Lesson 4 First Impressions优质课教案内容

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Unit 13 Lesson 4 First Impressions

Teaching aims: 教学目标：

1. Enable students to make opposites of adjectives using a prefix. 2. Encourage students to talk and write about their experiences of meeting someone for the first time. 3. Practice making inferences when reading. Teaching procedures: 教学过程: Step 1. Lead in Show a picture of one of my friends who left a bad first impression on me and relate how he/she impressed me badly but later changed my view of him/her. Write useful words and expressions on the blackboard for ss to make references later in their answers. Step 2. Prepare students for the topic. Have you ever met someone you didn’t like, who later became your friend?

Use some adjectives to describe your first impression of them:

(write them down on the blackboard) Use some adjective to describe them when you really get to know them: (write them down on the blackboard) Step 3. Skim the text and try to answer the following questions. 1) Where does the story take place? In the local library 2) What kind of books does Jenny like? poetry 3) What exam was Jane studying for? An important science exam 4) What was the last straw for Jane? She heard someone humming behind her. 5) What kind of person do you think Jenny is? Friendly, warm-hearted, forgiving 6) How did Jenny get Jane’s phone number?

She asked a librarian and got it from the library files. 7) Do you think that Jane over–reacted in the library? Have you ever experienced a similar situation when you were studying? Step 4. Read the strategies and look at these true/false sentences. Underline important words.

Example 1 = pleased 1)

Jane was pleased when Jenny started humming.

2)

Tennyson must be a poet. 3)

Jane first saw Jenny near the poetry section. 4)

Jane was upset that she had left her book in the library. 5)

Jane didn’t feel that it was necessary to apologise.

Answers: FTTTF Step 5. Complete the paragraph below with the correct form of the following words.

glance, annoy, recognize, concentrate, disturb,

resist, whisper, glare, inconsiderate, grateful Janet was 1)

on writing an essay when a noise 2)

her. She 3)

Her brother’s whistling. “Shh” she 4)

,5) at him quickly. The noise didn’t stop.Janet 6)

the urge to scream and instead 7)

at him angrily. “Please stop it, Simon. You are being very 8)

,” she said. But still he didn’t stop. Janet was now very 9)

.Just then her father called Simon out of the room. Janet smiled, feeling 10)

to her dad. Answers: 1concentrating 2disturbed 3recognised 4whispered 5glancing 6resisted 7glared 8inconsiderate 9annoyed 10grateful Step 6. Vocabulary: opposites You can often make opposites of adjectives using a prefix. Example able/unable, pleased/displeased, considerate/inconsiderate Use prefixes to make opposites of the underlined words.

Peter is very organized and reliable. He is also sociable, sensitive and tolerant. He seems interested in or aware of other people’s feelings and is often kind. When you ask him for something, he is always sympathetic and helpful. I think he must be very satisfied with his life. Answers: unreliable, intolerant, unaware, unkind, unsympathetic, unhelpful, dissatisfied Step 7. Writing and speaking Make notes about the first time you met someone.

Who/when/where you met Xiaoming (my new neighbour), last month, in the street What he/she was doing going into his house with his bike what he/she said or did asked about my family/showed me his cat what he/she seemed like cheerful, a bit shy

Homework: Write a story about how you met someone who didn’t leave a good impression on you but later became your friend.