Period 4
Warm-up:
1. Dictation
Pre-reading preparation:
1. Ask and answer some questions according to the letter.
What’s Sidney’s pen-friend’s name?
How tall is Sidney?
What’s Sidney’s favortite sports?
Which school is Sidney in?
What job does he want to do in the future?
Use some words to describe Sidney.
2. Do Ex E: Read and think. Read the sentences about Sidney and write T or F or DK.
Check answers individually, if it is false, try to tell the reason.
While-reading procedure:
1. Further study: do Ex E2: Read the sentences about Sidney. Find the facts that tell you that they are probably true. For example: He’s probably healthy. (probably=perhaps=maybe)
He likes playing sports.
Check answers individually. Students should learn to find useful information in the article.
2. Do “More practice”A, Look at the picture of Tim Green and complete the table.
3. Use pair work to check answers, for example: What colour is his hair? How long is his hair?
What color is his eyes? How tall is he? How old is he? What’s his hobby? What’s his ambition?
Post-reading activity:
Let students do group work: choose one student to make a table about his or her personal information, then one group choose one student to make a riddle to let others guess who he or she is.
Assignment:
1. Listen and read the letter.
2. Do Work book and Grammar Practice Book.
3. *Introduce your family according to paragraph 2 the letter given.
Listening
Knowledge objectives:
1. To learn to take notes while listening.
2. To prepare for some of the patterns in the language section.
3. To learn to use different ways to describe people while listening.
Skill objectives:
1. To use the information given to complete the listening practice.
2. To learn to have a good habit while listening.
Emotional objectives:
1. To make friends from all over the world.
Difficulties:
1. To make students listen and grasp the main meaning and choose the useful information in the listening material.