Topic： Unit 1 A healthy body (Part A) Period: 1st Teaching Aims： Using comparatives to talk about physical appearance Important Points & Difficult Points： 1. Revise the simple past tense and the adjectives learned before. 2. Master the new words. 3. Learn how to express the heights and weights. Teaching Aids： Computer, tape recorder, CD ROM Teaching Steps I. Warm up 1. Greetings. 2. Everyday English: Did you have a pleasant summer holiday? How did you spend it? What did you do? II. Revision 1. Revise the past forms of the regular and irregular verbs 2. Revise the adjectives and their opposites learned before. III. Presentation 1. Ask the students to bring photos of themselves from last year and show them to the class. Provide extra photos of people who are obviously tall, short, heavy etc. 2. (Books closed.) Collect some photos from the students and point to each picture. Tell the students that some of the students in the photos look different now, e.g. Was (Susie) tall? Have the students look at the photo and answer Yes./No, She wasn’ t. She was short. 3. Write the adjectives heavy, light, strong, weak, fast, slow on the board. Show the students how we use them to describe people by miming or pointing to different students in the photos, e.g. (David) was fast. (Bill) was slow. 4. Introduce cm (centimetre) and kg (kilogram). Tell the students that cm is the measure unit for height or length and kg is the measure unit for weight. 5. Ask the students to describe themselves in the photos using the adjectives, cm and kg. 6. Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’ s Book Cassette and point to each of the picture. Ask the students to repeat after the cassette. IV. Practice 1. (B...
