2、　 Ss work in pairs. Then ask some pairs to act them out in class.

Task 2: Public vote (Group work)

1、Demonstrate the activity with one student. (Imagine he/she is a famous person. The teacher acts as a reporter.)

eg.T: Hello, Susan. May I ask you some questions about your family?

　 S: Yes.

　 T: Do you have a brother or a sister?

　 S: Yes, I have two brothers and one sister.

　 T: Who is taller, your sister or you?

　 S: I’m taller than my sister.

　 T: Who is the most athletic of you?

　 S: My oldest brother.

　 (Show an example on the screen.)

3、　 Check the answers.

［听力训练既是对知识的巩固，也为下一步的任务输出提供了输入材料。］

Step 5 Practice

Task 1: Interview famous persons(Pair work)

2、　 Listen to the tape and complete the chat in 2a. Listen again and fill in chat in 2b.

1、　 Listen to the tape and number the pictures in 1b.

3、　 Get students to introduce the rules of the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives.(Show them on the screen.)

［1、充分利用课本资源和网络资源，进行词汇教学，词不离句，形散而神不散。2、让学生归纳总结语法知识点，因势利导，有利于开启思维，体现以学生为中心的教学特点。］

Step 4 Listening

2、　 Do Section A-1a.Match each word with the opposite. Check the answers.

1、　 Learn some new words about personal traits: calm/wild, athletic/weak，　 using the pictures of 3 pairs of twins in Section A.

T: Who is calmer, Tom or Sam?

S: Tom is calmer than Sam. Sam is wilder than Tam.

Tom is more athletic than Sam. Sam is weaker than Tom.

2、Show some photos about famous persons and talk about their personal traits, using description words, such as short hair/long hair, curly hair/straight hair, tall/short, heavy/thin, funny/serious, outgoing/quiet, smart/foolish, beautiful/ugly, intelligent/lazy, friendly/unfriendly …etc, on the screen.

［1、复习已学内容，自然延伸到新课学习，起到承上启下的作用。2、开展竞赛活动，既可调动课堂气氛，又可提高求知欲望，一举两得。］

Step 3 Presentation

1、　 Revise the adjectives describing people’s appearance and personalities:

Divide the class into four groups and have a competition. See which group of the students can get as much as possible. Write down on a piece of paper prepared before class. (Students must collect them before class.)