Unit 13 Rainy days make me sad.
Part 1: Teaching design (第一部分：教學設計)
Structures: make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋ adjective
Target language: I’d rather go to the Blue Lagoon restaurant because I like to listen to quiet music while I’m eating. Me too! Loud music makes me tense. I agree. Loud music makes me uncomfortable.
Vocabulary: lighting, mysterious, tense, silky, owner, product, knowledge, for instance, shiny, skin, cream, toothpaste, endangered, uncomfortable, useful
Learning strategies: Personalizing, Matching
Section A
Goals
●To learn to use make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋ adjective
●To listen and talk about eating in a restaurant
Procedures
Warming up by learning to use make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋ adjective
On page 103 is the grammar focus chart. Read the three sentences and try to understand its structure.
Loud music makes me tense.
Loud music makes me want to dance.
That movie made me sad.
Now you are supposed to make as many sentences with the
make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋ adjective structure as possible.
1a Looking and saying
On page 102 is a picture of restaurants. Which one would you like to go? And why?
◆ I like to go to the one on the left because the music there would make me excited.
◆ I like to go to the one on the right because the music there would make me quiet.
◆ I like to go to the one on the left because the pictures there would make me tense.
◆ I like to go to the one on the right because the things there would make me happy.
1b Listening and completing
Listen to a conversation between Amy and Tina talking about eating in restaurants.
While listening, pay attention to the “make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋
adjective structure” .
Tapescript
Girl1: I’m hungry, Amy.
Girl2: So am I. Why don’t we get something to eat?
Girl1: Yeah. Let’s go to the Rockin’ Restaurant. I love their hamburgers.
Girl2: Oh, Tina… I hate the Rockin’ Restaurant.
Girl1: Why? The food is great, isn’t it?
Girl2: The food’s fine. I just don’t like the atmosphere. Those awful pictures on the walls make me sad, and the loud music makes me tense.
Girl1: OK. So where do you want to go, Amy?
Girl2: Let’s go to the Blue Lagoon. The soft music makes me relaxed.
Girl1: Not me. It makes me sleepy.
And now complete the unfinished sentences in the chart on page 102.
The Rockin’s Restaurant The Blue Lagoon
The awful pictures make Amy sad. The soft music makes Amy relaxed.
The loud music makes Amy tense. The soft music makes Tina sleepy.
Now you are supposed to read the tapescript. While reading, underline the expressions and circle the connectives.
1c Doing pairwork
What are your opinions about the two restaurants? Which on would you like better?
A: I’d rather go to the Blue Lagoon Restaurant because I like to listen to quiet music while I’m eating.
B: Me, too! Loud music makes me tense.
A: I agree! Loud music makes me uncomfortable.
A: I’d rather go to the Rockin’s Restaurant because I like to listen to loud music while I’m eating.
B: Me, too! Loud music makes me excited.
A: I agree! Loud music makes me happy.
2a Listening and numbering
3 4
2 1
A boy and a girl are talking about their past experiences. Listen to their talk and number the pictures on page 103.
Tapescript
Boy: Did you and Amy have fun last night, Tina?
Girl: Well, John… yes and no.
Boy: Was Amy late as usual?
Girl: Yes, she was. And waiting for her made me angry.
Boy: Where did you go?
Girl: First we went to the Rockin’ Restaurant, but Amy didn’t want to stay. She said that loud music made he tense.
Boy: That’s funny. Loud music always makes me want to dance.
Girl: Me too. So then we went to the Blue Lagoon. It was quiet and the food was great. We had a good time.
Boy: Then did you go to the concert at the high school?
Girl: No. We decided to go to the movies. We saw Remember Me Forever. It was a really good movie, but it was so sad it made us cry.
Boy: Sad movies don’t make me cry. They just make me want to leave!
Girl: You sound just like my brother!
2b Listening and checking
You are supposed to listen to the conversation once again. Before you listen, go over the seven sentences said by Tina and John in the box on page 103. While you listen, check √the things said by them respectively. After you listen, check your answers against each other’s.
√Waiting for her made me angry.
√She said that loud music made her tense.
×Loud music makes me happy.
√Loud music always makes me want to dance.
√It was so sad it made me cry.
√Sad movies don’t make me cry. They just make me want to leave!
×It made me sad.
All right now, you are supposed to read the tapescript. While
Reading, try to circle the “make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋ adjective structure”, underline the expressions and blacken the connectives.
2c Doing pairwork
Go over the activities in 2a and 2b. Then in pairs try to role play the conversation between Tina and John. You may make use of the examples on page 103 to begin with.
John: Did you have fun with Amy last night?
Tina: Well…yes and no. She was really late.
John: Amy was late as usual, wasn’t she?
Tina: Yes, she was.
John: And waiting for her made me angry?
Tina: Yes, it made me angry.
John: What did you do?
Tina: First we went to the Rockin’ Restaurant.
John: Did you stay long there?
Tina: No, we didn’t because Amy didn’t want to stay.
John: Why?
Tina: She said that loud music made he tense.
John: That’s strange. Loud music always makes me excited and want to dance.
Tina: Me too.
John: So then you went to the Blue Lagoon as usually, didn’t you?
Tina: yes, you guess right.
John: It was quiet and the food was great there. Did you have a good time there?
Tina: Yes, we did.
John: Where did you go then?
Tina: I wanted to go to the concert at the high school. But Amy didn’t like to go there. We decided to go to the movies.
John: What movie did you watch?
Tina: We saw Remember Me Forever.
John: It was a really good movie, wasn’t it?
Tina: Yes, it was, but it was so sad it made us cry.
John: Sad movies make me want to leave!
Tina: You behave just like my brother!
3a Reading and answering
On page 104 is an article about restaurant science. Before you read, imagine just what a restaurant science is. While you read, try to divide the sentences into parts, underline the expressions and, blacken the connectives and circle the “make/s me ＋ infinitive, make/s me ＋ adjective” structure.
Restaurant science
Restaurant owners have to know how to make food. They also have to know how to make money. Here are some things they’ve learned from scientific studies. The color red makes people hungry. Red also makes customers eat faster. Many fast food restaurants, therefore, have red furniture or walls. Soft colors like pink and light blue ma ke people relaxed, so they spend more time eating their meals. Soft lighting makes people look good, but it makes food look bad. Loud music may be nice at first, but it soon makes people want to leave. Hard seats also make customers want to eat quickly and leave. Many restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, use this knowledge to make customers eat faster. Customers only sit for about 20 minutes before they leave. Because customers don’t stay very long, small restaurants can serve many people every day.
Now you are to answer the three questions on page 104 in the box.
1.What does the color red make most people feel? →The color red makes people
hungry. Red also makes customers eat faster.
2.Why do so many fast food restaurant paint their walls red, play loud music, and have hard seats? →Because red color makes customers eat faster, loud music makes people want to leave and hard seats also make customers want to eat quickly and leave.
3.Do you think it’s fair that some restaurants are designed to be uncomfortable. → No, I don’t think so. The restaurant owners are running the restaurants in order to make money. They want more customers to come to spend money in their restaurants.
3b Doing groupwork
Now let’s play a game. Tell your group members about a place you know well. Let them try to guess the name of the place.
A: The seats are very hard.
The white walls make me stressed.
B: Is it this classroom?
A: No, it isn’t.
B: Is it a hospital?
A: Yes, that’s right.
A: The house is very big.
The noise makes me tense.
B: Is it a railway station?
A: No, it isn’t.
B: Is it a dancing hall?
A: No, it isn’t.
B: Is it a therter?
A: Yes, that’s right.
4 Completing and surveying
1) How do you feel about pollution?
2) It makes me kind of angry. How about you?
3) It makes me want to join a clean-up campain.
A survey about…
How do you feel about…? You Zhao Mingyuan Li Baoguo
Pollution Makes me uncomfortable Makes me unhealthy Makes me headache
Heavy traffic Makes me tense Makes me go on foot Makes me stay indoors
Loud music Makes me excited Makes me shut my ears Makes me crazy
Endangered animals Makes me sad Makes me unable to fall asleep Makes me stop eating meats
Smoking Makes me sick Makes me stressed Makes me cry
People who keep you waiting Makes me angry Makes me hungry Makes me thirsty
Closing down by looking and saying