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Content

Theme

Unit4CommunicationWorkshop

Innovation

Teachingobjectives

(1)TomakenotesfrominformationonanInternetpage.

(2)TowriteanInternetpagewiththehelpofamodelandinstructions.

(3)Tolistentoasongandextractimportantwords.

(4)Todiscussandplanascienticexperimentinspaceandgiveatalkaboutit.

DifficultyandImportance

Somestudentsmayhavefewerimaginativeideasthanothersandsocarefulgroupingisneeded.

Teachingaids

Dictionary、computerandcassette

Teachingprocedures

Warm-up

■AskstudentswhattheyalreadyknowaboutSydney?Cencouragethemtosayasmuchaspossible.

■Studentsworkinpairsreadingthetextandcompletingitwiththeextrainformation.

■Checkstudents’answersbyhavingthemreadoutthecompletetext.

Answers

1Pacificcoast/over500,000/originalname-GasTown

2GalleryofTribalArt/VancouverAquarium

3skiing/icehockey

■Inpairs,studentschooseoneofthesectionsofthetextandgivetheinformationinfullsentencesasifinatalk,.'TherearealotofinterestingthingstoseewhenyouvisitSydney.…'

■Remindstudentsthatthefirststageofwritingisalwaysplanning.

■Youmaywishtoletstudentspreparesomeofthisprojectforhomeworkiftheywishtofindoutinformationfromreferencesources.

■StudentsmakenotesforthethreeparagraphsaboutHistory,Thingstosee,Thingstodo.Monitortheactivity,assistingstudentsifnecessary.

Stages2

■Remindstudentsthatthefirstsentenceofaparagraphisusuallythekeysentencebecauseitgivesthetopicfortherestoftheparagraph.

■Studentswritetheirkeysentences.

Stages3

■Studentswritetheirtexts.ReferthemtoWritingHelp1andremindthemofthelinkingwordstheyhavepractised.

■Studentsunderlinethe“hotwords”intheirtextswhichsomeonecouldclickontogetmoreinformationaboutthetopic.

Stages4

■Inpairs,studentsreadtheirtextsandchecklanguageused,usingWritingHelp1(checking).

■Encouragestudentstoimprovetheirownandtheirpartner’stexts.

Talkback

■Formsmallgroupsandreadtheexampleexchangewiththeclass.

■Studentsreadtheirtextsandaskformoreinformationabouttheunderlinedwords.

■Groupsshouldensurethatallthegroupmembers’textsarereadanddiscussed.Movearoundandmonitortheactivitybutdonotinterrupt.

■Commentonanyimportantmistakesyouhearandtrytogettheclasstosuggestcorrections.

Listening

■Askstudentswhatwordstheywouldexpectinasongcalled“TheTelephoneCall”.

■Studentsreadthesevensentencesandguesswhatthemissingwordsmightbe.

■Playthetapeforstudentstocompletethesentences.

Answers

1number2time3telephone4far5night

6day7time8voice

■Studentsdiscusswhythesingerisalwaysphoning.Ifstudents

havedifferentopinions,askthemtogivereasonsfortheiropinion.

Tapescript

Thenumberyouhavereachedhasbeendisconnected.

Thenumberyouhavereachedhasbeendisconnected.

IgiveyoumyaffectionandIgiveyoumytime.

Tryingtogetaconnectiononthetelephoneline.

You’resoclose,butfaraway,

Icallyouupallnightandday.

Icallyouupfromtimetotime

Tohearyourvoiceonthetelephoneline.

Thenumberyouhavereachedhasbeendisconnected.

Speaking:Planningascientific

experimentoptions

Practice

Ingroups,studentswriteanInternetpagefortheirschool.Elicitwhatinformationisappropriate,.location,history,building,numberofstudentsandstaff,subjects.

Studentswritetheirpagesandunderlinethe“hotwords”.Thegroupscanthenshowtheirpagestotheclassandtheotherstudentscanaskformoreinformationaboutthe“hotword”.

Extension

Studentsdiscusswiththeirimagination:whattheythinkexperimentsinspacewouldbringtohum