Unit 2 Growing pains Period one Welcome to the UnitThe general idea of this period: Four pictures are designed to point out the theme of this unit, growing pains. The questions for discussion can improve students speaking ability and can arouse students interests for speaking and discussing.Teaching aims:1. Let the students get familiar with the topic of growing pains. As the topic is quite common to them.2. Encourage them to practice their spoken English by talking about their own experience or combining what they have seen and heard in the daily life. Teaching important and difficult points:1. Activate students imagination.2. Relate the information given in the book to the students own experience and let them express their opinions fully and freely. Teaching methods:1. Individual work or group work to make every student speak English and think in English.2. Teacher-students exchanging methods by interviewing Teaching procedures: Step One: Warming up1. A report to the class by a student about the difficulties in high school2.What are Growing pains? Teacher may use the following questions to activate students interest in the problems between parents and teenagers.3. Do you have growing pains.Show some pictures:Pains of exams,pains of Questions: Do you love your parents?Do you sometimes quarrel with your parents? Why do you quarrel with them? Students: I love my parents, but sometimes I dont want to stay with them because they dont understand me. They force me to do things I dont like or Im not interested in. So if we stay with them, we sometimes have a quarrel with them Teacher: So it seems there are many different problems between two generations. Maybe most of you have some trouble in communicating with your parents. Could you tell me what kind of problem you have with your parents? Encourage the ss to talk freely by using the following useful words or phrases.misunderstanding distrust problems interference force to you to do something T: Its true that some teenagers and their parents cant understand each other sometimes. Many teenagers experience growing pains when growing up and couldnt find a way to solve it.Step Two: Presentation 1. Picture talking and describingGuide the ss to read the instruction and the pictures on the book. Ask the Ss whether they are familiar with the situation in the pictures and make them describe the pictures with their own words. Teacher can give example first. Qs:whats happening in the picture? If you were the kids in the picture,how would you feel ?2.Summary of the topicsEncourage ss to use their imagination and any descriptions are acceptable.Step Three: Free talkAsk ss to focus on the questions and think about the answer individually first. Let them tell the true feeling. As for the last question, teacher may ask the ss how they think about the experience now. After talking about the questions, guide the ss to think about the problem of generation gap and discuss how to overcome the problems. After leaving home, how do you think of the relationship between you? How to deal with the problem? When you have a problem with them and want to talk to someone, who do you choose to talk to?Let the ss conduct a feedback activity.Step Four: Discussion1. If parents and children want to get on well with each other,what should they do ?2. Good parents in my eyesHave students work in their groups and use some adjectives to describe the good parents in their eyes.Step Five: SummaryMake a conclusion: Growing pains can be very painful if we do nothing to understand others and make others understand us. Try to let your parents know how you feel and care your parents feeling, too. In this class we have talked about the difficulty in growing up. We have a warm discussion about the pictures and the problems happening to children and their parents. From this class we know out parents love is rue and selfless. Now I give you your homeworkwrite a few words to your parents from you deep heart, which can express your love to your parents.Step Five: Homework 1.Preview the reading part. 2 Write a letter to your parents from your deep heart.