Unit1 FriendsTeaching Objectives:To identify the words and phrases to describe the appearance and personality of a personTo talk about the important qualities of a good friendTeaching contents:Words: honest, joy, sad, believe, teenager, good-looking, musicalPhrases: have something to drink, make somebody happy/special, keep secrets, share ones joy, believe what somebody says, talk to somebody about anything, clean and tidySentences: Do you want some?Can I have something to drink? What about some milk?Can I have some more food too? Theres nothing else in the fridge.Teaching preparations:Tape recorderComputer Pictures Teaching procedures:Step1 Warm-up T: Hello everyone, glad to see you again! Did you have a nice summer holiday? Are you happy to be back to school and see all your friends?Ss talk about their summer holidays.T: This summer holiday I went to Australia with some of your classmates and friends. We took a lot of photos. Would you like to have a look?Show the pictures and introduce some places of interest and animals in Australia.T: Look, we took a photo with this famous man- Batman. Hes a hero and peoples good friend because he helps people in danger. Do you agree? What do you think of him?Ss talk about Batman with the adjectives describing appearance and personality, such as friendly, helpful, kind, polite, clever, brave, etc.Step 2 Presentation T: There are some more words to describe people. For example, we can say Batman is good-looking. But we never say hes beautiful! We dont use beautiful to describe a boy or a man. If someone likes music or is good at music, we say he or she is musical. Teach “good-looking” and “musical”. Step 3 Practice 1. Play a guessing game. Ss describe their best friends in the class and guess who are talked about.2. T explains some language points.Step 4 Presentation1. T: How old is your best friend? What about you?Ss: 15/16 T: So you are teenagers. We call children between 13 and 19 teenagers.Teach “teenager”.T: We have a good friend, Eddie. Is he a teenager?Ss: No.2. T: Whos Eddies good friend? Why?T plays the tape of the Comic strip and Ss try to find out the answer to the question.(Hobo is Eddies good friend because they always share things with each other.)3. Ss read the Comic strip and answer the questions:(1) What does Eddie give Hobo?(2)What does Hobo want?(3) Do you think Eddie is a true friend? Why?4. Ss read the dialogue in pairs.5. T explains some language points.Step 5 Practice1. Ss act out the dialogue and they are encouraged to add in something they like.2. Discuss: Who do you like better as a friend, Eddie or Hobo? Why?Step 6 Homework1. Describe a good friend of yours with the words and phrases learnt in this lesson.2. Finish the Workbook exercises.灌云县穆圩中学八年级英语教学案8A Unit 1 Friends Reading () 教案主备人：霍建如 审核人：八年级英语备课组Teaching Objectives:To guess general meanings from keywords and contextTo skim text for overall meanings and scan for detailsTo identify specific information about different people form their friends descriptionsTo use adjectives to describe peoples appearance and personalitiesTeaching contents:Words: slim, shoulder-length, generous, singer, almost, eyesight, smart, truePhrases: travel around the world, have poor eyesight, have a good sense of humour, knock off, a true friend, say a bad word about anyone, vote forTeaching preparations:Tape recorderComputer Teaching procedures:Step1 Leading-in T: Yesterday we learnt to talk about friends. Friends are very important in our lives. Almost everyone needs a friend and almost everyone has a friend, do you think so? Lets look at some interesting English sayings about friends. Please try to guess the meanings of them.Ss read and discuss.Step 2 Presentation T: Why do you think friends are important? What can friends do for you?Ss give different answers.T: Is your friends appearance very important to you?Ss: No.T: Good. We should never judge a person by his appearance or clothes. But itll be good for you to learn some words to describe your friends appearance, right?T shows the pictures and teaches “shoulder-length”, “slim” and “poor eyesight”.Step 3 PracticeSs do Part B2, P9 individually. After checking the answers, T asks some Ss to give some more details about the appearance of each person in the pictures.Step 4 Presentation 1. T: As you all think that appearance is not very important, could you tell me what is important in your opinion?Ss answer with the adjectives they learnt to describe qualities, such as clean and tidy, helpful, honest, etc.T: Excellent. Now I have some good friends here. Can you use some proper words to describe them?Ss fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.T teaches “generous”, “joke”, “humorous”, “have a good sense of humour”, “a