I Teaching Aims and Demands
1.Words and expressions
1)words
honest; brave; loyal; wise; handsome ;smart; argue; solution; classical; Joe; match;mirror;gun;hammer;saw;rope;compass;movie;cast;TomHanks;ChuckNoland;survive;
deserted;hare;sorrow;feeling;boardjairplane;parachute;lie;speech;adventure; notebook; scared; e-pal ;Carolina; admit ;opinion
2）useful expressions
be fond of ;treat…as…; make friends with ;hunt for; in order to; share…with
2.Oral demand
Talk about friend and friendship in English
3. Grammar
1）the indirect speech led by if/what /who/where/how…
2）review the usage of nouns and articles
4. Written demand
write an E-mail about friendship
5.Moral demand
Teach the Ss how to get on well with friends and treasure friendship.
II Teaching method
Co-orperating teachong
III Study method
Self-study guided by the teacher
IV Teaching aids
Computer,tape recorder,slide shoe,etc.
V Teaching steps
Period 1
Step 1 1. Ask the Ss the following questions to review some
Warming up words they know to describe their friends:
1) Do you have good friends?
2) What do you think of them? / Why do you think he / she is your good friend?
3) What kind of people do you want them to be your friends ?
4) Are there any other words we can use to describe a friend?
2. Review and learn some useful words:
Appearance:
tall short thin fat strong slim beautiful pretty handsome(attractive, fair) smart (quick, bright)
Qualities:
kind kind-hearted / warm-hearted polite
helpful gentle noble
honest trustworthy frank openhearted
brave great full of courage / courageous
loyal true faithful to a friend dependable
wise clever bright learned
3. Ask the Ss to use the following sentences to describe themselves or their friends, first practise in pairs, then the whole class.
1) I think I am ______, ______ and _______.
I think I am ________ because I ________. So when you ______, you can _______.
2) I think he / she is _______, _______ and ________.
I think he / she is _______ because __________.
4. Go over Part 2 on Page 87. Ask the Ss to make sentences as the example.
Step 2 1. Listen to the tape and finish the three situations one
Listening by one. Then ask the Ss to check the answers with
their partners.
2. Go over Part 1 in Listening on Page 85.
3. Go over Part 2 in Listening on Page 85.
Step 3 Written work: Part 2 on Page 87 in the exercise book.
Homework Reading: Go over Speaking Part on Page 2 and finish
the table on Page 3.
Summary
Period 2
Step1 1. Ask the Ss to tell what they learned in the last period
Revision and their opinions about what a good friend should be.
2. Ask the Ss to tell if there was anything unhappy that once happened between them and their friends and how did they solved it.
Step 2 1. Ask the Ss to go over Part 1 in Talking on Page 85, Talking first in pairs, then in class.
2. Let the Ss say what patterns we can use to make
apologies.
You said that you would … Why did / didn’t you …?
You promised to … Why didn’t you …?
Please forgive me.
I’m very sorry. …It won’t happen again.
I’m sorry I forgot.
3. Go over Part 2 on Page 86, first in pairs and then
with the whole class.
4. Go over Part 3. First ask the Ss to complete the role
cards in pairs. Then check some cards in class. And then ask the Ss to work in pairs to act out.
Step 3 1. Go over Speaking part on Page 2 by checking the
Speaking list. First ask some Ss to read this part. Then check
The answers to the list.
2. Ask the Ss which of the six students they want to
make friends with and why.
3. Ask the Ss to discuss in groups of four: Are friends
very important in our life? Why?
Ask some groups to report the result of their discussion.
Step 4 Written work: Part 3 on Page 87.
Homework Reading: Many-flavoured friends on Pages 88-89, and answer the questions.
Summary
Period 3
Step 1 1. Suppose you are alone on a deserted (empty, no one
Pre-reading lives there) island. You have to survive (remain alive, try not to die) without friends and all the things you use in your everyday life. Which of the items (things, articles) in the box would be the most useful to you on the island? List three most useful items and explain why you think they would be useful.
2. Ask the Ss to discuss their answers in groups of four and then ask some of them to report their answers.
3. Talk about the movie post of CAST AWAY.
Step 2 Ask the Ss to read the passage and find the answers
Reading to the questions:
1) What is the movie about?
2) Who is Chuck?
3) What happens to Chuck one day when he is flying across the Pacific Ocean?
4) How many years has he spent on the deserted island?
5) What becomes his best friend there? Why?
Step 3 1. Ask the Ss to find the answers to the first three
Post-reading questions in Post-reading part.
2. Ask the Ss to discuss the fourth one in groups of four, and then report to the whole class.
Step 4 Check the answers to the reading material on pages Workbook 88~89.
Step 5 1. Listen to and read the text again and again.
Homework 2. Find out the difficult sentences and go over the
notes to this text.
3. Look up the word learn in the dictionary and try to
find out different meanings of it.
Summary
Period 4
Step 1 1. Ask the Ss to tell what they have learned from the
Review text.
2. Ask some of the Ss to read the text paragraph by
paragraph and paragraph. And at the same time ask them to point out the sentences they don’t understand.
Step 2 1. Ask the Ss to find out the following phrases in the Paraphrasing text:
on a deserted island, hunt for food, make a fire,
be alone on the island, become / be fond of …, treat sb as…, share happiness and sorrow, make friends with …
2. Ask the Ss to make sentences with hunt for, be fond of, treat ab as …
3. Ask the Ss to put the follow sentences into Chinese.
1) Chuck is a businessman who is always so busy that he has little time for his friends.
2) One day Chuck is on a flight across the Pacific Ocean when suddenly his plane crashes.
3) Perhaps the most difficult challenge is how to survive without friends.
4) In order to survive, Chuck develops a friendship with an unusual friend - a volleyball he calls Wilson.
5) … it is important to have someone to care about.
6) He also learns that he should have cared more about his friends.
7)… we must give as much as we take.
8) The lesson we can learn from Chuck and all the others who have unusual friends is that friends are teachers.
Step 3 Ask the Ss to think over and answer the question:
Discussing 1) How can a volleyball become Chuck’s friend?
2) The text talks about giving and taking. How do you and your friends give and take?
3) Does a successful man or woman need friends? Why or why not?
4) What do friends teach us?
5) Is it better to have a human friend or an unusual friend such as a volleyball, a pen or a dog?
Step 4 The usage of learn:
Word study 1. To gain knowledge or skill by study, experience or
being taught
learn a foreign language
We’re learning English now.
Have you learned how to drive a car?
One can learn from his mistakes.
2. fix in the mind or memory; memorize
Let’s try to learn the poem by heart.
3. realize; become aware
They learned that it was no use arguing with him.
4. know, get to know
They offered help as soon as they learned that we were in great trouble.
I learned of the accident only yesterday.
learn one’s lesson; learn a lesson from sb
learned a learned teacher
Step 5 Go over Part 1 in Vocabulary on Page 87.
Listening First go over all the words and ask some students to tell what these words mean and when we’ll use these words. Then listen to the tape and finish this exercise.
Step 6 1. Finish Word Study on Pages 4~5.
Homework 2. Go over the Grammar part on Page 5. Try to find out the difference between Direct Speech and Indirect Speech in statements and questions.
Summary
Period 5
Step 1 Go over this part by asking some Ss to read the ten Word study sentences one by one to check the answers.
Step 2 1. Ask the Ss to discuss the difference between Direct
Grammar Speech and Indirect Speech in pairs.
2. Summary:
In Statements
“I like reading adventure stories,” said John.
John said (that) he liked reading adventure stories.
“I don’t like computers,” Sarah said to her friends.
Sarah told her friends (that) she didn’t like computers.
In General Questions:
“Ann, have you see my blue notebook?” Peter asked.
Peter asked Ann if she had seen his blue notebook.
In Special Questions:
“How can you do that?” Mary asked Ann.
Mary asked Ann how she could do that.
“What difference does it make?” Peter asked Jim.
Peter asked Jim what difference it made.
3. Go over Part 1 on Page 5.
4. Go over Part 2 on Page 6.
Step 3 1. Go over Part 2 on Page 88.
Workbook 2. Go over Part 3 on Page 88 first in pairs, and then
check with the whole class.
3. Go over Part 1 by asking some Ss to write down
their sentences on the Bb.
Step 4 1. Review the reading material.
Homework 2. Finish all the exercises about the Grammar in this unit. And go over Parts 1 and 2 on Pages 177~180.
3. Ask the Ss to think about in what ways we can make friends with others.
Summary
Period 6
Step 1 Ask the Ss some questions and let some Ss report Revision these questions:
1) Do you want to study English? Why?
2) Why do you think English is very important?
3) What do you think a good friend should be?
4) Do you have any good friends?
5) How can we make friends with others?
6) Would you like to say something about one of your friends?
7) What do you often do together with your friends?
8) What do you think are good ways to make friends with a stranger?
9) Do you know how to make a pen friend or a pen pal?
10) Can we use the Internet to make friends? How to use it to make friends?
Step 2 1. Read the short passage on Page 6 and tell the main
Reading and idea of it.
Writing Questions:
1) What is a pen friend or pen pal?
2) What is an e-pal or key pal?
3) What is the advantage of e-mail?
2. Read the two e-pal ads and tell what kinds of
people do you think they are.
Jane: funny, humour, frank, openhearted, friendly
Jack: friendly, funny, humour, openhearted, honest
3. Go over the tips and then write an e-mail message.
And then check each other’s message with the
partner.
Step 3 1. Read the e-mail on Page 90 and tell what it is about.
Workbook 2. Talk about how to write a response.
Step 4 1. Go over Checkpoint 1.
Checkpoint 2. Ask the Ss to think about what they have learned in
this unit.
Step 5 1. Go over Learner Log on Page 90 to make sure that Assessing the Ss know what it means and how to fill in the
table correctly.
2. Go over Reflection and ask the Ss to finish the
sentences.
Step 6 1. Review the whole unit.
Homework 2. Write an e-mail to introduce yourself to an e-pal and send it to the teacher’s e-mail box.
Summary
Period 7
Step 1 1. Dictate the following passage and then choose a
Dictation title for it.
Pal Restaurant is one of the many restaurants where people come to eat, drink, talk and enjoy music. It is different from other restaurants because its owners are a group of college students.
1. ….
But 2. …. “We can’t stop them but we want them to put study in the first place.” Teachers do not support them, either. 3. ….
4. …. 5. …. 6. ….
But Lin Tao says they are doing OK.
Title: Students Running Bar
Study First or BUSINESS First?
2. Some words and phrases in the listening text:
solve a problem / problems, common problem,
get mad, communicate, in a different way,
deal with, apologize, apology, keep a secret,
in a difficult situation,
rumour 谣[流]言, 传闻
The rumo(u)r has turned out to be true.
这谣传结果是真的。
Step 2 Review the whole unit.
Summary