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Lesson 7: Trading Poems
一、Teaching Aims
1.Vocabulary:
Mastery words and expressions: awake, riddle
Oral words and expressions: avenue
2. Know more about the foreign culture.
3. Create the student’s cooperation ability.
二、Teaching Important Points:
1.       Master the written style, letter.
2.       Learn the differences between Chinese and foreign poetry.
三、Teaching Difficult Points:
Write a letter with what we learn in this unit.
四、Teaching methods
1.设定情景来教授重点句型，然后让学生巩固练习。
2.让学生分组讨论练习。
五、Teaching aids
录音机、多媒体课件
六、Teaching procedures
Step1: Show the type of the letter. Let the students sum how to write a letter. Pay attention to the written style of the envelope.
Step2: Listening task
Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
1. _______ is a beautiful way to express thoughts and feelings.
2. Danny’s teacher says Danny’s always saying _______ things.
Let the students listen to the tape and finish the listening task in class in oral.
Step3: Read the text and answer the following questions:
1.       Does Danny think it is hard to write a poem?
2.       Did Li Ming write back to Danny?
Ask the students scan the text and answer the questions.
Step4: Practice
Write a letter to your friends about what we learn in this unit. The teacher encourages them to write a poem to their friend, too. It’s hard, so they can choose any topic that they like. They only write for friends. We don’t need to demand too much.
Step5: Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Finish the task in groups of three or four students. In a small group, write a poem like the one in Li Ming’s postcard. 
1.       First, choose a word your group like. They can choose any word that they like. Because the task is to begin a poem with the letters in this word, everyone can write a word on a piece of paper. Then they can choose one from these.
2.       Use each letter in this word to begin a line of our poem. Everyone in the group can write different poem according to the word. Then they can exchange their poems and give advice to each other.
3.       Make a poster to display your poems on the wall. It takes some time to design the poster.
4.       Which one do you think is the best? Give your reasons.
Let the students choose the best poem that they like best and give their reasons in front of the class.
Step6: Homework
1.       Finish off the exercises in activity book.
2.       Go on the next reading in the student book.