1．复习本单元语法-形容词比较级和最高级的使用

Step 1 Brainstorming and free discussion

Let’s talk about our best friends. How many adjectives can your find to talk about your friends? You can use the following structure .: 　_______ is my best friends.　 　He/ She is __________.

Encourage the students to give as many words as possible. Classify the words into different groups while writing them on the blackboard.

Step 2 Talk about Daniel’s friend

Ss listen to the tape and try to answer the following questions:

1) Is his friend a boy or a girl?

2) Is he/she his new friend or old friend?

3) What does he/she look like?

Step 4 　Reading the article

1) Ss read the article quickly and try to answer the following Qs:

　Why does Daniel think he/she is his best friend?

What’s her personality ?

2) Get the students to read the article aloud and get them to identify the four paragraphs in the article. Help them to identify the purpose of each paragraph. Help the students to focus on some of the wonderful sentences, because they may need them for their own writing. Encourage them to make up new sentences. Such as :

Step 5 　Doing an activity

Vote for our monitor:

1) First, get students to think of what kind of person can be a good monitor. Focus on the personality and ability.

2) Choose one student to be a new monitor. Group members work together and discuss about the student’s appearance, personality and ability.

Give the students a general structure for them to follow and organize their ideas.

Step 6 　Homework

Finish the writing in step5.

Period10: Check out

2. 投影

1. 图片

学会描述人的外貌和品质

2. 学会描述人的外貌和品质

1. 学会对描绘人的形容词进行归纳和总结

Step 1 Revision:

T helps the students to revise how to talk about their future plans.

Ask: 1) Do you have any future plans?

2) What are you going to do when you grow up?

3) Why?

4) What will you do to fulfill your aims?

T asks some students to talk about it orally in class.

Step 2 lead - in

1) Present the task today by playing a game.

l　　　　 Divide the students in four groups,

l　　　　 The teacher gives the first student a paper on which there’s a story, ask the first student to read it carefully and then pass the story on orally.

l　　　　 At last ask the last student to tell the story that he get to the whole class, and then the teacher will read the story to class, ask them to find out the differences between the two stories.

2) Make a conclusion, tell the students when we are reading , we should pay attention to some main points, generally speaking, the main points are about the questions below:

l　　　　 What is it about?

l　　　　 Who is it about?

l　　　　 What happened?

l　　　　 When did it happen?

l　　　　 Why did it happen?

l　　　　 How did it happen?　

Step 3 Reading.

T asks the students to open the book on page 14, and read the letter on page 14. Ss try to find out information about the questions above.

Who: Cindy---a grade 8 student

Where: Bei jing Sunshine Secondary School

What: 　move to a new school, have problems with her new school

Why : 　Don’t know school very well, have no friends, do not know how to talk to her new friends,

How: 　feel uncomfortable, nervous; always stay alone

T asks the students to underline the main points with the help of the table above.

Step 4 Retelling

T asks the students to retell the letter with the help of the key words on the blackboard.

Step 5 Consolidation exercises

Provide one more reading for the students to practise.

Step 6 Homework:

1)　　　 Workbook: period 8

2)　　　 Preview the new words in main task.

Period9: Main task

2. 投影仪

学会找出材料中的关键词和重点句子。