Unit1    Can you play the guitar？

Ⅰ、Teaching article : Unit 1

Ⅱ、Teaching  goals

一Can you/he/she/you dance?

一Yes，I/he/she/we can．／No，I/he/she/we can’t．
一Can Bill play the guitar?

一Yes，he can，but he can’t sing．　　　　　

Ⅲ、Teaching methods

   Task-based teaching method, situational teaching, game teaching method, motivation and evaluation method of teaching  

Ⅳ、Teaching tools

Video,  audio,  pictures,   multimedia courseware

Ⅴ、Teaching  time:  six  periods

Unit 1 Can you play the guitar？

The  first  period

Ⅰ、Teaching content: Section A 1a-2a

Ⅱ、Teaching  goals :

1. Knowledge goals

(1) To master some new words: dance, sing, swim, draw , speak English, play the guitar, play chess, and so on.

      (2) To master the usage of modal verb“can”.

  2.  Ability goals

      (1) use“can”to talk about one’s abilities and likes

      (2) Arouse students’ interest in English by group work, and help students to form good learning habits.

 3.  Emotion goals:

      To help students to love English, show their abilities, and communicate with other people actively.

Ⅲ、Teaching methods

  Task-based teaching method, situational teaching, game teaching method, motivation and evaluation method of teaching   

Ⅳ、Teaching tools

 Ⅴ、Teaching procedures

二、Teaching Procedures

Additional materials to bring to class

Harmonica and guitar or other two musical instruments to use in the language goal section

PowerPoint with pictures of basketball, volleyball and some music instruments.

Step 1： Revision and lead in

The teacher says I like basketball. Then asks: Do you like basketball/ volleyball? Do you want to join a basketball club?

Step 2： Presentation

Ask the students to look at the pictures of Page 1 , there are some clubs in it. Let’s look at the clubs. What are they? They are art club, English club, chess club, swimming club and music club. What club do you want to join? Help the students to answer I want to join the art club and so on.

If the school has clubs, the teacher can ask the students: What clubs do we have in our school?

The teacher writes What club do you want to join? I want to join… on the blackboard. Ask the students to practice it.

Then introduces the key vocabularies and the words can and can’t.    

The teacher says to the students who say he/she wants to join the basketball club: Can you play basketball? Help the students say Yes, I can. No, I can’t. Then repeat with other actions or pictures, such as play volleyball.

Show the students the activities the people in each club can do with the same step.

Then repeat with dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English and play the guitar with the help of doing the action. Or we can use the PowerPoint to help us to show the students what we can do. The teacher can ask the students to practice the following dialogues with can.

Do the action and read the new words and phrases.

Ask the students to practice can and can’t. Ask the students to practice can you play it well?

At the same time, the teacher write down sing, dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English, and play the guitar on the blackboard. Ask the students to read after the teacher.

Step 3 A game

To be more familiar with the words and phrases, the teacher can organize a game like this:

Write the words and phrases on pieces of paper. Ask one of the students come to the front and choose one of the paper, then do the action. Ask other students to guess what he or she can do. Then exchange.

Step 4 1a:

Look at the pictures on Page 1. Points to the activities the people in each club are doing. Say something about each club’s activity clearly. For example, This is a chess club. See the chess? They are playing chess.

Step5 .1b

Say each conversation with a student in Part 2. After doing this, play the recording the first time. Students only listen. Play the recording a second time. This time ask the students to listen to the conversations and write a number 1 next to the first conversation they hear, a number 2 next to the second one they hear, and a number 3 next to the third one they hear. Point out the sample answer.

Step 6.1c.2a

Say the sample conversations. Have students repeat. Then ask students to practice the conversations in pairs. Ask them to use the vocabulary from .

Step7 .Difficulties

  1. 动词play的几种用法 （1）play表示“玩（球类）”或“玩棋牌及其他游戏”，这时作宾语的名词前不带任何冠词。如：play basketball/cards/chess/bridge/badminton打篮球/打牌/下棋/打桥牌/打羽毛球。 （2）play表示“演奏，弹奏（乐器）”，这时表示乐器的名词前须带定冠词the。如play the piano/violin。 （3）play表示“装扮、扮演”。如：play a doctor/ Lu Xun/ the fool扮一名医生/扮演鲁迅/装傻 （4）play with fire玩火，play with water玩水，play with balls玩球，这些短语中的介词with不能丢。 △play还有一些其他常见的用法和含义。 （5）play sth. for sb. = play sb. sth. 为某人播放…… （6）play + sth. + on + 乐器 用某乐器演奏（某乐曲）   

 2. help sb. do sth. 与help sb. with sth. Can you help kids with swimming? 你能教孩子游泳吗？ Help sb. with sth. 此词组的意思为“在某方面帮助某人”，还可以说help sb. do sth.。 如果上下文意义较明确时，两个词组可以互换。 注：在help sb. with sth. 结构中，with是介词，故动词应变为doing形式，doing相当于名词，作介词宾语。Can you help kids with swimming? =Can you help kids swim?

3. Can的用法 can是英语中最常用的几个情态动词之一，它没有人称和数的变化，不能独立作谓语，必须与主要的谓语动词的原形连用。 △can本身不表示动作，只表示体力或脑力方面的能力。例如： （1）I/ We/ You/ She/ He/ They can speak Chinese. 我/我们/你/你们/她/他/他们/会说汉语。can无人称和数的变化，表示脑力方面的能力。 （2）I/We/You/She/He/They can carry the heavy box. 我/我们/你/你们/她/他/他们搬得动这个重箱子。表示体力方面的能力。 注：情态动词本身无人称和数的变化，后面的动词用原形。 △情态动词的否定式由情态动词加not构成，如：I/We/You/He/She/It/They can’t swim. can’t=can not 我/我们/你/你们/他/她/它/他们不会游泳。 △情态动词Yes/No问句的构成：将情态动词can置于句首，后接句子的主语和主要谓语动词即可。 如：—Can you/he/she/it/they can swim? 你/他/她/它/他们会游泳吗？ —Yes, I/he/she/it/they can. 是的，我/他/她/它/他们会游泳。 No, I/he/she/it/they can’t. 不，不会。 △can还可以与疑问词一起用在特殊疑问句中。如： Who can swim？谁会游泳？ The fish can swim. 鱼会游泳。 What can the cat do？It can drink its milk. 猫会干什么？它会喝它的牛奶。 （3）△“Can we...？”一般疑问句表示说话人请求对方的许可，询问可不可以做某件事。如： “Can we put our coats here?”“Oh, yes, you can.” “我们可不可以把我们的外套放在这儿？”“噢，当然可以。”   

 Step 8：Summary and Homework

Task : fill in the form. Write down three things you can do and three things you can not do.

Teaching reflection: Student can master the words but they should practice more.