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Unit 4Friends forever
Period 2 Understanding ideas
教学过程设计
Teaching procedures
Leading questions and tasks
Teacher's activity
Students' activity
Purposes
Lcad-in
1.Listen to the song and think about what it tries
lo convey(传达).
2.How do you prefer to makefriends and
communicate with them?
3. How do you stay in touch with faraway friends?
1.Play a short MV Auld Lang Syne.
2. Ask the students to do pair work.
Students work in pairs
and find out the most
popular answers.
Students' performance
Their answers to those
questions are similar.
Some students talk with each other warmly while some students don't know
how to use some relevant expressions.
1. To conclude the students' ways of
making friends.
2. To connect the passage with the
students' life.
3. To arouse the students' curiosity
about the topic.
Ask some pairs to show their answers.
Summary
Most of the students prefer to make friends and communicate with their friends through the Internet.
Reading for details
1. How did people make friends in the past? And at present?
2. What are the advantages
and disadvantages of making
friends online?
Ask the students to read the passage carefully,complete the diagrams in
Activity 4 and find out the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.
Students complete the diagrams in Activity 4,find out the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online and
talk about their answers with their partners in their groups.
To sort out the relevant details of
this passage.
Ask the students to talk about their answers in their groups and ask some groups to show their answers.
Suggested answers
1.Past:People lost track of
their friends after moving to
a new town. The only way to stay in touch was writing letters.
Present: It is easy to
maintain friendships with
social media tools. People
can easily make new friends online with those who share their interests.
2. Advantages: We can move around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with.Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships. The digital age also enables us to find people who share our interests.
Disadvantages: We need to
keep in mind that what we
see on social media is often
not the whole truth about a
person. On social media
sites,people tend to post only
positive updates that make
them appear happy and
friendly. But smiling photos
can hide real problems.
Students' performance
Some groups have
differentanswers. The
answers of some groups are not complete.
续表【语言知识点】
Teaching procedures
Leading questions and tasks
Teacher's activity
Students' activity
Purposes
Reading for structures
1. What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?
2. What's the author's
opinion about online friendship?
Instruct the students to reflect on what they have learnt in this class and work in groups to have a discussion.
Students talk about what they have learnt in this class,such as ways of making friends,the advantages and disadvantages of making online friends, and the author's opinion.
To enhance the expressions of making friends online; to
improve students'
ability to summarise and analyse the passage.
Summary
Lead in (ways of making
friends); Body (advantages
anddisadvantages);
Conclusion (make online friends in a proper way)
Students' performance
Students work together to comb the structure of the passage.
Consolidation,evaluation and feedback
Give students an oral
task: Tom has just made an online friend,and his
classmates A and B hold different views about that.
Instruct the students to form groups of four or six. Direct them to talk effectively.
Students work together,each one having a role.
To help students consolidatewhat
they have learnt in
this class. Students
learn how to give their opinions on making friends online.Students
practise their judgment skills.
Students' performance
Students can involve themselves in the group work and are able to perform in front of the class.
Some groups perform well and receive warm applause.
about...?······怎么样?
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1.How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? 如果搬到一个新的城镇意味着有朋友失去联系,你会有什么感受?
【知识链接】
keep/lose track of:to have/not have information about what is happening or where sb/sth is 了解/不了解······的动态;与······保持/失去联系
track n.踪迹
v. to follow or find someone or something by looking for evidence that shows where they have gone 追踪
【实战演练】翻译句子
(1)It is important to keep track of current affairs.
(2) modern methods of tracking polar bear populations...
Suggested answers:(1)了解时事很重要(2)追踪北极熊数量的现代方法
2. What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters...?如果从远方的朋友那里得到消息的唯一途径就是写信会怎么样······?
【知识链接】
what if...?:what would happen if...?要是······会怎么样?
what about...?: used to make a suggestion=how
【实战演练】完成句子
(1) they talked a long time about a painting you weren't that interested in?(2018天津阅读B)
要是长时间谈论一幅你不那么感兴趣的画会怎么样?
(2) having lunch at that new restaurant?
去那家新餐厅吃中午饭怎么样?
Suggested answers:(1)What if (2)What about
3....stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with.······和那些我们想要保持朋友关系的人保持联系。
【知识链接】
stay/keep/be in touch with sb 和某人保持联系(状态)
get in touch with sb和某人取得联系(动作)
lose touch with sb和某人失去联系(动作)
【实战演练】完成句子
Even when the two girls went to different colleges at the age of 18,they through email and still stayed the best friends.
甚至当这两个女孩18岁去了不同的大学时,她们还通过电子邮件保持联系,仍然是最好的朋友。
Suggested answer:kept in touch
4.Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships.社交工具使我们了解到朋友们在忙些什么并使我们维持友谊。
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【知识链接】
be up to:(informal)to be occupied or busy with 忙于做某事
be up to 还有“从事,忙于;到······为止;达到;胜任;取决于”等意思。
【实战演练】写出up to的含义。
(1)-What shall we do tonight then?-It's up to you,whatever you want.
(2)I can take up to four people in my car.
(3)John was fired because he wasn't up to his work.
(4)The mother was worried and wanted to know what her son was up 10.
(5)She continued to care for herfather up to the time of his recovery.
Suggested answers:(1)取决于(2)达到(3)胜任
(4)从事,忙于······(5)直到······为止
5. Although technology has changed the way we acquire friends,the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same.虽然科技改变了我们联系朋友的方式,友谊的意义和我们对友谊的渴望依然不变。
【知识链接】
句中 是定语从句,修饰 。当way后面的定语从句中缺少 时,关系词用that或which,作宾语时可省略。当way后面的定语从句中缺少 时,关系词用that/in which,也可以省略。
Suggested answers:we acquire friends;the way;主语或宾语;状语
【实战演练】单句语法填空
(1)The way he explained to us was quite simple.
(2)The way he explained sentences to us was not difficult to understand.
Suggested answer:(1)that/which/略(2)in which/
that/略
6. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends,even if he had all other goods.正如亚里士多德所说:没有人会选择没有朋友的生活,哪怕他拥有了其他财富。
【知识链接】
as sb say/says/said,意为“正如某人所说”。
该句中As Aristotle said为非限制性定语从句,其中as 指代后面的主句。
As Chairman Mao said,he who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man.
正如毛主席所说,不到长城非好汉。
【实战演练】翻译句子
众所周知,地球围着太阳转。
Suggested answer: As everyone knows,the earth goes around the sun.或 As is known to all,the earth goes around the sun.
布置作业
一、Find out the following phrases and underline them.
1.失去联系
2.要是······怎么样?
3.归功于;多亏
4.与······交流
5.提前
6.与······保持联系
7.把······和······联系起来
8.记住
Suggested answer:1.lose track of 2.what if...?
3.thanks to 4.communicate with 5.in advance 6.stay
in touch with 7.connect...with... 8.keep in mind
二、Polish the dialogues and write them down.Teammates work together to correct the mistakes in the use of words and grammar.
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