Unit 1 Festival around the world

Part 1 Teaching Design

第一部分 教学设计

Period 2 A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language

(Modal verbs: may/ might, can/ could, will/ would, shall/ should, must/ can't)

Introduction

In this period students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions, and then to discover and learn to use the following useful structures: may/ might, can/ could, will/ would, shall/ should, must/ can't. The following steps of teaching may be taken: Warming up，Learning about grammar and Closing down by doing a quiz.

Objectives

To help students learn about Modal verbs

To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions

To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures

Procedures

1. Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions

Turn to page 4 and do exercises No. 1, 2 and 3. Check your answers against your classmates'.

2. Reading and finding

Turn to page 1 and read the text of FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS. As you read, find out examples of may/ might, can/ could, will/ would, shall/ should, must/ can used in the sentences.

3. Doing exercises No. 1, 2 and 3 on page 5

Turn to page 5 and do the exercises No. 1, 2 and 3 in groups of four.

4. Study the uses of Modal verbs

Next we go on to make a careful study of all the modal verbs.