1. Teaching Contents
The teaching material mainly talks about how to describe friends' appearances, characters and interests. Students can improve their listening and speaking ability by learning this lesson.
2. Teaching Objectives:
(1)Language Ability
Students can learn some new words and expressions to describe a friend's appearance, character and interests and what they usually do.
(2)Cultural Awareness
Students can get a deeper understanding of friendship and strengthen their friendship with friends.
(3)Thinking Capacity
Students' logical thinking ability can be cultivated through completing some activities.
(4)Learning Ability
①Students' listening and speaking ability can be improved by completing some tasks.
②Students can use listening strategies to get the main idea of the passage.
3. Teaching Key and Difficult Points
(1)Teaching Key Point
Students can read, recognize and use the words and phrases.
(2)Teaching Difficult Point
Students can get the main idea of the passage and describe their friends with proper expressions.
4. Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Warming up (1 min)
Brainstorming
Students can talk about their outlook on the proverb "A life without a friend is a life without a sun".
【Justification: Make a foundation for the following class activities and arouse students' learning interests.】
Step 2 Presentation (7 mins)
The teacher plays the tape for three times and asks students to find the detailed information of the whole passage, then fill in the blanks. (First time: get the general idea of the passage; Second time: catch the detail information; Third time: check the answers)
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What does he/she look like?
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What do you like to do together?
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Students listen to the tape again and check the answers.
【Justification: Help students to get a better understanding about the material by using the Task-based Language Teaching Method, and students can get the details with listening strategies.】
Step 3 Practice (5 mins)
The teacher asks students to make a dialogue in pairs and they can use the following questions: ①Who is your best friend? What does he/she look like? ②what does he/she usually do? What do you usually do? After that, choose two pairs to present their dialogues in front of the class.
【Justification; This step can help students practice their speaking ability through pair work.】
Step 4 Consolidation (5 mins)
Discussion: talk about their ideal friends.
【Justification: Students can describe their ideal friends with the words and sentences they have learned and their speaking ability can be improved.】
Step 5 Summary and homework (2 mins)
①Summary: The teacher leads students to summarize what they have learned in this class.
②Homework: After school, students are invited to write a short passage to introduce their best friends.
【Justification: Students can review what they have learned in this lesson and apply it in their homework.】