Unit One Good Friends

Teaching Goals:

1. to talk about friends;

2. to practise talking about likes and dislikes;

3. to learn to make apologies;

4. to be able to use Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(statements and questions);

5. to write an e-mail

Teaching Key points:

1. to grasp some patterns about likes and dislikes;

2. to learn to use Direct Speech and Indirect Speech;

3. to learn to write an e-mail

Teaching difficult points:

1. to grasp some changes when using Indirect Speech;

2. to write an e-mail;

3. to learn to use the following phrases:

1) nor do I like computers

2) enjoy doing/ be into doing

3) so + auxiliary + subject

4) hunt for

5) make fire

6) in order to

7) be fond of

8) go outing

The First Period

Teaching Aims:

1. to talk about friends by using some relevant words;

2. to complete the listening practice and show their own opinions;

3. to discuss who could be good friends to them

Teaching procedures:

Step One Warming up

1. say greetings to the students;

2. introduce myself to the class;

I come from….; I have been working here for….; We are in the same new class and I want to be your good friend.

3. ask questions:

1) Do you have any old classmate or friend in our class?

2) Why do you like him or her?

4. ask the Ss questions:

What should be a good friend be like?

What qualities should a good friend have?

Teach the new words:

honest, brave, loyal, wise, handsome, smart,

modest, polite, open-minded, introverted, outgoing, optimistic, generous, active, aggressive, amiable, careful, confident, cooperative, creative, disciplined, friendly, hard-working, humorous, ……

5. work in pairs. The Ss describe themselves in three words and then describe one of their friends.

I think I am ……../ I think he/she is …….

Step Two Listening

1. If two persons are friends, does that mean they always have the same opinions?

Of course not, sometimes they argue about something, listen to the two friends arguing and write down the contents.

1) Situation 1 _________

2) Situation 2 _________

3) Situation 3 _________

2. ask the Ss to think what they should do to solve their problems.

Step Three Speaking

1. read through the short passages and fill in the form in pairs.

Name John Steve Peter Ann Sarah Joe

Age 15 14 15 16 14

Gender boy boy boy girl girl boy

Likes football, reading skiing

reading, singing, singing, rock music, computers dancing,

computers,

rock music, reading novels, football, singing computers,

rock music,

skiing

Dislikes singing, computers,

rock music hiking,

rock music, football football,

classical music, dancing hiking,

classical music,

reading rock music,

dancing,

computers football,

hiking,

2. Language points:

1) I don’t enjoy singing, I don’t like computers either.

---I don’t enjoy singing, nor do I like computers.

He doesn’t like its size, he doesn’t like its colour either.

---He doesn’t like its size, nor does he like its colour.

David isn’t here, and neither/nor is Sarah.

I can’t swim. Neither/nor can he.

2) Rock music is Ok, and so is skiing.

--- Rock music is Ok, and skiing is Ok too.

He likes singing, and I like dancing too.

--- He likes singing and so do I .

when we say the same things also happens to sb. or sth. Else, we can use such a pattern: So + be/have/do/does/can….+ subject

a) I am a student. He is a student, too. ---- So is he.

b) I study at the school. He studies at the school, too. ---- So does he.

c) I came to school yesterday. He came here yesterday, too. ---- So did he.

Compare:

I asked him to call me again. And so he did.( In fact he did as I asked him to)

3) be fond of ….

He is fond of ice cream/ his father/ playing football

4) be into….=be deeply interested in …

Her brother is deeply into computers.

2. Discussion: decide who could be their good friends and give reasons.

Use the following useful expressions:

1) I’m sure that A could be my friend. / I’m not sure that …./ I think that …./ Perhaps…..

2) He(She) likes/ enjoys/is fond of / is into…/loves…

3) doesn’t like…/dislikes…/hates…./ ….is boring(terrible)

Step Four Workbook

1. do listening practice on page 85

2. ask the students if they have other good solutions.

3. do talking practice on page 85 using the following expressions:

Why did you…/Why didn’t you …? You said you would …./You promised to…

I’m very sorry. /Please forgive me. /It won’t happen again. /I forgot.

4. ask the Ss to act out the situations with their partners.

Step Five Assignments

Write a short passage about your good friend.

1) What qualities does he/she have?

2) What does he like or dislike?

3) What interesting story do you have about your friend?

The Second Period

Teaching Aims:

1. to promote the Ss’ abilities of reading comprehension;

2. to discuss the important meaning of friendship;

3. to learn to use the following phrases:

1) hunt for 2) make fire 3) in order to 4) care about 5) treat …as…

Teaching procedures:

Step One Revision

1. check the answers with the Ss.

2. ask the Ss to report what they wrote about their friends

3. revise the useful expressions:

1) neither/nor/so + auxiliary + subject

2) be fond of…. 3) be into…..

Step Two Pre-reading

1. discussion: Imagine that you are alone on an island and you have to survive without friends and all the things you use in your everyday life.

Teach the new words: matches, mirror, frying pan, hammer, saw, umbrella, rope, compass…

2. ask the Ss to list the three most useful items and explain why they would be useful.

Try to use the following:

I think that ……would be the most useful, because I could use it to…..

Step Three Reading

1. ask the Ss to read through the passage quickly and find the answer to this question:

Who is Chuck’s friend? ----Wilson ( a volleyball)

2. the Ss read the passage again and answer more questions:

1) What things must Chuck learn to survive on the island?

2) What does Chuck learn about himself when he is alone on the island?

3) Why do people think that friends are teachers?

Step Four Key points

1. play a man /play a part(role)/ play football/play the tape

2. send mail

3. when = and then

1) I was working in the garden when suddenly I felt a pain in my stomach.

2) He was about to go out when the telephone rang.

Compare: He was writing when I went home.

4. hunt for food/jobs

Many school-leavers go to the south to hunt for jobs.

5. make fire

He began to make fire to keep the house warm.

6. in order to..

1) In order to make a living, he had to work at an early age.

2) He got up early in order to catch the first bus.

7. be a good friend to sb.

be a servant to sb.

8. treat sb. as…

She treats the boy as her own son.

9. care about/make friends with../share happiness and sorrow

Step Five Discussion

1. if you were alone on an island, what would you do in order to survive?

2. Imagine that four people are in an airplane that is going to crash( a policeman/a doctor/ a teacher/ a scientist), but there is only one parachute. Decide who should get the parachute and explain why.

Step Six Consolidation

1.( Page 4)ask the Ss to do word study.

2. check the answers with the Ss.

Step Seven Workbook

1. (page 87) listen to the tape and do the vocabulary exercises

2. the Ss do Part 2 orally.

Step Eight Assignments

1. read the passage frequently

2. translate part 3 (page 87) into English.

The Third Period

Teaching Aims:

1. to learn the grammar “Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(1)”---statements and questions.

2. to grasp the changing rules about tenses, pronouns ,adverbs and so on.

Teaching procedures:

Step One Revision

1. check the homework.

2. revise the following phrases:

send mail/ hunt for/ in order to/ treat…as…./care about/share happiness and sorrow/ make friends with/learn from/be quick in mind and action

Step Two Presentation

1. ask one Ss to make a sentence with “be fond of”

S: I am fond of playing football.

T: What did he day?

S: He said that he was fond of playing football.

Present the two sentences on the blackboard.

---- He said: “I am fond of playing football.”

---- He said that he was fond of playing football.

2. ask the Ss to compare the two sentences and introduce Direct and Indirect Speech to the Ss. And ask the Ss to find the difference between them.

1) tenses: ________ 2) pronouns: _______ 3) word orders: No (statements)

3. Give the Ss more examples:

1) “I don’t like computers,” Sarah said to her friends.

---- Sarah told her friends that she didn’t like computers

2) He said “I’m using the knife”

---- He said that he was using the knife.

3) She said “I have not heard from him since May”

---- She said that she had not heard from him since May.

4) He said, “ I came to help you.”

---- He said that he had come to help me.

5) Zhou Lan said “I will do it after class.”

---- Zhou Lan said that she would do it after class.

The Ss make the conclusion about the changes of tenses.

Notice:

1) He said that the earth turns around the sun.

4. Direct and Indirect Speech about questions:

1) Examples:

Peter asked: “Ann, have you seen my blue notebook?”

-----Peter asked Ann if/whether she had seen his blue notebook.

Practice:

Steve asked: “Does Kate like football?”

----Steve asked if/whether Kate liked football.

3) Examples:

“How can you do that?” Mary said to Ann.

----Mary asked Ann how she could do that.

“What difference does it make?” Peter asked Jim.

----Peter asked Jim what difference it made.

The Ss find out some rules about questions.

Step Three Practice

1. Give the Ss examples:

1) “ I will never forget this interesting lesson,” said Paul.

---- Paul said that he would never forget that interesting lesson.

2) Steve told Joe that he liked skiing.

---- “ I like skiing,” Steve said to Joe.

2. The Ss do the following on page 5 in pairs.

3. Check the answers with the class.

4. The Ss do Part 2 on page 5 in pairs and then check the answers.

Step Four Workbook

1. Do the grammar exercises on page 87 orally.

Step Five Assignments

1. Do the grammar exercises in their exercise books.

The Fourth Period

Teaching Aims:

1. to revise the language points the Ss have learned;

2. to get some feedback from the Ss.

Exercises for Ss:

一. 句型轉換:

用neither(nor) 轉換下列句子:

1. He doesn’t enjoy singing, and he doesn’t like dancing either.

----He doesn’t enjoy singing, nor _________________________.

2. Sarah didn’t watch TV, and she didn’t listen to music either.

----Sarah didn’t watch TV, ______________________________.

3. He can’t speak French, and he can’t write French either.

----He can’t speak French, __________________________.

4. I can’t speak French. He can’t speak French either.

--- I can’t speak French. __________________________.

5. We haven’t been to Beijing. They haven’t been there either.

---- We haven’t been to Beijing. ________________________.

用so 轉換下列句子:

1. Sarah is beautiful. Her sister is beautiful too.

---- Sarah is beautiful. So __________________.

2. I like rock music. He likes music too.

--- I like rock music. ______________________.

3. I came to school yesterday. He came to school yesterday too.

--- I came to school yesterday. __________________.

二. 完成句子:

1. A good friend is _______ _______ _______ me a lot. (教我許多知識的人).

2. I like Italy, _________ _______ _________(尤其在夏天).

3. _______ _________ _______ (我的愛好是) reading and writing.

4. His sister ________ _______ ________(愛好) singing.

5. He doesn’t enjoy ________ ________ ________.(網上沖浪).

6. Joe’s brother _________ __________.(不喜歡徒步旅行).

7. Her two children are _______ _______. (對藝術深感興趣)

8. I dislike playing football. _______ ______ ________.(他也是這樣).

三. Reading comprehension:

On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi'an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in "the kingdom of bicycles".

　　Robert Fried Lander, An American, arrived in Xi'an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.

　　When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi'an and his early dreams were coming true.

　　Robert Fried Lander’s next destinations were Lanzhou, Dunhuang Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

( )1. The best headline for this newspaper article would be ______

A. The kingdom of Bicycles

B. Beautiful Hotel in Xi'an

C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road

D. An American Achieving His Aims

( )2. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because__________

A. he asked to see the manager.

B. he entered the hall with a bicycle.

C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests.

D. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him.

( )3. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order;________

A. China, India and Pakistan

B. India, China , and Pakistan

C. Pakistan, China, and India

D. China, Pakistan, and India

( )4. What made Friedlander come to China?

A. The stories about Marco Polo

B. The famous sights in Xi'an

C. His interest in Chinese silk

D. His childhood dreams about bicycles.

( )5. Friedlander can be said to be _________

A. clever B. friendly

C. hard working D. strong-minded

The Fifth Period

Teaching Aims:

1. to go through the checkpoint and revise the language points in this unit.

2. to write an e-mail.

Teaching procedures:

Step One Revision

1. check the homework with the class.

2. go over the changes in Indirect Speech.

this _____ these ______ now ______ today ______

yesterday _______________ tomorrow _____________

here ________ come ________ bring _________

Step Two Checkpoint

1. go through the checkpoint

2. Make some conclusions to the Ss

1) We usually change the verb tenses and pronoun forms

“I broke your CD player.”

---- He told me that __________________________

2) If Direct Speech is a question, we sometimes need to change the word order.

“Are you sure you didn’t do anything to this?”

---- He asked _____________________________.

3) We do not change the tense when reporting things that are always true.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

---- Mother told me that ____________________________.

Step Three Reading & Writing

1. The Ss read through the first part and answer:

What is an e-pal? e-pal =key pal (a pen friend on the internet)

2. the Ss read the following e-pal ads.

1) click it away = send away an e-mail

2) joke around = joke here and there

3) have fun = play

4) drop sb. a line = write sb. a letter

3. give the Ss some tips about writing an e-mail:

1) write the topic of your message on the subject;

2) keep your email as short as possible;

3) check your email for errors;

4) write your name at the end of your message.

4. the Ss write an email to one of them

5. the Ss check their writing in pairs.

Step Four Assignments

1. Do the writing on page 90 in their exercise books

2. Do the reading practice on page 88.

The Sixth Period

Teaching Aims:

1. to revise the words and phrases

2. to revise the grammar item.

3. to get some feedback from the Ss.

Exercises for Unit One

一. 用所學的單詞填空:

1. People think that dogs are very _______ to their masters.

2. The boy is very young, but he was so _______ that he jumped into the river and saved the girl.

3. The man is so ________ that he can lift the huge stone.

4. An ________ man is someone who often tells the truth.

5. His brother is very _________. He usually makes us laugh.

6. He is a ______ man and he has a good knowledge.

7. The man is very _______ and he gives money to the poor.

8. The actor in the film is so _______ that the young people like him very much.

二. 句型轉換:

1. I think that a good friend should give me help.

---- A good friend is someone _______________________.

2. I think that a good friend should teach me a lot.

----A good friend is ______________________________.

三. 用所給的詞或短語正確形式填空:

realize be into hunt for desert lie

match adventure honest brave loyal

1. There are some ________cities in the deep heart of Gebi Desert.

2. To be _______ with you, your problem is that you are thinking too much about yourself.

3. We made fire very easily because I took along a box of ________ with me.

4. He has just given up all games, and now ______ computer games.

5. Would you like to listen to my exciting _________ in the wild forest?

6. The fan is still _____ to the team though they have lost many matches.

7. You should believe in Jenny’s honestly. She never tells ________.

8. I ________ that I am completely wrong.

9. I _______ my sports shoes everywhere, but I can’t find them.

10. Don’t be frightened. You should be _______ next time than this time.

四. 閱讀理解:

　　These people, getting ready to travel across the desert to look for a new place to live in, must water their camels. The camel driver tries to get each camel to drink as much water as possible because the little water that these people take along will be needed by themselves.

　　A very big camel can hold more water than some cars can hold gasoline. That's why the camel can go for many days without having to drink. It's a good thing that camel can do this, because it may have to in the great , dry desert.

　　Nomads(游牧民) never keep their homes in one place very long. They're always moving. That's what nomads are - people who wander around instead of living in one place.

　　Every time the Arab nomads set out across the hot, sandy desert, it is a new adventure. They must find food for the animals, or the animals will die.

( )1. The water the camel has drunk can be enough for _______

A. only one day B. some time C. about a month D. a moment

( )2. People who move their homes here and there are called_________.

A. Arabs B. nomads C. camel drivers D. adventures

( )3. Camels drink as much water as possible before going to another place because _________

A. the drivers will need water B. they are thirsty

C. they will cross great, waterless desert D. they are animals

( )4. To those who travel across the hot and sandy desert, the travel is __________.

A. hard and dangerous B. an interesting thing

C. something new D. pleasant and exciting

( )5. The nomads wander from one place to another because______.

A. they want to train their camels B. they are used to such a way of life

C. they have to feed their camels D. they want to look for better jobs