Unit 9 What does he look like?Learning Objectives一、Topics（话题）:Physical appearance二、Functions (功能)Describe people’s looks三、Structures (结构)1. What questions2. Adjectives of description3. Alternative questions四、Target Language (目标语言)What does he look l ike?He’s of medium build.Is he tall or short?He’s tall.Do they have straight or curly hair?They have curly hair.五、Vocabulary （词汇）straight, tall, thin, heavy, round, handsome, face, mouth, eye, nose, glasses, actor, actress, put, describebe of medium height/build, look like, wear glasses, a little, in the end 六、Skills (技能)Listening for key informationScanning in reading七、Recycling （复习巩固）Joe Brown has …He’s about … years old.I like him because …八、教材分析本单元以描述人的外表为话题，共设计了三个部分的内容。
旨在通过本单元的教学使学生学会使用“What does he/she look like?”的句型询问别人的外表；用英语描述别人的发型，身高，身材以及其它特征。
并能学以致用，用所学知识描述自己的朋友，喜欢的老师及演员的等。
unit9-What-does-he-look-lik e教案unit9-What-does-he-look-lik e教案Unit 9 What does he look like?Unit textbook analysis：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.Teaching main and difficult points1: Master the new words of peopl e’s build, height, hair and the usage of the basic sentence patterns of describing people2: Let Ss describe people’s appearance and write a short passage3: the usage of “is” and “has”Main grammar:Expression of how to a place and what questions.Target sentences: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.Ability aims:1. Learn to talk about and describe what people look like2.Get Ss to do pair-work to describe people’s appearance3.Get Ss to practice listening, discussing , writing , drawing and survey Emotion aims:Train Ss to describe peopl e’s appearance, lead them to watch each othercarefully .Love life and bring up the feeling of beauty.Learning methods:To require students to use independent learning and cooperative learning mode, according to the need for purposeful preview; Change the traditional rote learning, active in the language practice, to think in English, improve the comprehensive use of language ability in practice, deepen the grasp of the basic knowledge and memory, guessing, from group discussion, dialogue, a variety of forms such as game, lets the student in the activity, in the game, happy in the cooperation and communication.Teaching methods :1. Communicative approach and method of teaching.2. Students centered and task-based teaching, using multimedia assisted teaching, guide students' autonomous learning at all levelsUnit period arrangement:This unit is divided into six periods.The first period：Section A 1a-1cThe second period：Section A 2a-2dThe third period：Section A Grammar Focus－3cThe fourth period：Section B1a—1fThe fifth period：Section B2a—2cThe six period：Revision, self-check and WritingUnit 9 What does he look like?Period 1 Section A (1a-1c)Teaching time：May 21st，2015Teaching aims：1. Be able to say, read and write these words: hair ( curly, straight, black, blonde, long, short) height ( tall, short, medium) , build ( thin, heavy, medium)2. Be able to listen and speak the following sentences: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.3.Be able to describe people’s looks.Teaching main and difficult points:1.Master the new wordse the sentence structures freelyTeaching aids:All- in-one machine and PPTLesson type:New teaching.Learning method guidance.1.Self-learning,Pair work and group work.municative approachTeaching produces::Step1. Greetings and lead inStep2. Show and read learning aimsStep3. Review colors and learn new words.1. Use real objects to review the colors they have learned2. Teach the new words : hair, build, height, long , short, blonde, black, curly, straight, tall , thin , heavy, mediumStep 4. Presentation1.The teacher describe herself like this :I am tall and of medium build, and I have long curly hair.2.Show some pictures on PPT to help Ss make conversation to describe people from height, build and hair:---What does he /she look like ? ---He/She is tall/short/of medium height.---What does he /she look like ? ---He/She is thin/heavy/of medium build.---What does he /she look like ? ---He/he has short straight black hair. Step 5.Practice:1.Show pictures and make conversations in pairs.2.Ask students to describe themselves by themselves..3.Then ask student do the similar activities to describe friends, parents, classmates , favorite actor….This is my friend. He’s George. He is tall and of medium build. He has short, brown, straight hair…4.let Ss look at the picture on page 49. Finish 1a .5.Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks in the picture on P49, Finish 1b Step6. Summary and exercisesStep 7. HomeworkBlackboard DesignUnit 9 What does he look like?Section A (1a-1c)A: Is that your friend? B: Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.A: What does he look like? B: He is tall and of medium build and he has long hair.After teachingUnit 9 What does he look like?Period 2 Section A (2a-2d)Teaching time ：May 22nd，2015Teaching aims ：1. Be able to say, read and write these words: tonight, little, a little, may, cinema, glasses, later2.The differences between “ is” and “ has”Teaching important and difficult pointse “is” and “has” freely2.How to describe the people’s appearanceTeaching aids:All- in-one machine and PPTLesson type:New teaching.Learning method guidance.1.Self-learning, group’s discussion, cooperate and research.2.C ommunicative approachTeaching Steps:Step 1. Greetings as usual and lead inStep 2 .Revision and show learning aims.1.Make a report: Let Ss describe their classmates .2.Teacher helps the student describe herself/himself : I’m short . I’m thin. I have long hair. I wear school uniform .Step 3. Presentation:1.Look at some photos of stars; Just say one word to describe the stars:2.Pay attention to “is” and “has”Step 4: Listening1.Listen and circle “is” and “has” . Finish Section A , 2a2.Listen to tape again and fill in the chart. Finish Section A 2b.Step 5: Pair-workThen the Ss do pair-work. Let Ss take out their photos and describe their friends or their family and practice the dialogue on P50.Step6. Role-play the conversation1.Read the conversation and understand its meaning.2.Read again and answer the questions about Tony and Mike :1).Where are Mike and Tony going tonight? 2).Where are they going to meet?3).Who will Tony meet first at the cinema? 4). What does David look like?3. Show the conversation with blanks, read and fill in the blanks. And try to recite it.4.Read it in pairs for five minutes then translate it into Chinese .After that underline the target sentences and explain them in groups.Step 7. Summary and exercisesStep 8. Homework .Blackboard designUnit 9 What does he look like?Section A (2a-2d)---What does he /she look like ? ---He/She is tall/short/of medium height.---What does he /she look like ? ---He/She is thin/heavy/of medium build.---What does he /she look like ? ---He/She has short straight black hair.---What does he /she look like ?---He/She is tall and thin, and has short straight brown hair.After teachingUnit 9 What does he look like?Period 3 Section A (Grammar focus-3c) Teaching time ：May 25th，2015Teaching aims ：1.Describe the people’s appearance by using some adjective words: long, short, medium, straight, curly hair.2.The differences between “ is” and “ has”3.Grammar FocusTeaching key points:Aims 1,aim 2 and aims 3Teaching aids:All- in-one machine and PPTLesson type:New teaching.Learning method guidance.Self-learning, group work and pair workTeaching Steps:Step 1. Greetings as usual and make a daily conversation.Step 2. Revision and show learning aims.1.Ask some pairs to act out the conversation 2d they learnt last class.2.To make the conversations in groups with the pictures on the screen about how to describe a person.What does he look like? He is thin and tall with short hair.Step 3. Presentation1.Read the sentences in grammar focus and get them read the target sentences : What does he look like? He is thin and tall with short hair.2.Ask students try to sum up the usage of describing a person.Step 4. Practicee to 3a by themselves, give them two minutes to match the right answers. After that check their answers and ask them to make up their own answers.2.work on 3b to use words to make questions in five minutes, then get them to work in groups to check the sentences ,then ask and answer those questions in pairs.3.Do some exercises on PPT about the main points in this period.Step 5. Give a report.work on 3c:write answers to these questions about different people. Then tell their partners about them.work on 3d:Describe someone in the class. Ask their classmates to guess who they are describing.Step 6. Summary and homework .Blackboard designUnit 9 What does he look like?Section A Grammar focusAfter teachingUnit 9 What does he look like?Period 4 Section B (1a-1e)Teaching time ：May 26th，2015Teaching aims ：1. Be able to say, read and write these words: nose, blond, mouth, round, face, eye, singer, Johnny, Dean, Tina, Jackson2. Describe your classmates using Adj. in right orderTeaching main and difficult points:1.New wordse adjectives to describe a person correctly and put them in right order Teaching aids:All- in-one machine and PPTLesson type:New teaching.Learning method guidance.1.Self-learning, pairwork and groupwork2. Communicative approachTeaching Steps:Step 1. Revision1.Let Ss make a report. Ask them describe themselves and their friends or family.2.Show a body picture or use their own body to review the parts of body. Step 2. Show the learning aims.Step 3. Learn new words:1.Teach them new words with a picture : nose, blond, mouth, round, face, eye, singer, Johnny, Dean, Tina, Jackson2.Read the new words and finish activity 1aStep4. Listening1.Listen and Finish Section B , 1c2.Listen to tape again and fill in the chart. Finish Section B 1d.Step 5. Pair-work1.Describe what your favorite singer or athlete looks like. Or describe the famous people, the contents include : head, face, hair, nose, eyes, ear, mouth, body…2. 1.Describe someone in the class. Ask your classmates to guess who you’re describing.3.Make a conversation about looking for the lost person using the correct words to describe him or her.Step 6.Summary and exercisesStep 7.HomeworkBlackboard designUnit 9 What does he look like?Section B (1a-1e)After teachingUnit 9 What does he look like?Period 5 Section B (2a-2c)Teaching time ：May 27th，2015Teaching aims ：1. Be able to say, read and write these words: artist, crime, criminal, put, each, way, describe, differently, another, end, in the end, real2. Be able to read and understand the meaning of the passage.3.Be able to use different ways to master the reading .Teaching key and difficult points:Lead and teach students hoe to improve reading skills.Teaching aids:All- in-one machine and PPTLesson type:New teaching.Learning method guidance.1.Task-based- teaching2.Scan and ski pTeaching Steps:Step 1.Revision and show learning aims.Let Ss talk about their favorite stars’(musician, actor and athlete) appearance, two students in a group, practice the dialogue:Step 2. Free talk to lead in1. Check their preview about words and phrases. Get students to read new words. Make sure that they can read fluently and understand the meaning of them .\2.Let them complete the chart with words of the opposite meaning. finish off 2aStep 3. Fast reading1.Show questions about the passage and get them to read the passage quickly ,try to find out the answer to them .They can look for the main words in the given question.2. Check their answers to see if they can find out the right answers.Step 4. Scanning1. Read the passage follow the tape or teacher once , then read by themselves. They must read the passage carefully and find out the answers to the questions below the passage.2.Discuss the answers in groups and check them in class.3.Read it again and underline the difficult points they have, discuss in groups first ,then deal with them in class with teacher’s help.Step 5.Practise1.Work on 2c on P53 in three minutes, make sure that they can grasp the passage .2.Try to retell the passage according to the information in2c.Step 6. Have a test.Step 7. Summary and homework .Blackboard designUnit 9 What does he look like?Section B (2a-2c)1.an interesting job2.in the end3.long straight brown hair4.medium heightAfter teachingUnit 9 What does he look like?Period 6 Section B (3a-self check)Teaching time ：May 28th，2015Teaching aims ：1. Be able to use the words of unit 9 correctly.2. Be able to read and understand the meaning of the passage.3.Be able to use the word and phrases to write a passage about describing a personTeaching key points:Aims 2 and aims 3Teaching aids:All- in-one machine and PPTLesson type:New teaching.Learning method guidance.1.Self-learning, cooperate and research.2.WritingTeaching Steps:Step 1.Revision and show learning aims.1.To recite some phrases and words in the reading of section B 2b.2.Show some phrases and words and get students to describe others in right order.Step 2. Reading1.Read the passage in 3a,fill in the blanks with the given words according to the meaning of the passage.2.Discuss in groups and check the answers ,then read the passage twice together.Step 3 writingask students to write a passage about your best friends according to the following questions: What is your friends name? What does she or he like to wear? What does she or he look like? Why do you like him or her?Step4. Who remembers best? words Self check 1Step5.Who describes best?1.Give a sample description of someone in the class and ask the class to guess who you are describing.2.Ask some students to describe a person while their classmates guess who it is.Step6: Who draws best?This activity provides listening and speaking practice using the target language.1.Have students get into groups of four. Tell each group to listen to the description and draw the person. You may wish to have them listen to the description several times.2.Ask each group to swap its pictures with another group. That group votes to decide which of the three copies looks most like the original picture. The student who drew that copy is the winner.Step7: Who writes best?Choose a picture you draw and write the description on the exercise books Step 8. Summary and homework .1.Revise the useful expressions in this unit.2.Look for some more beautiful passages to read.Blackboard designUnit 9 What does he look like?Section B (3a-self check)1. What is your friends name?2. What does she or he like to wear?3. What does she or he look like?4. Why do you like him or her?After teaching。
