8A Unit 1  Friends 教案

i don’t think my good friend must be very …
3. t: why do you think he/she is your best friend? what makes him/her so special to you? can you talk to him/her about anything? do you talk to him/her when you have problems? do you believe what he/she says? when you are happy or sad, do you talk to him/her? why?
teach “sad”, “believe”, “honest” and “joy”.
ss complete part a, p7 and report individually.
4. t explains some language points.

step 4 presentation
1. t: how old is your best friend? what about you?
ss: 15/16 …
t: so you are teenagers. we call children between 13 and 19 teenagers.
teach “teenager”.
t: we have a good friend, eddie. is he a teenager?
ss: no.
2. t: who’s eddie’s good friend? why?
t plays the tape of the comic strip and ss try to find out the answer to the question.
(hobo is eddie’s good friend because they always share things with each other.)
3. ss read the comic strip and answer the questions:
(1) what does eddie give hobo?
(2) what does hobo want?
(3) do you think eddie is a true friend? why?
4. ss read the dialogue in pairs.
5. t explains some language points.

step 5 practice
1. ss act out the dialogue and they are encouraged to add in something they like.
2. discuss: who do you like better as a friend, eddie or hobo? why?
3. ss work in pairs to ask and answer about their good friends.
a model dialogue:
a: who’s your good friend?
b: …
a: what’s he/she like?
b: …
a: what do you think of your friend?
b: …
a: what makes him/her so special to you?
b: … can you tell me something about your good friend?

step 6 summarize
t: today we have learned some important qualities about a good friend. it seems that we all think appearance is not so important, but a friend should be helpful and honest. and i hope everyone can be like that and you will have more friends.

step 7 homework
1. describe a good friend of yours with the words and phrases learnt in this lesson.
2. finish the workbook exercises.

8a unit 1  friends   reading (ⅰ) 
teaching objectives:
to guess general meanings from keywords and context
to skim text for overall meanings and scan for details
to identify specific information about different people form their friends’ descriptions
to use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and personalities

teaching contents:
words: slim, shoulder-length, generous, singer, almost, eyesight, smart, true
phrases: travel around the world, have poor eyesight, have a good sense of humour, knock off, a true friend, say a bad word about anyone, vote for

teaching preparations: