Unit3 Im more outgoing than my sister.    Step 1 Lead-in    T：I have a sister. Can you guess what she looks like and what she is like? (Show them you are waiting.)    S： She is tall. /She is thin. / She has long hair./She is easygoing./(Students use their imagination and express themselves freely.)    T： Lets look at our photos. (Show them on the screen.) Please talk about us.    S： She is shorter than you. /She has shorter hair than you. /She is thinner than you. / (Students get information from the photos.)    T：Im more outgoing than my sister.(Lead in the class subject.)   Step 2 Revision    1、 Revise the adjectives describing peoples appearance and personalities：    Divide the class into four groups and have a competition. See which group of the students can get as much as possible. Write down on a piece of paper prepared before class. (Students must collect them before class.)    2、Show some photos about famous persons and talk about their personal traits, using description words, such as short hair/long hair, curly hair/straight hair, tall/short, heavy/thin, funny/serious, outgoing/quiet, smart/foolish, beautiful/ugly, intelligent/lazy, friendly/unfriendly etc, on the screen.  Step 3 Presentation    1、 Learn some new words about personal traits: calm/wild, athletic/weak, using the pictures of 3 pairs of twins in Section A.    T: Who is calmer, Tom or Sam?    S: Tom is calmer than Sam. Sam is wilder than Tam.    Tom is more athletic than Sam. Sam is weaker than Tom.     2、 Do Section A-1a.Match each word with the opposite. Check the answers.    3、 Get students to introduce the rules of the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives.(Show them on the screen.)    Step 4 Listening    1、 Listen to the tape and number the pictures in 1b.    2、 Listen to the tape and complete the chat in 2a. Listen again and fill in chat in 2b.    3、 Check the answers.    聽力訓(xùn)練既是對(duì)知識(shí)的鞏固,也為下一步的任務(wù)輸出提供了輸入材料。    Step 5 Practice    Task 1: Interview famous persons(Pair work)    1、Demonstrate the activity with one student. (Imagine he/she is a famous person. The teacher acts as a reporter.)    eg.T: Hello, Susan. May I ask you some questions about your family?    S: Yes.    T: Do you have a brother or a sister?    S: Yes, I have two brothers and one sister.    T: Who is taller, your sister or you?    S: Im taller than my sister.    T: Who is the most athletic of you?    S: My oldest brother.    (Show an example on the screen.)    2、 Ss work in pairs. Then ask some pairs to act them out in class.    Task 2: Public vote (Group work)    1、 Divide the class into 4 groups and then work in groups. Fill in the chat.     In class    Name    Who is the tallest?    Who is the shortest?    Who is the heaviest?    Who is the thinnest?    Who is the most outgoing?    Who is the most athletic?        2、 Each group choose one student to do a report. Show the results in class.    Task 3: Super star (Individual performance)    T: Suppose you are a super star in the future. What will you look like and what will you be like?    S: Im better than now, of course.    1、 Show an example on the screen:    I want to be a super star. Now Im tall. Later Im taller. Now Im a middle school student. Later Im a college student.    2、Get Ss to design their future and have a free talk.    3、Ask some Ss to share with others.   Step 6 Reading and Writing    1、 Teach “l(fā)ook the same”、“l(fā)ook different”、“ be as good as”、“be not as good as”、“a little”,using some pictures and comparing some Ss in class.    2、 Ss read the article. Then read the statements (1-5) about the article. Write “T”、“F” or“DK”.    3、 Check the answers. (Ask Ss to give reasons.)    4、 Ask Ss to write another letter.    T: You are Isabel now. Write a letter to reply Liu Li. Talk about the same and different between you and one of your friends.    5、Choose two or three to share the replies with the whole class.    Step 7 Consolidation and Sum-up    1、 Give Ss a chance to sum up what have learned in this class.(Ss can talk about it freely.) Then T makes a brief sum-up.    2、 Get the Ss to do some consolidation exercises. T goes around and gives some help to Ss.   Step 8 Homework    1、 Do Workbook Exx.1-3.    2、 Preview Section B.