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Unit 3 Lesson 7 Shopping for Food(第一课时)
Lesson Focus
• Prices / weights, money words, expressions for shopping
• Talking about prices of food
• Words with the sound /eɪ/
Warm-up
Exercise 1
Purpose: to help students know prices and weights
· Draw symbols for the dollar $, on the board, the British pound, £ , and the yuan, ¥ Then, in a separate section of the board, write the abbreviations for kilogram, kg, and pound, lb. Ask "Which ones do we use for prices and which ones do we use for weight?" Elicit $ , £ and ¥ stand for prices; kg and lb stand for weight. If you feel your students are ready, you may skip this step.
· Direct students to the Key Words. Say "Re-peat after me". Read the Key Words aloud, having students repeat after you. Confirm understanding by pointing to the symbols or abbreviations on the board and ask " What does this stand for?" Elicit appropriate responses.
· Say "Listen to the dialogues. Which price do they talk about first?" Play the recording the first time. Then ask " Which price do they talk about first?" Elicit yuan. You may also ask what comes next. Elicit dollars, pounds.
· Ask "How do you say the prices? Listen and fill in the blanks". Play the recording again, pausing if necessary after each dialogue. Monitor as students write the prices, offering assistance as needed.
· Go over the answers, asking individual students to say the prices aloud. Give students lots of practice saying prices. Write more prices on the board and ask students to say them, first as a class, then have half the class say a price, then the other half say one, then have each row say one, and finally have individual students say prices.
Answers
yuan, dollars, pound
Expansion: Expansion: Mix It Up!
As an alternate approach to teaching the Key Words, prepare cards with the symbols and abbreviations written on them, as well as the words. Have students work in pairs to match the words with their symbols or abbreviations. Then have the pairs walk around the room to che