Unit 1 Good friends

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I. Brief Statements Based on the Unit

Every one of us has a friend or some friends in our daily life. But what is a good friend? What should a good friend be like? What qualities should a good friend have? This unit just deals with such topics. There are three questions which talks about what qualities a good friend should have in the part of Warming Up. Listening part provides students with a dialogue among friends. It tells us that friends should help each other, and that sometimes friends have contradictions between them and how to solve their contradictions. Speaking part supplies some oral materials about self-introduction to students. Reading part is a narrative story which is about the plot of the American film “Cast Away”. The questions of Pre-reading and Post-reading benefit to train students’ abilities to think and distinguish.

In the aspect of Language Study, teacher should let students further understand new words, in particular master learning methods of words through the contest. As to the grammar “Direct Speech and Indirect Speech”, students should master their changes between them. The part of integrating skills designs a real assignment “sending an e-mail”. It’s very useful and popular with students, because it presses close to students’ life. Teacher should help students master such skills.

II. Teaching aims and demands

Category Contents based on the new course standard

Topics 1. Talk about friends and friendship

2. Discuss problems occurring in a friendship and suggest solutions

3. Write an e-mail to find an e-pal

Functions 1. Likes and dislikes

He/She likes/ loves… He/She is fond of …

My interests / favourite hobbies are reading and singing.

He/She doesn’t like…

He/She doesn’t enjoy … He / She hates …

He / She thinks … is terrible / boring.

2 Making 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.

Words and expressions. Honest brave loyal wise handsome smart argue classical fond match mirror fry gun hammer saw rope movie cast deserted hunt share sorrow feeling airplane lie(n.) speech adventure notebook error fond of hunt for in order to care about such as drop somebody a line

Grammar Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(1)

1. to report what someone said-The Declarative Sentence

“I like reading adventure stories,” said John.→

John said that he liked reading adventure stories.

“I don’t enjoy computers,” Sarah said to her friends.→

Sarah told her friends that she didn’t enjoy computers.

2. to report what someone felt uncertain about –The General Question

“Ann, have you seen my blue notebook?” Peter asked. →

Peter asked Ann if she had seen his blue notebook.

3 to report what someone asked-The Special Question

“What differences does it make?” Peter asked Jim. →

Peter asked Jim what differences it made.

III. Teaching time: four Periods

IV. Background Information

1. How to be a friend

Too many people want others to be their friends, but they don’t give friendship back. That is why some friendships don’t last very long. To have a friend, you must learn to be one. You must learn to treat your friend the way you want your friend to treat you. Learning to be a good friend means learning three rules: be honest, be generous, be understanding.

Honesty is where a good friendship starts. Friends must be able to trust one another. If you don’t tell the truth, people usually find out. If a friend finds out that you haven’t been honest you may lose your friend’s trust. Good friends always count on one another to speak and act honestly.

Generosity means sharing and sharing makes a friendship grow. You don’t have to give your lunch , money clothes, of course. Instead you have to learn how to share things you enjoy, like your hobbies and your interests. Naturally you will want to share your ideas and feelings. These can be very valuable to a friend. They tell your friend what is important to you. By sharing them you help your friend know you better.

Sooner or later everyone needs understanding and help with a problem. Something may go wrong at school. Talking about the problem can make it easier to solve. Turning to a friend can be a first step in solving the problem. So to be a friend you must listen and understand. You must try to put yourself in your friend’s place so you can understand the problem better.

No two friendships are ever exactly alike. But all true friendships have three things in common. If you plan to keep your friends, you must practice honesty, generosity and understanding.

2 Real Friendship

by Rachel Chastain

You know you have a friend for life when they answer your phone at one o’clock in the morning because you can’t sleep and have a lot on your mind, and they don’t mind talking about nothing to get your mind off everything.

When they spare some time to spend with you.

When you know that if something bad happened to you they’d be there for you, no questions asked.

When you can look at them when something is wrong and they know it just by the look in your eyes and all they have to do is offer a hug and you feel a thousand times better.

When you know that they’d never lie to you, and would never hurt you, and if they did, it would only be for your betterment.

When they make you laugh when skies are the darkest; and they’re there with a good movie and some popcorn when you’re totally depressed.

And even if you’re a thousand miles apart, it doesn’t matter because what you share with this friend is so much deeper than what lies on top that distance plays no role in your friendship.

Friendship is when they push when you need it, but never too hard; and stands back when the time is right but never too far.

When you feel life is so much better because you know them, and they bring out the best of you that lies with.

The First Period

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the following words:

quality, honest, brave, loyal, wise, handsome, smart, introduce

Phrases:

be fond of

Sentence Pattern:

So/Nor + link (modal or auxiliary) verb + subject

2. Train the students’ listening ability

3. Improve the students’ speaking ability by describing, talking and discussion.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Train the students’ listening ability.

2. Master the new phrase and sentence pattern and make the students be free to talk about their names, ages, hobbies and so on.

Teaching difficult Points:

How to improve the students’ listening ability.

How to finish the task of speaking.

Teaching Methods:

1. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through with the listening material.

2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.

Teaching Aids:

1. a tape recorder 2. a projector 3. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step I Greetings and Lead-in

T: Good morning/afternoon, everyone.

Ss: Good morning/afternoon, teacher.

T: Sit down, please. Now you’re Senior Middle students. From now on I’m your English teacher. I’m very glad to know you and willing to give you lessons. First let’s introduce each other. All right? Do you know “introduce”? (Bb: introduce) “introduce” means “to make known for the first time to each other or someone else”. So I introduce myself to you now. My name is …. What about you? Hello, what’s your name? Nice to know you.

(Go around the class and get individual Ss to introduce themselves.)

T: Yeah, from now on we have known each other. Maybe I’m not only your teacher, but also your good friend in future. Do you think so?

Ss: Yes.

Step II Warming up

T: Today we’re going to learn Unit 1 “Good friends”.

(Bb: Unit 1 Good friends The First Period) “The first period”. First, let’s look at some words.

(Show the following on the screen)

quality honest brave wise loyal smart handsome

Kind, happy, strong, beautiful, rich, funny

(Teacher teaches the words in the first box and explains them, and says the following.)

T: OK. Now I want you to discuss two questions.

1. What should a good friend be like?

2. What qualities should a good friend have?

(Bb: Write them on the blackboard.)

Yeah, please discuss them in groups of four. After a while, everyone is asked to make a sentence using the words in these boxes on the screen. Of course, you can use other words if you like. Is that clear?

Ss: Yes.

T: OK. Please discuss these questions.

(After a while, teacher asks some students to describe a good friend. If time permitting, teacher may ask more students to answer.)

T: Ok. Time is up. Who wants to say first?

S1: I think a friend should be kind and honest.

S2: A good friend is someone who makes me happy.

S3: A good friend should be loyal, wise and brave.

S4: I think a good friend should be smart, kind and funny. When I am bored, he can entertain me. When I am lonely, he keeps me company.

…

T: Very good. Your opinions are all right. Now who can describe yourself in three adjectives? You try please.(Teacher comes to one student.)

S: I think I am beautiful, strong and wise.

T: What about you? (Teacher comes to one boy)

S: Yeah, I think, first I’m honest, and I’m well educated, of course I’m handsome.

…

Step III Listening

T: Now please turn to Page 2. Let’s do some listening. You are going to hear two friends arguing. What are they arguing about? How to solve their problems? It needs your listening. Write down what you hear. At last I’ll check the answers with the whole class. Is that clear?

Ss: Yes.

T: OK. Let’s begin. (Teacher plays the tape for the first time. Then play for the second time, and during this time, teacher may pause for students to write down the information. Play some parts of the tape more times if necessary. Finally teacher checks the answers with the whole class.)