Unit4 What would you like to be

2021年1月25日发(作者：王之涣)
Unit 4

What would you like to be?

Tasks in this unit
Talking about jobs an preferences; giving reasons for preferences;
interviewing people about their jobs;



Period One
Language focus:
Using nouns to identify people
e.g., a doctor, a dentist

Language skills:
Listening
Listen for specific information
Speaking
Maintain an interaction by replying, adding or giving examples

Reading
Use
knowledge
of
what
words
look
or
sound
like
to
work
out
their
meanings

Materials:
1.

Student
’
s Book 6A page 26
2.

Cassette 6A
3.

Cassette player

Pre-task preparation
Ask:
What
would
you
like
to
be?
To
elicit:
e.g.,
I
’
d
like
to
be
a
policeman.
Compile
a
list
of
jobs
on
the
board
as
the
students
reply.
Then
go
through
the
list
asking
individual
students:
e.g.,
Would
you
like to be a policeman? To elicit: Yes, I
’
d like to be a policeman. No,
I
’
d like to be a teacher.

While-task procedure
1.

Play
the
cassette
for
Look
and
Learn.
The
students
listen
and
repeat.
2.

Give
the
students
time
to
look
at
the
picture
in
the
Look,
Listen
and number.
3.

Play
the
cassette
for
Look,
listen
and
number.
The
students
listen
and write the correct numbers in the boxes.
4.

Play
the
cassette
again.
The
students
listen,
repeat
and
check
the
answers.
5.

Ask a few other individual students: What would you like to be? To
elicit: e.g., I
’
d like to be a pilot.

Homework:
Workbook 6a page 21


Period Two
Language focus:
Using modal verbs to express preferences
e.g., Would you like to be a policeman?
Asking wh- questions to find out the reason
e.g., Why/why not?
Using connectives to give reasons.
e.g.,
I’
d
like
to
be
policeman
because
I
want
to
make
out
city
a
city
place.

Language skills:
Listening
Listen for specific information
Speaking
Maintain an interaction by replying,
asking questions, explaining and
using formulaic expressions where appropriate.
Reading
Read for specific information

Materials:
1.

Student
’
s Book 6A page 27
2.

Workbook 6A pages 21, 22, 24 and 26
3.

Cassette 6A
4.

Cassette player

Pre-task preparation

Play
a
miming
game.
Ask
the
students
to
look
at
the
jobs
on
student
’
s
Book page 26 and choose one of the jobs. Ask for volunteers to come out
and mime a job. The
students guess: e.g., Would you like to be a doctor?
The student who guesses correctly takes the next turn to mime a job.


While-task procedure

1. Give the students time to look at Read and think. The students write the
jobs in the table and tick the ones they would like to do.

2. Ask questions about the table: e.g., this person teaches children English.
What is his/her job? To elicit: He/She is an English teacher.
3. Workbook 6A page 21


a. Read the sentences. The students match them with the pictures.



b. Ask questions: e.g., Look at picture one. What does this person do?

4.
Give
the
students
time
to
read
Play
a
game.
Play
the
cassette.
The
students listen. Play the cassette again. The students repeat.
5.
In
pairs,
students
practice
the
dialogues.
Select
pairs
to
read
a
dialogue.

6. Ask individual students questions: e.g., Would you like to be a doctor?
To elicit: Yes, I would. No, I wouldn
’
t.
7. Write the beginning of the two sentences on the board: I would like to
be
a
doctor
because
…

Ask
the
students
to
complete
the
sentences.
Replace
”
doctor
”
with other jobs and repeat the procedure.
8.
The
students
practice
in
groups,
taking
turns
to
ask
a
member
of
the
group: Would you like to be a /an
…
?
9. Workbook 6A page 24


a. Give the students time to look ar the pictures.


b. play the cassette. The students listen and match.

Post-task activities

Workbook 6A page 26
a In groups, students discuss different jobs and why they would or would
not like to do them. They then write their own lists.
b Ask a few individual students: What job would /wouldn
’
t you like to do?