UNIT 1 GOOD FRIENDS
Period 1
Warming up, Listening and Speaking
Teaching Aims
1.Train the students'listening ability.
2.Improve the students'speaking ability by describing, talking and discussion.
Teaching Important Points
1.Train the students'listening ability.
2.Master the new phrases and sentence patterns and make the students be free to talk
about their names, ages, hobbies and so on.
Teaching Difficult Points
1.How to improve the students'listening ability.
2.How to finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Procedure
Step I Lead-in
Ss listen to a song.
Step II Warming up
Learn the following words: quality n. brave adj. wise adj. smart adj. loyal adj. handsome adj.
(pair work) Discuss the following questions:
1.What should a good friend be like?
2.What qualities should a good friend have?
Helpful words:
quality, brave, wise, smart, loyal, handsome, kind, happy, strong, beautiful, rich,
funny, I ovely, tall, clever, …
Useful sentence patterns:
A good friend is …
A good frie nd should be …
Can you describe yourself in three, four or five adjectives?
eg: I ' m kind, strong, smart, handsome and helpful.
Step III Listening
Liste nin g(1st time)
Liste nin g(2 nd time)
Fill in the bla nks:
situatio n 1:
Problem: Peter is often late for football practice.
Solutio n: I thi nk Peter should try to be on time in the future.
situatio n 2:
t return Problem: Ann usually borrows thi ngs without _________ and she does n '
thi ngs _________ .
Solution: I think Ann should ask the owner if ____________________ and try to
_____________ in the future.
situatio n 3:
Problem: Adam borrowed Joh ns _______ and now it is _______ .
Soluti on: Adam can ask his uncle to ____ .
Ss read the liste ning texts on ce.
Listening texts
Situation 1
A: Hi, Peter.
B: Jim.
A: Peter, I m n o t happy about this. This is the third time you are late for football practice! You have to do someth ing about this.
B: Uh, I ' m sorry, Jim. What ' s the big deIal? Soa few minutes late, whatdifferenee does it make?
A: What differe nee does it make? We have to wait for you. Look, everybody is here and ready to play. We don ' t like waiting for you. Please try to be on time in the future. B: Ok, I will try.
Situation 2
A: Hi, Ann. Have you see n my calculator?
B: Hi, Mary. Oh, I forgot to tell you. I needed a calculator yesterday and I borrowed yours. I hope you don ' t mind.
A: What? You borrowed my calculator without asking? How could you do that? You always do this, borrowing things from me without asking. And then you don't return things on time either.
B: I ' m sorry. I didn ' t know youpw e reab o ui it.
Situation 3
A: Hi, Joh n.
B: Hi, Adam. How ' s it going?
A: Pretty good. Look, I have somethi ng I n eed to tell you.
B: OK, what ' s up?
A: Well, you know I borrowed your CD player yesterday.
B: Yes?
A: Well, um, I think it ' s broken.
B: What? Broke n! What happe ned?
A: I didn 'ct anything. I was just listening to some music when suddenly it stopped. I can' t make it play again.
B: Hm, that ' s strange. I ' ve never had any problems with it before. Are you sure you didn do anything to it?
A: Yeah, I just listened to it. But don ' t worry. I ' ll ask my uncle to fix it when he come back.
Liste nin g(3rd time)
Step IV Speaking
Liste nin g(1st time)
Liste nin g(2 nd time) & An sweri ng
Ss finish filling in the blanks on p.3 SB.
Useful Expressions I'm sure that ....
I'm not so sure that ... I think that... He / She loves...
He / She likes...
He / She enjoys ... Perhaps ...
Listening(3rd time) Dialogue(pair work):
Questions:
Who of the persons listed in the form can be your friend? And why?
Step V Act out
Ask some pairs to act out their dialogues.
Step VI Homework
T: After class, please act out one of the situations on page 86 in the Workbook with your partner.
Step VII Record after teaching
He / She hates
He / She doesn't like...
He / She doesn't enjoy... He / She is fond of …. He /She thinks that .... is boring /terrible.。