Teaching Plan for Lesson 1 Unit 18
What Is Beauty?
  by Zhang Jiesheng
from Niuzhen Senior High School

Ⅰ.Teaching aims:
By the end of this lesson, the students should be able :

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.

Ⅱ.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.

Ⅲ.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.

Ⅳ.Teaching procedures:

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.

2) Show students two pictures about artificial beauty and ask them to voice their opinions on this matter.

6. Language points

Step 3  Grammar about the usage of used to and would

1. Find out the expressions “used to” and “would” from the text.

2. Practise the grammar point by talking about the things in our daily life.

There have been many changes taken place in our school in the recent years, can you tell me some?

3. Discussion