Unit 1 Living wellPeriod 2 A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language

1、Unit 1 Living wellPeriod 2 A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language(Revise the Infinitive)IntroductionIn this period students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and learn to use some useful words and collocations, and then to discover and revise the infinitive. The following ste

2、ps of teaching may be taken： warming up by working on the type of writing and summary of Martys story，learning about the Infinitive，listening, reading and completing， learning and finding，making sentences with the Infinitive and closing down by reading a poem in English.ObjectivesTo help students re

3、vise the infinitive To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and collocationsTo help students discover and learn to use some useful structuresProcedures1. Warming up by working on the type of writing and summary of Martys storyIt is important to find main ideas when reading. Main

4、 ideas help you remember important information. The main idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph. The topic tells what all or most of the sentences are about. The other sentences in the paragraph are called details. Details describe or explain the main idea. Read the text to find the ma

5、in idea. We shall first go back to page 8 to read the text to complete the table below. Type of writingAn emailSummary of the emailMartys storyThere are not many people in the world like me. I have a muscle disease that sometimes makes me very weak. I have learned to adapt to my disability. My motto

6、 is: live one day at a time.Up until I was about 10 years old, I was the same as everyone else in my class. One of the worst things about my disease is that I dont look any different from other people. My ambition is to work in the computer industry when I grow up. In many ways my disability has mad

7、e me grow stronger and more independent. 2. Learning about the InfinitiveInfinitive An infinitive is the simple present form of a verb used as either a noun, adjective, or adverb. The verb of the infinitive is normally preceded by the word to. When the infinitive follows some verbs as the direct obj

8、ect, the “to” may be dropped. An infinitive phrase is the infinitive plus any complements and any modifiers of the infinitive and complements. As a Noun: He helped to write the program. As an Adjective: Lydia was looking for a way to earn money. As an Adverb: He shouted to get our attention. To Drop

9、ped: He helped write the program. In the above examples, the infinitive is italicized and the infinitive phrase is underlined.3. Listening, reading and completingNow you are going to listen to a short paragraph about Zhang Haidi.The model status of Zhang Haidi (Shandong Province, 1955), widely publi

10、cized in print and in propaganda posters from 1983 on, is an interesting one. Zhang Haidi, also known as Ling Ling, became a paraplegic at the age of five following four operations for the removal of tumors in her spine. When she received news that her illness was incurable, she was reported to have

11、 attempted to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills, an action usually considered as a betrayal of the revolution and as evidence of discontent with socialism, and therefore as the act of a coward. She never went to school, but through diligent self-study, she learned to read books on politics, li

12、terature and medical science. She also learned foreign languages, including English, Japanese and German. She did not only function as a model because of her intellectual accomplishments or her devotion to serving others, but also because . In Lei Feng, Chinese youths had to reach for communism. In

13、Zhang Haidi, communism reaches for Chinese youths.Now you are to complete the two paragraphs on page 4 choosing the right words from the list.4. Learning and finding What is an Infinitive?The infinitive usually occurs with To (for example To go, To come, To wear etc.), except after an auxiliary or m

14、odal verb. It is a verb form that shows no person, tense or aspect.EXAMPLES OF THE INFINITIVE:I had to goI must goI want to singTo err is humanYou dont know herYou may comeThe following verb forms are derived from the Infinitive:i/ Imperative (same as Infinitive but without To)ii/ Present Simple (sa

15、me as Infinitive without To but the third person singular takes s)iii/ Present Participle or Gerund (add ing)Now read the text once again to find and copy on page 5 all sentences which contain examples of the Infinitive. 5. Making sentences with the Infinitive1. To have a muscle disease is very bori

16、ng for any people.2. I do not want to make my body very weak.3. To climb stairs, you need some tips.4. I dont want you to drop things while going along the street.5. To bump into a car is dangerous.6. To make life well worth living you have to learn to live with what you have.7. He is looking for ways not to get worse or get older.8. He stayed on to adapt to the life there.9. My motto is to live one day at a time.10. He likes to climb tree, play football and dream about becoming rich overnight.11. I hope to represent my country in the Wo