1. English Song
English Class
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2. 课时安排
Period 1-3: warm-up & lesson 5
Period 4: lesson 6
Period 5-6: lesson 7
Period 7-8: lesson 8
Period 9-10: communication Workshop

3. Warm-up
In your mind, what kind of people are heroes?

4. soldiers

5. policemen
&
policewomen

6. firefighters

7. sports stars

8. film stars

9. history makers

10. Think of different kinds of heroes and heroines:
a) a sports or film star you personally admire
Yao Ming

11. b) someone famous for bravery or goodness.
Mother Teresa
( )
Mother Teresa was a nun
who devoted all her life
to helping the poor and
sick in India.

12. c) the main character from a story
Hamlet
Hamlet is the sensitive and indecisive hero of
Shakespeare’s play.
To be or not to be,
that’s a question.

13. Now it’s time to tell me
about your heroes or
heroines!

14. Key Words
Classify the key words as positive or negative.
positive: brave, calm, generous, honest, intelligent, kind, romantic, sensitive
negative: cruel dishonest, violent
Now write three sentences about some film heroes and heroines that you know well and read them to your group. Use the Key Words to help you.
Eg: Scar is a cruel and dishonest character in Lion King.

15. Listen to descriptions of the film characters
Listen to descriptions of the film characters. Match them with the following adjectives.
a) smart but cruel and violent
b) brave and humorous
c) pleasant and humorous

16. You are going to hear about the following characters:
Nemo
Finding Nemo

17. Bright Jones
Saving Private Ryan

18. Spider-man 2
Dr. Octopus

19. 5 Modern Heroes What do you know about Yang Liwei? How do you
feel about him?
Born: June 21,1965,
Liao Ning
Height:168cm
Weight: 65kg
Training :
Crowned: Space Hero

20. Shenzhou ⅴ
How did you feel about China’s first
manned space flight?

21. Let’s learn some words about space flight.
rocket
capsule
astronaut
launch

22. helicopter
parachute

23. Read to learn Read the article quickly and circle all the
words related to a spaceship’s movement.
6 circling
7 related
8 shaking
9 touched down
1 lifted off
2 lifting off
3 separated from
4 soaring
5 circled

24. Read the article again. Match the paragraphs with these headings.
Astronaut lands safely
Welcome home
International good wishes
An exciting lift-off
Introduction
During the flight 5 6 4 2 1 3

25. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
1 how did Yang Liwei feel during the flight? How did he feel afterwards?
He felt the effects of high gravity including the feeling of soaring into the sky, after the spaceship landed, he felt happy to be back on earth.
2 What did Yang Liwei do during the Shenzhou ⅴ’s seventh circle of the earth?
He showed the flags of China and the United Nations and expressed the Chinese people’s wishes to explore and use space peacefully.

26. 3 How many circles did the spaceship complete while Yang Liwei was sleeping?
The spaceship completed two circles.
4 What were helicopters doing as Yang Liwei returned to the earth’s atmosphere?
The helocopters were flying to the landing site.
5 What did Yang Liwei do when he came out of the spaceship?
He smiled and waved to the crowds waiting for him.

27. Language study Match the verbs with the nouns to form expressions.
Verbs Nouns
1 collect a) space
2 complete b) wishes
3 do c) a task
4 express d) the seventh circle
5 explore e) information

28. Brain-storm Can you say some words about space flight? spaceman
(astronaut)
spaceship
space flight
parachute
spacesuit
rocket
capsule
helicopter
launch

29. Language in use
Work in pairs. Imagine one of you is Ynang Liwei and the other is a reporter from CCTV. Make up an interview between them. Ask as many questions as possible . The phrases will help you.
spaceship: lift off – circle the earth – do the seventh circle – com back into…
Yang Liwei: sleep – show the flags – express– land – tell – feel – return – smile

30. Grammar Presentation PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS
Look at the sentences . In pairs, work out the differences between Past Simple and Past Continuous.
1 The surface of the spaceship was glowing red when it came back into the earth’s atmosphere.
2 Millions of people all over China were watching TV when the spaceship touched down safely.
3 When the spaceship separated from the rocket, I suddenly got a feelin of soaring into the sky…
4 We were driving along a country lane when, suddenly, a car drove past us.

31. Look at the sentences again. In which sentences does when mean
a) at the same time? b) after?
When the Past Continuous and the Past Simple appear in one sentence, the Past Continuous describes the background, and the Past Simple reports an event.
Read Grammar Summary 3, on P92.

32. Grammar Practice Ex9 1 ) was walking 2) saw 3) was running 7) heard
4) sat down
5) opened
6) was reading
7) heard
8) was drowning
9) was calling
10) jumped
11) looked
12) were watching

33. Ex 10 Look at the pictures . Then read and answer the questions.
What was Pat doing when she heard the crash?
She was drying her hair.
What did Pat do when she looked out of the window?
she called an ambulance.

34. What was Jennifer doing when she saw the boy?
She was baking a cake.
What was the boy doing when Jennifer saw him?
He was climbing into a lorry.
What did Jennifer dop when she ran out of the house?
She took the boy out of the lorry.

35. What do you know about them?
6 History Makers
B Mother
teresa
Listening
A Sun Yat-sen
Do you know
these people?
What do you know about them?
C Thomas
Edison
D Martin Luther King

36. 1 Match these captions with the photos.
1) campaigned for the rights of
black people in the USA
2) led the 1911 revolution and
founded the first republic of China
3) invented the light buld, moving
picture camera and many other things
4) worked to help poor people in India

37. Listen to learn
2 Listen to students talking about the people in the photos.complete the Funtion File with these words.
agree, think, you’re right, don’t agree,
in my opinion, personally
Keys:
1) think 2) don’t agree 3) in my opinion
4) you’re right 5) agree 6) personally

38. 3 You are going to listen to a radio programme
about Martin Luther King.
Key Words
experience, racism,equal, influence, organise,
struggle, victory, protest, march, extremist
Read the sentences below and try to guess the meaning of the key words.
1) Mr. Wang has been teaching for 20 years. So he has much experience.
2) Martin Luther King thought the black people and the white people are equal. He fought against racism.

39. 3) I didn’t want him to influence me in my choice
3) I didn’t want him to influence me in my choice. I would like to make a decision by myself.
4) We are organising a concert in the village hall. So we are busy getting everything ready.
5) We should give more help to them as they are struggling for equal rights.
6) We beat Japan at 2: 0 and we won the victory at last.
7) He didn’t agree to the action. He protested it in the phone call to the president.
8) All the workers marched down the street for higher pay.
9) The explosion was carried out by the political extremist .

40. Listening Strategies Getting prepared for listening
4 Listening to the radio programme with the help of the listening strategies and get the general idea.
5 Listen again and decide if the sentences are true (T) or (F).
keys: 1 T 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 T 6 T 7 F 8 T

41. Pronunciation: Stress
6 Listen to the sentences and underline the stressed words.
Listen again and
repeat the sentences.

42. Expand your vocabulary
personally-person
create-creation
invention-invente
racism-race-racial
society-social
equal-equally
peace-peaceful-peacefully
organize- organization

43. Speaking
Nelson
Mandela
Elizabeth Blackwell
Jane Goodall

44. 7 Work in pairs. Read the paragrarhs and take turns to choose a hero
7 Work in pairs. Read the paragrarhs and take turns to choose a hero. Ask and answer the following questions:
1) What did/does your hero fight for?
2) Who did/does tour hero help?
3) Where did/does your hero work?

45. assignment
Write down your views about the heroes introduced in this unit.

46. 7 Sports Stars Reading Before you start Key Words
1 Who are your sporting heroes or heroines?
In pairs, use the key words to talk about them.
Key Words
positive: brilliant, fast, inteligent, skillful, strong
negative: awful, boring, over-rated, slow, terrible,
useless, weak
You may add some more words.

47. Example
A: In my opinion, Ronaldo is a brillian player. He is very fast and skillful.
B: I don’t agree. I think he is over-rated.

48. Do you know the sisters?

49. Read to learn Read the passage quickly
and suggest a title for the text.

50. They played each other in the final of a tennis tournament.
Read the article again and answer the questions.
1 Why are the sisters unusual?
2 What kind of background are they from?
3 Who helped them to succeed?
4 How do the two sisters get on at home?
They played each other in the final of a tennis
tournament.
They lived in a poor area of California, full of violence
and drugs.
Their father, Richard.
They get on very well.

51. Guess the meaning of the folowing key words and check them while reading.
Look back, train, be strict with, compete against, disrupt,express an interest in, come to an end, astonishing, improve, cause, make progress, leave… behind

52. Complete the following sentences, using the Key Words.
1 Bailey ______________________ atheletes half his age and won at last.
2 My health finally began to ___________ when I changed to a less stressful job.
3 Moving schools frequently can ____________ a child’s education.
4 It’s time to ______ the past ________.
5 Parents _______________________ concern about the amount of violence in some children’s shows.
has competed against
improve
disrupt
behind
leave
expressed an interest in

53. is strict with
6 Mr Wang ________________ his students.
7 When the concrt _________________, the crowd poured out of the hall.
8 The accident is _____________. It _______ 123 deaths.
9 He kept working hard at English and _______ great __________ in it.
10 Yang Liwei ___________ the past five years when he was __________ as an astronaut.
came to an end
causes
astonishing
made
progress
looked back
trained

54. Voice your opinion
What are the advantage or disavantage of being sports stars?

55. Grammar Presentation PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE
Study the two groups of sentences from the text. Work out the differences in pairs.
a) Since then, she has won Wimbledon and the US Open twice.
b) Has tennis ever caused problems between the sisters?
a) The sisters’ father, Richard, started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children.
b) The first time Venus played in a big tournament was in 1996.

56. b a a b Grammar Summary 4, on P93.
Match te tenses with the uses. We use a) the Present Perfect, b) the Past Simple when:
1 something happened at a specific time in the past.
2 the time of the action in the past is not given or known.
3 a past action has results in the present.
4 the past action is not linked with the present. b a a b
Grammar Summary 4, on P93.

57. Grammar Practice 10 complete the interview with an English footballer.
keys:
1) played
2) Did you like
3) didn’t enjoy
4) have you scored
5) haven’t played
6) have joined
7) bought
11 Complete the sentences with already, ever, never, yet.
keys:
already
2) yet
3) ever
4) never
5) yet
6) ever/never

58. Language in Use
Choose a star. Make notes about the important achievements or events in his/her life, and the dates they happened.
Before you start, read the examples on P27.

59. 8 Superhero
Christopher Reeve

60. Before you start Now read the article quickly and
What do you know about Christopher Reeve?
From the pictures, can you guess what happened to him?
1 what was his most famous film role?
2 What terrible thing happened to him in real life?
3 What is he doing nowadays?
Now read the article quickly and
find out the answers.

61. Can you say something about the topics?
Read the passage again and match the topics with the parts of the article.
a. the riding accident
b. his marriage
c. his feelings after the accident
d. before the accident
e. his parents
f. his belief
g. how he pulled through
h. his campaign 2 5 4 1 6 8 7 3
Can you say something about the topics?

62. READING STRATEGIES:
Working out meaning
Find the word in the text.
Is the word a noun, verb, adjective,etc?
Think about the context.
Use the reading strategies to help you to
do Ex5 & Ex6.
Use the phrasal verbs in Ex6 to complete Ex7.

63. Voice your opinion
1 Do you think C hristopher Reeve is
a real superman?
2 What kind of person is his wife?

64. Speaking Example Have you started a new holiday or sport?
1 Write questions to ask your partner about changes in his/her life in the last three years.
2 Use your questions to interview your partner.
Example
Have you started a new holiday or sport?
Do you still like the same kind of music?

65. Communication Workshop
Listen to the interview with Hu Jun and Zheng Hua.
Who likes the people in the photos?
Ma Lin
Guo Jingjing
Liu Xiang
Gao Ling

66. Listen again. Mark the expressions in the Funtion File which show strong agreement(++), limited agreement(+), or disagreement(-).
Agreeing and disagreeing
Oh, come off it!
I suppose… but…
OK, but…
You’re dead right.
Absolutely.
That’s true.
You’ve got a point there. - + + ++ ++ ++ +

67. Speaking: Discussion Prepare a discussion about one of
your favourite sports stars.
Following the stages in the
textbook.

68. listening
Do you know anything
About the life of James
Dean?

69. Listen to the song and complete part
of the lyrics with the given words.
Keys: 1 mean 2 clean 3 screen 4 was
5 cause 6 fast

70. Writing: A Story How to write a story:
Setting the scenne– describes the situation
at the beginning and what happened
b. Development of narrative– how the person
reacted and what happened
c. conclusion– what happened in the end
Read the story called “True Life Drama” on P90.

71. Imagine your friend was involved in a
rescue and is a lcal hero. Write a story
about the rescue for your school magazine.
Follow the stages in the textbooks.

72. Goodbye!