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Unit 14 I remember meeting all of you in Grade
7.
Section B（2a-2e）
Language goals
To learn to cherish the life in junior high school and look ahead
to senior high school and future.
Key words and phrases
gentleman, graduation, ceremony, first of all, congratulate, thirsty,
be thirsty for, thankful, be thankful to, lastly, task, ahead, ahead of,
Teaching
along with, responsible, be responsible for, separate, set out,
Aims
separate from, wing
Key sentences
1. The key is to learn from mistakes and never give up.
2. As you set out on your new journey, you shouldn't forget where
you came from.
Let Ss learn to cherish the life in junior high school and look
Teaching
ahead to senior high school and future.
Difficulties
Teaching CAI, multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for
Aids teaching
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Free Talk
T can encourage Ss to share what they have learned in junior high
school in the past three years to the class voluntarily.
T can also ask Ss to think about the most important thing they
have learned / experienced in junior high school.
Step 2 Reading &Presentation
Pre-reading
2a
Ask Ss to think about the most important lesson they learnedover the last three years. Remind them that this need not be a
lesson in class but could be a lesson they learned from a friend
when they were in lunch hall or from the principal in one of
his/her assembly speech. Get Ss to share this lesson with a
partner and explain why it was important.
Answers will vary.
True or False
Show Ss facts about graduation ceremonies in different countries.
Ask them to guess which one is true and which one is false. Ss
can get some knowledge about graduation ceremonies in different
countries through this activity.
While-reading
Get Ss to read the passage. T can explain the text type and the
structure of the passage to Ss.
2b
Ask Ss to read the passage and answer the questions.
In addition of the three questions in the textbook, ask Ss to discuss
with a partner how they know what type of text the passage is.
They should be able to point out the opening salutation, the parting
wish, and the content of the speech. Randomly ask pairs to share
their discussions. Remind Ss that the clues that tell them the text
type are also the same ingredients they will have to include if the
have to write something for that particular text type.
Answers: 1. It is a speech. 2. The principal of the school is
probably the person who wrote it. 3. It’s for the graduating
students of the school.
Let Ss read the passage sentence by sentence. T explains the key
words and phrases to them.
Task 1 Skimming and matching
Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and match each paragraph with
its main idea.
Answers:
paragraph 1: changes in the students
paragraph 2: learn to be thankful
paragraph 3: hopes for the students
Task 2 Scanning and answer
Ask Ss to read the first two paragraphs and answer the questions:
1. Do you think the headmaster likes the students?
2. How do you know that?
3. Who should the students thank and why?
Ask Ss to read the third paragraph and fill in the blanks.
Answers: harder, many difficult tasks ahead of them, Learn from,
never give up, Choose wisely, be responsible, set out, shouldn’tforget where they come from
2c
In their pairs, ask one S to answer all the odd-numbered
questions and the other to answer all the even-numbered
questions. Did they agree on the answers?
Answers:
1. They were all so full of energy and thirsty for knowledge.
2. They have become talented young adults who are full of hope for the
future.
3. They should thank the important people in their lives — their parents,
teachers and friends, because these are the people who have helped and
supported them.
4. Life in senior high will be harder and they will have many difficult
tasks ahead of them.
5. They should learn from their mistakes and never give up, choose
wisely and be responsible for their decisions and actions, and not forget
where they came from.
6. Answers will vary.
2d
Get Ss to share their answers with a partner and then explain to
each other why they chose that form of the word. This is to ensure
that they did not just guess which form they should use but truly
understand the different tenses.
Answers: 1. none 2. set out 3. are thirsty for 4. attend 5. be
proud of
Post-reading
Ask each S to write a passage about what he/she has gotten in
junior high school and his/her plan for senior high school.
(Tip: If necessary, T can ask Ss complete the sample passage on
PPT P32.)
Step 3 Language points learning
be thirsty for 渴望；渴求
be thirsty for为固定短语,其后可跟名词、代词或动词-ing形式作宾
语。其中thirsty作形容词,意为“渴望的，渴求的”。
never fail to do sth. 从来不会忘记做某事
fail to do sth. 未能做某事
separate在此处作动词，意为“分开；分离”。separate from意为
“分离；隔开”，separate A from B意为“把A和B分开”。
Step 4 Exercises,Summary& Homework
Exercises
Complete the exercises from PPT P36-P38.Homework
Read and recite the passage in 2b.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
In the reading period, students learn something about the speech at the
graduation ceremony. We'll learn some new words and phrases and useful
structures about the speech. We will get the students to collect the
sentences they like in the speech. They will learn what they can say in the
Teaching
speech. It is a good time to train the students' ability of reading quickly and
Reflection
efficiently. While reading, students learn to find the main ideas and
the most important ideas in each paragraph as quickly as they can.
They should learn the oral language as well as pronunciation and
intonation about a speech.
