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Period VI-Project: Writing an advice letterTeaching aims and demands:l Help students improve English through doing a project.l Cooperate by working together on the project.l Improve Ss ability of writing.l Get Ss to cooperate with others.Teaching procedures:Step 1: RevisionReview some words which will appear in this passage.Step 2: Brainstorming.Talk about problems common to teenagersStep 3: Reading practicePractice 1: Fast reading.1. Read the first letter written by the father and answer the following questions: (1) Why does the father write the letter? (2) What does the father think about his son? (Fathers opinion about his son) (3) What is the father worried about? 2. Read the second letter written by the son and answer the following questions:(1) Why does the son write the letter? (2) What are his problems? (3)How does he feel about his father?Practice 2:ListeningJudge whether the following statements are true or false.1. Mr. Lius son is 15 years old.2. Liu Wei is Mr. Lius only child.3. Liu Wei likes playing the piano and learning Japanese. 4. The father forbids his son from meeting his friends online at the Internet caf.5. The father and the son love each other very much.Practice 3: Detailed reading.Fill in the blanks with proper words according to the passage.1. I am writing to your magazines “Teenagers Now” column to _ some help with my _ son;2. He is our _ and we _ him very well.3. Sometimes he acts _ he doesnt love us at all.4. Whenever I try to talk to him he just _ me.5. When I refuse to listen to him, he shouts at me and _ of us fight _.6. He was even _ me from _ my friends online at the Internet caf!Practice 4: Retelling1. Fathers opinions about his son (His son disobeys everything his parents ask him to do; he is rude to them; he refuses to spend time with them; he refuses to do his homework; he spends too much time watching DVDs, listening to foreign music, chatting in Internet cafes, playing games and surfing the Internet.)2. Sons problems (His father does not listen to him when he wants to do something or suggests an idea; he shouts at him when he tries to talk to him; when he refuses to listen to his father, his father tells his mother and they fight like crazy; his parents always make him do things he doesnt like; they call him selfish and unloving when he wants to be alone; his father gets very angry when he plays foreign music; he sends him to bed or tells him to study when he watches a DVD; he forbids him from meeting his friends at the Internet cafe.).Step 4: Discussion:Since the son has many problems ,please discuss the solutions to each problem.Problemssolutions1. His father doesnt listen to his ideas. 2. His father shouts at him whenever he tries to talk to him and they fight like crazy. 3. His parents always make him do things that he doesnt like.4. They call him selfish and unloving. 5. When he plays foreign music or watch DVDs , his father gets angry and sends him to bed.6. His father forbids him from meeting his friends online.Step 5: Writing an advice letterPlanningWork in groups of four. First lets discuss the four questions given in this part, especially the third and the fourth questions. Then decide which ways should be included in the letter you are going to write. You should assign roles to each of you and write down what you should do. Preparing Those who are responsible for finding examples of advice letters can look at the resources such as magazines, newspapers, Internet sites or TV shows for teenagers to get as much information as you can. Then you will discuss the information found and decide how to write the letter. You also should discuss the draft made by those responsible for writing the outline and evaluate it.ProducingCompose the letter based on the outline and proofread the draft. The writer writes the letter, and has it approved by the whole group.PresentingEach group reads your letter to the whole class. You should also answer the questions the other groups have about your letter. At last all the groups display your letters on the walls of the classroom.Step 6 Assignment1. Practise reading the advice letterPeriod VII. Language points一、仔细观察下列结构并翻译相关机构或句子：1。upset /pset/ adj. unhappy and worried be upset by/about/at sth_be upset with sb. _She was really upset about the way her father treated her._Youre not still upset with me. _ 【注意】upset (upset, upset) vt.打翻;扰乱;使（某人）苦恼或心烦 A large wave upset the boat. _Fog upset the train timetable. _Dont do anything that would upset him._He upset a bowl of soup._2. as if / as though “似乎，仿佛，好象”He acted as if nobody was around. _Tim sounded as if he had a cold. _It is very cloudy, It looks as if it is going to rain._【归纳】(1)、当as if/as though表示的意义与现在的事实相反时，从句动词用过去式表示虚拟语气，be常用 were。例如：They look very much like each other as if they were twins. (2)、当as if/though表示的意义与过去的事实相反时，从句动词要用had 过去分词表示虚拟语气。例如：Jack seems happy as if he hadnt lost his bike. (3)、as if / as though用在省略句中： as if之后除了连接从句外，还可接名词、动词不定式、形容词（短语）、介词短语和分词。这时，也可把其看作是从句中省略了与主句中相同的主语和从句中的谓语动词be而得来的。例如：She hurriedly left the room as if angry.She stood at the door as if waiting for someone.She opened her lips as if to say something.【当场巩固】1. She had a tense expression on her face, _ she were expecting trouble.A. even though B. as though C. now that D. in case2. When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it _. A. breaks B. has broken C. were broken D. had been broken3. The badly wounded soldier slowly opened his lips as if _ something.A. to say B. said C. he had said D. was saying4. The actor threw himself from the horse, as if _.A. to be shot B. being shot C. shooting D. shot 【Keys: 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D】3. insist on sth. / doing sth“坚决要求；坚持某事或做某事”I insist on an early reply. _She insisted on going to Africa to study the animals there, even though her family asked her not to. _【注意】insist 作及物动词时，后跟that-clause, 从句中的动词形式因insist的意思不同而不同： (should) do / (should) be done“坚持应该干”（虚拟语气） (从句中用should 或省略should, 这时insist 可被order 代替)insist that 句中的动词用直陈语气，可根据需要选用任何时态。 （insist“坚持某种观点，坚持说”；这时insist表示坚持一个事实，一个主张或想法，insist 可被say，think等动词代替）We all insist that we not rest until we finish the work. All of them insisted the murderer be sentenced to death. He insisted that his method was correct. 老师坚决要求我们在朗读课文上花一点功夫。(用insist that和insist on) _. _.【当场巩固】1. It was no use trying to give explanations. They insisted _ the project ahead of time.A. you to complete B. that you completedC. on your completing D. completing2. The woman asked for the money, but the man dressed in blue insisted that he _ his debts.A. should pay B. paid C. pays D. had paid3. The doctor insisted that Mrs White _ more exercise to keep fit, but Mrs White insistedthat she _ all right.A. do; was B. did; was C. do; be D. should do; should be Keys: The teacher insisted that we ( should ) spend some time reading the text. / The teacher insisted on us / our spending some time reading the text. 【1. C 2. D 3. A】4。crazy adj. 热衷的，着迷的，疯狂的，蠢的It was crazy of you to go skating on such thin ice._Last night the wind was blowing fiercely. It seemed that the