Period: The Second Period

　　Properties: Tape-recorder, Overhead projector

　　Teaching Aims:

　　1. Knowledge aim

　　Enable the students to understand the reading passage about Beethoven.

　　2. Ability aim

　　Let the students say something about Beethoven in their own words.

　　3. Emotion aim

　　Take correct attitude towards money.

　　Language Focus: afford to do, for fun, knock at, to one’s surprise, write down, hear sb. do/doing, dim, blind, shine (shone, shone)

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　a) Organizing the class

　　1. Ask the students to get ready for class.

　　2. Greetings between the teacher and the students.

　　3. A duty report.

　　b) Revision

　　T: Ask the students to say sentences with “could” and “-self”.

　　c) Reading

　　1. Pre-reading:

　　Ask the students the following questions before reading.

　　Do you like listening to music?

　　What do you know about Beethoven?

　　Can you play any musical instruments? How well can you play?

　　The teacher gives a brief introduction of Beethoven.

　　2. While-reading:

　　Ask the students to read the passage silently by themselves.

　　Ask the students to answer the reading comprehension questions.

　　Play the tape for the passage and ask the students to read after the tape.

　　Explain the language points:

　　(1) hear sb. do/doing

　　hear sb. do听到某人做了某事(表示动作发生了，动作全过程结束了)

　　I often hear her singing in the morning.

　　Did you hear him go out?

　　hear sb. doing听到某人在做某事(表示动作正在进行，处于进行过程中)

　　I heard someone knock at the door three times just now.

　　I heard someone laughing.

　　(2) afford to do:通常与can, could, be able to连用

　　We can’t afford to go away this summer.

　　They aren’t able to afford to buy a big apartment.

　　(3) for fun: in fun

　　He said it only for fun.

　　(4) dim: not bright, not clearly to be seen

　　(5) to one’s surprise: to the surprise of sb.

　　To my surprise / To the surprise of everyone, his plan succeeded.

　　3. After-reading:

　　Ask the students to retell the passage.

　　Ask the students to talk about their feelings after reading the passage.

　　Ask the students to work in pairs and then act it out.

　　d) Homework

　　1. Finish exercises on page 98.

　　2. Retell the passage.

　　3. Rewrite the passage.

　　e) Summary

　　翻译句子：

　　1.我们经常听到她在楼上弹钢琴。

　　2.姑娘和她的各个沉浸在贝多芬的美妙音乐中。

　　3.一天晚上贝多芬正在街上散步，这时他突然在一座小房子外停住了。

　　4.他们太穷了，以至于不能负担得起音乐会票。

　　Keys:

　　1. We often hear her play the piano upstairs.

　　2. The girl and her brother both lost themselves in Beethoven’s beautiful music.

　　3. One evening Beethoven was walking in a street when he suddenly stopped outside a little house.

　　4. They are too poor to afford to buy tickets to the concert.