3. To be able to communicate with each other in order to know each other better.
Focus and Difficulties: Focus on writing facts.
Difficulties: use the simple present tense to describe a person.
Teaching Methods: listening, reading, speaking, writing.
Teaching Aids: BB, Multi-media, tape-recorder
Teaching procedures:
Pre-stage:
Step 1 Daily report 5mins(11:05-11:10)
Ask one student to teach others to sing an English songs.
T: Who is on duty today?
Step 2 Lead-in 5mins(11:10-11:15)
T: Before we learn sth new, let’s play a game. Guess who he/she is during my description. We will have an competition. The faster you give the correct answer, the more points you can get. Understand? Are you ready?
(multi-media, Four persons)
- She is a student in our class. She is not very tall, but she is slim.
- She doesn’t wear glasses and she has long hair in a ponytail.
- She always wears a smile on her face.
- She is polite and helpful to everyone.
- She is our monitor.
(Candy)
- He is a student in our class. He is not tall.
- He doesn’t wear glasses.
- He has small eyes.
- His hair is very short.
- He has a twin sister.
(Tony)
- He is a famous singer.
- He has big eyes. he is tall and slim.
- He can speak Chinese and English.
- He was born in America.
- He is good at playing the guitar, violin and piano.
(Lee-hom Wang)
- She is well-known as a sports woman in China.
- She is good at water sports.
- She has small eyes.
- She has long brown hair.
- She does well in diving.
(Guo Jingjing)
T: Ok, now I’ll introduce two new friends to you. They are Millie and Daniel. Listen to the tape and think about the questions below.
While-stage:
Step 3 Play the tape-recorder. 3mins(11:15-11:18)
- How old is Millie?
- Is she tall?
- She has blue eyes, right?
- What colour is her hair?
- Does she love music?
- What subject is she good at?
- Does she have many friends?
( Multi-media)
Step 4 Answer the questions then read the passage together.
T: Now, let’s check if you have known her or not. Can you read the questions and answer them one by one?
T: Ok, let’s see how to complete Millie’s profile.
Step 5 Read the second passage about Daniel and then complete another passage. 3mins(11:18-11:21)
T: Good! I think girls would like to be Millie’s friends. What about boys? Do you want to have a new friend? Ok, here’s a boy called Daniel. I think he will be your friend after you read the passage about him on P 19. Now, read the passage by yourselves.
(Ss read 1min)
Now, do you remember him? Close your books. Ok, let’s complete another passage about him. (Then read the passage together.)
Can you complete Daniel’s profile?
Step 6 Work in pairs to complete the table on P20. 8mins(11:21-11:29)
T: Now, you’ve known Millie and Daniel. But if you want to be their friends, you should write an e-mail to them to introduce yourselves. Do you know what to write?
Here are several questions. Now, work in pairs to make a short dialogue by using them. They will help you write later.
- What’s your name?
- How old are you?
- Where were you born?
- Where do you live?
- What’s your school name?
- Which grade/class are you in?
- How do you look?
- What do you like doing?
- What subjects are you good at?
( Multi-media) (ask two Ss to do it in pairs)
(Then complete the table on P20)
Step 7 Writing process 5mins(11:29-11:34)
T: Now let’s conclude the writing process. How to write a passage about yourself? In the first paragraph, you should write your name, your age, your birthplace, your living place, your school name, your class and grade.
In the second paragraph, you need to write how you look.
In the third paragraph, you can introduce your hobbies and your favourite subjects.
In the last paragraph, you can conclude (总结) your characters(特点). You can use some words to describe yourself (helpful, polite, work hard)
Now, write a passage about yourself.
Step 8 Communication 5mins(11:34-11:39)
T: Read your passages in groups of four, then choose the best one of the four passages. The winner is…… (Congratulations! I have a little gift for you.)
Step 9 Feedback 5mins(11:39-11:44)
T: There is Eddie’s profile. Can you complete the passage about him?
|
Name |
Eddie |
|
Age |
2 |
|
Birthplace |
Beijing |
|
Living place |
Millie’s house |
|
He looks |
fat, y_______ hair, a b___ mouth d______ b______ small eyes |
|
He likes |
1. 许多nice food |
|
|
2. 吃 |
|
not |
doing sport |
________ is the newest __________(成员) in Millie’s family. He is ______ ___________(岁) and he looks ________. He ______ _________(出生) in ___________. Now he ________(和) Millie ________ (live) in ______________. He ______ (have) _______ hair and a _________ mouth. His eyes are d________b_________ and very small. Eddie likes _____________(许多)nice ________ very much. He ________(擅长) _________(吃) .His ___________(最喜欢的)food is pizza. But he __________ (not) e________ doing sport .How lazy he is!
(Check the answers and read the passage.)
Step 10 Who is your favourite super star? 5mins(11:44-11:49)
T: Do you think Eddie is a super star? Who is your favourtite super star? Write a passage to introduce him/her to us.
Post-stage:
Step 11 Homework 1min(11:49-11:50)
- Make a poster of your favourite super star and then stick it on the wall in the classroom.
- The exercises on workbook & Assessment book.
- Preview Checkout and complete the exercises.