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芙蓉初级中学 黄晓艳
Teaching aims:
1. To use different strategies to help students to understand the text;
2. To learn how to use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and characteristics.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision.
1. What are the most important qualities of a good friend?
2. What are the very important qualities of a good friend?
3. What’s your good friend like?
Step 2 Presentation
1. T: I have a good friend. Do you want to know her? What do you want to know about her?
2. Show a picture. Describe my good friend. Introduce some new expressions:
As tall as; be willing to; have a good sense of humor; feel bored
Step 3 Fast reading
T: ‘Teenagers’ magazine is holding a writing competition. Some students have written some entries for it. Please read and find out their main qualities.
1---generous, helpful
2---humorous (have a good sense of humor), funny
3---true friend, kind
Step 4 Read for details
Complete the table after reading their entries once more.
Name Betty Max May
Appearance Slim, short hair Tall, poor eyesight (wear glasses) Small, have straight, shoulder-length hair, pretty.
Personality GenerousHelpful Have a good sense of humorFunny True, kind
What does he/she do? Willing to share things with friendsReady to help people any time e.g. … Tell funny jokes and always make others laughLong legs do not fit under the school desks.. Can keep a secretNever say a bad word about anyone
Step 5 Retell
1. T: So we have got a table about them. And you have known a lot about them. Can you say sth about them according to the information in the table.
2. Give Ss 3 minutes to prepare
3. Ask 2-3 Ss to retell the three articles.
(适时的给予学困生简单的提示，但要多给一些时间他们思考)
Step 6 Brainstorming.
1. T: Well, when we describe our friends, we also need to describe what he or she is like. What kind of words can we use? ---Adjectives.
Eyes, nose: big, small
Face: round, square
Body: thin, strong, slim, fat, tall, short
Hair: short, long, straight, circled, shoulder-length
2. We can use so many useful words to describe people. Is there any difference in describing boys and girls? Can you give me any examples?(write down some words in the list on Page 7)
Homework:
1. To write about one of their friends. (in the next class, teachers can read some of them and ask the whole class to guess who she/he is)
2. (for some weak students) To write a short passage, use any one on Page 4 as a model. They can replace some words in it if they can’t write a new one.
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