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Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark.
Section B（3a-Self Check）
Language goals
1. Students can write a passage about how they have changed.
Key words and phrases
general, introduction, require
Key sentences
Teaching
1. The mother traveled for many hours to return home to talk to her
Aims
child in person.
2. If you are always absent from class, you will fail the
examinations.
3. The teacher took pride in helping his students win the English
competition.
Some s may be using the same answers for various activities in
Teaching this unit. T can encourage Ss by saying that they may be young,
Difficulties but while they were growing up, they must have experienced
various changes in their lives.
Teaching multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Aids
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Guess game
step 1: T thinks of one S in his / her mind and tells everyone the gender of
the S.
Step 2: Ss ask questions about the chosen one using the sentence structure
“Did he / she use to ...?”
Step 3: T can only answer the questions using “yes” or “no”.
Step 4: Ss guess who he / she is.
(Tip: T can let Ss know that a person may have a lot of change
with the time passing by.)
Step 2 Presentation & Practice 在 warm up 的
活动中老师可
Pre-writing
以总结随着时
1 T can tell Ss that a lot changes have taken place for 间的推移一个
人会发生很多
himself/herself in the past few years.
变 化 ， 在
T can describe his/her changes from three aspects: appearance,
PPTP7 的活动
personality and hobbies. 中，老师可以
以自身的变化
3a
为范例，利用
Encourage Ss to write down three changes (in appearance,
P7的给出的句
personality and hobbies) that they haven’t talked about before. 子作为示范，
Then ask them to talk with a partner about their changes.
从外貌、性格
和爱好三方面
(Tip: T can also encourage Ss to make a conversation and talk
阐述自己的变
about their changes following the example on PPT P9.) 化，这也是为
3b部分的写作
While-writing
给学生做口头
3b
示范。
Show and explain the instruction about the writing task to Ss.
Encourage Ss to write two paragraphs. Tell Ss that they can
incorporate the three changes from 3a but they can also include
more changes to make their piece more interesting.
(Tip: T can show Ss the sample writing to give them more idea.)
Post-writing
Divide Ss into several groups, ask Ss to read their passages in
the group one by one. Ask each group to vote for the best
passage, then invite the S who wrote the “best passage” to read
his/her passage for the class.
Self Check
Exercise 1
Ask Ss to fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words
in the box.
Answers: 1.in person 2.silent, seldom 3.absent, fail 4.takes pride
in/took pride in 5.influence 6.humorous 7.required, interview
8.are proud of/were proud of
Exercise 2
Ask Ss to think about what they used to be like when they
were in primary school. Encourage Ss to come up with different
answers.
Suggested answers: 1.I used to wear smaller sized clothes. 2.My
hair used to be curly. 3.I used to watch cartoons. 4.I used to play
hide and seek. 5. I used to be short.
Step 3 Summary & Homework
Summary
Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P17-20.
Homework
Preview 1a-1c in Unit 5.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
2In the last period of the unit, we pay enough attention to writing practice.
Try to get the students to use what they have learned in the unit. The
teacher should help the students to sum up all the words and expressions
Teaching
they have learned. Give examples to them and let them have enough time
Reflection
to practice. They must do a lot of work to practice words and expressions
to talk about how they have changed. They have to finish the work by
themselves.
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