tall short

red curly

2. Play the recording for the Ss to listen.

3. Ss listen and try to fill in the blanks with the right words.

4. Play the recording again. Let Ss check their answers.

Ⅴ. Pair work

1. Look at the picture in 1a and make conversations in pairs.

2. Ss work in pairs to ask and answer the appearance about Mario, Amy and Tina.

3. Let some pairs ask and answer in pairs.

e.g. A: Did Mario use to be short?

B: Yes, he did. He used to be really short.

A: What's he like now?

B: He's tall now.

Ⅵ. Listening

Work on 2a:

T: Paula has changed a lot in the past few years. Do you want to know what she used to be?

1. Look at the words in 2a. Let some Ss read the words aloud. Make sure all the Ss know the meaning of the words.

___ friendly ___ outgoing ___ serious ___ humorous ___ silent ___ active

___ brave ___ quiet ___ helpful 1) humorous adj. 有幽默感的；滑稽有趣的

humor (幽默) + ous → 有幽默感的

e.g. Cartoons are humorous pictures with words.

漫画是附有文字的幽默图片。

　　2) silent adj. 不说话的；沉默的

　　　silent adj. → silence n. 沉默

　　e.g. Peter seems silent today. What's the matter?

彼特今天似乎很沉默，怎么了？

　　3) helpful adj. 有帮助的

help n. (帮助) + ful → helpful adj. 有帮助的