Title

Lesson31: A Movie or a Play

Teaching aims

Knowledge

1.      To learn words and phrases about movie making

2.      To grasp some important language points

Ability

1. To be able to talk about movie making in English.

Emotion

To realize the necessity of working together to make a good movie.

Project

Content

Aims

Teaching procedures

Step1: Reviewing

Review grammar---the Attributive Clause by doing some

exercises (multiple choice)

Make the students learn to use that, who, whom, which correctly

Step 2: New words

 Learn the new words with the help of some pictures or examples: involve, script, director, direct, costume, task, background

Motivate the Ss and learn about some new words and expressions

Step 3: Think about it

Have a discussion with the students about the two questions on the textbook.

1. Have you ever been in a theatre? What did you watch?

2. What do you know about making movies?

  Then add a question to discuss:

What do you think is needed to make a movie or a play?

Collect the answers from the students.

Encorage the students to use English to talk about the topic and to express their ideas

Step 4: New Concept

Ⅰ. Listening

Ask the students to listen to the tape and answer the question:

What are Ms.Cox and her students talking about in this class?

  Answer: Making movies

II. Read and do the exercises in the textbook

Ask the students to read the text by themselves and then do the exercises

Get to know more about the content and key information about the lesson.

Students can understand better through reading and listening.

Step 5: Language points

I. Learn the phrases and do the exercise

1.I ________________ their clothes while they were playing football.

2. We ________________ the work among us tomorrow

3. Many students and teachers _______________ discussing in groups yesterday.

4. We badly need _____________________on the world oil market.

II.

few,  a few, little, a little

Do the exercise

用  few, a few, little, a little 填空
1. He is very hungry because he has______money to buy food.
2. ______ people like being laughed at.
3. There is __________water left in the bottle, you can drink it.
4. I have collected __________stamps, and I can give two stamps to you.

III.一词多义

raise   v. 举起; 提高; 筹(款); 饲养

He raised his glass and said: “Your health, Carl.”

They are going to raise money for the school buildings.

They raised their price to $500.

They raise sheep on the farm.

IV. 结构探讨

need to be done 为need后接不定式的被动语态形式， 等于need doing意为“需要（被）做”。例如:

A lot of money needs to be raised to help

the poor children in that area.

There are twenty more trees to be planted.

Deal with the language points and test the students’ mastery about the knowledge and make students understnd the text better.

Step 6: Discussion

What are some different kinds of movies?

Present：comedies, thrillers, documentaries, romances, action movies…

Students can get more information  about the topic.

Home-

work

1. Do the project in the text book and present their movie or play next class.

2. Do the exercise:Reading comprehention

Lesson 31: A Movie or a Play

Words:            Phrases:                      Sentences:

involve           be interested in               What do you think is needed

direct(or)          be involved in                to make a movie or a play?

task               take care of              A good script needs to be written.

background        do research                 

costume            divide up