南京第三高級中學 劉穎 秦永法

Teaching objectives:

1. understand a conversation on a radio talk show

2. discuss friendship and practise agreeing and disagreeing

3. write a letter to a friend

4. learn and practise language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.

Teaching focus and difficulties:

1. writing down answers

2. the way to show agreeing and disagreeing.

3. writing a letter to a friend

Teaching methods:

1. Listening, reading and thinking to get students to understand the text.

2. Pair discussion and group discussion to get students to participate in the classroom activities.

Teaching aids:

The multimedia

Teaching procedures:

Skills building 1:Writing down the answers

1. Lead-in

You are a reporter of your school newspaper and going to have a interview with your headmaster next week, what should you do?

2. Turn to page 12 and find some guidelines

a. Questions: Prepare them in advance.

b. Notes: Brief notes only, not whole sentences.

Make the notes which you can understand later.

Use contractions and abbreviations if possible.

c. Tip: Be polite when you ask others to repeat.

Could you say that again?

Could you repeat that,please?

Did you say ______ or ______?

3. Listening

a. Discuss freely:

Have you ever moved to a new town or neighbourhood?

What did you do when you meet your new neighbours?

What did you talk about when you met your new neighbours for the first time?

How did you make friends with your new neighbours?

b.Listen to the radio programme and make notes

notes(fill in the blanks)

1)Things might worry you when you move to a new place.

how to find your way round, meet new people, make friends.

2)Ways to meet a new neighbour:

visit their homes with __________ ;

join a ________ or ___________

3)some things you should do when you meet a person for the first time.

be ____ and _____ about yourself;

ask him/her ________ about _____________ ;

actively _____________________ .

4)You can ____________ or ___________ to meet a people with similar interests to you.

5)tick the right answer:

To make true friends, you should

A.Help them when you are free

B.always be there for them

C.always be happy before them

D.listen to what they have to say

E.be honest about yourself and your feelings

Step 1 : Calling Teen Talk for advice

1. Brainstorming:

What do you do when you have a personal problem?

Would you talk to your parents or your friends and ask them for advice?

Have you ever called a radio programme for advice?

2. Read the leaflet about Teen Talk and do the exercise in Part A

3.Keys to Part A

Phone

True

False

teenagers’ problems

advice

Skills building 2: agreeing and disagreeing

1. Lead-in

What do you often do with your friends?

Have you ever write letters to your friends?

It’s a waste of time to write to your friends every day, don’t you think so?

2.

a. Agreeing

I agree with you on/that…

I am of the same opinion (as…).

Exactly.

That’s a good point.

That’s how I feel (about…) too.

That’s right.

You’ve got a point.

Yes. And another reason is that…

b. Disagreeing

I don’t agree. What about…?

I’m not sure that’s true.

I see things slightly differently.

On the other hand, …

Perhaps you are mistaken.

Really? I don’t think that…

I take your point, but…

That’s true, but…

c. Tips:

If you disagree with someone you should express your opinions politely.

Others will take your opinions more seriously if you state them calmly and politely.

3.Group work:

express your opinions on the statements on page 14 by stating whether you agree or disagree, using the expressions just learned.

Step 2: discussing friendship with others

1. Look at the table of part A on page 15

Have a discussion on friendship and asks your classmates at least three questions for their opinions on friendship.

Note the responses in the table.

2.Discussion (pair work)

Discuss the following statements on friendship and decide whether you agree or disagree with them.

Friendship is an important part of my life.

A good friend must be honest, kind and have a sense of humour.

One or two good friends are better than 100 acquaintances.

Skills building 3: proofreading

1.lead-in

What is proofreading?

(Finding careless mistakes that you have made.)

What should we check for?

Read the points on page 16 and find the answers.

2. In particular, we should check for:

Facts: make sure the facts are accurate.

Grammar: Check that you have used the correct tenses, parts of speech, sentence structures, etc. Make sure the verb agrees with the subject.

Handwriting:Make sure your handwriting is clear.

Punctuation: Check that all punctuation marks are used correctly and that none are missing.

Vocabulary:Check that you have used the right words.

Spelling: Look out for spelling mistakes.

Style(formal/informal):Check that the choice of vocabulary and sentence structure is of the right degree of formality.

3. Your friend Rebecca wrote about her twin brother in her diary. She asked you to check it for mistakes. There is one mistake in each line.

15 Apirl

Today, I found out something about my brother could get him

into a lot of trouble. I’m not sure if to tell Mum and Dad.

Although William and I are almost 18, but Mum and Dad are still

quite stricte with us. Recently, William has begun wearing some strange

clothes. He always wears big boot and a leather jacket, and he

looks quite different from before.

The other day I saw him smoked in his room, with two of his friends,

Jack and Sean. I know Mum and Dad would be extreme angry if they

knew about it. They’d also be angry me if they knew that I had kept this

secret for them. Maybe I should tell them, so they won’t blame me for

keep a secret.

However, I don’t think William will live at home for much longer as hes

planning to go to university soon, His grades are still good. It seems

that his behaviour hasn’t had some effect on his schoolwork. Maybe I

Should just keep my month shut. What should I do?

Step 3: Writing a letter to your friend

1.Write a letter to a friend about what his or her friendship means to you. using information gathered in Step 1 and 2.

2.Group work: each member of the group contributes something to the planning of the outline of the letter.

3. Write the letter based on the outline in Part A on page 17.

Consider the suggestions carefully

your feelings about friendship

the qualities of a good friend

your feelings about best friends

what makes a good friendship last

4.Presentation

Let’s invite several groups to read their letters to the class

Homework

Finish any additional exercises

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