Unit 10 If you go to the party, you’ll have a great time
Period 5
Teaching contents: 2a—2d
Teaching importance and difficulties:
1. Understanding of Section B 2b.
2. Give advice to others who have problems.
Ability goals: To improve ability of speaking, reading, writing and understanding.
Moral goals: If you have any problems, don’t be afraid or run away.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Greetings and Lead in
1. Greetings
T: How are you?
Ss: I’m fine, thanks. And you?
T: I’m happy. But …
2. Make a survey on what problems they have
3 Group work:
Do you have any problems or troubles in your daily life?
What kinds of things do you worry about?
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show a survey about the top eight problems among the middle school students and ask them to count how many problems they have.
(1) We have too much homework.
(2) When we get lower grades, our parents and teachers will be angry.
(3) We have little spare time to do the things we like.
(4) People often misunderstand the relationship between boys and girls.
(5) When we make a mistake, teachers will always ask us to write self-criticisms.
(6) We don’t have many friends or often quarrel with friends.
(7) Parents can’t always understand us.
(8) Parents often read our diaries.
2. Then check their answers and ask how do you deal with the problems? (或用2e的问题)
3. Ask students to choose what they should do if they have problems.
a. Keep them to myself.
b. Talk to my parents or friends.
c. Turn to an expert for help.
4. Skim the passage and choose the best way to solve problems. (b)
And make the students answer some comprehensive questions.
(1) What is the main idea of this passage?
(2) In Paragraph 2, the writer used the story of Laura to .
(3) According to the passage Robert Hunt might be .
5. 2c.
Read the passage again and answer some more questions in detail.
(1) What problems do students these days have?
(2) For Laura, what helps a lot?
(3) What did Laura’s parents do after she told them what happened?
(4) In Robert’s opinion, what should we do best?
Step 4 Finish 2d
Step 5 Summary
In our lifetime, we’ll meet different kinds of troubles. When troubles come, we can’t
run away from them. We should face them bravely. After we solve our problems, we’ll find we learn a lot from them.
Step 6 homework
Read the passage 10 times. Write a short passage about your worries in life.
