【正文】 listening, questionnaire design, letter writing and fun writing prepares students to further talk about friendship, especially the problems with misunderstanding, and unfriendliness, thus strengthening students’ abilities to practice language, discover, and solve problems.Summing upIt summarizes the whole contents of this unit from the aspects of topics, vocabulary and grammar.Learning tip This part encourages students to form the habit of writing a diary.Integrating skills The text introduces the way Hawaiians express friendship, to get students to realize the cultural differences in the values of friendship in addition its importance in all cultures.2) Making of the teaching planThis unit centers on friends and friendship, exploring different types of friendship with particular attention to that one can develop with oneself,., the fort and support one seeks from an imaginary friend. Students are expected to e to be truly aware of the qualities and conducts that make a good friend, display and develop the ability to cope with misunderstanding, conflicts and problems related to friendship, and give advice on it. The concept that even an ordinary thing can be a friend should break down the traditional belief in theinterpersonal nature of friendship. Also, the parison of similarities dissimilarities in friendship prehension between the East and the West leads students to know better the values of friendship in Westerns’ eyes. All in all, this unit promises to unveil the true essence of friendshipand helps students to lead a more friendly and harmonious life.Thus, based on the theme, contents and teaching objectives, the whole teaching procedures can fall into five periods as follows:Period 1Warming up and speakingPeriod 2ReadingPeriod 3GrammarPeriod 4Integrating skills (WB)Period 5Using language3. Teaching plans for each periodPeriod 1 Warmingup and Speaking1. Teaching objectives:1) Target languageI (don’t) think…… I (don’t) think so. I (don’t) agree. I believe…… That’s correct. In my opinion, ……2) Ability goalsa. Describe your friends in Englishb. Figure out the problems between friends and then find different ways to solve the problems.3) Learning ability goalsa. To encourage students to think and talk about friends and friendship by using some phrases and structures.b. To learn to solve problems that may occur between friends.c. To cultivate the students to form the good habit of learning English in Senior Middle School.2. Teaching important points:a. Use the given adjectives and sentence structures to describe one of your friends.b. Learn to evaluate friends and friendship.3. Teaching difficult points:a. Work together with partners and describe one of your good friends.b. Discuss with partners and find out ways to solve the problems.4. Teaching methods a. Taskbased teaching and learningb. Cooperative learningc. Discussion 5. Teaching aids:CAI6. Teaching procedures and ways:Step 1 Leadin and WarmingupBefore the lesson, the teacher can arouse the students’ interests by showing a video of Auld Lang Syne .At the beginning of the first class, we can get the students to talk about their summer holidays. The students can talk freely as they like.1. How did you spend your summer holidays? How did you feel? What did you do in your summer holidays? What did you do in your spare time?2. What do you think of our new school? Do you like it? Could you say something about it?3. Do you like making friends? How do get in touch with your friends? Do you have many friends? Where are they now? Do you have any old friends in our school? Have you made any new friends in our class?Step 2 Think it over1. Give a brief description of one of your friends. The following phrases and structures may be helpful:His/Her name is ……He /She is …… years old.He /She likes …… and dislikes ……He /She enjoys …… and hates……He /She is very kind/friendly/……When /Where we got to know each other.2. What types of friendship do you have? Please tick them out. Then fill in the blanks.girl friends boy friends pen friendslong distance friends friends of the same ageefriends (friends over the internet) friends across generations unusual friends like animals, books……1).______ is /are most important to you. 2). You spend most of your free time with ____.3). You will share your secrets with _____.4). When in trouble, you will first turn to _____.Step 3 Make a survey1. List some q