通过谈论自己朋友的外貌和优秀品质，学习正确使用形容词，在此基础上，进一步学习并掌握形容词比较级和最高级的构成和使用，在反复练习中不但增进了朋友间的交流和了解，也使友谊得到升华和巩固；同时，通过词汇的学习、综合技能的训练、学习技能的了解和任务的完成，使学生各个方面的能力得以提高。

6. For weaker classes, go through the diary entry and check that they understand all the words and phrases. Ask more able students to think of other adjectives or nouns to fit the context of the sentences. Write the appropriate suggestions on the board.

Extension activity

Ask students to write their own diary entries about some of the ‘best friends’ in this unit. Allow students to read the descriptions of Betty, Max and May on page 4, the letters on pages 12 and 13, and the description of Kate on page 16 again.

5. Ask more able students to work in pairs and check each other’s work. Remind them to write the score in the ‘paw’. For less able students, check answers with the whole class. Explain strategies on how to improve if students have problems. Suggest that they try to learn the adjective and the noun as a unit wherever possible.

4. Tell students that they need to select the correct adjectives and noun phrases to fit the context of the sentences in the diary entry in Part B. set a time limit.

3. For stronger classes, ask students to correct themselves, or divide the class into pairs. Students correct each other’s work and write the score in the ‘paw’.

2. Ask students to read through the table and complete the conversation. Set a time limit.

1. Tell students that they will be able to check their use of adjectives, comparatives and superlatives in the structures they have learned earlier in the unit by doing Part A.

4. To use noun and adjective collocations to describe people’s appearance and personalities

Background information

This section encourages students to find out how much they have learned and how well their learning strategies are working. In Part A of the Checkout section, students have a chance to meet Daniel’s best friend Kate. In Part B, they read a diary entry written by Daniel.

Teaching procedures

3. To assess students’ understanding of a range of adjectives and set phrases to describe people’s appearance and personalities