Do Part B

　 Do additional exercise (Fill in the blanks with proper words)

　Ask some students to read their passages to the class. Get Ss to discuss the adjectives and some set phrases in their passages.

　Brainstorming the useful vocabulary about how to describe the best friend

Write a passage about their good friends.

Period 10 　　Checkout

Aims: to review what they have learnt in this unit;

　　 to assess their understanding and correct use of adjectives, comparatives and superlatives.

This is the check out of the whole unit. That means the most important language points in this unit are using adjectives to describe something and using ‘(not) as … as’ to compare two things. So we need to design some exercises to practise using them and make sure that students can use them fluently.

Usually I ask them to make some sentences, talk about some topic, and look back on what we have learnt in this unit. Sometimes I also ask them to do some translations. It is useful to learn a foreign language, especially to those who can’t study well enough.

After that, I use this page as a short test. I ask them to do it in 5~10 minutes, then check the answers immediately. To do so, students can have more confidence in themselves and know better about themselves in time.

Teaching procedures:

After they finish writing, use some of their passages as a model. Show them to the whole class and ask the other students to find out the good points in each passage. After talking about some passages, ask them to rewrite their passages to make them better.

Have we learnt how to write about these in this unit? Can you remember what we talked about at the beginning of this class?

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?

Are you ready to write about your good friends? Let’s have a try. (They can talk about sb in the class in groups first. In this way, the weak students will know what to write and how to write it.)

2. Ask Ss to find out the structure of the passage by themselves. T can help them when needed.

　 Introduction-Body(appearance-personality and ability)-Conclusion(hobbies and future plans)

1. Elicit

OK. I’m going to write about my good friend.

…is my best friend. ……(put these phrases and sentences together randomly)(ask for their opinion about this ‘passage’)

So the structure of a passage is very important.

Now we have these words. Is it enough to write a passage? No. So we still need some phrases and sentences structures. Try to find the phrases and sentences Daniel used in his passage.

4. Group work. Find out the useful words about how to describe the best friends

　 ( eg. tall, slim; square, long; bright, smiling; pretty, kink; clever, help, happy)

3. Read the passage on P16 quickly and find out some information about Daniel’s best friend