Module 5
Unit 1 Getting along with others
Reading 1
Objectives:
1.To help Ss get a general idea about the text.
2. To make Ss become familiar with the detailed information about the text.
3. To help Ss master Reading Strategy.
Teaching important point:
1.How to make the students understand the passage better.
2.How to help the students finish all the exercises.
3.How to help the students develop their creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Interaction Patterns: Teachers -class, individuals, pairs
Procedures for teaching:
Step 1 lead-in
Discussion
1. Do you have any important events or unforgettable experiences with your close friends?
2. Please share something with us and tell us what to do when meeting with difficulties in friendship.
(1). If your friend tells others about your secrets, how will you feel and what will you react?
(2). When your friendship is in trouble,will you stop talking with your friend and make a new friend?
Conclusion
1. We should keep our promise and keep friends’secrets. Honesty is one of the most important factors in the friendship.
2. Friends should unite and help each other when meeting with some difficulties both in study or in other fields of life.

In other words, we are supposed to take honesty and union as glory. But what are the shameful behaviors or the glorious?
Step 2 Comprehension of the text
First reading
By using these two rules, let’s go over the two letters for the first time and try to answer questions below.
1. What did Sarah think about the surprise Maths test?
She thought it was quite easy.
2. What did Sarah tell Hannah in the girls’ toilet?
She told Hannah how badly she had done in the Maths test.
3. Why did Sarah tell Hannah that they weren’t going to be friends any more?
Because she thought that Hannah had told everyone how badly she had done in the Maths test.
4. Why did Andrew shout at Matthew after the match?
He thought Matthew played badly and did not try hard enough. As a result, they lost the game.

5.What did Matthew think about losing the match?
He thought it was his fault.
6. What kind of boy is Matthew? Is he usually a quiet boy?
He is usually cheerful and out going.

Second reading
Read the article again and finish part C2. Try to identify how Sarah and Andrew felt and why they felt like so.

Make sure you pick the relevant information within the given time.
How Sarah felt
Why she felt so

 
 
 
 
 

How Andrew felt
Why he felt so
 
 
 
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Step 3 Language items
1.Match new words with their definitions
2.Find out the similar words in the 2nd letter

Step 4 Discussion
1. Do you think Sarah and Hannah should try to be friends again or go their separate ways?
2. If you found out that your best friends had made friends with another person,what would you think about this and what would you do?

Step 5 Reading strategy
How do they show their strong feelings when meeting difficulties in friendship?
1. I must be really stupid…. (line11)
2. How they must have laughed behind my back! (line22)
3. I was so angry that… (line23)
4. It is really awkward….. (line 49)
5. I can’t help wondering…. (line52-53)
Step 6 Group work
Work in groups and try to make a dialogue which is full of strong feelings.
Suppose you were in a quarrel with your best friends, and turn to another one for help. You need to tell him the causes and how you feel about it. And the helper should give advice.

Reading 2: Language Focus
Objectives:
1.Revise the reading passage by retelling it.生词表:

reading [´ri:diŋ]   n.(阅)读；朗读；读物   (初中英语单词)

conclusion [kən´klu:ʒən]   n.结束；结论；推论   (初中英语单词)

supposed [sə´pəuzd]   a.想象的；假定的   (初中英语单词)

glorious [´glɔ:riəs]   a.光荣的；辉煌的   (初中英语单词)

everyone [´evriwʌn]   pron.=everybody 每人   (初中英语单词)

cheerful [´tʃiəful]   a.快乐的；高兴的   (初中英语单词)

identify [ai´dentifai]   vt.认出；鉴定；验明   (初中英语单词)

discussion [di´skʌʃən]   n.讨论；辩论   (初中英语单词)

comprehensive [,kɔmpri´hensiv]   a.综合的；理解的   (高中英语单词)

honesty [´ɔnisti]   n.诚实，老实   (高中英语单词)

comprehension [,kɔmpri´henʃən]   n.理解；领悟   (高中英语单词)

relevant [´relivənt]   a.有关的；中肯的   (高中英语单词)

helper [´helpə]   n.帮助者，助手   (高中英语单词)

creative [kri:´eitiv]   a.有创造力的；创作的   (英语四级单词)

shameful [´ʃeimfəl]   a.可耻的；猥亵的   (英语四级单词)