、Step1. warming up

Some questions: 1.what day is it today?

2.what’s the date today?

3.what’s the weather like today?

4.you have been here for a long time, how do you get on with your classmates?

5.have you make some friends since you came to this school?

6.who is your best friend?

7.can you tell me something about your best friend?

8.say something about your best friend,( appearance, characteristics, future dream),let other students guess who your best friend is.

Step 2 presentation

Unit one Reading

1. Now I know who your best friends are. Can you guess who my best friend is?

Ask some students to guess.

2. my best friend is Betty. Do you know something about Betty? Open your books and turn to page 4,try to find more information about her and the other two students.

3. ask the students to read the whole reading by themselves and try to find some important sentences by themselves.

4. ask some more questions: if you are going to choose one as your best friend, who will you choose and why?

Ask some volunteers to answer the question.

Unit two Reading

1. can you guess where they study? At Beijing Sunshine Secondary School or at Woodland School in England or at Rocky Mountain High School in America? (at Beijing……..)

2. do you still remember life in Woodland School in England and that at Rocky Mountain High School in America?

3. turn to page 20, read the passage together.

4. ask the students: which school life do you like better and why?

Ask some students to answer.

5. what about our own school life? What do you think of our school life?

Some students’ answers: (Part of Grammar)

a. Life in our school is as colourful as that in foreign countries.

b. Life in our school is not as colourful as that in foreign countries.

c. Life in our school is less colourful as that in foreign countries.

d. Life in our school is not so colorful as that in foreign countries.

e. Life in foreign countries is more colorful than that in our school.

Why?

a. we have more subjects that they do.

b. we have less free time than they do.

c. they have fewer subjects than we do.

d. they have more free time than we do.

Unit three Reading

1.we feel very stressed and tired because of so much homework and so many exams. What will you do to relax yourself?

Students’answers: sing songs loudly, listen to music, eat a lot of delicious food.

2.what about a day out? Do you think it’s a good idea? Linda also had a day out. During the day, she visited a lot of interesting places around the world. How did she succeed in doing that? Where did she go? Open your books and turn to page 89. read the text by yourself ant try do find the changes of her feelings.

Feelings:

3.what did she see during the day?

4.what was the best part during the day?

5.if you have a day off, where will you go?

6.if you have a week out, where will you go? Will you go to Beijing? Will you go to Guilin?

Oral book: page 103-104. read the two passages by yourself and try to say something about Beijing and Guilin without books.

Step3.

Homework: write a composition.

A trip to…../ Travelling to……

板書(shū)設(shè)計(jì)：

1.grammar:

a.Life in our school is as colourful as that in foreign countries.

b.Life in our school is not as colourful as that in foreign countries.

c.Life in our school is less colourful as that in foreign countries.

d.Life in our school is not so colorful as that in foreign countries.

e.Life in foreign countries is more colorful than that in our school.

Why?

a.we have more subjects that they do.

b.we have less free time than they do.

c.they have fewer subjects than we do.

d.they have more free time than we do.

2.some important phrases:

keep secrets be willing to do sth. be ready to do sth. share sth. with sb.

have a good sense of humour say a bad word about anyone travel around the world

give me some advice wear a smile on one’s face have a square face

why don’t sb. do sth spend a lot of time doing sth. have a great time doing sth.

have more weeks off in the summertime be different from walk to school

go on a school trip to the same size as keep fit enjoy ourselves take a boar trip

a lot of traffic invite sb. to do sth. feel sick for most of the trip be made of

places of interest teach oneself sth.=learn sth. by oneself take a look at feel the beauty of

at Christmas hope to do decide to do plan to do learn to do go on the trip