牛津英语模块六第一单元Task精品教案1

Task Writing to a foreign friendThis section consists of a series of activities which provide you with opportunities to learn and practice the listening, speaking, reading and writing skill. This section is divided into three steps and each step is preceded with a skills building part. Through listening and reading, you will get information about Chinese crosstalk. You are asked to use the information you have got to write an e-mail to a foreign friend answering his questions about Chinese crosstalk.Skills building 1: identifying prioritiesIn this part, you will learn how to identify the most important part and the least important part of a task.Now look at the sentences on the blackboard.I need to know how many of you will go to watch the play this Saturday. I’ll have to book the tickets.I want to know why you are so interested in the play.I would like to know how you will go to the theatre.Discuss in your groups and decide which one means the most important request and which one is the least important request. And give me your reasons. ( Do not judge whether their answers are right or not directly. Take notes of the reasons beside the sentences on the blackboard.) If you want to know whether your judgment is right or wrong, you can refer to the guideline and the three points in skills building 1 on page 10.Now have you known how to identify the most urgent request? Let’s come back to the sentences on the blackboard and check if you have judged correctly.Step 1: answering questionsThis part is designed to help you develop your listening skills. You are first asked to take some notes while listening to a telephone message and decide which requests are the most important, somewhat important or the least important, according to what you have learnt in Skills building 1. Then you will listen to an English radio talk show and read a magazine article to get more information needed to find the answers to the questions asked by a foreign friend.1 read Part A on page 10 to make sure what you are asked to do when listening to the recording. While listening, you should take some notes and pay attention to the words used in Bill’s requests,2 Now read the guidelines of Part B on page 11 to know what you should do to finish this part. Then listen to the radio talk show and make corrections. If you are not sure about your answers,questions to which you have not found the answers. Let’s read the article in Part C and underlineSkills building 2: asking questions orallyIn this part, you will practise asking questions orally in various forms and using the correct question words.1. You need to answer the following questions and I’ll write down your answers on the blackboard.What do we say when we want to ask whether someone knows something or not?(Do you know…?)Are there any other ways we can use to ask the same question?(Could you please tell me if/whether…? Please tell me if/whether….? Would you mind telling me if/whether…?)If we want to know someone’s name, what do we say?(Who is…? Please tell me his/her name.)If we want to know the time or the place that something happened, how will we ask the question?(When/ Where did…? Please tell me when/where…)2 Read the guidelines in this part and go over the sentence structures listed.Step 2: taking part in a radio talk showThis part is designed to have you use what you have learnt in Skills building 2 to practice asking different forms of questions.1 Read the guidelines and make sure you know what you are going to do in this part. And go over Column A on the right and decide what question words you should use according to the information in this column. You should know that for people’s names, you will use who or what name, that for a place, you should use where or at what place, and that for the year, you should use when or in which year. Are you clear?2 Now work in pairs to ask and answer questions according to the two columns. You can ask more questions according to other information you have got in Steps 1 and 2. Try to use different ways to ask the same question. Minutes later, I’ll check your answer and see who can ask moreSkills building 3: answering questions in an e-mailIn this part, you will learn how to answer questions in an e-mail in an effective way.1 Read the guidelines and the two points in this part. You will know what you should pay attention to when they use an e-mail to answer questions.2 Read the sentence structures to know what informal language and formal language you can use to answer questions in e-mails. Do you know when to use informal ways and when to use formal ways to answer questions? You should know that when you write e-mails to your family members or good friends, you usually use informal language. If you write e-mails to someone important or you are applying for a job through e-mails, you should use formal language.Step 3: writing an e-mailThis part is designed to have you use the information about Chinese crosstalk in Step1 and 2 and the skills building 1 and 3 to write an e-mail to Bill to answer his questions.1 Work in pairs to discuss what you should write in the e-mail to Bill. Decide the order of the answers according to the importance of the questions. You should also decide what structure you use to write the e-mail.2 Please write the e-mail after the discussion. I’ll choose some different styles of e-mails, formal3 Finish the note in part A on page 106 in workbook after listening to the recordings. Then you can complete the article in Part C on the same page.。