humanism, patriotism or pacifism 2. Role-play: 3. Exercises: Do exercises in Vocabulary, Word Building, Structure, Cloze, Reading Activity, and Guided Writing after class II Extensive Reading(45 min) 1. Reading Task: Extensive Reading Unit 2 2. Reading Skill: Scanning III Listening and Speaking (45 min) 1. Listening tasks: Unit3& 4 Listening strategies: Sound recognition Unit 3 The present I Intensive reading Objectives: 1. Understanding the main idea(The loneliness of old people and the indifference of 2. Master Key words and useful expressions Teaching focus: 1. Understanding cultural difference between Western countries and China in terms of relationships between children and parents 2. Mother's feelings Time allotment(This unit will be finished within 6 periods 3 6th period riod d riod While-reading While-reading Intensive (structure Extensive read i topIc characteristics, points reading Listening Pre-reading; sentence, Post-reading content questions Pre-reading (45 minutes) I. Warming-up activities I)T asks Ss to discuss the following questions:(20 minutes) -- Do you remember your parents birthday? How do you celebrate your parents birthday? What kind of gift do you like to give to your parents5 ------ humanism, patriotism or pacifism 2. Role-play： 3. Exercises: Do exercises in Vocabulary, Word Building, Structure, Cloze, Reading Activity, and Guided Writing after class. II Extensive Reading (45 min) 1. Reading Task: Extensive Reading Unit 2 2. Reading Skill：Scanning III Listening and Speaking (45 min) 1. Listening tasks: Unit3 & 4 Listening strategies: Sound Recognition Unit 3 The Present I Intensive reading Objectives： 1.Understanding the main idea (The loneliness of old people and the indifference of the children to their old parents) 2. Master Key words and useful expressions Teaching focus：1. Understanding cultural difference between Western countries and China in terms of relationships between children and parents 2. Mother’s feelings Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1 st period 2 nd period 3 rd period 4 th period 5 th period 6 th period Intensive reading: Pre-reading; While-reading (structure, topic sentence, content questions) While-reading (Writing characteristics, Language points) Language points, Post-reading Extensive reading Listening Pre-reading (45 minutes) 1. Warming-up activities 1) T asks Ss to discuss the following questions: (20 minutes) --- Do you remember your parent’s birthday? --- How do you celebrate your parents birthday? What kind of gift do you like to give to your parents?