8A Unit 1 Friends教學設計英文
● to use adjectives to describe general appearance of people● to select and use adjectives that are appropriate to describe the appearance of boys and girls● to make up more sentences talking about one’s appearanceteaching proceduresstep 1 a guessing gametake an exercise book to the classroom. tell the students that one of them has done well in yesterday’s homework. can you guess who he/she is?in this way, the students’ attention is drawn to describing a person. they will surely get the right person. if not, i will give them some hints. step 2 talking about one’s appearanceit is important to learn to describe one’s appearance. when we see a person, we don’t pay attention to his facial appearance at the first sight. we can only tell his/her general appearance. can you think of words that talk about one’s general appearance? tall, short, strong, fat, thin, slim, tidy, clean, beautiful, good-looking, handsome, lovely, pretty, smart, lovely, cute here we should pay attention to some of the words. for example, we seldom us ‘thin’ or ‘fat’ to talk about people, because they sounds impolite, sometimes it may hurt that people. step 3 boys or girls?some of the words can only be used to talk about boy, while some only with girls. so it is also very important to make it clear. a. have the students finish part b in two or three minutes.b. discuss the answers with the students. make sure they feel confident in using these words. boys: good-looking, handsome, smartgirls: beautiful, good-looking, handsome, lovely, pretty, smart it must be stated very clear that handsome can not only go with boys but also with girls. but when it describes girls, it means ‘having an attractive appearance with large strong features’, sometimes it means ‘端莊的’ in chinese. but, ‘beautiful’ and ‘pretty’ are not the same. usually, ‘pretty’ is used to modify girls who are small but beautiful. step 4 talking of something special about one’s appearancehowever, it is not enough that we describe people’s general appearance. for example, when i say ‘my friend is good-looking’, do you know whom i am talking about? no. so it is really important for us to learn to describe one’s facial appearance and learn to talk about something special about someone. first. let’s talk about one’s hairstyle. have black hair in a ponytail/in bunches, wears a modern hair style, have straight, shoulder-length hair, with short, straight hair on the forehead