Lesson 15

Period: The third Period

Content: Lesson fifteen

Properties: Overhead projector, recorder

Teaching Objectives:
　　Student should be able to use the comparatives and superlatives correctly and fluently, and complete the article.

Language FOCUS:
　　1. Review the comparatives and superlatives.

　　2. Gerund as subject
　　　① help sb with sth
　　　　eg. The teacher is helping the students with their maths.
　　　② like doing sth.
　　　　eg. I don' t like getting up very early.
　　　③ Doing sth is …
　　　　eg. Eating too much is bad for you
　　　　Collecting stamps is an easy hobby.

Teaching procedures:

I. Organizing the class
　　Greeting and a duty report.

　II. Revision
　　1. To talk about the country life.
　　2. To talk about the city life.
　　3. Show the pictures for them to compare.
　　　The car goes faster than the bike.
　　　The train goes faster than the car.
　　　The plane goes faster than the train.
　　　So the plane goes fastest of all.

　III. Practice
　　Students talk about the farm work they can do, write the jobs on the board "feed the animal, pick corn (wheat, etc), grow corn (wheat, etc)" Then they talk about who can do the most work, use the dialogue in the book as a model.
　　Give more phrases for them to use "have books" "get home early" "eat much" "run fast" "have a good time", etc.

　IV. Leading - in
　　Teacher: We have talked about the country life and the city life. Now let's see what Katy and Sandy like better.

　V. Read and complete
　　Students do the exercise themselves and then check the answers
　　(The answers: older, exciting, beautiful, quickly, better, faster, longer, interesting)
　　Then explain some words and phrases, point out the comparative and superlative forms of adverbs ending with "ly" are "more + adverbs" and "most + adverbs".

　VI．Exercise in class
　　 Complete the sentences
　　　①公共汽车和轿车，哪个开得快？轿车。
　　　　Which goes__________ ______, the car or the bus? The car_______.
　　　②所有人当中，我摘的玉米最多。
　　　　I can pick ________ ________ corns of ______.
　　　③她喜欢住在乡下。
　　　　She likes ______ ______ the country.
　　　④迈克经常读书到深夜。
　　　　Mike often reads ______ ______ ______ ______.
　　　⑤我认为住在城市比城镇有趣得多。
　　　　I think ______ in the city is ______ ______ ______ than in the town.
　　　⑥她经常帮她阿姨干农活。
　　　　She often ______ her aunt ______ the farm work.

　　Answers: ①more quickly, does ②the most, all ③living in ④until late at night ⑤living, much more interesting ⑥helps, with/do

　VII. Homework
　　1. Preview new lessons.
　　2. Copy the text and ask three questions.

　VIII. The design of the blackboard

Lesson 15

more　　　　　　　the bus, the car
the quickest　　　the bus, the car, the train
the earliest　　　I ,you

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