Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city park.

Section A 1 (1a-2d)

一、教学目标：

1. 语言知识目标：

1) 能掌握以下单词： clean up, city, cheer, cheer up, give out, volunteer, notice, used to, lonely,

能掌握以下句型：

① You could help to clean up the city parks.

② We should listen to them and care for them.

2) 能了解以下语法：

  情态动词could, should的用法；用should或could提出建议并对别人的建议作出评价。如何表达主动提供帮助。

2. 情感态度价值观目标：

  在授课过程中渗透助人就是助己，助人收获快乐的情感目标，使学生在谈论如何为别人提供帮助的对话中能意识到尽己所能，帮助他人，乐于奉献是一种良好的品德，培养学生为他人着想，热爱公益事业，乐于助人的优良品质。

二、教学重难点

1. 教学重点：

1) 掌握这些短语动词的构成和用法：clean up, city, cheer, cheer up, give out, volunteer, notice, used to, lonely

2) 学会提供帮助的基本句型：

I’d like to work outside.

I’ll help clean the city park.

You could give out food at a food bank.

2. 教学难点：

学会提供帮助的基本句型

三、教学过程

Step 1 Warming up

1. 播放学生志愿者进行义务帮助别人的活动视频，通过询问他们以下问题来引导学生们了解社会上一些的志愿们进行的活动。

T: Who are they?

S：They’re volunteers. They usually volunteer to help others.

T: How could we help people?

S1: We could clean up the parks

S2: We could help sick people in the hospital.

S3: We could help plant trees.

…

Step 2 New words

1. city n. 城市

e.g. The library is in the north of the city. 图书馆在城市的北部。

2. notice n. 公告牌；通告；布告

e.g. Please read the list on the notice board. 请读公告板上的名单。

3. sign n. 标志；信号

e.g. Look around, we could see no sign of life.

环顾四围，我们看不出一点生命的迹象。

4. volunteer v. 义务劳动，自愿做 volunteer to do sth. 义务自愿做某事

e.g. Many people volunteer to work on the farm. 很多人志愿到农场去工作。

5. clean up 打扫；清除

e.g. The students take turns to clean up their classroom. 学生们轮流打扫教室。

6. give out 分发；散发

e.g. Please help me give out these test papers. 请帮我将这些试卷发下去。

7. cheer v. 欢呼; 喝彩

e.g. Cheer up. The news isn’t too bad. 振作起来，消息还不算太坏。

8. lonely adj. 孤独的；寂寞的

e.g. I don’t feel lonely because I made new friends here.

我不觉得孤独因为我交了新朋友。

9. used to 曾经， 过去

e.g. Jack used to be short, but now he’s tall. 杰克过去很矮，但现在高了。

Step 3 Discussion

1. 1a. Look at the ways you could help others. Then list other ways.

2. Ss discuss with their partners and write the ways one could help others:

  ① Help to plant trees by the river.

  ② Help to clean up the city park.

  ③ Visit the old people in the old people’s home.

  ④ Help young kids to learn English.

Step 4 Listening

1. T: Tell Ss to read the sentences in the chart. Make sure they know the meaning of the sentences.

2. 1b. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and number the ways the boy and girl could help others.

___ The girl could visit the sick kids in the hospital to cheer them up.

___ The boy could give out food at the food bank.

___ The girl could volunteer in an after-school study program to teach kids.

___ The boy could help to clean up the city parks.

(Key: 3, 2, 4, 1)

Step 5 Pair work

1. Let Ss read the conversation in the picture.

2. 1c. Use the information in the chart of 1b to make other conversations.

  A: I hope to work outside.

  B: You could help to clean up the city parks.

  ……

3. Let some pairs act out their conversations.

Step 6 Listening

1. 2a:

T: A group of students are planning a City Park Clean-up Day. Listen and check (√) the things they are going to do to tell people about it.

1. Look at the pictures in 2a. Discuss the things they are going to do.

2. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and check the pictures.

3. Play the recording again to check the answers.

Answers: b, c, e

2. 2b:

1. Let Ss read the sentences below. Explain some main sentences for the Ss. Make sure they know what to do.

2. Play the recording for the Ss to write the correct words in the blanks.

1. We need to _____ ___ ____ a plan to tell people about the city park clean- up.

2. Clean-up Day is only two weeks from now. We can’t ___ ___ making a plan.

3. We could ___ ___ signs.

4. Let’s make some notices, too. Then I’ll ____ them ____ after school.

5. We could each ____ ___ 10 students and ask them to come.

3. Play the recording again to check the answers.

Answers: 1. come up with 2. put off 3. put up 4. hand, out 5. call up

Step 7 Pair work

1. 2c. Tell Ss to make a conversation using the information in 2a and 2b.

2. Let one pair to read out their conversation first.

 e.g.

  A: We need to come up with a plan for the City Park Clean-Up Day.

  B: Let’s have lunch first.

  A: No, we need to start now. Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now.

 B: You’re right. We can’t put off making a plan. As we talk, I’ll write down all our ideas. Then we can decide which ideas are best.

  A: Let’s make some notices, too. Then I’ll hand them out after school.

B: And we could each call up ten students and ask them to come.

3. Ss act the conversation in pairs. Ask some pairs to act out their conversations.

Step 8 Reading and Role-play

1. Read the conversations and answer the two questions:

① Where’s Helen going to work this summer?

  __________________________________

② What did Tom do to help the old people?

  ____________________________________

Answers: She’s going to work in an old people’s home.

Reading the newspaper or just talking to the old people.

2. Read the conversation after the teacher.

3. Practice the conversation with their partner. Then let some pairs to act out the conversation.

Step 9 Language points

1. They told me stories about the past and how things used to be.

used to do sth. 过去常常做某事； 表示过去习惯性、经常性的动作或状态，暗指现在已经不存在。used无人称和时态的变化。

e.g. I used to go to the Youth Center. But I have no time now.

  我过去经常去青少年中心，但现在我没有时间了。

Grandparents used to tell us stories when we were very young.

在我们小时候祖父母常给我们讲故事听。

2. Yeah, a lot of old people are lonely.

lonely adj. 孤独的；寂寞的指精神上感觉孤独、寂寞。

e.g. The old man feels lonely, so he raises a dog.

那名老人觉得很孤独，因此他养了一只狗。

3. We need to come up with a plan for the City Park Clean-up Day. 　

need 用作实义动词，有“必要”、“必需”之意，有人称、数和时态的变化，可以接名词、代词、动名词或带to的动词不定式作宾语。

e.g. The man needs an English dictionary when he works.

这个人在工作时需要一本英语词典。

  Do you need to see him yourself?

  你必需亲自见他吗？

4. clean up意为“打扫；清理”。但如果在clean和up间加个连字符号, 它就是名词了, 意为“扫除”。

e.g. You must give your classroom a good clean-up.你必须对教室进行彻底地打扫。

come up with 提出（观点，看法）。

e.g. He has come up with a great idea. 他想出了一个绝好的办法。

  I came up with a better plan than that.  我提供了一个比那还好的计划。

Step 10 Exercises

Ⅰ. Choose the correct answers.

1. I took her to the concert to ____.

  A. cheer up her B. cheer her up C. cheer she up

2. Let’s help ___ food at the food bank.

A. to give out B. give up C. giving out

Ⅱ. Complete the sentences.

1. You’d better _____ ___ ____ (想出) a better plan.

2. Who will ________ ___ ______ (自愿回答) this question?

3. You could put up a ______ (布告) here.

4. With no one to talk to. He _____ very ______ ( 感觉很孤独).

5. The life _____ ___ ___ (曾经是) very interesting in my school days.

Answers: B, A

come up with, volunteer to answer, notice, felt lonely, used to be

Homework:

Write three conversations about your discussions with your classmates.

A: I’d like to help the old. What could I do?

B: You could give them medical service.

 

Section A 2 (3a-3c)

一、教学目标：

1. 语言知识目标：

1) 学习掌握下列词汇：several, feeling, satisfaction, joy, owner, journey

2） 阅读短文，能按要求找到相应的信息。

3） 通过阅读提高学生们的阅读能力。

4) 了解世界各地的学生们都进行哪些志愿活动。

2. 情感态度价值观目标：

使学生在谈论如何为别人提供帮助的对话中能意识到尽己所能，帮助他人，乐于奉献是一种良好的品德，培养学生为他人着想，热爱公益事业，乐于助人的优良品质。

二、教学重难点

1. 教学重点：

1) 掌握本部分出现的生词和词组，达到熟练运用的目标。

2) 阅读短文，获得相关的信息。通过阅读练习，来提高阅读能力。

2. 教学难点：

1) 阅读短文，获得相关的信息的能力。

2) 理解并运用所学的词汇及表达方式。

三、教学过程

Step 1 Revision

1. Write down the phrases.

1. 打扫 ________

2. 分发 ________

3. 曾经 _______

4. （使）变得高兴 ________

5. 义务做某事 _________________

6. 大打扫日 ______________

7. 想出主意（办法）____________

Answers: clean up, give out, used to, cheer up, volunteer to do sth. Clean-Up Day, come up with

2. Role-play

A: Hi, Tom. I’m making some plans to work in an old people’s home this summer.

B: Really? I did that last summer!

……

Step 2 New words

1. several pron. adj. (=some) 几个；数个；一些

2. feeling n. 感触；感觉；感情； feel (v.) + ing feeling

e.g. He had to lower his voice to control his feeling.

他不得不压低声音来控制自己的感情。

3. satisfaction n. 满足；满意

e.g. Looking at a beautiful painting always gives one satisfaction.

观看一幅美丽的图画总会使人心满意足。

4. joy n. 高兴；愉快

e.g. It’s difficult to describe my joy in words.

难以用语言来描述我的快乐。

5. owner n. 物主；主人

e.g. They decided to give the cat back to the owner.

他们决定将猫归还它的主人。

6. journey n. 旅行；旅程

e.g. A thousand-li journey begins with the first step.

千里之行始于足下。

Step 3 Warming up

1. Watch a video and answer the questions.

1. Where did they volunteer to work?

2. What did they do there?

3. What do you usually do on your free time? Would you like to volunteer to do anything for others?

  Ss try to answer the questions:

1. They volunteered to work at the old people’s home.

2. They made dumplings for the old people. They cleaned up their rooms. They talked with the old people. They sang and danced for the old people. …

Step 4 Reading

1. 3a:

1. Tell Ss to read the article in 3a quickly and try to find the answers to these questions:

  1. What does Mario love?

  2. What does Mary love?

  3. What do Mario and Mary volunteer to do?

Ss read the article quickly and try to answer the questions:

2. 方法指导：带着问题，然后快速阅读短文，争取在较短的时间内，找到答案。

3. 学生们，按老师指导的方法进行阅读，并快速回答这三个问题。

4. 最后，教师让部分学生回答答案，并校对答案。

Answers: 1. He loves animals.

2. She loves reading books.

3. Mario volunteers at animal hospital and Mary helps kids learn to read.

2. 3b: Read the article again and answer the questions.

  1. Why does Mario volunteer to help others?

  2. Why does Mary volunteer to help others?

3. What does Mario say about volunteering?

4. What does Mary say about volunteering?

Answers: 1. Because he believes it can help him to get his future dream job.

  2. Because she can do what she loves to do and help others.

  3. He gets such a strong feeling of satisfaction when he sees the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners’ face.

  4. Volunteering is a dream come true for her.

3. 3c

1. 告诉学生们本学习活动的要求：用不定式来完成下列句子。

2. 让学生们读3d中的内容，理解每个句子的大体意思。

3. 根据短文的内容，并恰当的不定式来完成每个句子。

4. 如果不能直接填上，可以再去阅读短文，在相关的内容处，再仔细进行阅读，找到相关信息，并完成句子。

1. Mario would like _____ an animal doctor.

2. Mario works for an animal hospital because he wants ________ about how _______ for animals.

3. Mary decided ________ for a job at an after-school reading program last year. She still works there now _______ kids learn to read.

4. Mary has a dream job because she can do what she loves ____________.

5. Check the answers. ( 1. to be 2. to know, to care 3. to try, to help 4. to do）

Step 5 Language points

1. Mario Green and Mary Brown from Riverside High School give up several hours each week to help others.

from River High School 为介词短语作后置修饰语，翻译时应提前。

to help others 作目的状语。是“每周拿出几个小时”的目的。

2. Mario believes it can help him to get his future dream job.

马里奥相信这会帮助他获得他的梦想职业。

help sb (to) do sth. 帮助某人做某事；

help后的不定式符号to，可以省略。

e.g. Mike called on his sister to help him look for his lost keys.

  迈克叫上他妹妹帮助他找钥匙。

3. …but I want to learn more about how to care for animals.

但是我想学习更多关于如何照顾动物的事。

want to do sth. 想要做某事。to 不定式做want的宾语。

e.g. Grandpa wanted to lend us some money to buy a new car.

  爷爷想借给我们钱去买一辆新车。

how to care for animals 是复合不定式结构，作介词about宾语。相当于：特殊疑问词+ to 不定式，构成复合不定式结构。(how he could care for animals).

e.g. They don’t know where to build the new house.

  =They don’t know where they can build the new house.

 他们不知道在哪里可以建新房。

4. Last year, she decided to try out for a volunteer after-school reading program.

  去年，她决定参加一个志愿者课外阅读活动。

decide to do sth. 决定去做某事；to不定式做宾语。

e.g. He decided to get married. 他决定结婚。

5. She still works there once a week to help kids learn to read.

  她仍旧在那里一周工作一次来帮助孩子们阅读。

to help kids learn to read 不定式短语作目的状语 ；

learn to read 是help的宾语。

6. I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.

  我可以做我所喜欢的事情，同时还可以帮助他人。

从句what I love to do 在句子中作do的宾语。

Step 6 Exercises

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks using the words in the box.

several, feeling, owner, journey, satisfaction

1. I only want to sleep for _______ minutes.

2. The _______ from London to Oxford takes about an hour and a half.

3. The next morning, the _____ of the house prepared the breakfast for us.

4. He looked at his work with a smile of ________________.

5. She enjoys the ________ of freedom.

Ⅱ. Complete the sentences.

1. My brother wants _______ (be) a pilot.

2. You’ll never learn ________ (ride) a bike if you don’t practice.

3. Mike taught his grandpa how________ (use) the computer.

4. Mr. Smith helped the young man _______ (find) a job.

5. The students decided ________ (work) out the problem by themselves.

6. He volunteers ________ (work) on the farm.

Answers: Ⅰ. several journey owner satisfaction feeling

  Ⅱ. to be, to ride, to use, to find, to work, to work

Homework

Make sentences with these phrases.

  help (to) do; want to do; learn to do; decide to do; how to do; volunteer to do