Module 9 Unit 1 What’s the matter?

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: