Unit 1 Friends
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. know how to use the vocabulary tree to remember the new words;
2. draw the vocabulary tree;
3. try to draw the knowledge tree to remember the knowledge.
II. Teaching contents
How to remember words quickly.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Draw the vocabulary tree.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Ask and answer
The teacher shows four figures of different professionals and writes down the key words on the blackboard.
T: What’s he/she? What does he/she look like? What’s his/her feeling?
2. Try to remember
Give the students one minute to remember the words on the blackboard. Then let the students try to say the words as many as possible.
【设计意图】以问题为抓手，通过让学生简要地描述所给人物来复习前面所学知识。让学生快速地记单词是为接下来的学习做了铺垫，引出今天的主题。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Present the method to remember words
The teacher introduces a good method to remember the words quickly. Lead the students to put the words into different groups.
2. Try to draw
Teach the students how to draw a vocabulary tree.
We need 4 or 5 steps. The steps are:
Put the words into different.
Draw a tree.
Write the group names on the branches.
Write down the words on the leaves of each branch.
Draw pictures if necessary.
3. Do the exercise
Let the students open their books at Page 15 to complete the vocabulary tree in their books. First ask the students to do it by themselves and then check the answers together.
【设计意图】
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通过之前的快速记单词活动引出今天的话题记忆单词的方法之利用词汇树。通过动画的形式生动形象地向学生演示绘制词汇树的过程与方法。接下来让学生翻开课本来完成书上的联系，初步了解词汇树。
Step 3 Practice
1. Ask and answer
Ask some questions about our friend Eddie, such as “what’s Eddie’ hobby?”. Let the students say the names of some food and drinks.
2. Group the words
Let the students put the words about the food into different groups.
3. Draw a vocabulary tree
Let the students draw a vocabulary tree about the food and drinks.
【设计意图】通过学生熟知的卡通人物来引出关于食物和饮料的相关词汇。通过让学生根据这些词汇进行分类可以了解学生概括总结的能力，最后让学生以此来绘制一颗词汇树既可以让学生对照自评本节课的目标达成度，也是教师来反思教学目标达成度的一个途径。
Step 4 Expansion
The teacher introduces the knowledge tree. Lead the students to draw the knowledge tree about the knowledge of unit 1. They can draw the trees in different ways.
【设计意图】从利用词汇树来记单词引申到利用知识树来梳理整个单元的结构与内容。通过介绍两种不同的方式来拓宽学生的思维，让绘制知识树真正能成为学生学习的一项技能，而不仅仅局限在记忆单词上面。
V. Homework
1. Put the words in Unit 1 into different groups.
2. Try to draw a vocabulary tree.
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