Lead in:
Hello, boys and girls. Today we’ll continue to learn Unit 3 Listening. Before this class, I want to ask you some questions,I have a sister. Can you guess what she looks like and what she is like? (Show them you are waiting.)S: She is tall. /She is thin. /
She has long hair./She is outgoing/…(Students use their imagination and express themselves freely.)Let’s look at our photos. (Show them on the screen.) Please talk about us.S: She is shorter than you. /She has shorter hair than you. /She is thinner than you. /… (Students get information from the photos.)I’m more outgoing than my sister.
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Presentation
Revise the adjectives and adverbs describing people’s appearance and personalities:
Write down on a piece of paper prepared before class. (Students must collect them before class.)Show some photos about famous persons and talk about their personal traits, using description words, such as short hair/long hair, quietly/loudly, tall/short,heavy/thin, funny/serious, outgoing/quiet, smart/foolish, hard-working/lazy,friendly/unfriendly …etc, on the screen.
Learn some new words about personal traits: calm/wild, athletic/weak, using the pictures of 3 pairs of twins in Section A.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.
Do Section A~la.Match each word with the opposite. Check the answers.Let's introduce the rules of the omparative degree of adjectives/adverbs.(Show them on the screen.)
Listening
Work on 2a
Point out the two columns and read the headings: -er, -ier and more. Then point out the words in the box. Read them...now listen and write the –er and –ier words in the first column and the words that use more in the second column.
Play the recording and check the answers.
Work on 2b.
Point out the picture and the two boxes with the headings Tina is and Tara is. Say,
listen to the recording. Write word in the boxes. The words are from the list in activity
Play the recording and check the answers.
Practice
Task 1: Interview famous persons
Demonstrate the activity with one student. (Imagine he/she is a famous person. The teacher acts as a reporter.) Hello, Susan. May I ask you some questions about your family? S: Yes. Do you have a brother or a sister?S: Yes, I have two brothers and one sister. Who is taller, your sister or you?S: I’m taller than my sister.Who is the most athletic of you?S: My oldest brother.(Show an example on the screen.)
You work in pairs. Then ask some pairs to act them out in class.
Task 2: Public vote
Choose the two students and then work in groups. Fill in the chat.
The two students Name
Who is taller?
Who is shorter?
Who is heavier?
Who is thinner?
Who is more outgoing?
Who is more hard-working?
Each group choose one student to do a report. Show the results in class.
Task 3: Super star
Suppose you are a super star in the future. What will you look like and what will you be like?S: I’m better than now, of course.Show an example on the screen.I want to be a super star. Now I’m tall. Later I’m taller. Now I’m a middle school student. Later I’m a college student…
Reading and Writing
You are Isabel now. Write a letter to reply Liu Li. Talk about the same and differences between you and one of your friends.Choose two or three to share the replies with the whole class.
Summary:
In this period, we mainly learned how to ask for information and consolidate the use of objective clauses with wh-questions through a conversation. Meanwhile, we also learned some key words and structures.
Homework:
This class,we have learned more about places. So I prepared some homework for you .1.
Make conversations with your partner.2. Write a passage about you and another person,you can write about your sister, brother, your friend, your classmate, and so on.
OK,Class is over, Thank you!Have a good day!
