3. Ask 2-3 Ss to retell the three articles.

Step 7 Practice

Step 1 Revision.

T: Yesterday we learnt to talk about friends, can you tell me

1) What are the most important qualities of a good friend?

2) What are the very important qualities of a good friend?

3) What’s your good friend like?

T: Is your friend’s appearance very important to you?

Ss: No.

T: Good. We should never judge a person by his appearance or clothes. But it’ll be good for you to learn some words to describe your friends’ appearance, right?

T shows the pictures and teaches “shoulder-length”, “slim” and “poor eyesight”.

Step 2 Presentation

T: I have a good friend. Do you want to know her? What do you want to know about her?

Shows a picture. Describe my good friend. Introduce some new expressions:

As tall as; be willing to; have a good sense of humor; feel bored

Step 3 Practice

Ss do Part B2, P9 individually. After checking the answers, T asks some Ss to give some more details about the appearance of each person in the pictures.

Step 4 Presentation

1) T: ‘Teenagers’ magazine is holding a writing competition about good friends. Some students have written some entries for it. Please read and find out whether the following statements are true or false.

T plays the tape recorder for the Ss to repeat.

Ss read and do Part C1, P10.

2) Ss read the articles again and do Part B1 on their own.

3) Fast reading

Please read and find out their main qualities.

1---generous, helpful

2---humorous (have a good sense of humor), funny

3---true friend, kind

Step 5 Read for details

T: What do we usually write about when we describe our friends?

Ss: Appearance, personalities …

T: Yes, in which paragraph do we usually write about the appearance?

Ss: Paragraph 1.

T: And in Paragraph 2?

Ss: Personalities.

T: Right. We also call it personalities. In the 3^rd paragraph we can write about their behaviors or future plans.

Complete a table after reading their entries once more.

Step 6 Retell

1) T: So we have got a table about them. And you have known a lot about them. Can you say something about them according to the information in the table.

2. Give Ss 3 minutes to prepare

2．录音机

1．多媒体

能用形容词的各种形式形容人的外貌和朋友的品质。

3. 通过讨论朋友的外貌和品质，增进朋友间的了解

2. 能用所学知识和方法表达朋友的品质

1. 能谈论各自的朋友

Step1 Warm-up 　

T shows the pictures and introduce some places of interest and animals in Beijing.

Ss talk about people in the photos with the adjectives describing appearance and personality, such as friendly, helpful, kind, polite, clever, etc.

Step 2 Presentation

T: There are some more words to describe people. For example, we can say Yao Ming is good-looking. But we never say he’s beautiful! We don’t use beautiful to describe a boy or a man. If someone likes music or is good at music, we say he or she is musical.

Teach “good-looking” and “musical”.　

Step 3 Practice

1) Play a guessing game. Ss describe their best friends in the class and guess who are talked about.

2) Ss complete the table in Part B, P7. Then work in pairs to exchange their ideas and have a debate.

Sentences can be used:

I think my good friend should be very … because…

I agree. / I don’t agree with you because …

It’s quite important for a friend to be …? Do you think so?

I don’t think my good friend must be very …

3) Teach “sad”, “believe”, “honest” and “joy”.

Ss complete Part A, P7 and report individually.

4) T explains some language points.

Step 4 Presentation

1) T: Who’s Eddie’s good friend? Why?

T plays the tape of the Comic strip and Ss try to find out the answer to the question.

(Hobo is Eddie’s good friend because they always share things with each other.)

2) Ss read the Comic strip and answer the questions:

a) What does Eddie give Hobo?

b)　What does Hobo want?

c) Do you think Eddie is a true friend? Why?

3) Ss read the dialogue in pairs and try to act it out.

4) T explains some language points.

Step 5 Practice

1) Ss act out the dialogue and they are encouraged to add in something they like.

2) Discuss: Who do you like better as a friend, Eddie or Hobo? Why?

3) Ss work in pairs to ask and answer about their good friends.

Step 6 Summarize

T: Today we have learned some important qualities about a good friend. It seems that we all think appearance is not so important, but a friend should be helpful and honest. And I hope everyone can be like that and you will have more friends.

Step 7 Homework

1) Describe a good friend of yours with the words and phrases learnt in this lesson.

2) Finish the Workbook exercises.

Period2: Reading (1)

3. 人物照片