南师附中周平
Unit 2 Growing Pains
Teaching objectives: ? To introduce and develop the theme of growing pains ? To form a positive attitude towards growing pains and learn to solve family problems wisely ? To identify the difference between American English and British English ? To learn about some colloquialisms and their origins ? To develop the skills of how to read a play ? To learn how to use a preposition + which/whom to begin an attributive clause and how to use relative adverbs in attributive clauses ? To develop listening ability through a radio talk show
? To develop speaking ability by talking about problems common to teenagers and presenting a dialogue based on the relevant theme ? To develop the ability of reading for gist ? To develop writing ability by presenting a dialogue and an advice letter ? To learn to be cooperative and helpful when working together ?
Teaching plans:
Period 1—Welcome to this unit
Period 2—Reading 1 (Comprehension focus)
Period 3—Reading 2 (Word focus) Period 4—Reading 3 (Consolidation of words)
Period 5—Word power1
Period 6—Word power2
Period 7—Grammar & usage
Period 8—Consolidation of grammar Period 9—Task presenting a dialogue1 Period 10—Task presenting a dialogue2 Period 11—Project writing an advice letter
Period 12—Exercises
Period 1 Welcome to this unit
Teaching objectives: ? To introduce and develop the theme of growing pains ? To develop speaking ability by talking about families and problems that happen between teenagers and parents ? To know more about classmates and
their families
Teaching procedures: I. Lead-in:
1. Presenting family albums:
In this part, Ss are encouraged to say something about their families by showing the class pictures with their parents.
2. Brainstorming questions: ? Do you always show respect to your parents? ? Do you always do what your parents want you to? ? Do you sometimes quarrel with your parents? Why do you quarrel?
II. Picture talking (pair work) ? Ask Ss to look at the pictures. Imagine the situations and try to describe them as fully as possible with
their own words. ? Make sure that Ss have “when”, “where”, “who”, “what” in your descriptions. ? Invite some Ss to report back their descriptions.
III. Sharing opinions (group work)
In this part, Ss discuss the following questions in groups of four. Each group chooses two of the four questions. Have Ss to report their opinions in class.
Questions for discussion: ? What kind of behaviors of yours will make your parents feel unhappy? List as many as you can.
*not doing homework, *not getting up on time,
*spending too much time or money on … *bad school behaviours