support your idea.
2. Learn the new words of this unit by heart.
The Second Period
Goals:
1.To practise supporting and challenging an opinion.
2.To practise listening comprehension.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Revision
Do you still remember this logo? What can you learn from it?
Q1: Do you remember what it means?
Q2: In what ways is AIDS transmitted?
II. Speaking
1. Pre-speaking
1) Do you agree that getting AIDS is a personal problem? Why or why not?
(Through these questions—
Raise the idea of social problem and come to Speaking part.
Introduce the useful expressions of supporting and challenging an opinion on p.50. And
throughout the whole class, teachers should try to use these expressions as many as possible to
raise students’ awareness.
2) As has just been talked about, AIDS is not only a personal problem, but also a social one. Because
when we talk about social problems, we mean crimes such as drug use, murder, theft or robbery
and broken families. These social problems cause sadness, unhappiness, harm, fear and even wars
in the world or in society. Besides, there are quite a few other social problems. Can you tell some?
Can you use your own sentence to describe one of these social problems?
(Possible answer: crime, health, homelessness, poverty, gambling, family violence, divorce,
unemployment)
3) Information input
Give students some information about how serious these problems are and ask them to take notes.
Then they can decide what is the most serious.
(Refer to the PowerPoint Proper explanation is needed).
About AIDS
1. How many AIDS patients all over the world? Where are they? And are they young or old?
2. What kinds of social problems can AIDS cause?
3. How about the situation in China?
About drugs
1. Is the use of drugs such as heroin, serious? Why do you think so?
2. What should we do with it?
About Smoking
1. Nearly everyone knows that smoking is harmful to our health. But why do people smoke?
2. What kinds of danger can it cause to our body?
3. Can you think of the other dangers of smoking?
About drinking
1. Do your parents drink? Do you think drinking is good or not, or it depends? Give your reasons.
2. Can drinking cause some problem to our body? What are they?
3. Will drinking cause some social problems? Give some example.
T: These four are all social problems, as they all will cause sadness, unhappiness, harm, fear and
even wars in the world or in society.
2. While-speaking
If you were an expert on social problems, what is the most serious problem today, AIDS, drugs,
smoking or drinking?
Role play
Group of four
Each acts as the expert on AIDS, drug, smoking and
What can we do to deal with them?
(Social problems are around us. They can’t disappear in modern society. But we can do something optimistic or positive to reduce the harm
they cause. That’s why we youth are asked to get away from AIDS, drugs, etc. That’s why we youth should develop good habits. That’s why many people including famous stars are busy with telling others the harm. In this way, we
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