Revising procedures: Lead in. 1. T: Boys and girls, today we will revise unit 1---friends. Friends are very important for us. We need friends. Do you have any friends? When we chat , we often talk about friends. If you want to tell others something about your friend, what will you say first? 2. Free talk: Let students give their ideas. Task 1: Revise vocabulary 1. T: What words can we use to describe people’s appearance? 2. Let students say words about describing people’s appearance. Then use a table to make a summary. Face | Long , short, round, square, | Eyes | Big, small, round, bright, smiling | Nose | Long, short, big, small | Hair | Black, dark brown, long, short, shoulder-length, straight, ponytail | General appearance | Slim, thin, fat, strong, tall, short, beautiful, smart, good-looking, handsome , pretty, elegant, tidy, clean |
T: What other kind of words can we use to describe your friends if we want others to know more about our friends? T: Yes, we should not only say something about their appearance, but also qualities. What words can we use to describe people’s qualities? 4. Ask students to give the words they know to describe people’s qualities. Then summary with a table. Qualities | Friendly, kind, polite, happy, honest, helpful, cheerful, pleasant, generous, modest, confident, talented, out-going, easy-going, patient, energetic, active, |
Task 2: Revise “ Reading ” part 1. T: Just now we revised the words about people’s appearance and qualities. We can use them to describe our friends. Now I want you to know something about my friend Betty, Max and May. Please open your books and turn to page 4. I want you to read the articles about them. Please read aloud together, pay attention to the words about their appearance and qualities. 2. Let students read together. 3. Teacher: Now you know something about my friends. I will check how much you know my friends. ① Please use the information you get from the article to fill in the blanks. I have some best friends. Betty is as ___ as I am. She has ____ hair. She is _______. She is _____ to share things with her friends. She is also _____. She always gives ____ to people in need on the bus. When she ____ up, she wants to be a ____ and travel around the world. Max is tall. He looks ____ and has a good sense of _____. He tells funny ____ and always _____ me laugh. May is _____. She is a ___ friend. When something _____ me, I can go to her. She can keep a _____. She never says a ___ word about anyone. ② Read some useful sentences after teacher. Task 3: How to describe your friends? 1. T: Now I want to know something about your friend. Who wants to have a try? 2.T: I’ll ask one of your classmates some questions about his friend. And you , please make notes about Daniel’s friend. You just write down the key words. You needn’t write the whole sentence. For example: His friend is fourteen years old. You just write down 14. For long word, such as information, you just write down info. Do you understand? Listen carefully! 3. --- Daniel, can I ask you some questions about your friend? ---Yes, of course. --- Daniel, who’s your best friend? ---He/She is …… (Name/ age/ hobbies…) --- What does he /she look like? ---He/ She is …… (Appearance) ---What’s he/she like? ---He/She is…… (Qualities) ---What does he/she want to be when he/she grows up? ---He/She wants to be ……. (Future plan) 4. Ask four students to say something about Daniel’s friend. 5. T: So you see, if we put the answers to the questions together, we can have an article about a friend. Look! ①The answers to question No.1 can help us make an introduction. ②The answers to question No.2 is about appearance. The answer to question No.3 is about qualities. ③We can write the main body with the help of question No.2 and No.3. ④Question No.4 can guide us to make a conclusion. 6. T: If we want to write a composition perfectly, we can arrange our composition like this: We can divide our composition into three parts. Paragraph 1: Introduction Paragraph 2-3: Main body ( appearance and qualities) Paragraph 4: conclusion ( future plan) Task 4: Revise grammar( comparative and superlative) 1. T: In our class, we know Daniel’s close friend is Simon. Please compare them with the word “than”. 2. Let students say sentences to compare them with the word “than”. 3. T: Simon is taller than Daniel. That means: Daniel is not as/so tall as Simon. 4. Please use the pattern: “not as…as…”to compare another pair of students. T: Chris is not as slim as Tina. But Chris is as kind as Tina. 5. Please use the pattern: “as…as…” to compare another pair of students. 6. ①Please computer the pair of students in the whole class. Ricky is the best at running in our class. Andy’s eyes are the biggest of all. ②Use the superlative forms to talk about our classmates. 7. Conclusion: When we compare two things in different sizes, height, ages and something like that, we use “than, not as…as, for example: I’m taller than you. You are not as old as I .But when two things are the same, we use “as…as”. For example: Kitty is 15 years old. Nancy is 15 years old too. So we can say: Kitty is as old as Nancy. When three or more than three things compare, we use superlative degree. 8. T: These patterns are very important to compare things. I will give you some adjectives. Compare with adjectives. big ,small, tall ,short, long, slim, strong, fat, thin, beautiful, pretty, nice, kind, helpful, clever, important, interesting, easy, difficult, hot, cold |
① Discuss in pairs, make sentences with the help of these patterns. Of course you can use other adjectives you like. ② Let students work in groups for one or two minutes. ③ Check some individual students. 9.Exercises for grammar. Fill in the blanks in proper forms with the given words 1.I am _____(tall) than her. 2. Which season is ______(good), Spring or Autumn? 3. Yesterday was hot, but today is much ______(hot). 4. Lucy is as ______(careful ) as Lily. 5. He is not as ___(old) as my brother. 6. I’m sorry to hear that you were ill yesterday. I hope you are _____(well) now. 7. Kitty’s father is very busy. But her mother is _____(busy). 8. John is the ____ (tall) of the two boys. 9. The ____ (much) exercise you take, the _______ (health) you will be. 10. It’s January now. The weather is getting _____ and _____.(cold) 11. She is the _______(clever) girl of all. 12. He is the _______(strong) boy in the class. 13. This is one of ______________ (popular) songs this year. 14. Among the trees I think that tree is the ______ (high). 15. He is the second _____ (tall) boy in our class. Task 5: Exercise for unit 1 一、根据句意和所给首字母提示,写出合适的 词。 1. Man can travel in space in the f____. 2. Our country is f_____ for the long history. 3. She is so kind that she always s____ her chocolate with her friends. 4. He is an h____ boy. He never tells a lie. 5. Jay Chou is a popular s____. 6. It’s hard to s___ the problem. 7. Do you a____ with what I said? 8. He wears glasses because of poor e______. 9. The long talk made us feel b____. 10. Please k____ at the door before you come in. 二、根据句意,用所给词的正确形式填空。 1. Tom is as _____(clever) as David. 2. Which season is _____(good), spring or summer? 3. James is the ______(thin) boy in our class. 4. Amy is ______ (slim) than Kitty. 5. Which sport is the ____________ (dangerous), swimming, skiing or skating? 6. The food tastes ___(nice). 7. Linda is _____(help). She likes to help others. 8. They did their best ______(solve) the problem. 9. I’m willing ____(go) there with you. 10. His funny jokes often make us ____(laugh). 11. Can I have some ____(much) milk? 12. It’s a _______(please) way to have an English class like this. 三、下列各句中均有一处错误,找出并改正。 1. Who looks more healthy, Nancy or Tina? A B C D 2. Eddie is so tall as Tom. A B C D 3. I think dive is more interesting than swimming. A B C D 4. What about go hiking with me? A B C D 5. English is as more important as Chinese. A B C D 6. The cake smells badly. A B C D 四、根据汉语提示,完成下列各句。 1. Daniel在任何时候都乐于助人。 Daniel ____________________ at any time. 2. 她总是面带微笑。 She always _______________________. 3. 我想成为一名社会工作者来帮助人们解决问题。 I want to ________________ to help people to _____________. 4. 这是这家商店最贵的打印机。 This is _______________ printer in the shop. 5. 英语和语文一样重要。 English is ____________ Chinese. 6. 我的书比他的书更有趣。 My book _______________ than his book. Homework: 1. Read and recite the useful phrases and sentences of the unit. 2. Read and remember the new words in Unit 2. 3. Read Unit 2 for ten minutes. 4. Write the composition about your best friend. |