8aUnit1Maintask.docx

8a Unit1 Main task教学目标:To plan ideas for writingto learn the proper and easy ways to write something;to write a description of the appearance and personality of a friend.教学过程:Step1:RevisionIn this unit,we have learnt a lot about how to describe our best friends.Showthree photos of Betty,Max and May.Ask some students to describe them.Revisesome useful words and expressions.Ask:What aspects can we talk about from when we talk about our best friends?Whats his/her name?Whats he/she like？Whats his/her quality of a good friend(personality)?What does he/she like doing?What would he/she like to do in the future?Please keep them in your mind.We will talk about them step by step.Step2:Brainstorming.1.When you want to talk about sth,what do you feel difficult to do?Proper wordsand phrases.So we need to gather enough words about sth.when we want to talk about it.Howmany words do you know that we can use to describe our friends?Lets do it ingroups.Please show us you are the best.After it,T collects their words on the Bb and decide which group is the winner.2.Go through the words in the table on P15.3.Read the passage on P16 quickly and find out some information about Daniels bestfriend4.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)Step3:Phrases and sentencesNow we have these words.Is it enough to write a passage?No.So we stillneed some phrases and sentences structures.Try to find the phrases and sentencesDaniel used in his passage.Step4:Paragraphs1.ElicitOK.Im going to write about my good friend.is my best friend.(put these phrases and sentences together randomly)(askfor their opinion about this passage)So the structure of a passage is very important.2.Ask Ss to find out the structure of the passage by themselves.T can help them whenneeded.IntroductionBody(appearancepersonality and ability)Conclusion(hobbies andfuture plans)Unit5:Go back to the beginning of this class.Have we learnt how to write about these in this unit?Can you remember what wetalked about at the beginning of this class?Whats his/her name?Whats he/she like？Whats his/her quality of a good friend(personality)?What does he/she like doing?What would he/she like to do in the future?Are you ready to write about your good friends?Lets have a try.(They can talk aboutsb in the class in groups first.In this way,the weak students will know what to writeand how to write it.)Step6:Writing and checkingAfter they finish writing,use some of their passages as a model.Show them to thewhole 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 thembetter.Step7:Hw.Write a passage about their good friends.