1、Unit 1 Friends Comic strip 2. describe peoples qualities with simple and proper words;3. know more about friendship and try to develop some good qualities.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: thirsty, honest, care about, keep a secret, make sb. happy, be ready to, do sth., have problems, b
2、elieve what he/she says, tell lies/funny jokes. 2. New structures: Can I have something to drink? Can I have some more food?What makes good friends? You can trust them because they never tell lies.III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficultyDescribe peoples qualities with simple and pro
3、per words.IV. Teaching proceduresComic stripStep 1 Lead-in1. The topic of the unitfriends T: Hello, boys and girls, do you have a friend? Yes, of course, you do. As we know, every one of us should have at least one or two friends. Time seems to go faster when good friends are together. 2. Free talke
4、.g. Who is your good friend? Could tell us something about your good friend?Why do you choose him/her as your good friend? Step 2 Presentation1. Show pictures of Hobo and EddieT: Its nice to see Hobo and Eddie again. Do you like them? Yes, they are funny and they can always make us happy. Do you thi
5、nk they are good friends? Lets watch a short video and answer the questions:(1) What does Hobo think a good friend should do? (2) What do they share?2. Have a discussionWill they share the pizza? Why or why not? 3. Complete a short passageEddie is kind. He often _ others. Today Hobo feels _. Eddie g
6、ives him a _. When Hobo wants something to _, Eddie _ him some milk. But Hobo still wants to have _ _ food. Eddie tells Hobo theres _ else in the fridge. But when Hobo sees the _ in Eddies bowl, he wants to _ it. What should Eddie do? Step 3 PracticeRead loudly and try to act it out. Add an ending t
7、o it.Welcome to the unitStep 1 Lead-in1. Lets brainstorm. What qualities should a good friend have? Step 2 Presentation1. Lets match the qualities on the left with the questions on the right.2. Lets listen and answer the questions: 3. Lets discuss in groups.Step 3 ConsolidationLets interview. Step 4
8、 Extension1. Lets learn some proverbs.The teacher shows 4 proverbs and asks the students to guess their Chinese meanings. Encourage the students to find more on the Internet after class. 2. Lets enjoy an English song: Count on me.Step 5 SummaryThe teacher gives a short summary about friends and offe
9、rs some advice on how to make a friend.V. Homework1. Finish the exercises in Period 1 of Unit 1 in the workbook2. Read the poem A Forever Friend.3. Try to find what good qualities your best friend has and give as many examples as possible. Write a short passage.Unit 1 Friends Reading (I) I. Teaching
10、 aims and learning objectivesBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. find out the names, looks and personalities about the friends in the text;2. describe their friends with proper expressions.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: generous, helpful, straight, any time, a sen
11、se of humor2. New structure: She is also helpful and ready to help people any time.He is the tallest boy in our class. She is taller than I am.III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficultyDescribe peoples qualities with simple and proper words.IV. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-in1. Ques
12、tionnaireLet the students do a questionnaire about “Who will you talk to when you are in such situations?”2. Free talkT: A life without friends is a life without a sun. What makes good friends? T: Friends Step 2 Presentation1. Read and answerT: Today Ill introduce some friends to you. They are teena
13、gers like you. Lets see who they are. Open your books at Page 8. Read the text quickly and tell me their names.2. Listen and chooseT: We know Betty and May are both girls. Look at two pictures. Lets listen and choose who Betty is and who May is.3. Read and answerT: How is Betty? How is May? Please r
14、ead the short passage about Betty and May. Can you find the adjectives about their personality?T: Why do we say Betty is generous and helpful? T: Why do we say May is sweet and true? 4. Read and fill in the tableName Looks Personality Other informationBettyMay5. Listen and repeat Listen to the recor
15、d of Part 1 and Part 3 and repeat sentence by sentence. 6. (1) Listen to the record and repeat sentence by sentence. (2) Retell the passage according to the table above.7. Read and answerRead Part 2 and answer the following questions.(1) How tall is Max?(2) Does Max look lovely when he wears small r
16、ound glasses?(3) How do we feel when we are with Max? Why?(4) Do Maxs legs fit well under his desk?(5) What happens to him when Max walks past the desk?Step 3 Extension1. Pair workHave a discussion about “Who do you want to choose as your best friend, Betty, Max or May? Why?” in pairs. 2. SummaryTea
17、cher gives a short summary.V. Homework1. Listen to the tape and repeat after it three times;2. Finish the exercises B1 and B2 on Page 9;3. Write a passage about your best friend.Unit 1 Friends Reading (II)I. Teaching aims and learning objectives1. introduce Betty, Max and May with the help of a mind
18、 map;2. use the key words and expressions to express their own ideas;3. write about a person they are familiar with in detail;4. know how to organize a good paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting details in a logic order.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: fit, walk past, knock on
19、to, worry, give her seat to someone in need, have a good voice, wear small round glasses, bored 2. Know how to organize a good paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting details.IV. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-inShow three pictures of Betty, Max and May and ask students to describe their look
20、s. Point out that when describing peoples looks, we should pay attention to their figures and distingushing features.Step 2 Mind-mapping1. Help the students to recall the details by mind-mapping.2. Ask the students to introduce Betty, Max and May by mind-mapping.Step 3 Language focus1. make sb. do s
21、th. 2. Read more descriptions of a person and share them in the class.Unit 1 Friends GrammarI. Teaching aims and learning objectivesBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. know when to use comparatives and superlatives;2. use comparatives and superlatives correctly; 3. compare people
22、 or things.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: height, slimmer, worse, worst;2. New structure: We use “comparatives + than” to compare people or things.We use “the + superlatives” to compare three or more people or things.III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty1. Introdu
23、ce the structure of comparative and superlative adjectives;2. Change the adjectives into comparative and superlative forms.IV. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-in1. Try to describe. Describe two girls appearances.2. Try to compareShow a table about two girls appearance. Lead the students to compare th
24、em. Alice is shorter than Lucy. Lucy is taller than Alice.Alices eyes are bigger than Lucys. Lucys eyes are smaller than Alices.Alices hair is longer than Lucys. Lucys hair is shorter than Alices.Step 2 Presentation of comparative adjectives1. Try to work out the ruleAsk the students to read these s
25、entences and try to find the rules about comparative. Introduce when we can use comparative and the basic structure of comparative adjectives.2. Try to sayShow some pictures. Ask the students to compare them. At the same time, the teacher gives some adjectives to help the students. Lead the students
26、 to find what the short adjectives are.3. Try to findAsk the students to observe the comparative of the short adjectives. Let the students find the rules of the forms.4. Try to changeAsk the students to change the adjectives into their comparatives.5. Try to thinkIntroduce the long adjectives and le
27、t them list some more long adjectives.6. Try to concludeLead the students to conclude the rules according to the sentences of long comparative adjectives. And introduce the irregular adjectives and their comparative forms.Step 3 Presentation of superlative adjective1. Lets enjoyEnjoy the story about
28、 Three little pigs.2. Try to compare(1) Try to compare the houses of little pigs. Introduce the superlative adjectives. (2) Try to compare other things using the superlative adjectives.3. Try to concludeStep 4 Consolidation1. SummaryMake a summary about the comparative adjectives with the students.2
29、. A group workAsk the students to form groups of four. First finish their group profile, and then make a report.V. Homework1. Read the words on P11 and remember the rules of comparative and superlative adjectives;2. Write a short passage to introduce your family. (Please use some comparative and sup
30、erlative adjectives.)Unit 1 Friends Integrated skillsI. Teaching aims and learning objectives1. understand some new words and expressions and learn to use them;2. catch the key points from the listening materials;3. learn to talk about future plans and friends.II. Teaching contents1. New words and p
31、hrases: meet different people, make friends, listen to people carefully, help people with their problems, travel around the world, our future plans, be a social worker, learn more about art2. New structures: I would like to be a social worker when I grow up. I am always kind to people.I will be happ
32、y if I can make other people happy. I want to be as famous as he is.Whos the boy/girl on the left/next to Peter?III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty1. Get specific information from listening materials;2. Talk about future plans.IV. Teaching proceduresA Future plansStep1 Lead-in1
33、. Enjoy a song: My Dream Job2. Free talkWhat do you want to do when you grow up? 3. Play a guessing game: I would like to be Step 2 Listening 1. Listen and and complete Part A1 (Task 1 Listen and tick)2. Read and complete Part A2 (Task 2 Read and write)Tip: use the information in A1.3. Listen and co
34、mplete Part A3 (Task 3 Listen and complete)Step 3 Consolidation1. A short summary: How can we make future plans?2. Make a survey (Task 4 Make a survey)B Speak up: Whats he like? Step 1 Presentation 1. Read the pictures(1) Teacher shows the pictures of Helen and Sandy and asks who Sandy is. (2) Intro
35、duce the sentences: Sandy is the girl on the right.Sandy is the girl with glasses/a ponytail.(3) Teach the new word “ponytail”.2. Listen and fill in the form (Task 5 Listen and answer)Who are they? Whats he/she like?3. Read the dialogue (Task 6 Read aloud in different ways)Pay attention to linking a
36、nd loss of blasting.Step 2 Consolidation Talk about our own friends (Task 7 Talk about your own photos)The teacher asks the students to bring some pictures of their own friends or families to class, exchange the photos and discuss about them, using the dialogue as a model.Step 3 ConclusionThe teache
37、r shows a photo of Steve Jobs, introduces his advice for success: (1) Youve got to find what you love. (2) The only way to do great work is to love waht you do.(3) Stay hungry, stay foolish.V. Homework1. Revise the new words and phrases;2. Ask more friends about their future plans and write a short
38、passage.Unit 1 Friends Study skillsI. Teaching aims and learning objectivesBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. know how to use the vocabulary tree to remember the new words;2. draw the vocabulary tree;3. try to draw the knowledge tree to remember the knowledge.II. Teaching conten
39、tsHow to remember words quickly. III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficultyDraw the vocabulary tree.IV. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-in1. Ask and answerThe teacher shows four figures of different professionals and writes down the key words on the blackboard. T: Whats he/she? What do
40、es he/she look like? Whats his/her feeling?2. Try to rememberGive the students one minute to remember the words on the blackboard. Then let the students try to say the words as many as possible.Step 2 Presentation1. Present the method to remember words The teacher introduces a good method to remembe
41、r the words quickly. Lead the students to put the words into different groups.2. Try to drawTeach the students how to draw a vocabulary tree. We need 4 or 5 steps. The steps are: (1) Put the words into different groups;(2) Draw a tree;(3) Write the group names on the branches;(4) Write down the word
42、s on the leaves of each branch;(5) Draw pictures if necessary.3. Do the exerciseLet the students open their books at Page 15 to complete the vocabulary tree in their books. First ask the students to do it by themselves and then check the answers together.Step 3 Practice2. Ask and answerAsk some ques
43、tions about our friend Eddie, such as “Whats Eddie hobby?” Let the students say the names of some food and drinks.2. Group the wordsLet the students put the words about the food into different groups.3. Draw a vocabulary treeLet the students draw a vocabulary tree about the food and drinks.Step 4 Ex
44、pansionThe teacher introduces the knowledge tree. Lead the students to draw the knowledge tree about the knowledge of Unit 1. They can draw the trees in different ways.V. Homework1. Put the words in Unit 1 into different groups;2. Try to draw a vocabulary tree.Unit 1 Friends TaskI. Teaching aims and
45、 learning objectives1. write an article about their best friends; 2. understand the five steps of writing (prewrite-write-revise-edit-publish);3. work in pairs, assess and reflect after writing.II. Teaching contents1. New words and phrases: dark brown, both and , have a round face, smiling eyes, loo
46、k really pretty and kind, have a smile on her face, work with children. 2. New structure: Kate is both my neighbour and my best friend.She always has a smile on her face and looks happy. I think she will make an excellent teacher.III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty1. Write an a
47、rticle about best friends;2. Learn the five steps of writing. IV. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Lead-inBrainstorm: What would you like to write about your friend?T: Teenagers magazine is inviting teenagers to write about their best friends for the writing competition. Step 2 Presentation1. Read and answ
48、er Whos Daniels best friend? When did Daniel first meet her?What does she look like?Whats she like?What would she like to be when she grows up? 2. Show the structure of the article 3. Read each paragraph carefully(1) Para 1 Introduction Which sentence can we use in our article?(2) Para 2 Looks Which
49、 sentence tells the main idea? (3) Para 3 Personality What is she like?(4) Para 4 Future plans Which sentence can we use in our article?Step 3 Writing1. How to writeShow the five steps of writing; point out that we should write step by step.(1) Prewritingchoose a topic and collect details(2) Writing(3) Revisingimprove your writing(4) Editingcheck for errors(5) Publishingshare your writing2. Assessment(1) How to assess the f