Period 8
Learning content: Main task
Teaching aims and demands:
1. To know the use of an application form and letter.
2. To fill in an application form using one’s own information.
3. To write an application letter.
Learning procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Students fill in the application form with their own information.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Listen to the letter and find the answers to the questions.
(1)Who is the chairperson of the club?___________________________________________________
(2)How did Amy get interested in the club?_______________________________________________
(3)What are Amy’s favourite subjects?_______________________________________________________
(4)What are her hobbies and interests?______________________________________________
(5)Why does she want to become a birdwatcher?____________________________________________
2.Read the passage quickly.
Step 3 Activities
1.Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.
2.Discuss in groups to write an application letter using Amy’s letter as an example.
Think about:
(1)Why do you write the letter?
(2)Something about yourself.
(school/grade/favorite subjects/interests and hobbies/clubs and activities to protect wildlife)
(3)Why would you like to join the club?
3. Show some good letters in front of the whole class.
4. Exchange, read and correct their letters.
5. Ask some able students to read their letters and let other students talk about them.
Step 4 Language points
★call sb. on+电话号码；e-mail sb. at+邮件地址
eg. I live in a new flat now. Please call me _______010-66255582.
If you finish the work, you can e-mail me _______72892221@qq.com.
Step 5 Checking
用所给词的正确形式填空
1.She’d like to be a ________(sing) when she ________(grow) up.
2.I have a friend _______(name) Tom. He’s very_______(friend) and _______(help).
3.I think _______(dive) is more interesting than _______(swim).
4.I _______(think)of my school life when I saw this picture.
5.Who is ________(thin), the first one or the second one?
6.Playing football and climbing are _______(health) than watching TV, I think.
7.I want to know how you can make the baby ________ (stop)______(cry).
8.The ________(high) of the building is more than 350 metres.
9.His house is much ________(big) than yours.
10.Listen, who ________(sing) in the next room?
Step6 Exercises & Homework
1.Rewrite the letter carefully after class, and then put them up on the back wall.
2.Collect all the useful phrases in this part.
3. Finish the relative exercises.