The third period----Word power

Teaching Aims:

Review the words related to qualities for success.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Help the students master the words.

2. Help the students finish each exercise correctly.

Teaching Difficult Point:

Master the uses of words.

Teaching Methods:

1. Review method to consolidate the words learned in the last two periods.

2. Practising to make the students master the words correctly.

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

Teaching Aids:

1. the multimedia

2. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

兂Step ⒐ Greetings

Greet the whole class as usual.

兂Step ⒑ Brainstorm

Please say some words of qualities related to success.

兂Step III Word power

Read the profile on page 38 and find out Victoria Brownˇs ten qualities for success.

1. perseverance 2. ambition

3. confidence 4. motivation

5. energy 6. enthusiasm

7. interpersonal skills 8. organization

9. sense of humour 10. help

Perseverance

What does ¨perseverance〃 mean according to the text?

Answer:

This means I never give up, even when things go wrong. However much I get knocked back, I just try again.

Adj: perseverant

Examples:

Perseverance is a good quality to success. I am perseverant.

Ambition:

Adj: ambitious

Example

He had great ambition when he was young.

As he grew old, he wasnˇt that much ambitious.

Confidence:

adj: comfident

I wasnˇt good at English at first. Then I got confidence from my English teacher. And now I am very confident.

Motivation:

adj: motivated

Examples:

The president told us that we needed

motivation if we wanted to do things well. After his lecture, I got motivated.

Energy:

adj: enegetic

Examples:

John is full of energy. He is energetic.

enthusiasm:

adj: enthusiastic

Examples:

When I met him, I was very much touched by his enthusiasm.

She takes an enthusiastic attitude towards life.

Interpersonal skills

Examples:

A good manager needs high interpersonal skills.

Organization

Examples:

Our monitor is a man of organization. He can do most of the things that our head-teacher should do.

Sense of humour

Adj: humorous

Examples:

The politician has a good sense of humour.

He is a humorous man.

Help

Adj: helpful

Examples:

If you often give others help, you are a helpful person.

Step IV A game

Who can get the most peaches?

Try to find the opposite of the given words. You can get one peach for your tree for each correct word.

careless lazy

mean aimless

dishonest unkind

friendly impolite

unfriendly