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Chapter 1 A letter from a pen-friendReadingKnowledge objectives:1. To learn how to meet and describe people.2. To learn to guess the meaning of new vocabulary according to the context.3. To learn to understand the whole meaning of the text by asking and answering some questions.Skill objectives:1. To use pair work to study new words .2. To use scanning and skimming to improve their reading ability.3. To use tasks to train students cooperative habits.Emotional objectives:1. To learn to be friendly to other people.Points:How to teach new vocabulary efficiently in class.Difficulties:To use different ways to let most of the students be interested in reading and learn how to read.Period 1Warm-up:1. Revision about the words and their explanation. (competition)want to=would like to likebetter than=prefertobe good at= does well in well-known= famousvery small= tiny not safe= dangeroushave a good time= enjoy oneself though= althoughnotany longer= no longer make sick people better=doctorPre-reading preparation:1. Introduce two new characters appeared in the cartoon.The boy is called Hi, do you know why ? Because he is high or tall. The robot is called Lo,because he is low or short.We wiil meet them in every chapter. They will make some jokes or puns and tell us what we will learn in this chapter.2. Look at the picture in the cartoon and read the dialogue between the two characters. (pair work)3. Learn to use English to explain the meaning of pen-friend= someone you write letters to as a hobby.4. Discuss the meaning of cartoon and share opinions. (they can use Chinese to explain when necessary)5. summarize the cartoon: Hi and Lo are thinking of the meaning of Pen-friend in two different ways. The boy is thinking of the meaning we have just learnedsomeone you write letters to, but Lo is thing of a friend who is a pen. Thats funny, isnt it?6. Read the dialogue in groups and ask: what is the topic of this chapter?Pen-friend.While-reading procedure:1. One thing which we often write about in a letter to pen-friends is sports. Can you tell the names of various sports?2. Look at the exercise 1 on P2. Look at the picture and match them with their names.rugby橄榄球， hocky- 曲棍球3. Read them and discuss which sport is your favorite sport, why?4. Take a look at the text and tell why it is a letter and not a story or a poem.Introduce the normal formats of writing an English letter. Do Exercise B Look and think: explain the meaning of any words in this exercise: title(标题), signature(签名), greeting(问候语), top right corner(右上角).5. Tick the things that you can see in this text. Check answers together.Post-reading activity:Listen to the recording and do Exercise B2, when listening is finished, the exercise should be done as well.Assignment:1. Listen to the recording twice.2. Copy new vocabulary.3. *Write three reasons about your favorite sport.Period 2Warm-up:1. read and spellPre-reading preparation:1. A letter should have an address at the top-right corner, a date under the address, a signature at the end and a greeting. (Revision)2. Find the information in the letter in Ex B2 as quickly as you can .(competition)3. Check answers individually.While-reading procedure:1. Listen to the recording and circle the new words.2. Let students work in groups and help each other to explain these new words. Teacher gives help if necessary.3. Look at the board and match the meaning with the correct words.4. Read the new words after the teacher and students repeat them one by one.5. Do ExC2 on P5. choose the correct meaning from two. It is not difficult for them to do. So check answers in the whole class.6. There are four paragraphs in the letter. Skim the text and match the synopsis with each paragraph.Post-reading activity:Divide the class into four groups and have a discussion. Try to ask some questions according to each paragraph. Then do “ask and answer” in competition.Assignment:1. Copy new vocabulary and their explanations.2. Listen to the recording and read after it twice.3. *Choose one paragraph and recite it.Period 3Warm-up:1. Competition: Hot seat! (Listen to the meaning and speak out the right word as soon as possible)Pre-reading preparation:1. Read the news words together.2. When we meet a new word, you can tell its meaning by reading all the words around it. This is a good way to read articles and it is much quicker than looking it up in the dictionary. Look at the example on P4.3. Use this way to complete the exercise in ExC1. Read and think first before you ask or use the dictionary. Try to guess the meaning with the words or sentences around it . Check answers individually.While-reading procedure:1. Read the first paragraph after the recording and tick the things that Sidney actually mentions in his letter.( Ex D: find the facts)2. Read the other two paragraphs and complete the table.Family membersnationalityBirth of SidneyJob of his parentsJob of his brotherSchoolLike it or notFavorite sportsBest subjectambition 3. Read the text paragraph by paragraph.Post-reading activity:Do a cloze about Sidney himself without looking at the text.Im _1_, Im _2_ years old. Im about _3_ tall. I have _4_ black hair and _5_ eyes. My favourite hobby is playing _6_. I also enjoy playing _7_.Assignment:1. Get ready for the dictation about new vocabulary,2. Read or recite one part of the text.3. *Write about yourself according to the 1st paragraph.Period 4Warm-up:1. DictationPre-reading preparation:1. Ask and answer some questions according to the letter.Whats Sidneys pen-friends name?How tall is Sidney?Whats Sidneys favortite sports?Which school is Sidney in?What job does he want to do in the future?Use some words to describe Sidney.2. Do Ex E: Read and think. Read the sentences about Sidney and write T or F or DK.Check answers individually, if it is false, try to tell the reason.While-reading procedure:1. Further study: do Ex E2: Read the sentences about Sidney. Find the facts that tell you that they are probably true. For example: Hes probably healthy. (probably=perhaps=maybe)He likes playing sports.Check answers individually. Students should learn to find useful information in the article.2. Do “More practice”A, Look at the picture of Tim Green and complete the table.3. Use pair work to check answers, for example: What colour is his hair? How long is his hair?What color is his eyes? How tall is he? How old is he? Whats his hobby? Whats his ambition?Post-reading activity:Let students do group work: choose one student to make a table about his or her personal information, then one group choose one student to make a riddle to let others guess who he or she is.Assignment:1. Listen and read the letter.2. Do Work book and Grammar Practice Book.3. *Introduce your family according to paragraph 2 the letter given.Listening Knowledge objectives:1. To learn to take notes while listening.2. To prepare for some of the patterns in the language section.3. To learn to use different ways to describe people while listening.Skill objectives:1. To use the information given to complete the listening practice.2. To learn to have a good habit while listening.Emotional objectives:1. To make friends from all over the world.Difficulties:1. To make students listen and grasp the main meaning and choose the useful information in the listening material. Period 5Warm-up:1. Read and spell.2. ask some students to share their family.Pre-Listening preparation:1. Lead students to read the requirements of the listening practice.There are four people here, according to the description of each person, try to complete the table and guess who he or she is.2. Lead students to read the table with the information given.While-listening procedure:1. Play the first part of the listening material, let students know how to complete the table about ones personal information. For example : how to take the notes of “four feet and six inches”(46”).2. Play the recording twice. Students try to finish all the blanks in the table.3. There is one new word here : blond which means someones hair is yellow and we usually use it for describing women.4. After completing the table, try to write the numbers 1-4 under the correct photographs.Post-listening : 1. Check answers in the whole class.2. Learn to how to ask questions about one persons information. Such as using what color, how tall, where, how long, etc.Assignment:1. Make a dialogue according to the table given.LanguageKnowledge objectives:1. To learn to use question words to ask questions.2. To exercise to complete the sentence according to the information given.3. To learn to know the differences between a and an.Skill objectives:1. To use pair work and group work to make consolidation more interesting.Emotional objectives:1. To let students have his own ambition.Difficulties:1. How to make sure the students can use the question words correctly .Period 6Warm-up:1. Listen to a song. (it includes some question words)Pre-task preparation:1. Let students tell: what do you know about these words, list them on the board.2. Write what, when, where on the board, what are they used to?Whatthings, whentime, whereplacesLet students make one sentence according to each of them.While-task procedure:1. Write one table on the board.According to the table, try to use where, what, when to do ask and answer.e.g.: Wheres Peter?Whats he doing here?When is he coming back?2. Riddle1: Tom is 8 years old, John is twice as old as Tom and two years younger than Jane. How old is John and How old is Jane?“How old” is used to find out about age.Riddle 2: Mary has 22 oranges, She gives 8 to Peter and half of that number to Ben. How many oranges does Mary have now? How many oranges does Ben have?“How many” is used to find out about amounts.3. DO Ex A1, A2 and A3.Use these five question words to fill in the blanks and complete the dialogue. You can check answers by doing pair work in class.4. When we answer these questions, we can answer it as short as you can, even one word, so long as it makes senses to the questioner.5. Do Ex A4. Learn to shorten answers to the numbers of words in brackets.So the right answer should not be very long. It may be very short.Post- task activity:1. Try to memorize the information about Sidney in the letter and answer the questions. Check answers in the whole class.This is a competition. Teacher can add some more questions. E.g: How old is Sidney? When was he born? How many family members has he got?Assignment:1. Do Grammar Practice Book to consolidate the language points.2. *Make an interview with your classmates using the question words given.Period 7Warm-up:1. Pair work to check the oral homework.Pre-task preparation:1. Introduce the articles: a and an.2. Ask students when we use these two articles.3. Conclusion: We often use a before words beginning with vowel (元音)sounds. We use an before words beginning with consonant (辅音)sounds But there are a few words with vowel letters but with consonant sounds, we also use a. such as European, uniform. Some words start with consonant letters but with vowel sounds ,we use an. Such as honest, hour.While-task procedure:1. Do the choice on P10.2. Complete the sentences with a or an.Check answers in the whole class.3. Do Ex B2.Post-task activity:1. additional practice. one, useless, age, ice-cream, accident, insect, ear, owner, egg, uncle.Let students make examples with vowel letters but consonant sounds, vowel sounds and consonant letters but vowel sounds.(cmpetttion)Assignment:1. Complete the exercises on Work book.2. *Find out some more special words.SpeakingKnowledge objectives:1. To learn to read the sentence by falling our voice or rising our voice.Skill objectives:1. To let students read the sentences to each other to practice their ability.Emotional objectives:1. To let students learn to communicate with people with proper ways.Difficulties:1. How to let students practice their spoken English in class. Period 8Warm-up:1. Dictation about the text.Pre-task preparation:1. Look at the dialogue on P11. Let students do pair work to read the sentences.2. When we ask questions starting with what, where, when, how old and how many, we let our voice fall at the end.(降调). When we answer these questions, we usually let our voice fall at the end, too. 3. Play the recording and students read after the tape to correct their pronunciation.While-task procedure:1. Write the dialogue on the board without arrows, let students read them in groups. Then read them in the whole class.2. We let our voice rise at the end of sentences to express surprise and other feelings.3. Play the recording and students read after the tape.4. Do Ex A3. (give more chance to more students to speak English).Post-task activity:Group work: Do Speak up. Use some simple sentences to introduce your best friend, share it in groups and then read it in the whole class.Assignment:1. Read the dialogue in Speaking section.2. *Make two sentences , one with fall voice and the other with rise voice.Using English&More practiceKnowledge objectives:1. To learn to look up new words with the help of a dictionary.2. To use the reading skills to do another reading comprehension. Skill objectives:1. To use discussion to get conclusion according to the questions given.Emotional objectives:1. To be a hard-working person like Jackie Chen.Period 9Warm-up:1. Ask and answer.Pre-task preparation:1. Competition: ask some students to find out the meaning of some new words with the help of a dictionary.2. We call the books which can give us useful information reference books( 参考书)There are some other reference books we usually use in our daily life. Such as anencyclopaedia tells us about facts, a telephone directory tells us about telephone numbers and names.3. Read the sentences after me and complete the ExA.While-task procedure:1. Introduce the alphabet(字母)，alphabetical is its adjective. In reference booksm words and names are usually arranged in alphabetical order. Words starting with a are the first and so on until the letter z.2. Do ExB1B3 with class.3. Do B4B5 and tell if words have the same first letter, the second letter decides the alphabetical order.Post-task activity:More practice: Use group discussion to read the article and answer the questions.Assignment:1. Read the article.2. *Use reference book to learn new words appeared in the article.WritingKnowledge objectives:1. To learn to write a letter with special attention.Skill objectives:1. To use group wok to train students cooperative study ability.Emotional objectives:1. To learn to make friends with other people.Difficulties:1. How to make every student take part in the group work and help each other.Period 10Warm-up:1. Read and spellPre-task preparation:1. Revision about the format of writing a letter.2. Read A to learn : how to start and finish a letter. How to arrange information and write it in paragraphs. How to write the address on the letter.While-task procedure:1. Ask students to do group work to discuss the arrangements and contents about the letter.2. Talk about the letter orally first.3. Write the letter down according to the format given on P15.4. Do pair work to correct mistakes you can find in your desk mates writing. Teacher gives help when they are discussing or writing.5. Teacher talks about one or two writing in the whole class.6. Write the envelope on ExC. You can read the letter from Sidney on P3.Assignment:1. Complete the writing about a letter to your pen-friend. Write at least 60 words.2. *Give some sentences and choose some of them to write this letter.
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