Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Teaching and learning goals Learn the new words of Unit7 in one class. Students learn to spell words in this unit. Students try to learn how to read and remember the words and phrases. They can learn to make a story with the new words and try to memorize this story. Teaching and learning steps Step 1 Lead in Show the pictures of Qomolangma, the Nile, the Caspian Sea and the Sahara to the students. Students talk about them 1) Where are they ? 2) What else do you know about them ? Step 2 Learn to read the new words on page 121 Ask the students to try to read the new words in this unit according to the phonetics given by themselves and underline the difficulties they meet. The difficult words: population achievement government protection) Encourage the students to read the difficult words with partners. Ask individual students to read the new words to the class, the others listen carefully. If necessary, the teacher should correct the mistakes. Follow the tape and imitate the pronunciation. Step 3 Learn to remember these words and language chunks 1. Look at the pictures, introduce language chunks about these natural objects. |