Unit 1  friendship

2. teaching important points:a.           use the given adjectives and sentence structures to describe one of your friends.b.           learn to evaluate friends and friendship.3. teaching difficult points:a.               work together with partners and describe one of your good friends.b.               discuss with partners and find out ways to solve the problems.4. teaching methods a.       task-based teaching and learningb.       cooperative learningc.        discussion 5. teaching aids:cai6. teaching procedures and ways:step 1  lead-in and warming-upbefore the lesson, the teacher can arouse the students’ interests by showing a video of auld lang syne .at the beginning of the first class, we can get the students to talk about their summer holidays. the students can talk freely as they like.1.              how did you spend your summer holidays? how did you feel? what did you do in your summer holidays? what did you do in your spare time?2.              what do you think of our new school? do you like it? could you say something about it?3.              do you like making friends? how do get in touch with your friends? do you have many friends? where are they now? do you have any old friends in our school? have you made any new friends in our class?step 2 think it over1. give a brief description of one of your friends. the following phrases and structures may be helpful:his/her name is ……he /she is …… years old.he /she likes …… and dislikes ……he /she enjoys …… and hates……he /she is very kind/friendly/……when /where we got to know each other.2. what types of friendship do you have? please tick them out. then fill in the blanks.girl friends              boy friends             pen friendslong -distance friends                 friends of the same age