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I.Teaching Aims and Demands

1. Knowledge Objects: Key vocabulary; Target language; Writing practice.

2.Ability Objects : Listening, writing and speaking skills.

1. Moral Object: Working hard makes a man.

II.Teaching Key Points

1. Key vocabulary

talented, loving, outstanding, unusual, beautiful, creative, kind, famous.

2. Target language

A: Who’s Midori? B: She’s a famous violinist.

A: When was she born? B: She was born in 1971.

A: When did she tour the U.S.?

III.Teaching Difficulty: Target language.

IV. Teaching Methods

Listening, writing and speaking methods; Pairwork; Groupwork.

V. Teaching Aids: A tape recorder; A projector.

VI.Teaching Procedures

Step I Greet the class .

Step II Lead- in and Introduction

Today we start to learn to talk more about people.They are different but just common like us.

Show the new words on the screen.

talented loving outstanding unusual creative grandchild violinist skating skater become

Point to them and lead the students to learn them.

Step III Section B 1a

First learn the words in the yellow bar at the top of the page. Write them on the board. Then point to the words one by one and ask students to say what they mean. Have students explain the words, or use the words in several sentences to show what they mean. For example ,

T: Talented. A talented person can do something very well. Deng Yaping is a talented table tennis player, Sun Yanzi is a talented singer. Who else is talented?

S: Carlos is a talented soccer player.

Read the instructions and point out the pictures. Ask a student to read the names of the people in the pictures. Help him if he has some difficulties in pronunciation of the names.

Ask students to write one or orwo words from the list under each person’s picture. Give students an example to help them understand how a possible answer is.

Step IV 1b Groupwork

Point to the different people in the pictures in Activity 1a.Ask several students to read to the class the words they wrote under each picture.

Read the sample sentences: A: Arthur is a loving frandfather.

He spends all his free time with his grandson.

Say, Now work with a group. Make your own statements about the people in the pictures using the words you wrote in your book.

Ask students to tell the class what they said about some of the people.

Step V 2a

Read the instructions and point out the words in the list in Activity 1a. Say, Listen to the boy and girl talking about people the admire. Circle the words you hear.

Check the answers.

Step VI 2b

Show the eight sentences on the book’box. Stuents read.

Check the answers.

Step VII 2c Pairwork

Point out the sample conversation. Ask two studnts to read it to the class.

Then lead the class to read the sample conversation toghther.

Have students work in pairs. Ask some pairs of students to say a conversation to the class.

Step VIII Summary

Today we have learned to talk about people with words talented, loving, outstanding, unusual, beautiful, creative, kind, famous.

And we listened to a story about Midori and Laura. Both of them became very famous when they were very young. Working hard makes a man. You are young, you have chances to prepare and go.

Step X Blackboard Design

Unit 9 When was he born?

talented loving outstanding unusual

beautiful creative kind famous

A: Who’s Midori? B: She’s a famous violinist.

A: When was she born? B: She was born in 1971.

A: When did she tour the U.S ?

Step XI Teaching reflection: