Unit 1 Friends教案
Language functions and focus 1. Use an adjective before a noun or after a linking verb to describe someone/ something e.g.: She has short hair. Her hair is short. 2. Use comparatives to compare two people /things e.g.: Sandy’s hair is longer than Millie’s hair. 3. Use superlatives to compare three or more people things e.g.: He is the tallest boy in my class. 4. Use ‘as’+ adjective+ ‘as’ to compare people / things e.g.: Millie is as tall as Kitty. 5. Use adjectives to describe someone’s physical features and appearance e.g.: Sandy is tall and has long hair. Language skills Listening 1. Identify main ideas to obtain information about a friend 2. Interpret information to obtain a general understanding of the people in a conversation 3. Identify specific and relevant information to complete letters about teenagers’ future plans Speaking 1. Use questions and answers to talk about people’s appearance and personality 2. Use everyday expressions to show agreement and confirm information Reading 1. Guess general meaning from keywords and context 2. Skim text for overall meaning and scan for details 3. Identify specific information about different people from their friends’ descriptions Writing 1. Collect information and organize ideas to describe the appearance and personality of a friend 2. Produce a particular text-type for an audience using a given model Study skills Look for main points and keywords to help understand and remember a passage more easily Background information Book 8A continues the story about the lives and experiences of the six central characters introduced in Book 7A. Here, the characters are Grade 8 students. Your students will be able to identify with the different situations and contexts. Language is presented through real-life experiences, exposing students to real communication. Overview of the unit The main topic of this unit is describing the appearance and the qualities of a good friend. Students learn to talk about their friends and their future plans. Unit opening Background information The opening page arouses students’ interest in the topic of the unit through the funny interactions of two cartoon characters (Eddie and Hobo). This opening page introduces the idea of friendship and sharing. Warm-up activities 1. Read the conversation between Eddie and Hobo. Check understanding of ‘kind’ and ‘share’. Ask, e.g.: What does Eddie give Hobo? (He gives him some cake and milk.) Is there anything else in the fridge? (No, there isn’t.) What does Hobo want? (He wants to share Eddie’s pizza in the bowl.) 2. Introduce the idea of sharing and friendship. Ask, e.g.: Are Eddie and Hobo good friends? (Yes, they are. They share things.) Who do you like more? Why? ( I like Eddie because he shares his food with Hobo.) Ask two more able students to role-play the conversation in front of the class. Welcome to the unit Objectives 1. To revise vocabulary and expressions to describe people 2. To guess meaning from context 3. To generate ideas about people’s appearance and personalities 4. To categorize adjectives to describe important qualities of a friend according to personal preferences Background information This section introduces students to the unit topic about different personalities of friends. Students answer some questions in a magazine about the qualities of a best friend. It also preteaches some useful words and expressions. Teaching procedures 1. Ask more able students e.g.: Do you have a special friend? What makes him/her special? Accept all reasonable answers. (He/She helps me with my homework. I can always talk to him/her about my problems, etc.) 2. Ask students to look at Part A and explain that they will be reading an advertisement in “Teenagers’ magazine. They have to match the qualities with the questions. For weaker classes, go through the words and phrases on the left. Then ask each question at a time and invite students to say the correct word or phrase. Then ask the class to write the correct letters on their own. 3. Go around the class to check that students have written the correct letters. 4. Ask more able students to think of other qualities of a good friend, e.g., generous, clever, kind, understands my problems, makes me laugh. Write the words and phrases on the board. 5. Read the list of words in Part B and chick that students understand their meanings. Check also understanding of ‘quite important’ and ‘very important’. 6. On the board, write ‘What qualities of a good friend are important to you?’. Ask the class to think carefully about what qualities they appreciate in friends and put ticks under the correct headings in the table. Encourage students to work on their own. Then ask them to compare their answers with a partner. Ask individual students to tell the rest of the class about their own choice and their partner’s choice of qualities. Write some structures on the board to enable students to focus on the choice of adjectives and to maintain a fluent oral performance. Extension activity You can copy the table. More able students can add more adjectives describing qualities of a good friend. Students can also interview several classmates using this table. They should write tally marks instead of ticks in the table. Then they can compare their results with a partner or in class to find out which qualities are the most popular. Game Ask each student to write three adjectives or phrases to describe a classmate on a piece of paper. Remind students to write his or her name as well. Encourage them to work on their own and not to show their choice of words to other students. Then collect the pieces of paper and put them together. Draw one at a time and read each description. Invite the class to guess whom it describes. Reading Objectives 1. To guess general meanings from keywords and context 2. To skim text for overall meanings and scan for details 3. To identify specific information about different people form their friends’ descriptions 4. To use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and characteristics 5. To recognize the use of comparatives and superlatives Part A Background information This section presents three letters about ‘best friends’ for a writing competition held by ‘Teenagers’ magazine. The context invites students to think about qualities in their friends. Teaching procedures 1. Review key vocabulary according to the general ability of the class. Tell the class about a friend or relative. If possible, show his/her photo. Say, e.g.: My best friend is small and thin with long hair. She is very smart and helpful. Then ask questions to check understanding. (Is my friend tall? Is her hair short or long? Is she willing to help?) 2. Divide the class into three groups and allocate one article to each group. While students skim the text on their own, ask them to underline the words they do not know. Then go through the words students have underlined. 3. On the board, write the headings ‘Appearance’ and ‘Personality’. Ask each group to go through their letter again and find words or expressions to match each heading. Invite students from each group to come forward and write their words and expressions under the correct heading. 4. Write the following questions on the board for students to copy in their books. What does he/she look like? (For appearance) What kind of person is he/she? (For personality) What does he/she do or want to do in the future? (For future plan) Invite students from each group to ask and answer these questions and describe the teenager in each article. Part B Teaching procedure 1. Explain the context and check that students understand what an editor of magazine or newspaper does. Then review the adjectives and nouns in the box in Part B1. Ask students to find the words in the articles on page4. 2. Ask students to do Part B1 on their own. Tell them that they need to look for specific details, which fit each o【Unit 1 Friends教案】相关文章：
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