Unit 1 Friendship

Period 6　Using Language

(Listening and Writing)

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从容说课

This is the sixth teaching period of this unit. We can first review some important language points the students learned in the last several periods. The emphasis of this period should be laid on listening and writing. They are expansion of the topic of the text. Listening is about Lisa’s problem of making a friend with a boy. She asks Miss Wang for advice. Through listening and exercise, students learn how to give advice and the skill of giving advice. And also let them think about the problem of boy’s making friends with girls and girls with boys. And then design a task to ask students to give advice according to the different problems to develop their ability to solve the problems. All of these lay the foundation for the next task—writing. In this way, students feel that they have information to put out. And writing makes for the improvement of students’ writing ability, strengthening their comprehension of friendship.

The two letters, listening and letter writing prepare students to further talk about friendship, especially the problems with misunderstanding, and unfriendliness, thus strengthen students’ abilities to practice language, discov er, and solve problems.

教学重点

Develop the students’ li stening ability, especially listening to and understanding key words and speakers’ intention and attitude.

教学难点

Develop the students’ writing skills by reading, discussing and writing a letter to give advice on friendship.

教学方法

1. Task-based teaching and learning

2. Cooperative learning

3. Discussion

教具准备

A tape recorder and other normal teaching tools

三维目标

Knowledge aims:

1. Get the students to learn the following new words and useful expressions.

teenager　get along with　fall in love　advice　questionnaire　quiz editor　communicate　habit

2. Get the students to know how to write a letter to offer advice.

Ability aims:

1 . Enable the students to listen and understand the listening materials.

2. Enable the students to write a letter to offer advice on friendship.

Emotional aims:

Develop and improve the students’ ability to help others solve such problems as how to communicate with people, how to make and be go od friends, and so on.

教学过程

设计方案（一）

→Step 1 Revision

Have a dictation about new words and expressions:ignore　calm　cheat　loose　concern　suffer　purpose　entirely　teenager　trust　hide away　set down　according to　face to face　go through　a series of　in order to　walk the dog　get along with　add up

→Step 2 Reading and listening(on Page 6)

1. Lead-in

Talk freely with the students to lead in the listening topic. Just like the following:

Do you remember what Ann’s best friend is? Is it a man or a thing?

Guess what my best friend is. (Say something about music, pets or plants. )

So you see a man can make friends with anyone and anything.

Then boys, would you like to make friends with girls? Girls, would you like to make friends with boys? Wha t kind of girl would you like to make friends with? And what kind of boy would you like to make friends with?

If you see a boy classmate makes a friend with a girl, will you say something about them behind? (If no, you are kind. If yes, you are a gossiper. )

If you are that boy or girl, would you like to be gossiped about?

2. Reading

Read the letter. Lisa has such a problem. She is asking you for help. What advice will you give? You are given 2 minutes to discuss in groups and then offer your group’s opinions.

3. Listening

Tell the students:Besides you, Lisa also asks Miss Wang of Radio for Teenagers for help. What advice does Miss Wang give to Lisa? Let’s listen to what she says.

Listen for 3 times and do listening exercises. A fourth time for checking.

4. Post-listening

Tell the students:Do you think Miss Wang’s advice is helpful? Now suppose you are editors of Radio for Teenagers, here are some problems for you to offer advice.

Show the following on the screen. Tell the students they can choose any problem as they like to write down their advice.

1. I don’t have enough pocket money.

2. I’m not satisfied with my appearance.

3. My desk mate has lost a reference book, she thinks that I’m a thief.

4. I work hard but I hardly make progress.

5. I want to travel to Wu Zhen Town with my fien ds this weekend, but my parents don’t allow me to go.

6. I don’t like the way Mr. Li teaches us English, so I’m not interested in English any longer.

7. My mother has just given birth to my little brother. I’m worried that the baby will rob me of my parents’ love and even everything.

8. I quarreled with my best friend 3 days ago. Up to now, we haven’t said a word to each other.

9. I’d like to be monitor, but at the same time I doubt whether I have such ability.

10. I’m often late for school. The teacher is so angry that he threatens that if I’m late again, I will be dismissed.

Ask several students to report their advice.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

→Step 3 Writing (on Page 7)

1. Pre-writing

1)Read a letter from a student named Xiaodong. Go through the directions on Page 7.

2)B rainstorm with a partner about ways to change the situation. Make a list of the ideas and give reasons.

3)Decide which are the best ideas and put them into the right order.

2. While-writing[来源:Zxxk.Com]

Ask the Ss to write a letter to Xiaodong and give him some advice.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

Suggested steps:

1)Read the sample and the expressions.

2)Begin to write the letter to Xiaodong.

3)Revise your letter by yourself.

4)Exchange your writing paper with your partners and correct the mistakes you have made.

5)Get back your own writing paper and write the letter again.

3. Post-writing

Have a discussion in groups.

1)Can you give Xiaodong some good advice?[来源:Zxxk.Com]

2)Is your letter well developed?[来源:Z,xx,k.Com]

3)Are your ideas well organized to the point?

4)Do you have a good choice of words and idioms in your writing?

5)Do you get a good mastery of complex structures of language?

6)What kind of mistakes have you made in your writing? What can you do to avoid such mistakes?

Choose some students’ writing paper and show them in the class. Ask the Ss to correct the mistakes together and also learn from some good writings.

→Step 4 Workbook

Writing task (on Page 46)

1. Read the proverbs, explain them and ask the students to choose some they agree with and some they disagree with and explain why.

2. Discuss with their partner and then write a passage according to the sample story and “Analyzing the structure”.

→Step 5 Homework

1. Finish off the workbook exercises.

2. Write a short passage about your friend.

板书设计

Unit 1　Friendship

Listening and Writing

new words and expressions	writing steps
teenager　get along with　fall in love　advice　questionnaire　quiz editor　communicate　habit	1. Make a list of the information. 2. Begin to write the letter. 3. Revise your letter. . . .

活动与探究

Get the students to hold a group writing competition out of class. Ask them to describe one of their friends—their appearance, personality, hobbies, etc. This activity makes for the improvement of students’ writing ability, strengthening their comprehension of friendship, and also developing their coop erative spirit and sense of competition.

Sample descripti on:

I have a few good friends, but I think Miki is my best friend. We both read a lot and we’re very interested in films. We spend a lot of time watching videos and talking about films and books. She works hard. She is very helpful. Whenever I am in trouble, she will help me out. . .