Unit 1 Main task
I. Aim:
To plan ideas for writing
To learn the proper and easy ways to write something;
To write a description of the appearance and personality of a friend.
II. Teaching procedures:
Revision
In this unit, we have learnt a lot about how to describe our best friends. Show three photos of Betty, Max and May. Ask some students to describe them. Revise some useful words and expressions.
Ask: What aspects can we talk about from when we talk about our best friends
What’s his/her name
What’s he/she like?
What’s his/her quality of a good friend (personality)
What does he/she like doing
What would he/she like to do in the future
Please keep them in your mind. We will talk about them step by step.
Brainstorming.
1. When you want to talk about sth, what do you feel difficult to do Proper words and phrases.
So we need to gather enough words about sth. when we want to talk about it. How many words do you know that we can use to describe our friends Let’s do it in groups. Please show us you are the best.
After it, T collects their words on the Bb and decide which group is the winner.
2. Go through the words in the table on P15.
3. Read the passage on P16 quickly and find out some information about Daniel’s best friend
4. Group work. Find out the useful words about how to describe the best friends
( eg. tall, slim; square, long; bright, smiling; pretty, kink; clever, help, happy)
Phrases and sentences
Now we have these words. Is it enough to write a passage No. So we still need some phrases and sentences structures. Try to find the phrases and sentences Daniel used in his passage.
Paragraphs
1. Elicit
OK. I’m going to write about my good friend.
…is my best friend. ……(put these phrases and sentences together randomly)(ask for their opinion about this ‘passage’)
So the structure of a passage is very important.
2. Ask Ss to find out the structure of the passage by themselves. T can help them when needed.
Introduction—Body(appearance—personality and ability)—Conclusion(hobbies and future plans)
Go back to the beginning of this class.
Have we learnt how to write about these in this unit Can you remember what we talked about at the beginning of this class
What’s his/her name
What’s he/she like?
What’s his/her quality of a good friend (personality)
What does he/she like doing
What would he/she like to do in the future
Are you ready to write about your good friends Let’s have a try. (They can talk about sb in the class in groups first. In this way, the weak students will know what to write and how to write it.)
Writing and checking
After they finish writing, use some of their passages as a model. Show them to the whole class and ask the other students to find out the good points in each passage. After talking about some passages, ask them to rewrite their passages to make them better.
III. Homework:
Write a passage about their good friends.