Part 1: Teaching design (第一部分：教学设计)
Structures: Must, might, could and can’t for making inferences
Target language: Whose volleyball is this?
It must be Carla’s. She loves volleyball.
It could be Ted’s.
Vocabulary: picnic, chase, escape, belong to, toy car, plate, mystery, appointment, worried, wake, neighbor, garbage
Learning strategies: Sequencing, Deducing
SECTION A
Goals
●To learn must, might, could and can’t for making inferences
●To listen and speak making inferences
Procedures
Warming up by learning about modal verbs
Modal verbs are used to express ideas such as possibility, intention, obligation and necessity.
CAN, COULD, WILL, WOULD, SHALL, SHOULD, OUGHT TO, DARE and NEED are some examples.
eg: I would have told you, if you had wanted me to.
eg: Yes, I can do that.
must
certainty 1. That must be Jerry. They said he was tall with bright red hair.
2. That must have been the right restaurant. There are no other restaurants on this street.
3. NO FUTURE FORM 1. That must not be Jerry. He is supposed to have red hair.
2. That must not have been the right restaurant. I guess there is another one around here somewhere.
3. NO FUTURE FORM have to
1a Looking and writing
Hello, class. On page 34 is a picture with many things in it. Write the things you see in the correct columns in the chart.
1b Listening and matching
You are going to listen and match on page 34 each person with a thing and a reason. Pay attention to the use of MUST in the sentences.
Tapescript
Girl 1: Whose volley ball is this?
Boy 1: It must be Carla’s. She loves volley ball.
Girl 2: Oh, that toy car must belong to Jane’s little brother. He was the only little kid at the picnic. And the magazine must belong to Dengwen. He loves cats.
Boy 1: Oh, and look, someone left a book.
Girl 2: Oh, yeah… This book must be Mary’s. Hemingway is her favorite author.
Girl 1: OK… and how about this CD?
Girl 2: Hmmmm… The CD must belong to Grace. She always listens to classical music.
1c Doing pairwork
In pairs practice the conversation in the picture on page 34
Then make conversations using information in the chart in 1b.
Whose volleyball is this? It must be Carla’s. She loves volleyball.
Whose books are these? They must be Mary’s. The man is her favorite author.
Whose CD is this? It must be Grace’s. She likes listening to classical music.
Next is the conversation making inferences.
Girl 1: Whose toy car is this?
Boy 1: It must be Deng Wen’s. He loves toy car.
Girl 2: Oh, that CD must belong to Grace’s little brother. He was the only little kid at the picnic. And the book must belong to Grace. He loves cats.
Boy 1: Oh, and look, someone left a magazine.
Girl 2: Oh, yeah… This magazine must be Carla’s. She likes reading magazine in English.
Girl 1: OK… and how about this volleyball?
Girl 2: Hmmmm… The volleyball must belong to Mary. She always plays volleyball after school.
2a Listening and writing
Bob and Anna found a backpack outside their school gate. Listen to their conversation and write down the things found in the backpack. Pay attention to the uses of modeal verbs making inferences.
Tapescript
Bob: Oh, look! Whose backpack do you think this is?
Anna: I don’t know. Look, here’s a school T-shirt.
Bob: Well then, the person must go to our school. Oh! Here is a hair band, so the person can’t be a boy.
Anna: It could be Kumi’s hair band. She has long hair.
Bob: Or the hair band might belong to Linda. She was at the picnic, wasn’t she?
Anna: Yes, she was. But then the backpack could belong to Rita. She’s always forgetting things.
Bob: Then it must be Linda’s backpack. She has long hair and she’s on the tennis team.
Bob: You’re right!
2b Listening and filling
Next you are to listen to the tape once again. Fill in the blanks with modal verbs you hear used to making inferences.
2c Filling and telling
On page 35 is a chart in which you will see 8 sentences. A word is missing from each sentence. Fill in a word from this unit.
The notebook must be Ming’s. It was on her desk.
The homework can’t be Carol’s. She wasn’t at school today.
The soccer ball might be John’s or Tony’s. They both play soccer, don’t they?
The French book must be Li Ying’s. She’s the only one who’s studying French.
I can’t find my backpack. It might be still at school.
The photo must be Lu’s. Those are his pare