Unit 5 Abilities(Vocabulary)

Teaching goals

1. To develop an understanding of the use of adjs in different contexts

2. To use suitable adjs to describe people’s behaviour and character

Focuses

1. To grasp the use of adjs in different contexts

Difficulties:

To use correct adjs to describe people’s behaviour and character

Procedures

Step 1 Brainstorming activities

1. Brainstorm about the adjs Ss learned before and in the unit. Get Ss to find out how many of them are about qualities

hard-working brave careful safe helpful

polite grateful quick slow kind happy

cheerful thoughtful likely

2. Get Ss to describe their partner with the adjs above. Make sure they can give the proper desc riptions in class. Praise those who do well in the step.

3. Lead into the concept of opposites. Make sure they can understand the new concept.

4 . Try to give the correct opposites of the adjs above.

hard-working -- lazy

brave --afra id

careful-- careless

safe-- dangerous

helpful-- unhelpful

polite—impolite/ rude

grateful-- ungrateful

quick-- slow

kind --unkind

happy –unhappy/ sad

5. Encou rage more able Ss to give more adjs in class.

Step 2 Presentation

1. Get Ss to describe Chen Dan/ Zhao Aijia with the given words/ phrases.

A. kind brave, think of others first, helpful, do a lot of computer work for the club, polite

B. be good a t running/ climbing and playing tennis, tell the young people to be careful, quick and brave, save Mrs Lu last week.

2. Get Ss to talk about what good qualities do the two Ss have.

3. Present the new items to them:

recommend sb to be the host

recommend sb as sb

recommend sb for an award

Most Helpful Student Award

Helping Hand Club

Best Sports(wo)man Award

Have/ get/ win the award

Step 3 Practice

I. Page 77 Part B, Get individuals to read out the passage and gi ve their answers in class. Make all the Ss read the part in chorus until they can read the two passages well enough.

A helpful student

A. I would like to _________ Chen Dan for the Grade 7 Most Helpful Student Award. He spends a lot of time at the Helping Hands Club. He is _______ and _________. He always thinks of ________ first. He often helps other members. He is ve ry ________ and he does a lot of computer work for the club. The other members of the club like him very much because he is _________ too.

A super swimmer

B. I am writing _________ Zhao Aijia for the Grade 7 Best Sportswoman Award, Zhao Aijia is a member of the Swimming Club. She is also good at running, clim bing and playing tennis. She often tells younger students to be __________ when they play water sports. She is also very _______ and ________. Last week, Mrs Lu fell into the water and Zhao Aijia saved her. Mrs Lu was very __________ for Zhao Aijia’s help. We shall all be very _______ if Zhao Aijia can have the award.

II. Pair Ss practice retelling the two passages above. Encourage more able Ss to retell them in front of the class.

Step 4 Consolidation

1.Describe Sb according to the given Chinese.

1. Do you know the useful adjs?

energetic/ lazy quiet/ noisy calm/ nervous

skilled/ unskilled optimistic/ pessimistic

brave/ cowardly practical/ impractical

mature/ children dependent/ independent

strong/ weak fast/ slow sensible/ foolish

shy/ outgoing beautiful/ ugly easy-going/ stubborn

interesting/ boring

2.你想推荐你的好朋友作为最乐于助人学生奖。他善良而又助人为 乐。总是先人后己。他反应敏捷，上个月救了一个落水儿童。那个孩子的家长很感激他 的帮助。我们都希望他能获奖。

I want to recommend my good fr iend for the Most Helpful Student Award. He is very kind and helpful. He always thinks of others and then himself,. He is very quick. Last month, he saved a child. The boy fell into the water. The child’s parents are very grateful for his help. We all hope he can have the award.

Step 5 Homework

1. Go over Grammar after class.

2. Try to revise the opposites about adjs.

3. Pra ctice Step 4 as written work.