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Unit 2 Lesson 5 Talking to Friends(第一课时)
Lesson Focus
• Communication tools, verbs + nouns
• Describing what a classmate is doing
•Words with the sound /au/
Warm-up
Exercise 1
Purpose: to help students know communication tools
· Bring to class the following items: either a picture of a toy or a real landline ( not mobile) phone; a picture of or real laptop, showing the Internet; and a picture of or real laptop, showing an email. Set these aside. Take out your mobile phone and pretend to text someone. Most likely, your students will look quite surprised. Say, "Oh, I often send texts to my friends". Hold up your mobile and say " A mobile phone. Repeat. A mobile phone". Have students repeat after you. Tell students that we sometimes just call it a mobile. Show a text message on your mobile say " A text message. Repeat. A text message .Have students repeat after you. Hold up the Student Book, showing the instant messages in Exercise 2 and say "An instant message. Repeat. An instant message". Have students repeat after you. Continue with the items you brought in to teach email, home phone and the Internet.
· Read the Example aloud, or have a student read it. Direct students to the Word Builder. Say "You send and receive an email. What else do you send and receive? Complete the Word Builder with the Key Words". Monitor as students complete the chart, offering help as needed. If students need support, have them work in pairs.
· Go over the answers, having individual students say the answers aloud.
Answers
send / receive an instant message, a text message; use a mobile phone, a home phone, the Internet
· Ask " What does it mean to stay in touch with a friend?" Elicit or provide It means to keep contact with, to talk to or write to a person. Then ask "How do you stay in touch with your friends?" Read the Example aloud again, or say one using another communication tool, for example, "I often use my mobile phone to keep in touch with my friends". Have students get into pairs