Period 1 Welcome to the unit
Teaching Aims:
1. Students participate in a discussion to find out ways to solve common problems with friendship.
2. Develop students’ speaking ability by expressing their opinions in the discussion.
3. Students learn proverbs related to friendship.
Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in
1. Check out the following pictures concerning certain proverbs.
2. Try to work out which words are missing, but keep your books closed.
Stpe 2 Welcome to the unit
Picture one
Friends are thieves ______.
Picture two
The best mirror is ______.
Picture three
If you can buy a person’s _______, it’s not worth having.
True friendship is w_______.
Picture four
True friends have _____ that beat as one.
Step 3 Pair Work
1. Do you have a best friend? Why do you think that he or she is your best friend?
2. How do you get on with your friends? How do you help each other when you have problems?
3. What do you think are the most important characteristics in a friend?
Please talk to your partner. And prepare yourselves to present your discussion in dialogue to the class. (Pay attention that each speaker should have more than three sentences to say.)
Step 4 Learning more sayings and brainstorming.
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
True friend is one soul in two bodies.
True friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
To get a good friend, you should first learn to be one.
Please brainstorm on how to be a good friend. And give your opinions one by one.
Good friends should _______.
Step 5 Questions and Discussion II
T: Good friends bring cheering friendship to you. But could there be any problem with friendship?
How would you handle some difficult situations that can happen in friendships?
For each situation given below, answer these questions:
• How would this make you feel?
• What is a positive way to deal with it?
• What is a harmful way to deal with it?
Situations
1. Your friend starts acting in ways that you think are wrong (drugs, being rude, etc.)
2. You find out your friend has been telling stories about you that aren't true.
3. Your friend is on the brink of failing a class and begs you to help him/her cheat on the final exam.
4. You and your best friend have romantic feelings toward the same person.
Attention
1. On one of the situations, please discuss in group of three.
2. One in the group should listen to the other two and then give a report and comment on what he/she hears.
(Pay attention that the reporter should first listen carefully and prepare to report to the class.)
Step 6 Homework
1. Read Part B on page 95 in workbook.
2. Writing
Preview page 2,3 and find out the sticky situations that happen to Sarah and Andrew. Then write a short passage of more than 100 words on how to deal with them in a positive way.
