Lesson 1 What Is Beauty?

Teaching aims:

1. To improve the students' reading ability.

2. To practise using "used to" and "would" to talk about the past.

3. To practise expressing one's opinions.

4. To improve students' understanding of beauty.

Teaching important points:

1. To practise using "used to" and "would" to talk about the past.

2. To get students to be able to have a deeper understanding of beauty.

Teaching methods:

1. Skimming and scanning method for information reading.

2. Task-based method to organize the class.

3. Individual, pair or group work to make every student involved in class.

Teaching procedure:

Step 1 Lead- in

Give students some pictures and let them come to the conclusion that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Step 2 Reading

1. Pre-reading

　Give a few pictures to show the meanings of several words.

2. Fast reading

　Read the text quickly and finish Exercise 3.

3. Reading

　Read the text again and finish Exercise 4.

4. Intensive reading

　Finish the true or false questions.

5. Oral practice

1) Finish Exercise 5.