幼 师 英 语

1. 幼　师　英　语 主编　　欧阳前春

2. Unit 7Games Learning targets • In this unit, you will • 1. play a game； • 2. learn more about games； • 3. know the importance of games for children； • 4. improve your English skills and English teaching techniques.

3. Warm-up • 1. Do you know how to play charades? • 2. Have you ever play any games? Can you tell us your experience? • 3. How do you feel when play games with your friends/your family?

4. Listening &speaking • Carl, Betty, Tim, and Frank are playing charades together in the classroom. They are having fun. • Carl: Betty, Tim, and Frank. Do you know how to play charades? Let’s play charades. • Betty, Tim, and Frank: All right. • Carl: OK, let me think. OK, I’ve got one. • A movie! • Betty: A movie! • Carl: Six words. • Tim: It has six words • Carl: First word …Sounds like…Sounds like… • Frank: Sounds like what? • Carl: Sounds like no. • Betty: OK. We’ve got a movie. Six words. The first word sounds like no. Row?

5. Frank: Go? • Tim: Show? • Carl: Yes, a little like this. Show. S… • Betty: Snow? • Carl: Absolutely right, Betty. Snow. OK, a movie. Six words. The first word is snow. The fifth word. (do gesture of seven) • Frank: Seven? • Carl: Absolutely right, Frank. The fifth word is seven. OK, we’ve got a movie. The first word is snow. Fifth word, seven. • Tim: I got it! • Betty: I got it! • Tim: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. • Carl: Tim, you got it. Betty, you had it, but you didn’t say it. • Tim: Now it’s my turn.

6. Activities • Activity 1 Listening Comprehension 1. What game are they playing? 2. What is the answer to the game? • Activity 2 Speaking Practice 1. Act out the dialogue according to the following tips. 2. Play charades with your friends. 3. Make up a dialogue according to the following situation: Mike, Jim, Mary, and Rose are getting together. They are playing charades.

7. Reading • Pre-reading • 1. Do you think games are important in our life? • 2. What’s the importance of games in your opinion? • Games Are Important in children’s development

8. Game are important in children’s development Games, as the most interesting way, may contribute a lot to children’s development. Games are helpful for them to learn new things, build cooperative skills, and live in a healthy way. First, playing games can help children learn new things. Games attract them to try new things and discover new things. Thus, they can gain the most direct experience. When children hear, see, touch, taste, or smell something in the game, messages are sent to their brain and important mental connections are created. By concentrating on the game, memorizing moves, keeping track of others strategies, children can keep their brain growing. Perhaps, when they came home, their hands are dirty, but their brains respond quicker, and their eyes shine more brightly.

9. What’s more, playing games can help children build their cooperative skills. When children play together, they should follow some rules, they should consider others in the game, they should observe others reactions and then act in the right way. For example, children learn about goals and the steps necessary to win a game. Sometimes, they must wait. Games teach children patience. In this way, their cooperative ability may be built. This is the ability that they cannot gain if they are alone at home and it is valuable for their future life. Last, playing games outside of the house, in the park, or in the playground, is good for children’s health. Nowadays, many children get used to playing online games or watching TV at home. Some of them have short eyesight at a very early age. Some of them fall ill easily because of sitting in front of computer for too long. In fact, as children go outside, get together and play games, laugh and even compete against each other, fun memories are made and relationships are deepened. Their mental and physical health is developed. In a word, games play a vital role in children’s development. As a teacher, it is his duty to create chances for children to play games.

10. Words and Expressions charades n. 用动作等表演的字谜游戏 absolutely adv. 绝对地；完全地 dwarf n. 侏儒，矮子 contribute vt. 贡献，出力；捐献 cooperative adj. 合作的；合作社的 attract vt. 吸引；引起 discover vt. 发现；发觉；vi.发现 direct adj.直接的；亲身的；vt. 指向 experience n. 经验；经历；体验 mental adj.精神的；脑力的；疯的 connection n. 连接；关系；连接件

11. concentrate vt. & vi. 全神贯注；集中 memorize vt.记住，背熟；记忆 strategy n. 战略，策略 observe vt. & vi.观察；遵守；注意到 compete vi.竞争；比赛；对抗 deepen vt. 使加深；使强烈；vi.变深 physical adj. 身体的；物质的 vital adj. 至关重要的；生死攸关的 create vt. 创造，创作；造成 chance n. 可能性；机会，际遇 It’s my turn 轮到我了 keep track of 了解；记录；与……保持联系 in a word 总之；简言之

12. Notes • 1. Games, as the most interesting way, may contribute a lot to children’s development. 游戏，作为最有趣的一种方式，有助于孩子们的成长。 contribute / contribute sth. to sth. (1) 贡献，有助于 This book contributes little to our understanding of the subject. 此书对我们了解这门学科几乎无所裨益。 Immigrants have contributed to British culture in many ways. 在许多方面，移民都对英国文化有所贡献。 (2) 捐献，捐赠（尤指款或物）；捐助 The writer personally contributed ￡5000 to the earthquake fund. 那位作家亲自捐赠了 5000 英镑给地震基金。 Would you like to contribute to our collection? 你愿意给我们的募捐捐款吗？

13. Notes • 2. When children hear, see, touch, taste, or smell something in the game, messages are sent to their brain and important mental connections are created. 当孩子们在游戏中听到、看到、触摸到、尝到或闻到什么时，信息就会传送到他们的大脑，一些重要的心理连接被建立。 句中are sent 被传送，are created 被创建，都使用了一般现在时态被动形式。 被动语态的基本构成： be+动词的过去分词（be+done) 一般现在时被动语态的构成： am/is/are + done We clean the classroom every day. (主动) The classroom is cleaned by us every day. (被动) 一般过去时被动语态的构成：was/were+done He put on a coat. (主动) A coat was put on by him. (被动)

14. Notes • 3. This is the ability that they cannot gain if they are alone at home and it is valuable for their future life. 这是一种他们独自在家无法获得的能力，（并且）这种能力对他们未来的生活具有价值。 and 连接前后两个简单句，形成一个并列句。前句是一个复合句，含有定语从句that they cannot gain修饰先行词ability，以及条件状语从句if they are alone at home修饰前句。