【正文】 on about different people form their friends’ descriptions.4. To use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and characteristics.5. To recognize the use of paratives and superlative.Teaching ProceduresStep 1 Finding out the key words▲A Best friends‘Teenagers’ magzine is holding a writing petition. It is inviting teenagers to write about their best friends. These are the first three entries(個) for the petition. Read the article and find their names as quickly as possible._______ ________ _________Answers: Betty, Max and May)Read the passages, and find out the key words for each of the passages.Betty is ________________.Max is _________________.May is _________________.BettyMaxMayAppearanceSlim, shout hairTall, poor eyesight, glasses, smartSamll, shoulderlength hair, straight, prettyPersonalityGenerous, helpfulA good sense of humourA true friendSpecialWants to be a singerfunnykindGet the students to answer the following questions.Betty1. Is Betty the writer’s new friend? No, they have been friends for a long time.2. What does Betty look like? She is as slim as I and has short hair.3. What are Betty’s personalities? She is generous and helpful4. How can we know she is generous? She is willing to share things with her friends.5. How can we know she is helpful? She is always ready to help people any time.6. What does Betty want to do when she grows up? A singerMax1. What is Max like? He is tall, his small, round glasses.2. Why does he have poor eyesight? Because he works on puter too much.3. What is the characteristic(性格) of Max? Max has a good sense of humor.4. Why does the writer say so? Because he often tell the writer funny jokes and always makes him laugh.5. Max’s legs fit under the desks? Why? No, because his legs are very long. 6. Why does the writer think Max is funny? Because Max often knocks their things off the desks when he walks past their desks.May1. What is May like? She is shoulder than the writer and is very small. She has straight, shoulderlength hair. Every one thinks she is pretty.2. What kind of friend is May? May is a true friend.3. Why does the writer think May is a true friend? She can keep a secret. When something worries the writer, he can always go to her. The writer can tell May anything. She is kind. She never says a bad word about anyone.Have the students finish Part C1, on Page 6.▲Choosing the best friendB1. Mr Zhou is the editor of ‘Teenagers’ magazine. He is now writing captions(標題) about Betty, Max and May. Help him fill in the blanks with the correct words from the box. Guess who the best friends are and write their names in the boxes.Answers: 1. May, true, secret 2. Max, smart, houmor 3. Betty, slim, generous▲B2 Mr Zhou dropped the photos of Betty, Max and May on the floor and they all got mixed up with other photos. Read the descriptions. Help Mr. Zhou match them with the photos. Circle the correct letters.Answers: 1. c 2. b 3. b▲C What makes a best friend?C1 Mr Zhou is writing some notes about Betty, Max and May. Read the sentences. Write a T if the sentence is true. Write an F if it is false.Answers: 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T 6. F▲C2 ‘Teenagers’ magazine now invites students to vote for the best friend. Amy, Simon and Sandy want to vote. Who will they vote for? What are they saying? Fill in the blanks to plete the sentences.Answers: 1. May 2. Max 3. BettyPeriod 3 Language PointsTeaching GoalsMake the students understand the use of the following words and expressions.1. She is as slim as I am. 她和我一樣苗條 as +adj.(adv.)+as “與一樣”，該句型為形容詞或副詞原級的用法，其否定形式為“not as +adj.(adv.)+as “與不一樣”Eg. Tom is as tall as Jim. (Tom is not as tall as Jim.) David speaks English as well as Betty. (David doesn’t speak English as well as Betty.) Max runs as fast as May. Max doesn’t run as fast as May.練習：這顆樹和那顆樹一樣高。 他聽課和你一樣仔細。2. Betty is generous. She is willing to share things with her friends. Betty非常慷慨，她總是愿意和別人分享東西。Be willing to do sth = be ready to do sth. “樂意、愿意做”Eg. She is willing to share anything with others. Are you willing to help him? All the students are willing to go out in summer holidays.I’m willing to help you with your English.4. She always gives her seat to someone in need. 她總是把座位讓給需要的人。1） give sth. to sb. 雙賓語，sth. 叫直接賓語，sb. 叫間接賓語；該句型也可為give sb. sth. 相同用法的還有pass sth. to sb. show sth. to 。2） in need 是“in + 名詞”構成的介詞短語，表示“處于之中”eg. A friend in need is a friend 。 They are hungry, they are in need of food. 他們正處于饑餓之中，他們需要食物。注意：相同的詞組還有：in surprise “驚奇地”；in danger “處于危險中”；in love “處于戀愛之中”等。5. Betty wants to be a singer and travel around the world when she grows up. Betty想成為一個歌唱家并且能周游世界當她長大時。1) travel around “周游”，travel around China(America, Africa)2) grow up “長大成人”6. He is the tallest boy in my class. However, he has poor eyesight because of working on the puter too much at night.1) the tallest “最高的”，是形容詞tall的最高級形式，在句中使用時，形容詞最高級前要加定冠詞the。in the class表示比較的范圍。Eg. Lin Tao is the cleverest boy in my class. 林濤是我們班最聰明的。 Shanghai is the biggest city in China. 上海是中國最大的城市。注意：在形容詞最高級的用法當中，除了用“in + 集體名詞”表示比較范圍外，也可以用“of + 不定代詞或數(shù)詞”表示比較范圍。Eg. Kate is the tallest of the three. 凱特是三個中最高的一位。 Of all the students Lin Tao is the cleverest. 在所有的學生當中，林濤是最聰明的。2) poor eyesight “視力不好”3) because of + 短語，意為“因為，由于”表示原因, because of 是復合介詞。Eg. Because of his bad leg, he can’t walk as fast as the others.I have to stay at home because of the heavy rain. 注意：because+從句，單獨的because引導原因狀語從句。Eg. He can’t walk as fast as the others because his leg is bad.I have to stay at home because it rains heavily.4) work on “從事于，致力于”Eg. Uncle is working on making a model plane these days.6. He wears small, round glasses and they make him look smart. 他戴著小小的，圓圓的眼鏡，使他更為英俊。1) wear “戴著”，如：glasse