helps students work in a group and think critically about what they have read.

Read the task with students. We know there are many different kinds of robots and people want different robots to do different jobs. Suppose you are a robot scientist and you are going to design a robot pet. What kind of robot do you want to design? What can your robot do?

Please look at the three questions in the chart in Activity 5. Think them over. I’ll ask one to present his or her robot to the class.

Let them think for a while. Then ask one good student to present his or her design to the class. He or she may say like this.

I am going to invent a robot dancer. It will look like a very pretty girl. I hope my robot can dance to different kind of music. When people are tired and want to listen to some music, my robot can perform dancing while the music is on. And my robot doesn’t need any other kind of power except the sound of the music.

Then ask the whole class to discuss their robots in groups of four and fill in the chart with the information about the robots.

Ask one or two students to present their designs to the class. If time permits, get students to make drawings of their robot pets or other robot ideas.

Sample answers

4. A hundred years ago, computers, spaceships and electric toothbrushes seemed impossible.

3. An all-robot football team will play well because the players won’t get tired.

2. Robots don’t get bored because they don’t think.

1. Robots will help the elderly because there aren’t enough children in Japan anymore.