Unit 7 What does he look like?

I. About the teaching material

The main content of this unit to talk about the people’s physical appearance and its Yes/No questions and short answers. Through the learning of this unit, let students describe people’s appearance freely and let students write short a passage to describe themselves by using the adjective words. II. Teaching aims: i. Aims of knowledge

A: Learn some words about people’s build, height, hair B: Sentences structures: What does he /she look like? What do you/ they look like?

He/she is tall./ short. They are thin/fat. He has long/ short hair. He wears glasses. Is he tall? Yes, he is. / No, he isn’t. Does she have long hair?

Yes, she does./ No, she doesn’t.

C. Grammar: the differences between ―is‖ and ―has‖ ii. Aims of Ability

A. Learn to talk about and describe what people look like B. Get Ss to do pair-work to describe people’s appearance

C. Get Ss to practise listening, discussing , writing , drawing and survey iii. Aims of emotions

Train Ss to describe people’s appearance, lead them to watch each other carefully .

Love life and bring up the feeling of beauty. III. Teaching main and difficult points

A: Master the new words of people’s build, height, hair and the usage of the

basic sentence patterns of describing people

B: Let Ss describe people’s appearance and write a short passage C: the usage of ―is‖ and ―has‖ IV. Teaching Steps:

Period One: Section A 1a –1c

Period Two: Section A 2a, 2b, 3 and Grammar Focus Period Three: Section A 3a, 3b and Section B 1a 1b Period Four: Section B 2a—3b, and 4 Period Five: Self-check and Revision

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Period One

(Section A, 1a,1b,1c)

I. Teaching aims:

Words: hair ( curly, straight, black, blonde, long, short)

Height ( tall, short, medium) Build ( thin, heavy, medium)

Sentence patterns: Is that your friend? Yes, it is./ No, it isn’t. What does he/ she look like?

She is medium build and she has long hair. II. Teaching main and difficult points 1. Master the new words

2. Use the sentence structures freely III. Teaching produces: Step 1: Free talk

T: What day is it today? S1: Today is Wednesday. T: What’s the date today? S2: Today is April 4th. T: How are you? S3: I’m fine. And you?

T: Fine. And How is the weather? S4: It’s fine.( sunny, windy, rainy, cool,

cold, warm, ..)

Step 2: Lead- in

Teacher can ask Ss some questions. If the weather is fine, what do you want to do? And If the weather is raining, what do you do at home? Then let Ss answer the questions freely. Then ask other students Do you like…? I like playing basketball, watching TV…. Then ask one girl the question, Do you have a doll at home? The teacher takes out a doll. Then Let the girl answer the question.

Step 3: Learn New words.

Then Let Ss look at the doll. Teach them how to describe the doll

What does it look like? It has long/ short hair. It is short and heavy. It has curly / straight hair. It is tall and thin. Then take out some dolls to teach them new words:

hair, build, height, long , short, blonde, black, curly, straight, tall , thin , heavy, medium

Then let Ss read and remember these words Step 4: Presentation

Ask one student to come here, in front of BB

Then teacher asks one student “What does he look like?” Let the student

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describe him.

The teacher helps the student answer: He is tall. He is medium. He has short hair. His hair is black.

Then ask another student come here… Do the similar activities. Step 5: Practice:

1. Take out the picture, let Ss look at the picture and turn to the page 41.

Finish 1a .Match the words in the picture and read these words. 2.Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks in the picture above on P41, Finish 1b

3.Find the Amy’s friend in the picture and read the dialogue Step 6: Pair-work

Look at the pictures , describe them and practice the following dialogue: A: Is that your friend? B: Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.

A: What does he look like? B: He is medium build and he has long hair. A: What does he do? B: He is a teaching. A: What is he doing? B: He is having an English class. Step 7: Homework

1. Finish the exercise book

2. Bring some photos of family or friends 3. Design a cartoon boy or girl

Period Two

(Section A , 2a,2b ,3 and Grammar Focus)

I: Teaching aims:

1. describe the people’s appearance by using some adjective words: long,

short, medium, straight, curly hair. He is thin/ heavy/ tall/ short/ medium.

2. The differences between ― is‖ and ― has‖ 3. Grammar Focus

II. Teaching important and difficult points 1. Master the Grammar Focus 2. Use ―is‖ and ―has‖ freely

3. How to describe the people’s appearance: What does he look like?

He is thin and tall with short hair.

III. Teaching procedures: Step 1: Make a report

1. Let Ss take out their pictures, and then describe these cartoon boys and

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girls

2. Then teacher asks one student : T: What do you look like?

Teacher helps the student answer the question : I’m short . I’m thin. I have long hair. I wear school uniform .

Step 2: Chain game

Let Ss ask one by one in a group. Learn to describe themselves. The teacher begins: T: What do you look like?

S1: I’m thin. I’m tall. I have black hair. What do you look like?

S2: I’m short. I’m heavy. I have short hair.

What do you look like? S3: I’m ….. S4:…

Then The teacher lets Ss ask the next group: T: What does he look like?

S1: He is…, he has…. What does she look like? S2: She is…, She has….. S3:…

Step 3: Grammar Focus: What do you look like? What do they look like? What does he look like? I’m short. I’m thin. They’re medium height. He is medium build. What does she look like? She is tall. She has curly hair. Step 4: Presentation:

Look at some photos of stars; Just say one word to describe the stars: e.g. Yao Ming is tall. Han Hong is heavy.

Yao Ming has short hair. Fan Bingbing has long hair.

Gonghanling is thin. Pan Changjiang is short. Pay attention to ―is‖ and ―has‖ Step 4: Listening

1. Listen and circle ―is‖ and ―has‖ . Finish Section A , 2a

Be + adj. Has+ adj. + n

2. Listen to tape again and fill in the chart. Finish Section A 2b. David is tall

has Curly hair 4