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　　module 9 unit 1 what’s the matter?
　　function: dealing with misunderstandings.
　　teaching points:
　　1. integrated recycling: why and because.
　　2. vocabulary and phrases: laugh cup understand mistake baseball cap lots of
　　3. sentences: what’s the matter?
　　why are you laughing?
　　it’s easy to make mistakes with english.
　　4. looking for the words that their pronunciations are almost the same.
　　teaching aids: pictures tape recorder cups caps
　　teaching process:
　　一.warming up.
　　1.greeting.
　　2.sing an english song. and recite the last lesson’s chant.
　　3.find out the differences of the words.
　　the teacher is going to write pairs of words on the board. the teacher is going to say the words and the students have to listen to carefully and decide which words the teacher is saying.
　　leek-----lick pan----pin
　　tap------tip cup-----cap
　　big------pig head---had
　　have the students read the words and, if necessary, the teacher can say and explain each word and have the students repeat them after the teacher.
　　go through the words and say one word in each row. the students should write down the word.
　　on completion, have the students compare their answers with a partner before the teacher corrects the exercise.
　　ask the students if it was difficult to distinguish which words were being said (yes). ask them if they know why (the vowel sounds were very similar).
　　the teacher says:
　　lots of english words pronunciations are very similar. so we are easy to make some mistakes (learn the word ＂mis－take mistake＂). and there is the same joke in the today’s text. now let’s look at it together.
　　二. new concepts:
　　part 1. listen, point and find ＂why＂
　　1.solve the important words:
　　laugh大笑 smile 微笑
　　under---stand==understand
　　2.the teacher shows the colorful pictures on the board. questions:
　　who are they?
　　what are they going to do?
　　why are they laughing?
　　have the students to read the text by groups. then answer these questions.
　　3.listen to the tape carefully.
　　the students pay more attention to the important words.
　　4.the students follow the teacher to read the text. then have the students to study the main meaning of the text by themselves. and answer the questions:
　　(1)are they going to have a baseball team?
　　(2)what are they laughing?
　　(3)what did lingling hear?
　　(4)what did amy say?
　　(5)what has sam got in his bag?
　　5.now the students and the teacher read the text together. have the students to recite the important sentences.
　　6.finally, close the students’ books. play the tape again sentence by sentence. have the students to follow the recorder.
　　7.do the exercise book: p34, 1. lister to the questions. look and write the answers.
　　8.have the students to use the cups and caps to act the text out.
　　part 3. learn to say.
　　the teacher finds one student to stand at the front of the class. then the teacher gives him/her a card. the student acts it out according to the content of the card. the teacher leads other students to ask:
　　what’s the matter?
　　why are you….?
　　the student answers: i’m….
　　三.homework:
　　1.remember the new words well.
　　2.read the text.
　　四. retrospection: