Unit 3 Teaching PlanSection A I. Teaching targets: 1. Talk about personal traits and compare people1). Target language: Is that Sam? No, thats Tom. He has shorter hair than Sam. Hes calmer than Sam.Personal traits2). Key vocabulary: impressionisticphysical Quieter funnier smarter more more outgoing more popular more serious taller, shorter thinnerlonger heavier 2. Learn to listen to the key words （学会听关键词）3. Learn to make the description. （学会作描述）4. Lead the students to cultivate the good personal traits and the spirit of loving motherland （引导学生培养良好的性格和爱国情操）II. The focus and difficult points : 1. the focus : the target languageIs that Sam? No, thats Tom. Sam has longer hair than Tom. 主语（sb / sth）+ be +形容词比较级 + than + 2. the difficult points: the comparatives with er/ier and moreIII. Teaching methods:1. Apply different kinds of teaching methods 1) task-based teaching approach 2) The cognitive approach 3) The oral approach 4) The natural approach2. Learning method guidance （学法指导） 1) Autonomous learning and cooperative investigation（自主学习，合作探索） 2) Let the students work in pairs to learn the cooperative learning 3) Students learn to describe each other and respect others 4) Ask students to learn by doing. 3.The teaching means （教学手段） Multi-media, computer, projector, courseware , Flash pictures, body language, listening, practice, chart, photos, record, pattern-drills, question-answer drills. Teaching steps:Step 1. Revision1. Greetings. 2. Review the description words of personalities and appearance. （cultivate the students multiple intelligences培养学生的多元智能。）（让学生展示自己小时候与现在的照片，用所学过的形容词分别形容每张照片，然后进行较，引出本节课所要学的内容形容词的比较级）Step 2. Presentation: Say , Today were going to learn a new unit . In this unit we will learn to talk about personaltraits and compare people. Now Ill ask two students to come to the front.1. Ask two students to stand in the front of classroom the other students tell the differencesbetween them.（培养学生的直观思维。）2. Using the flash pictures to share the comparatives and help students cultivate the spirit of loving motherland.（情感教学）3. Show the pictures of 1a ask students to tell what they see.（Intuitive Teaching-直观教学）T: What can you see in the picture?S: Two boys.T: Thats right . This is Pedro and this is Paul. Theyre brothers. Who is taller, Pedro or Paul ?S: Pedro.T: Thats right. Pedro is taller. (show the sentence and class repeat)S: Pedro is taller. T: Pedro is heavier than Paul . Paul is thinner than Pedro. (show the sentences and class repeat)S: Pedro is heavier than Paul . Paul is thinner than Pedro.In the same way , teach the sentences of the other two pictures. Tina is wilder than Tara. Tara is calmer than Tina. Sam is wilder than Tom. Sam has longer hair than Tom. Tom is calmer than Sam . Tom has short hair than Sam.Step3. Practice1. Ask students to read these sentences again.Pedro is taller. Pedro is heavier than Paul . Paul is thinner than Pedro.Tina is wilder than Tara. Tara is calmer than Tina. Sam is wilder than Tom. Sam has longer hair than Tom. Tom is calmer than Sam . Tom has short hair than Sam.2. Ask students to match each word with the opposite in activity 1a. 3. Ask students to describe each picture in activity 1a.(Appliance Teaching-应用教学)4. Task 1. Whats change in your life? (use the photos )Step4.Practice 1. Ask students to listen to the conversations and number the twins.2. Play the tape.3.Check the answers.Step5. Pair work （cultivate the cooperative learning）1. Point out the sample conversation in activity 1c. 2. Say the sample conversation again with a student.3.Ask students to work in pairs like this and make their own conversations about the people in the picture .4.Ask several pairs to say one or more of their conversations to the class.Step6. Listen and write（cultivate the autonomous learning）1. Point out the two columns and read the headings: -er, -ier and more2. Tell the students what to do in this activity. Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.3. Ask them to listen carefully and write the er and ier words from the box on the left in the first column and the words that use more in the second column.4. Play the recording the second time . 5. Check the answers.Step7. Grammar Focus: 1. 形容词比较级的用法。 规则变化2. 形容词比较级的构成。 不规则变化 （出示幻灯片） 3. 句型： 主语+动词+比较级+thanStep8. Summary and task Task 2. What are the differences between you and your sister or brother?Step9. HomeworkWrite out the comparative degrees of the following words. short shy serious thin tall funny outgoing big