Unit1 Good Friends

7        “we are proud of you,” they said to me.
answers to exercise 3
1  change direct speech into indirect speech and indirect speech into direct speech.
1  hu ming, the manager says that they run that restaurant to make friends.
2  “we are unhappy about this,” the students’ parents said.
3  hu ming says, “a teacher has already told me that i should spend more time on study.”
4  “running a business takes a lot of time,” all the managers say.
5  liu tao says that they don’t have the money to hire enough waiters or waitresses, so they do most of the work themselves.
6  another boy tells me that sometimes they have to skip classes to keep an eye on the restaurant.
7  “we are doing ok,” liu tao says.
 step 6 homework
finish off the work in work book
change the 10 sentences into indirect speech
try to write a news story in about 100 words on page 88
revise the grammar on page 178 to page 180
evaluation of teaching:
the fourth period
teaching aims and demands
integrating skill
grammar and writing
get the students to write an email
key points: 1. useful expressions;  2.writing   3.grammar 
teaching methods: written practice and grammar.
teaching procedures
step 1. revision
(1) check the work exercises.
       (2)a test for unit 1
to get the students to review the grammar and write the passage on page 88
pal restaurant is one of the many restaurants where people come to eat, drink, talk and enjoy music. it is different from other restaurants because its owners are a group of college students. “we run this restaurant to make friends,” says the manager, hu ming.
    but the students’ parents say that they are unhappy about this. “we can’t stop them but we want them to put study in the first place.” teachers do not support them, either. hu ming says that a teacher has already told him that he should spend more time on study.
all the managers say that running a business takes a lot of time. “we don’t have the money to hire enough waiters or waitresses, so we do most of the work ourselves,” says liu tao. “sometimes we have to skip classes to keep an eye on the restaurant,” says another boy.
but liu tao says they are doing ok.  
3  answers may vary. possible titles/headlines include “study first or business first?” “students running bar”
step 2. integrating skill
instruction: the reading describes different kinds of friends. let the students read the first paragraph and answer questions 1-3, then ask them to think of words that can be used to describe the different kinds of friends. you can also tell the students to choose words from the “5-star friend” activity in the student’s book.