Unit 1 Helen Keller
Function: Talking about or asking somebody’s past activities
Recycling: simple past tense: what, why, where, when
Language: Helen Keller became blind and deaf.
She couldn’t see and she couldn’t hear.
Later she could read and write.
She wrote a book about herself.
Vocabulary: born, child, as, later, drew, draw, letter, herself, all over, world, model
Procedures:
Step 1 Warm-up
1. Sing an English song.
2. Say to the children at random.
Step 2 Introduction
1. Show several pictures of the past to the children and ask some questions.
2. Show the picture of Helen Keller and ask some questions. Tell the children that we are going to learn the story about Helen Keller then you can tell the story to your good friends.
Step 3 Presentation
1. Put the chart on the blackboard and ask the children to look at the picture carefully.
2. Play the cassette and circle the new words.
3. Play the cassette and ask some questions.
4. Teach the new words in different ways.
5. Play the cassette again and pause after each utterance for the children to repeat.
6. Practice in groups and act out the dialogue.
Step 4 Finish a Task
1. Write a postcard in English.
2. Interview after class.
Step 5 Homework
1. Read the text.
2. Finish task 5.