Unit 1 Good Friends

By Yin Qingguo

一、Goals & Contents
1. Knowledge
A. words (basic)
honest, brave, loyal, wise, handsome, smart, classical, fond of, match, mirror, fry, gun, hammer, saw, rope, movie, cast, deserted, hunt, hunt for, in order to, share, sorrow, care about, feeling, such as, airplane, lie, speech, adventure, notebook, drop a line, error ,survive, be into
B. words (optional)
solution, compass, , parachute, scared, formal, hike
C. Sentences
I don’t enjoy singing, nor do I like computers.
I hate hiking and I’m not into classical music.
Chuck is a businessman who is always so busy that he has little time for his friends.
Chuck is on a flight across the Pacific when suddenly his plane crashes.
He realizes that he hasn’t been a very good friend because he has always been thinking about himself.
He also learns that he should have cared more about his friends.
D. Phrases
have little time, surf the Internet, all the time, on a flight, survive the crash, a deserted island, all alone, collect water, hunt for food, make fire, develop a friendship, share happiness and sorrow, have someone to care about, to give as much as to take
E. Grammar
Direct speech and Indirect speech.
2. Ability & Function
① Learn how to describe friends.
② Learn how to express your likes and dislikes
③ Learn how to make / offer apologies
④ Learn how to change the direct speech into indirect speech and vice visa.
⑤ Learn how to compose an e-mail.
二、Schedule and Procedures
1. Time Allotment
Period 1---Warming up & Speaking
Period 2---Listening & Talking
Period 3&4---Reading (plus“Pre-”&“Post-”& language study)
Period 5&6---Language study& Practicing
Period 7&8---Integrating skills &Assessing
２. Procedures

Period 1
Warming up & Speaking

Step One：Warming up
Teaching aims: how to describe a good friend
talking about likes and dislikes
1. Words to be studied
honest, brave, loyal, wise, handsome, smart, classical, be fond of, be into, classical, hobby
2. Making sentences using the words above, for example,
I think a friend should be honest. He or she never tells lies.
A good friend is someone who is brave. He or she is not afraid of difficulties.
………………
How to carry it out:
1. Greetings to the Ss:
Good morning, everyone! Stand up! Sit down, please! Class is over!
How are you today?

2. Do you have a good friend?/ what do you think should a good friend be like?/ what qualities should a good friend have? The students are asked to describe one of their good friends. Let them use as many adjective words as possible. At the same time I will write these words on the blackboard.









Then I will explain some new adjective words. And ask Ss. to make sentences using them.

Step Two: Speaking
Teaching aims: learn how to express your hobbies: likes and dislikes
1. Words and phrases to be studied
be into, fond (of), classical, all the time, surf the internet
not……nor/neither……
2. Useful expressions
love sth./ to do / doing doesn’t/don’t like/ love sth
like sth. /to do / doing I think that……is terrible or boring.
enjoy sth./ doing sth. hate to do/doing sth.
be into sth. be not into sth.
be fond of sth./ doing sth. I can’t stand……
be crazy about sth. don’t/doesn’t enjoy sth./doing sth.
How to carry it out:
1. Ask them to make a self-introduction
Hi, my name is……. I am ……years old. And I like ……, I don’t like……, etc.
2. How to introduce their friends
Hi, everybody. …… is my good friend. He is ……. He likes ……. He doesn’t like ……. We’re friends because we have the same interests.
3. First ask the Ss. to read the text themselves. And then fill in the chart on page three. After that I will check the answers together. Then I will divide them into several groups and let them discuss the question who can be good friends. After about 5 minutes, I will ask them to answer it trying to use the useful expressions and tell the reasons. ( A group survey )
Name Terry
Gender Male
Age 24
Quality Optimistic
Honest
Likes Basketball
Traveling
Music
Dislikes Swimming
Telling lies


Period 2
Listening & Talking

Step One: Listening
Teaching aims: how to deal with the problems or misunderstandings happened among good friends.
How to carry it out:
1. Ask the Ss. to listen and find out what they (two friends) are arguing about and give suggestions to them in oral or written form.
2. Go on listening on WB on page 85.
3. Ask the Ss. if they have some other ways/methods to solve such problems. First divide them into several groups and then give them 5 minutes to discuss it. Let them decide what the most effective way to solve such problems is.
Keys to textbook on page 2
1. Peter is often late for football practice. I think that he should try to be on time in the future.
2. Mary usually borrows things without asking and she doesn’t return things on time. She should ask the owner is she wants to borrow something and try to return it on time in the future.
3. Adam borrowed John’s CD player yesterday and now it is broken. Adam can ask his uncle to fix it.
Keys to workbook on page 85
1. Solution: Try to understand your friend/Try to talk about the problem in a different way.
2. Solution: Start by telling each other that you are sorry and take it from there. A simple apology is often enough.
3. Solution: Keep your secrets to yourself.

Step two: Talking
Friends often help each other. But sometimes there are some misunderstandings or unpleasant things occurring among them. To learn the skills or strategies is very important to keep good friendship. Under such circumstances, a simple apology is enough and works well. But how to make apologies?
Teaching aims: how to make apologies between friends when some unhappy/unpleasant things or misunderstandings occur.
Words and useful expressions:
work vi. 工作，起作用，行得通
a. She works in a restaurant.
b. The machine won’t work.
c. Your suggestion works well.
why did/didn’t you……？
You promised to ……
I am very sorry……
Please forgive me.
I forgot.
It won’t happen again.
You said that you would……
How to carry it out:
1. Study the example on page 85.
First, hand out cards. Divide the Ss. into several groups, and let them choose their cards and make a short conversation using the expressions on page 86. Then I will check it one by one.
2. Finish the exercises 2 on page 86.
3. Think of some other situations and let the Ss. discuss and find out the solutions and then act them out.
Homework:
a. copy some words
b. make a name card.(full name, age, likes, dislikes……)

Period 3&4
Reading

How to carry it out:
Pre-reading:
1. Ask the Ss. to read the questions of pre-reading. First I will explain some new words.
Match: a piece of short wood which can be used to make fire.
Some phrases: strike a match; put a match to sth; matchbox (box for holding matches). Mirror: a piece of glass which can be used to reflect images.
Some phrases: a driving-mirror; a hand mirror; look at yourself in the mirror.
Fry: to cook or be cooked in boiling fat or oil.
Gun: a kind of small weapon, which can be used to kill both persons and animals and of course you may use it to protect yourself.
Hammer: you may use a hammer to hammer a nail into the wood.
Saw: this is a kind of tool that can be used to cut the wood into two or pieces, but it is not a knife.
Rope: 绳子
Compass: the instruments that can be used to distinguish the directions.
2. Then let them make up sentences using the new words.
3. I have to divide the class into seven groups, in each group there will be eight students. And I will make them discuss the questions and illustrate their reasons. I will make the students elect one captain for each group and report their reasons. The captain of each group can have a same idea or a different one. Then if the other groups don’t agree with the speaking group, they can debate.
I think a knife is the most useful, because I could use it to cut things, to fight animals, and to …….
Andy thinks that a box of matches is the most useful, because ……
Reading the whole text:
1. Brief introduction to Tom Hanks
2. Some background knowledge to this famous film Cast Away
3. List some simple questions on this passage to let the Ss. find the answers while reading the text. And then make them answer them.
Who is Chuck Noland?
Why did he land on a deserted island?
How many years had he stay there?
Is he alone?
…………
4. Finish the first two questions of post-reading on page 4.
5. Divide the whole class into several groups to discuss Question 4 of post-reading on page 4 or hold a debate among them.( Divide them into four groups. Each group represents one view of points.)
6. Explain the language points in the text one by one. At the same time, make them make up sentences using what they have learnt.
Homework:
a. Try to memorize the new words & expressions.
b. Try to recite the third paragraph.
c. Write a composition: words limits: 100
If you were alone on an island, what would you do in order to survive?
7. Some knowledge points:
a. In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks played a man named Chuck Noland.
Cast: cast, cast. To throw sth. on purpose or with force.
Cast sb. away: usually used in the passive voice. It means that leaving sb somewhere because of the wreck.
Play: to act the role of sb. e.g. he is playing Hamlet on the stage

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