Module 6 Unit 2 Word  power    Emotions

Rao Hengshan        

Tongling No.3 High School

Material analysis:

   This is the 3rd lesson of Unit2, Module6. It is a word-focused lesson. This section teaches the words and idioms used to describe emotions and feelings. Students will learn some nouns related to emotions and then the adjective forms of this words; they will also learn some idiomatic ways to express feelings.

   Parts A and B in this section are for students to practise using the correct adjectives and nouns to express feelings, and Part C teaches students some useful idioms about emotions. Students are expected to enlarge their vocabulary related to this topic.

Teaching objectives:

u       Knowledge objectives

1. To learn some useful words on emotions.

2. To help the Ss understand some English idioms about feelings.

u       Ability objectives

1. To learn to use the above vocabulary freely and appropriately.

2. To make some sentences with the interesting English idioms.

u       Emotion objectives

Students will learn some idiomatic ways to express feelings and know more about other cultures.    

Teaching key points:

1. To know something about abstract nouns and change them into adjective forms.

2. To use the words and idioms to describe emotions and express feelings.

Teaching method:

Communicative teaching approach.

Learning method:

Individual, pair and group work.

Teaching aids:

The multimedia and the blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Greetings and lead-in

1. Greet the students as usual.

2. Play a song (The happy song)

3. Show some pictures.

Step 2 Vocabulary learning 

   1. Introduce the concept of abstract nouns.

   2. Ask some students to tell the noun forms of the adjectives.

   3. Encourage Ss to think of more words to express feelings and emotions by using their own everyday experience.

   4. Add more words both in noun and adjective forms.

Step 3 Vocabulary extension   

   1. Have students group emotional words into three different categories: happiness, sadness and fear.

   2.Get Ss to focus on the exercises on the screen. Fill in the blanks according to each different situation.

   3. Ask students to do the exercise in Part B. Focus students' attention on Flora's changes of emotions.

Step 4 Play a game 

   Divide the class into three groups. Two students from each group work together to guess the words describing emotions. The group that guesses the most words is the winner.

Step 5 Idiom learning

   1. Get students to guess the meaning of the italicized parts (idioms) according to the context.

   2. Fill in the spidergram.

   3. Introduce three more idioms describing emotions.

Step 6 Sing a song

   Have students learn to sing "The happy song".

Step 7 Homework

   1. Revise the words learnt in Word power.

   2. Make nine sentences using the idioms we learned today.

                           Blackboard-writing design

                                 Emotions

   Group One                    Group Two                     Group Three