Unit 1 Good friends教案

 ㈠ listening text：everybody needs friends. but being a good friend can sometimes be hard work. learning how to solve problems in a friendship can make you a better friend and a happier person. a common problem between friends is that they don’t know how to talk to each other about difficult things. when they do talk, they often get mad with each other. what can they do? well, it takes time to learn how to communicate well, and it is important to understand why a friend gets angry with you when you say something. if you know what it is that makes your friend angry, then you can try to talk about the problem in a different way. ?
 ㈡ key：
①peter is often late for football practice. i think that he should try to be on time in the future.
②mary usually borrows things without asking and she doesn’t return things on time. she should ask the owner is she wants to borrow something and try to return it on time in the future.
③adam borrowed john's cd player yesterday and now it is broken. adam can ask his uncle to fix it.
㈢ answers to exercise 1
problem：friends get angry with each other when they try to talk about something difficult.
 solution：try to understand your friend/try to talk about the problem in a different way.
problem：friends don’t know how to apologize.
 solution：start by telling each other that you are sorry and take it from there. a simple　apology is often enough.
problem：some friends don’t know how to keep secrets. 
 solution： keep your secrets to yourself.
stepⅳ. speaking
the students will use the information about the people on sb page 2 to talk about likes and dislikes and to practice giving reasons for their opinions. tell the students to work in pairs. ask the students to complete the chart on page sb page 3 and then use the answers to talk about who could be friends and what they like or dislike. ask each pair to decide who could be friends and give reasons for their decisions. when they have made their decision, ask them to compare and debate their ideas with other pairs. encourage different answers, including strange ones.?
p3 work in pairs
 step ⅴ. language points
1.learn to make apologies.
 make apologies道歉，因某事向某人道歉 make an apology(or apologies) to sb for sth,apologize vi. 道歉;認錯,賠不是(+to/for)
 i owe you an apology for my rudeness last night. 昨天晚上我太粗暴,應該向你道歉。
 he apologized to her for not going to her party.
   他因為沒有出席她舉行的宴會而向她表示歉意。