Unit 2 "Growing Pains"集体备课教案

Period 1 Welcome to this unit

Teaching objectives:

* To introduce and develop the theme of growing pains.

* To develop speaking ability by talking about families and problems that happen between teenagers and parents.

* To know more about classmates and their families.

Important and difficult points:

* Get students to understand what growing pains means.

* Make students know the relationship between parents and their teenage children in the USA.

* Help students to form a positive attitude towards relationships between their parents and them.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 lead-in

Get the students to read the two passages in the lead-learning paper and have a general idea of "growing pains"

KEYS: CBAAD, ABBAC

Then ask the students the following questions:

What are Growing pains?

When do we probably have growing pains?

Step 2 Picture discussion

Ask Ss to look at the pictures and discuss each picture in groups of four.

Picture 1

What does the boy do?

What is the mother doing? How is she probably feeling?

What feelings may the boy have?

Picture 2

What happens to the girl with a bag?

What did her parents ask her to do?