Unit4. Shopping for clothes(10 periods)

　　Teaching aims:

　　1. Functional language:

　　a. Asking about problems.

　　b. Asking about clothes sizes.

　　c. Asking to try clothes.

　　d. Agreeing to buy.

　　2. The vocabulary about clothing.

　　3. Grammar: a. The superlative form of the adj.

　　b. The order of the adj.

　　4. Teaching approach: Listening, Speaking, discussion, writing

　　5. Teaching time: 10 periods

　　6. Teaching procedure:

　　 Describing Clothes

　　Step 1. Revision

　　1. Greetings. Talk with students about their weekends or holidays. Go over the language they learned about planning a trip.

　　2. Check their homework.

　　Step 2. Listen, talk, discuss and learn.

　　1. Have the students look at the people on their books. Make sure they can catch each word about clothes. Then, ask them to match the clothes the people wearing with the labels. Check their work.

　　2. Play the tape. Have them listen carefully to catch how the people in the picture describing their clothes. Writing down the new words and phrases on the blackboard if there's any. Name each person according to what they hear.

　　3. Ask the students to read the chart about the order of adjectives. Make sure they can catch the rules. Help them to describe the clothes in exercise 1.

　　4. Ask some students to come to the blackboard , have the other students to describe their clothes. Pay attention to the language they use, especially the rules of the adjectives.

　　5. Look at the picture of exercise 5 carefully. Say where Julia is and what she is doing. Check their work.

　　6. Play the tape and match the problems with each of the coats. Make sure they can catch what they hear. Help them if needed.

　　Step 3. Talk, discuss and learn.

　　1. Ask the students to look at the pictures of exercise 7 carefully. Try to describe the clothes in the pictures with "too" and "enough". Check their work and correct their mistakes if there's any.

　　2. Have them look at the clothes in exercise 1 and say which they would like to buy or not. Give the reasons. Give them some new words about describing clothes and some sentence structures if needed. Such as : old-fashioned, baggy, trendy, fashioned, out-of-date, or so./ I would like to buy...because.../ The reason why I want to buy ... is that...)

　　3. Do stress and intonation. Pay attention to their intonation. Ask them to try to imitate.

　　Step 4. Read and learn

　　1. Ask them to read the article carefully and try to find out the answers to the questions.

　　2. Make sure they can understand what the article talks about. Solve their problems if they have any.

　　3. Ask them to read the article together. Correct their pronunciations and intonation.

　　4. Ask them to retell the articles. Check their work.

　　5. Work with partners to answer the questions on their book.

　　Step 5. Workbook

　　Do exercises.

　　Step 6. Homework

　　1. Do exercise on workbook

　　2. Go over "Describing clothes"

　　The right clothes

　　Step 1. Revision

　　1. Greetings.

　　2. Checking their homework and do some oral exercises.

　　Step 2. Talk, discuss and learn

　　1. Have them look at the pictures on their book and describe the pictures. ( Say what clothes the shop sells.) Help them to go over the words about clothes.

　　2. Have them match the labels with the T-shirts. Make sure they can understand what the labels mean. Check their work.

　　3. Have them practice how to ask about the size. " What's the size of .../ What size T-shirt do you take or wear?" Practice more with the information of the chart below. Make sure each of them can do it well.

　　4. Ask them to ask their partner about what size of clothes they wear. Check it.

　　Step 3. Listen, talk and learn.

　　1. Listen to the tape carefully. Read after the tape sentence by sentence with book closed.

　　2. Work in pairs and practice the similar conversations. Pay attention to the language they use. Check their work and solve their problems.

　　3. Listen to the tape and answer the questions.

　　4. Help them to find out the rules of the comparative and superlative forms. Have them to complete the chart on their book. Add more adjectives to practice. Ask them to say which adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms. Solve their problems if they have any.

　　5. Complete the sentences with the superlative form of each adjective on their books. Check it. Encourage them to make more sentences with adjectives to practice the comparative and superlative form.

　　Step 4. Read , discuss and learn.

　　1. Match the clothes to one of the countries on their books. Have them talk about the clothes they know about different countries .

　　2. Talk about the differences between different kinds of clothes

　　Step 5. Homework.

　　1. Write about what they wear at different times of the year.

　　2. Go over the whole lesson.

　　DEVELOPMENT

　　Step 1. Revision

　　1. Greetings

　　2. Checking their homework and do some translation.

　　Step 2. Speaking, listening and learning.

　　1. Ask them to identify the people in the pictures according to the clothes they wear. Give the reasons. Introduce some news about describing clothes to them. Such as : comfortable, casual, formal, informal, fashion , dirty or so.

　　2. Listen to the tape carefully and try to answer the questions on the book. Make sure they can catch what they hear and encourage them to repeat after the tape.

　　Step 3. Reading, discussing and learning

　　1. Look at the picture on their book and have them have a guess about the lady's occupation. Have them guess it with the help of the words on their books.

　　2 Ask them to read the article to see if they were right. Have them to read the article carefully and try to do exercise 4 to judge the statements true or false. Correct the false statements.

　　3. Have them underline the words and phrases which are difficult to them. Solve their problems and ask them to find out the answers to the exercise 5. Check their work.

　　4. Make sure they can catch what the article talk about and ask them to read the article . Make sure they can read the article fluently.

　　5. Encourage them to retell the article in their own words.

　　Step 4. Writing

　　1. Have them write something about their feelings about the clothes they wear after reading the short letter on their book. Ask them to follow a suit to write a paragraph about an item of clothing that is important to them.

　　Step 5. Summary

　　Go through the summary with the help of exercise .

　　Step 6. Homework

　　1. Workbook

　　2. Go over the words and phrases.

　　3. Writing.

　　4. Preview Unit 5.