2. Go through the words in the table on P15.

1. When you want to talk about sth, what do you feel difficult to do?　 Proper words and phrases.

So we need to gather enough words about sth. when we want to talk about it. How many words do you know that we can use to describe our friends? Let’s do it in groups. Please show us you are the best.

After it, T collects their words on the Bb and decide which group is the winner.

In this unit, we have learnt a lot about how to describe our best friends. Show three photos of Betty, Max and May. Ask some students to describe them. Revise some useful words and expressions.

Ask: What aspects can we talk about from when we talk about our best friends?

Ø　　　　 What’s his/her name?

Ø　　　　 What’s he/she like？

Ø　　　　 What’s his/her quality of a good friend (personality)?

Ø　　　　 What does he/she like doing?

Ø　　　　 What would he/she like to do in the future?

Please keep them in your mind. We will talk about them step by step.

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?

Step3. Reading.

Ask the students to open the book on page 14, and read the letter on page 14. 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

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

Step4. Retelling

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

Step5. Consolidation exercises

Provide one more reading for the students to practise.

Homework:

l　　　　 Hand book: period 8

l　　　　 Preview the new words in main task.

Period 9　 Main task

Aim: To plan ideas for writing

　to learn the proper and easy ways to write something;

to write a description of the appearance and personality of a friend.

Teaching procedures:

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.

4. What will you do to fulfill your aims?

Ask some students to talk about it orally in class.

Step2. lead- in

3. Why?

Write at least 5 sentences to show what they like and what they would like to do in the future.

Period 8. Study skills

Teaching aims:

Ø　　　　 To find the main points of a passage in order to understand and memorize it more easily.

Ø　　　　 To identify keywords in order to develop general understanding of a passage.

Ø　　　　 To guess meaning and generate mental pictures.

Teaching procedures:

Step1. Revision:

Help 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. Do you have any interesting pictures? I’m sure you do. Would you like to take them out and share them with your partners? (Practice in pairs, talking about their appearance and their own plans, using some pictures of their family or their friends)

2. Listen and repeat.