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Unit 8 Pets 集 备 部 分

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7B Unit 8 Pets Task

Teaching aims and learning objectives: Knowledge:

Students will be able to: 1. To describe characteristics and personalities of pets 3. To describe pets' lifestyles, including feeding habits, homes, likes and dislikes 3. To present an article about a favorite pet Ability: Students will be able: 1.To develop Ss’ skills to collect information by asking questions.

2.To generate creative ideas and give descriptions. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Presentation 1. Tell students We will write an article about your favorite pet．Here is a sample article

from Amy．Please read it and try to find what she wrote about her pet. 2. Ask students to read Amy's presentation about Poppy in Part B. Read through Amy's presentation together with the students and explain more difficult words or phrases. Ask individual students to read different parts of the presentation. 3. Let students talk about this passage: What does it talk about? 1) What’s it? name, age

2) ○1_____fur, _____ paws, _____ tail,____ eyes, weigh about ____ ②she is ____and ____ ○3 eat/drink, sleep, play, likes/dislikes: ④feed her ____, give her ___, brush her fur. 3) Why likes?

Step 2 Task 1. Ask students to choose their favorite pet but to keep it secret. If students do not have pets of their own, ask them to write about pet they know a bit about or a pet they would like to have. 2. Ask students to use the questions in Part A to help them plan their presentations. However, they should expand the information to include any extra information they may find interesting and useful. Help students generate as many ideas as possible. 3. Ask students to use as many adjectives as possible to describe their pet's personality. Suggest that they refer back to the poems for ideas. 4. Tell students to select sentences which they like and might want to use in their own writing. Suggest that they underline them. 5. Then ask students to prepare information about the appearance of their pet. Tell them to write simple but complete sentences to describe details as well as general looks. Step 3 Writing 1. Finally, ask students to start writing. Ask them to sort their ideas for the introduction, main body and conclusion as detailed in Part C. Encourage students to think carefully about how to organize their information, ideas and opinions. 2 .Encourage students to look at pictures of their pets to help them make the writing experience more concrete. Pictures also help students focus on descriptive details. However, if students want to ask their classmates to guess the name of their favorite pet, they must not show the pictures to their classmates. Emphasize the need to draft, re-draft and edit their work to make it really interesting. Do not accept a first draft as a final piece of writing. Make suggestions as students go through the different stages to help clarify how the process of writing works. 3. As you go around the class, suggest ways to generate more ideas, select better information, and develop more appropriate vocabulary and structures. Encourage

students to make good use of the 'Useful expressions' to help them write their sentences. Step 4 Homework Write an article about your pet.