1、Its short .Teaching aims 1.To read the passage and figure out how things happened between the author and her friend 2.To learn that never judge a book by its cover 3.To retell the whole story according to the given clues 4.To talk about how first impressions affect people .Teaching difficulties and
2、main problems for students 1.Students may have some difficulties using reading strategies to locate right sentences or expressions relating to the answers to some questions. 2.It is easy for students to understand what happened to the author, but may not easy to find useful clues to retell the story
3、, even harder to talk whether first impressions matter or not. .Teaching aid Students Worksheets; OVH(overhead projector) .Teaching procedures Outline of teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-inAshort video and several picturesWatch, think and talk Step 2 Fast ReadingPredictionIndividual work Step 3 Care
4、ful ReadingQuestions &Main structureGroup work&Presentation Step 4 Post ReadingLearn to tell a storyGroup work Step 5 Brain Storm Learn to think criticallyGroup work Step 6 HomeworkRetell the story and write it downFinish after class Step 1 Lead-in 1.Ask students to watch a short video and pause in
5、the middle to predict and talk about the first impression of the young man. Then go on watching to see the end of the story to check your prediction. 2.Look atphoto of Page 14 and make a predictionabout the two girls . 3.Lead in the topic of this lesson. Step 2 Fast Reading Read paragraph 1 to 4 qui
6、ckly to predict/guess what will happen in the end. Answer:The author is going to tell us something unexpected, which is totally different from her first impression of that girl. Read paragraph 5 to 7 to check our prediction. Step 3 Careful Reading Task 1 Look at Exercise 2 on Page 14. Read the text and answer the questions While reading ,please notice the Reading Strategies. Task 2 Get to know the structure of thisarticle. Step 4 Post Reading Step 5 Brain Storm Step 6 Homework Retell the story
