Unit 9  Can you come to my party?

Period 1   Section A (1a-2b)

一、教材分析

本单元以“Can you come to my party?”为中心话题，围绕“发出，接受，拒绝邀请”展开，学习礼貌用语的表达和人际交往的基本常识，以及谈论自己和别人的义务和责任。同时，通过对本单元的学习，学生可以了解西方的社会礼仪文化，学习一些有关人际交往的艺术等。

二、学情分析

本单元内容与实际生活息息相关，是学生感兴趣的话题，是对情态动词can引导的一般疑问句的进一步学习，又是对本册Unit 6和Unit 7所学的现在进行时的另一种用法，即用现在进行时表将来的学习，用此结构来谈论已有的计划或安排。

三、教学目标: 

1. Knowledge aims:

1) the Ss can use the following words and phrases: 

prepare, prepare for, exam, flu, available, another time, until, hang, hang out, catch, invite, accept, refuse

2) the Ss will be able to make/ accept/ refuse an invitation with the following sentence pattern:

①   —Can you come to my party on Saturday afternoon?  

—Sure, I’d love to. \Sorry, I can’t. I have to ...\I’m sorry, too. I must …

②   —That’s too bad.

③   —Maybe another time. 

  ----Thanks for asking.

3) the Ss will be able to use such modal verbs like can, may, must and semi-modal verbs like have to

2.Skill aims:

The Ss will improve their listening and speaking.

3. Emotional aims:

The Ss will be able to know how to make/ accept/refuse an invitation in a polite  way.

四、教学重难点:

1. Key teaching points:

How to make, accept, and decline invitations. Talk about obligations.

2. Difficult teaching points:

The use of modal verbs: can, might, must.

五、教学方法:

1.student-centered teaching method.

2.group-cooperation. (role-play, pair work)

六、教具: blackboard, multi-media, tape recorder.

七、教学过程:

Step 1.  Leading in

Play a short video from a TV series Big Bang to get to know how to invite somebody to a party. Then let the Ss try to retell the scene.

Step 2  Presentation

1: Show pictures and learn the phrases in 1a. (guess, read and recite)

T: Look at the pictures and ask students to tell what they see.

2: Match the words with the pictures and check the answers. 

3: Play the recorder. Ask students to complete the activity individually.

T: listen to the recorder. Write the name of each person next to his or her picture.

Step 3  Practice

1. Read the conversation together.

2. Give an example: T: Can you come to my party?

Ask some students to answer. Ask the students who can’t come to tell the reasons.

Call attention to the words in activity 1a.

3. Ask some groups to act. (show the key words on the PPT)

4. Game: One student invite some students to his \her party. The other students answer.  

5. Listening: 2a+2b

Step4  Consolidation

1.Call attention to the points listed in activity 2b.

2. Ask students to make their own conversation like the example. As students work, move around the room and monitor.

3.Ask students to present their conversations.

Step 5  Summary

Ask students to sum up what we have learned this class.

Step 6  Homework

1. Practice: Invite your friends to come to your home for dinner. Write down their answers.

2. Recite the conversation 1c.

八、板书设计

Unit9 can you come to my party?

Section A（1a-2b）

A: Can you come to my party on Saturday afternoon?

B: Sure,I’d love to

C: Sorry, I can’t. I have to prepare for an exam.     

D: I’m sorry, too. I must go to the doctor.

九、教学反思

教师的在教学中主要起主导作用，创造设计切实可行的真实的语言交际情景和任务，让学生体验、实践、使用目标语，进行交际和解决问题来完成任务，难点是让学生在真实交际中，能真正做到得体发出、接受或拒绝邀请。教师要根据学生的实际，在教学中采用多媒体辅助教学、任务型教学模式，结合听说法、竞赛法、游戏法以循序渐进的方式来进行教学，让学生真正的掌握知识，并会在实际生活交际中加以运用。