8a unit 1 friends comic strip & welcome to the unit
teaching objectives:
to identify the words and phrases to describe the appearance and personality of a person
to talk about the important qualities of a good friend
teaching contents:
words: honest, joy, sad, believe, teenager, good-looking, musical
phrases: have something to drink, make somebody happy/special, keep secrets, share one’s joy, believe what somebody says, talk to somebody about anything, clean and tidy
sentences: do you want some?
can i have something to drink?
what about some milk?
can i have some more food too?
there’s nothing else in the fridge.
teaching preparations:
tape recorder
computer
pictures
teaching procedures:
step1 warm-up
t: hello everyone, glad to see you again! did you have a nice summer holiday? are you happy to be back to school and see all your friends?
ss talk about their summer holidays.
t: this summer holiday i went to australia with some of your classmates and friends. we took a lot of photos. would you like to have a look?
show the pictures and introduce some places of interest and animals in australia.
t: look, we took a photo with this famous man--- batman. he’s a hero and people’s good friend because he helps people in danger. do you agree? what do you think of him?
ss talk about batman with the adjectives describing appearance and personality, such as friendly, helpful, kind, polite, clever, brave, etc.
step 2 presentation
t: there are some more words to describe people. for example, we can say batman is good-looking. but we never say he’s beautiful! we don’t use beautiful to describe a boy or a man. if someone likes music or is good at music, we say he or she is musical.
teach “good-looking” and “musical”.
step 3 practice
1. play a guessing game. ss describe their best friends in the class and guess who are talked about.
2. t: just now we heard some of the students talk about their best friends. could you tell me which words are used most often?
ss: friendly, helpful, polite…
t: so these are very important qualities of a best friend, do you think so? what other qualities are important to you?
ss complete the table in part b, p7. then work in pairs to exchange their ideas and have a debate.
sentences may be used:
i think my good friend should be very … because…
i agree. / i don’t agree with you because …
it’s quite important for a friend to be …? do you think so?
