Unit 1 Friendship Using the language

Teaching plan

Chen Jie from Wenzhou No.14 High School

ITeaching aims:

1. Improve the students reading, listening, writing and speaking skills.

2. Consolidate the usage of direct and indirect speech in a more communicative way.

3. Learn to write a letter of advice.

4. Master the steps of writing.

II Difficult points

1. How to let students understand the listening material and develop the skills of note taking.

2. How to let students exchange between direct and indirect speech in a practical situation.

3. How to make students write a letter not only meaningful but also in correct structure, and using correct grammar and expressions.

4. How to train the skills of discovering and correcting mistakes

5. How to enable students to learn to carry on self-assessment and peer-assessment

III preparations

1. Make a website for this period.

2. Give the students some instructions about how to use the computer and the website.

IV Teaching procedures

Step 1 warming up

1. Greetings

T: How long have you been together since you entered No. 14 Middle School?

Do you like your new school and new classmates?

Do you have anything that upset you?

Step 2 Listening

1. Read the letter written by Lisa and find out what her problem is. (Pp6 1)

T: Here is a student named Lisa. She is not as lucky as you are. Now let’s read a letter to see what her matter is.

2. Listen to what Miss Wang says, first choose the correct answers to the questions.

1) What is Miss Wang’s attitude toward Lisa’s friendship with the boy?

A. Angry B. Upset C. Supportive

2) What’s Miss Wang’s advice?

A. Ignore the boy.

B. Ignore her classmates

C. Ignore her gossiping classmates

2. Listen to it again and then answer the following questions. (Pp6 2)

3. Listen to it for the third time and spell out the words according to what the listening material. (Pp6 3)

4. Check the answers by themselves and let them assess how well they have done in this part. For the students who can get all the answers right, they can enjoy a piece of song as a relaxation. But they’d better fill in the blanks to complete the lyrics. For the students who can’t understand the listening material, they can listen to it again. Or if someone find they have some difficult to use indirect speech to finish exercise 2, they can consult the grammar instructions again, and do some exercises about the exchange between direct speech and indirect speech again.

Step 3 Preparations for writing

1. Further understand the listening material.

2. Get the information for writing.

T: Just now we’ve listened to what Miss Wang wrote to Lisa. Can you tell me what Miss Wang’s attitude is toward Lisa’s friendship with the boy? What does she say about their friendship? What is Miss Wang’s advice?

What’s your opinion? Do you agree with Miss Wang? If you agree, can you think out some more advice to Lisa? If you disagree, then can you give her your advice? Send your opinions and advice to BBS. When you express your opinion, try to use the following expressions.

Agreeing Disagreeing

I agree. Yes, I think so. So do I.

Me too. Exactly. All right.

Sure. / Certainly. / Of course. Good idea.

You’re right/ correct. I think that’s a good idea. I don’t think so. Neither do I.

That’s not right. Yes, but ….

I’m afraid not. No way. Of course not.

I’m sorry, but I don’t agree. I disagree.

Step 3 Writing

1. Ask the students to write another letter to Lisa as Miss Wang.

2. Give the students some writing tips, writing structure, and assessing standard.

3. Let the students discuss their letter in group and each group choose a best one according to the assessing standard.

4. Share one of the best letters in class.

T: I’m very glad to see that mostly of you express your own opinion and offer some very good advice to Lisa. Now suppose you were Miss Wang, please set down your opinion and your advice to Lisa.

Before you begin your letter, you can read some tips and the assessing standard. Then you can use a model to begin your letter.

T: Look at the writing tips and assessing standard

1st. Organize your ideas.

2nd. Use some beautiful expressions and proverbs you have learned.

3rd. Use proper linking words like and, so, however, besides etc. to make your letter coherent.

4th. Read aloud the letter and make some improvement.

5th. Try to finish the letter in 12－15 minutes.

　　　　　評　價　內　容 自評 互評

主題 是否突出提建議和表達態度；書信格式是否正確

詞匯 所用詞匯是否地道、恰當

是否運用課文/范文等中的優美詞/句

單詞拼寫錯誤多/少

語法 主體時態是否用一般現在時

句子結構是否正確、優美

行文 是否流暢

亮點 是否有創意之處

T: Share your letter with your partner in your group and try to give some suggestions to each other according　to the assessing standard. Each group should choose a best one and sent it to the public BBS. Remember to sign your group number on the bottom of the letter. I will choose one of them to share with the whole class.

Step 5 Conclusion

Describe friends or friendship. What your understanding of friends or friendship.

T: Since the topic of this unit is friendship, do you know when International Friendship Day is?

T:On the first Sunday of August, time to recognize your friends and their contribution to your life. Obviously, friends are a very important part of our life. Now let’s enjoy a short poem about friends.

Friends

A friend is someone we turn to,

when our spirits need a lift,

A friends is someone we treasure,

for our friendship is a gift.

A friend is someone who fills our lives

with beauty, joy and grace,

And makes the whole world we live in,

a better and happier place.

T: Now can you tell me what your understanding of friends or friendship? I can give you some more examples.

Someone say: “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

T: Write a sentence to describe friends or friendship according to your understanding. Send them on the BBS. Sign your name after your sentence. We will share your understanding later. You can also read more descriptions.

T: The sentences can be very plain, like "A true friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves."

They can be very meaningful, like” Friendship is a candle whose flame glows brighter when the hour is darker."

And they can also be very simple, like “Best friends are better than boyfriends."

Please set down your sentence.

Step 6 Homework

1. Further improve your letter according to the assessing standard.

　　　　　 Assessment 　

Content Does the article have a clear structure?

Does your article include attitude, advice and understanding of friendship?

Grammar Do you use the capital & punctuation correctly?

Do you use tense correctly?

Do you spell the words correctly?

Language Do you use some good expressions from what we’ve learned ?

Do you use linking words like “ besides, and…”to make your article more coherent?

*Do you use different sentence patterns?

2. Make the final copy of the letter and sent it as an email to Xiaodong. The email address is cjjane23@sina.com