Look Ahead（I） I: Teaching aims:

1.Vocabulary : family relationships, people’s lives, ordinal numbers, months of the year, Dates, birthdays, people’s appearance

2.Grammar: present simple tense, questions, adjectives position and order

3.Functions: describing family relationships, talking about jobs, talking about dates and birthdays, asking about and giving opinions of people and objects, describing people

4.Reading /writing: descriptions of people

5.Comparing cultures: family size, age of leaving home

II. Teaching process:

Relatives

Part 1: Listen and write the names of Tom’s family from the name list(books shut)

Part 2: Answer the questions according the family tree(books shut)

Part 3: 1) Listen to the dialogue and estimate True or False(books shut)

2) Listen and repeat the dialogue (two or three times)

3) Act the dialogue (optional)

Part 4: Work in pairs. Student B is Kate’s husband, John. Ask and answer

Part 5: Ask and answer questions about Sally and her friend Lucy

Talk more about

1) The middle school in Britain: Comprehensive School ,Grammar School ,

Secondary Modern School)

2) The musical instruments: guitar, violin, piano, saxophone, flute, recorder, drum, trumpet, electronic keyboard

Part 6: Look at the picture and guess Bob’s age ,job and place

Part 7: Work in pairs: Student A and Student B ask and answer Bob and his girlfriend according to the materials in Books and in the Workbooks

Part 8: (optional)

Part 9: Show them some examples and ask them estimate the kinds of the sentences (affirmative, negative or interrogative )

Part 10: Pronunciation. Listen to the sound and repeat them.

Part 11(optional)

Part 12: Read the paragraph and ask some questions it.

Part 13: (Omission)

Birthdays

Part 1: 1) Introduce some new words : niece, nephew, cousin, father-in-law…,great grandfather…

2) Draw the family tree on the blackboard and make sentences with the words of relationships

Part 2: Listen and repeat the dates

Part 3: Pronunciations

Part 4: Ask and answer about the birthdays in James’s family

Part 5-6: An activity : Find two people in your class with a birthday in the same month or date.

Saying what you think

Part 1: Look at the photos and read what they say (focus on the adjectives)

Part 2: 1)Introduce them some more adjectives if necessary

2)Tell your partner about some of your relatives

Part 3: Look at four of her presents and read her opinion of them.

Part 4: (Omission)

Part 5: Ask and answer about the rest of Cathy’s presents

Describing people

Part 1: Talk about the three people

Part 2: Stress and intonation: Listen and repeat

Part 3: Listen to the dialogue and estimate if Tariq is at the party according to Rosie’s description

Part 4: Listen to the rest of the conversation and name the other three people at the party.

(They are Mike –Fiona’s brother, Sue-Tariq’s girlfriend , Tony-Fiona’s boyfriend)

Part 5: Pair work: Student A describes or ask some questions about one of the people at the party and has his partner guess who it is.

Part 6: Now ask and answer about people in your guess. Guess who they are.

Part 7: Read about Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford. Then ask questions according to the answers in the book.

Part 8: Ss write a note as the model to describe one of his classmates. Then read it in the front and have the others guess who it is.

Development

Speaking:

Part 1: Tell your partner something about your family. Answer the questions

Part 2: Look at the pictures of Shashi Ahluwalia’s family and their shop in London. Guess the answers to the questions in the book.

Listening:

Part 3: Listen and choose the correct answer.

Speaking:

Part 4:Answer the questions

Reading:

Part 5: Read the article and complete the graph

Comparing cultures

Part 6:Compare the family in Chinese with those in Britain

Writing: A description

Progress check 2