Unit 2 Colour
Part 1: Teaching Design (第一部分：教学设计)
Vocabulary | pink; rainbow; mind; sadness; feel; wisdom; strength; power; heat; difficulty; unhappiness; noodle; jogging; diary; e-card; college; oil; skin; balance; sleepy; relaxed; peaceful; physical; worried; dark; pale; free; tight; powerful affect; represent; paint; create; remind; realize; seem; colour; discover; perhaps |
Expressions | 1. I’d rather wear blue than pink. 2. This report explains what colours can do and the characteristics they represent. 3. Wearing blue clothes or sleeping in a blue room is good for the mind and body because this colour creates the feeling of harmony. 4. Someone who is feeling sad may say ‘I’m feeling sad.’ 5. People who live in cold climates prefer to use warm colours to give their homes a warm and comfortable feel. 6. Orange can bring you success and cheer you up when you’re feeling sad. 7. Wearing red makes it easier for you to take action. 8. This can help when you are having difficulty making a decision. 9. Amy and Millie are talking on the Internet about going shopping. 10. He prefers walking to jogging. 11. Simon kept making phone calls to someone but would not tell us what it was about. 12. Sandy was talking so much about herself that she didn’t listen to anyone. 13. Everyone seemed to have a secret or was just not acting normally. 14. I coloured them blue to bring you peace. 15. We promise you success, or you will get your money back. 16. Red and white is a good match, as the powerful red balances the calm white. |
Structures |
2. He prefers walking to jogging. (prefer to doing sth. to doing sth.) 3. Someone/Somebody / No one/ Nobody has come.
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• To recoganize the names of different colors
• To recoganize the colors of the rainbow and the order of the colors
Teaching Procedures
How many colors do you know? (Red, white, black, bule, green, grown, purple ….)
If you mix two different colors, you can get another color, suck as:
red + white = pink / red + yellow = orange / red + blue = purple
What color are the following things? (the sea, the sky, the sun, a leaf, a tomato, an apple …)
After the rain, Millie looks out of her window and sees a rainbow. How many colors can she see? Write down the names of the colors.
Explain: indigo – a purlish blue violet – a synonym of ‘purple’
Amy’s cousin saw the rainbow too, she is calling Amy to tell her about it. Read the dialogue between Amy and her cousin in part B on page 21. Then qork in pairs to make the same dialogue.
What color do you prefer? Why ? But I prefer purple. It there is a purple bag and a red one, I would rather choose purple than red.
Ask the students to make the same sentences.
One day, Hobo played a trick on Eddie. What happened? Let’s look at the pictures while listening to the tape.
1. Why would Eddie rather wear blue than pink?
2. Does Eddie look nice on blue? Why not?
3. Hobo says to Eddie, “ Blue looks good on you.” Does he really think so?
( The joke here is that Eddie is male and chooses blue because he thinks this is a masculine coour. However, the blue item of clothing turns out to be a dress. Hobo is deliberately trying to mislead Eddie by not showing or telling him that it is a dress.)
Read the dialogue after the tape, then read it and act it out.
改写句子
1. There’s nothing wrong with your eyes. (改为同义句)
There _________ __________ wrong with your eyes.
2. I would rather wear black than green. (改为同义句)
I _________ black _________ green.
3. They have already seen that film. (改为否定句)
They _________ seen that film _________.
4. Blue looks good on her. (改为同义句)
She _____________ good _____________ blue.
找出错误并在横线上改正
1. We all think pink is a girl colour. _____________
2. Do you know how many colours are there in a rainbow? _____________
3. There will have a basketball match tomorrow. ______________
4. After the rain, Millie looks out of the window and see a rainbow. ______________
1. Revise today’s phrases.
2. Read and recite the dialogue.
Period 2 Reading (I)
Teaching goals
• To understand what colors represent
·To recoganize and understand vocabulary about emotions
·To match colors to characters
• To proofread and correct some notes based on the article
Teaching Procedures
We know that a year is divided into 12 different Star Signs. The time of year birthday decides your star signs. Some people believe that people under different star signs share different characteristics.
There’s also some relationship between colours and moods. The different colors represent different things and they affectus in many different ways. What information have you ever known? Ask the students to say as much information as possible.
There’s an article about the relationship between colors and moods. Let’s read it, then try to answer the following questions:
1. What is this article about?
2. What are calm colors? What does blue represent?
3. What are warm clolrs? What does orange represent?
4. Is green an energetic colour? What does it represent?
5. Is balck a strong color? What is it? What does it represent?
Read the passage after the tape, try to guess the meaning of the new words according to the
context. Then finish exercise in part B1 on page 24.
Read the passage again, then match the colours with what they represent. Finish exercise in part
B2 on page 24.
Read the passage carefully, then try to fil in the table below.
Kinds of colors | Names of the colors | It can… | It represent… | It’s the colour of … | You need it when you … |
Calm / peaceful colors | blue |
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Warm colors
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Energetic colors | green |
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Strong colors | red |
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Millie is writing to her penfriend about colour and moods. However, some words were left out because of a computer problem. Complete her e-mail.
Blue, energy, red, cheer you up, envy, sadness, represent, moods, success |
Dear Raymond,
Did you know that colours can affect out 1 ? Did you know what the different colours
2 ? For example, 3 can help you feel relaxed. However, it can also mean 4 .
I prefer warm colours such as orange. Orange can bring you 5 and 6 if you are feeling sad.
Do you like green? Green can give you 7 ; it also represents 8 . 9 can help you when you are having difficulty making a decision.
What is your favourite colour? Write back soon.
Yours
Millie
Answers: 1. moods 2. represent 3. blue 4. sadness 5. success 6. cheer you up
7. energy 8. envy 9. Red
1. Read the text and try to recite it.
2. Do more consolidation exercises
(1). 我将在做那个决定有些困难。
I will ____________________________________.
(2). 绿色代表着新的生命和成长吗？
_____________ green ___________________________?
(3). 一些颜色能使我们感到温暖。
Some colours can ______________________________.
(4). 打篮球比玩电脑游戏有趣。
_____________ is more interesting than _____________.
Period 3 Reading (II)
Teaching Goals
• To practise the main language points of the context
Teaching Procedures
Step 1. Revision
1. Have a dictation
2. Ask the following questions:
For stronger classes, ask the students to introduce what different colours represent and how they affect us.
Read the passage, then ask the students to describe the different kinds of colours one by one. Then ask the top students to retell the whoel passage. The weaker students can retell the passage according to the table.
Millie is thinking about her friends. She is trying to figure out which colours match their characteristics best. Help her decide which are the best colours for her friends. Finish the exercise in part C1 on page 25. (pay attention to explain why they choose such answers.)
1. yellow ( ‘good marks’ ----- wisdom)
2. blue (‘help people calm down’)
3. white ( ‘worry a lot, get stressed’)
4. red ( ‘a strong personality, leader’ ----- power )
5. green ( ‘feel tired’ ----- make you feel energetic)
There is a questionnaire, fill in the blanks with your own information to see if your favourite colour matches your characteristics.
Ask the students to write about one of their friends. They can use the text at the top pf page 25 as a guide. In the profile, they should mention the following points:
1. the name of their friend
2. the best colour for their friend
3. the friend’s characterstics
4. hie / her characteristics that match this colour
1. cheer … up (cause to become happier or more cheerful)
e.g. We must cheer her up because she is very sad about falling the exam.
2. envy ( feeling of discontent caused by somebody else’s good fortune or success, especially when one wants something that somebody else has)
e.g. He looked with envy at his friend’s new cat.
3. mood (the way you are feeling at a particulary time)
e.g. I believe that the weather can affect a person’s mood.
4. relaxed ( not feeling or showing worry, anxiety or tenseness)
e.g. He looked relaxed as he sat in the chair watching TV.
5. stressed ( anxious, feeling pressure or tension)
e.g. She always feels stressed during exam time.
改写句子
1. He always feels stressed. (对画线部分提问)
_____________ _____________ he always _____________?
2. They prefer to use warm colours. (对画线部分提问)
_____________ _____________ they prefer to _____________?
3. Colours can affect our moods. (改为同义句)
Our moods can _____________ _____________ _____________ colours.
4. I worry a lot and often get stressed. (用Lucy作主语改写句子)
Lucy _____________ a lot and often _____________ stressed.
找出错误并在横线上改正
1. He has a strong personal and likes to be a leader. _____________
2. People who lives in cold climates like wearing warm colours. _____________
3. Warm colours give people a happy and contend