【正文】 (1) List_preview Ⅰ . Objectives Ⅱ . Suggested Teaching Plan Ⅲ . Background Information Ⅳ . Class Presentation Preview (1) preview Preview In this unit, you are going to learn about running and walking and what benefits you can get from each exercise. In the Listening and Speaking section, you will learn how to express personal interests and state likes and dislikes. In the Reading and Writing section, two basic skills needed for running are discussed in Text A。 Text B describes what exercise can do for us。 and, while most people believe that running is a better exercise than walking, Text C offers a quite different view. BACK(1) objective Ⅰ . Objectives After studying this unit, the students are expected to be able to 1. master the basic language and skills to express personal interests and state likes and dislikes。 2. understand the main idea of Texts A, B and C, and master the useful sentence structures, words and expressions found in the relevant exercises of the first two texts。 3. know how to use the present perfect and the past perfect。 4. know how to write a business card in English。 5. understand the signal words in an English passage (2). BACK(1) ST1 NEXTBACKⅡ . Suggested Teaching Plan Suggested Time and Teaching Plan for Unit 4 Time Contents Plan 2 periods Preview The teacher explains the Preview to make sure that the students have some idea of what the present unit is about. After that, the teacher activates the Listening and Speaking exercises as follows: (1) ST2 1) Expressing Personal Interests A. Do a warmup activity by asking students to express their personal interests。 B. Solicit the language for personal interests and present it on the chalkboard during the class interaction before listening。 C. Listen to Exercise 1(13 times) and fill in the blanks with the missing words。 Time Contents Plan Listening and Speaking PREV. NEXT(1) ST3 Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXTD. Ask two students to read aloud the short talks to check their written responses。 E. Ask other students to express their personal interests using the structures given in Exercise 2. 2) Stating Likes and Dislikes A. Go through the new words in the 1st dialogue in Exercise 3。 (1) ST4 B. Listen to the dialogue twice and fill in the blanks with the missing words。 C. Work with the question and answer exercises creatively。 D. Look for the language used to state likes and dislikes。 E. Act out the dialogue。 F. Either do the same with the 2nd dialogue or be flexible with it。 G. Study the structures presented in Exercise 4, and create situations for the dialogues in which students can state likes and dislikes. Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT(1) ST5 Before ending class, the teacher tells the students how to do Exercises 510 as their assignment. The teacher also tells the students that they should be prepared to answer the questions in Exercise 9 and give an oral presentation when they next e to class. Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT 3) Listening Practice (1) ST6 The teacher begins with the assignment mainly to review the functional and notional language the students acquired in the previous unit. The teacher asks some students to answer the questions in Exercise 9 of the Listening and Speaking section and invites a few to give an oral class presentation, telling their classmates of their likes and dislikes. Then, the teacher turns to the Reading and Writing section. (These activities should be pleted within 20 minutes.) Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT3 periods Review of the listening and speaking skills the students have learned (1) ST7 After a brief explanation of the instructions, the teacher A. anizes group discussion among the students to list the benefits of running and other physical exercise。 (10 minutes) B. asks the students a) to report their discussion. If the students have difficulty doing this, the teacher should give them the information about the benefits of Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXTText A amp。 textrelated exercises 1) Starter (1) ST8 physical exercise provided in the following Part III Background Information。 b) to plete Exercise 1 in Starter. (15 minutes) Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT2) Text A The teacher A. lets the students answer the textrelated questions, helps them identify the main idea of each paragraph and analyzes some difficult sentences and language (1) ST9 points while discussing the whole text with them. (one and a half periods) B. guides the students through the exercises, focusing on certain items or leaving some exercises as the students homework, according to the students different levels of English. (one period) Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT(1) ST10 Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT1 period Grammar Review 1) Grammar Review The teacher talks about the Present Perfect and the Past Perfect, and especially emphasizes the difference between the Past Tense and the Present Perfect Tense。 then he/she asks the students to do the grammar exercises in class. (1) ST11 Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXT2) Practical Writing The teacher tells as well as shows the students how to write a business card in English by doing Exercise 11, and then requires the students to plete the form in Exercise 12 in class with his/her help. Practical Writing (1) ST12 Time Contents Plan PREV. NEXTText B, Text C amp。 textrelated exercises, 1) Text B Whi