Unit 1 Personal and Family Life

(Reading and writing)

Teaching aims:

1. Knowledge aims：

To learn words and phrases to describe family:live with sb /be strict with sb /especially / in the same community/cook and have lunch/Chongyang Festival /a handmade gift /energetic/ go jogging/ live alone /plan to hold a party /plan to do sth .

2. Ability aims:

To understand the differences of family values between China and western countries.

To be able to write about family life.

3. Emotional aims ：

To spread Chinese family values and traditional family culture.

Teaching important and difficult points:

To understand the structure and the reasons why they become models of the Times.

To write a letter to models using the key words and expression.

Teaching method

Task-based method

Situational teaching method

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Review

Do you have a big family or small family?

Step 2 :Think and discuss.思考并与同伴讨论你更喜欢和谁住在一起。

Think and discuss who you like to live with together:parents,grandparents,roommates...

Step 3: Read and underline.阅读以下家庭简介，在文中标出家庭成员

I live with my parents and my younger sister. Father and mother love my sister and me very much. But they are also strict with us, especially about our homework. Our grandparents live in the same

community. We cook and have lunch with them almost every

Saturday. Chongyang Festival is coming. We are preparing a

handmade gift for them.

Step 4 :Read and complete.

 

Step 5: Read and match.细读家庭简介，将以下可能发生的事情与对应的家庭相匹配。

 

 

 

 

 

Step 6 :Read and write.再读家庭简介，进一步描述两个家庭的特点。

 

 

 

 

 

Step 7 :Homework

搜索有关西方国家家庭模式的信息，对比中西方家庭差异。

Search for information about family patterns in Western countries and compare the differences between Chinese and Western families.