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Unit 14 I remember meeting all of you in Grade
7.
Section A（3a-3c）
Language goals
To learn to use "remember doing sth"and to understand the poem.
Key words and phrases
Teaching look back at, overcome, make a mess, graduate, keep one's cool,
Aims caring, ours.
Key sentences
1. Looking back at these past three years, I remember many things.
2. I can't believe it's been three years.
Let Ss learn to use "remember doing sth"and to understand the
Teaching
Difficulties poem.
Teaching CAI, multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for
Aids teaching
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warm up
Listen to a song
T plays the song I remember and asks Ss to listen to the song
together. T may want Ss to recall the happy memories in junior
high school through the song.
Free Talk
T may want Ss to walk around in the classroom and interview each
other the activities they remember in junior high school.
T can teach Ss the English expressions of different activities before
they start to interview.
Step 2 Presentation & Reading
Pre-reading
Before reading, T may want Ss to make predictions
about what the writer may remember in junior high school.
Ss can choose from the options given on PPT P8, or theycan say something else.
While-reading
Ask Ss to read the poem quickly and answer the
questions:
1. What kind of writing is it?
2. How many stanzas are there?
3. What’s the title of the poem?
Let Ss read part 1-6 and answer the questions:
1. What things does the writer remember?
2. What’s the writer’s feeling?
T can use a diagram or a thinking map to help Ss make a
summary.
Ask Ss to underline and number the things the writer
remember.
Ask Ss to read the last two paragraphs and think
about “How does the writer feel now?”
Ask Ss to read part 7-8 and fill in the blanks.
Answers:
1. it’s been three years
2. keep my cool
3. the school trees and the flowers; our kind and caring teachers
Presentation
3a
Ask Ss to read the passage and answer the questions.
Answers: 1. This is a poem. 2. The main subject is the writer’s
memories of school over the last three years. 3. The writer is a
student who is just about the graduate.
T reads the poem with Ss sentence by sentence and
explain the key words and phrases to Ss.
3b
Ask Ss to read the poem again and write words that
rhyme with the words in the box of 3b.
Because there no punctuation marks, so before reading out loud, ask
Ss where they think they should take a breath, where they should
pause and where they should run on.
Answers:
things rings year fear class pass
land understand school cool flowers ours
3c
T may wish to get Ss to work on the answers to the
last question first. In pairs, get Ss to discuss what the
writer’s feelings were with regards to these various events.
They can then work on their own feelings.Answers will vary for the first two questions.
Suggested answers for the third questions:
1. It was a struggle to be on time for morning readings.
2. He/She was hungry so he/she rushed to the dining hall when the
lunch bell rang.
3. He/She was excited about training and proud when he/she
overcame his/her fears.
4. He/She was shy when starting his/her first day in Grade 7.
5. He/She felt it was a little difficult to make some new friends.
6. He/She was happy helping classmates with homework.
7. He/She enjoyed preparing for art festivals (with his/her friends).
8. He/She had fun at New Year's parties.
9. There were many challenges that the writer and his/her friends had
to work hard to understand.
Step 3 Language points learning
caring adj. 体贴人的；关心他人的
Step 4 Exercises,Summary & Homework
Exercises
Do the exercises from PPT P29-P30
Homework
Read and recite the passage in 3a.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
In this period, we review the past tense, present perfect tense, the
future tense and the structures “used to, be going to, look forward
Teaching to and remember doing”. We will learn some new words and
Reflection expressions to write some sentences about the life in junior high school,
so it is necessary to get the students to practice the new words and
structures and discuss their memories and future life.
