Unit 1 The Snake Bite
Teaching Procedures:
Warming up (for reference): Ask some students how they show their distress and annoyance in life. Have the students demonstrate their writings on the board. Introduce other possible ways to show annoyance or distress such as:
(1) It is annoying to do...
(2) I am not pleased at all with...
(3) John was very upset when his father cancelled the family trip to the beach.
(4) You wouldn’t believe it...
(5) What a shame!
(6)It sickened me to see how...
(7)It really get on one’s nerves...
(8)It really get under one’s skin..
Annoy v.tr.(及物动词)
To cause slight irritation to (another) by troublesome, often repeated acts.
使生气,使烦恼:用烦人的,通常是重复性的行为使(别人)生气
To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.打搅,干扰,扰乱:用屡次的攻击使人厌烦或打扰v.intr.(不及物动词)
To be annoying.招人讨厌,惹人烦恼
He looked annoyed.他好象不耐烦的样子。
We can annoy the enemy by raids.我们可以用空袭骚扰敌人。
Part 1 Comminicative activities
1.Interative listening and speaking
A Students are asked to close their books and listen to the tape recorder without reading the new dialogue.
B During the listening, students are asked to take some notes about some information of the dialogue.
C After listening, Teacher will read the listening exercise on Page2 and students do the exercise with the help of the notes, which they have just taken down, and the memory of the listening.
D Students talk about their feelings
It sickened me to see how...
It really get on one’s nerves...
It really get under one’s skin..
E Try to Speak More:
Firstly, students will be asked to read the conversation by role-playing.
Secondly, Teacher will explain some unfamiliar words or phrases in the conversation. Such as: sicken, bald and three chickens to one single cage.
Thirdly, students will be asked to point out some expressions that express feelings of distress or annoyance in the conversation.
Forthly, Teacher asks several students to read the expressions that they have already checked out.
2.Story time.Ask the students to work out a short story in pairs on the picture.
3.What are they for?&
4.More sentences
Teacher will play the tape recorder to let students listen to more ways of expressing distress and annoyance.
* After listening, students will be given a little time to match these expressions with the functions. * Teacher will read the Actual Words Spoken out one by one while students will read the responding functions.
* Teacher will explain the meanings of some unfamiliar words such as: bugging, pestering and bragging.
Bug: annoy;
Pester: to annoy someone by repeatedly asking questions or making requests, especially when they are paying attention to something else.
Brag: v.tr.(及物动词)
To assert boastfully.夸耀地宣称
n.(名词)
A boast.自夸