Teaching aims:
1. arouse the students’ interest in the topic.
2. students will be able to strengthen their abilities to find and solve problems.
3. students are required to imagine a situation according to four pictures, and then the students can improve their spoken language and imagination.
4. students will be able to analyse problems and think of questions in new ways. Also, this will contribute to their emotional experiences.
5. students can practise their listening ability and help them get a high level of understanding growing pains.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Show pictures of growing pains and lead in:
Pictures about what often happens in the growth of teenagers
2. Play a short video clip to arouse the students’ echo to growing pains and activate their interest.
Step 2 Discussion
Give students three questions related to the video clip to organize them to discuss the subtopics to further main topic.(ask several students to give a feedback)
1. Do your parents sometimes interfere in your life and make decisions for you? And How?
2. Will you talk to your parents when you have a problem?
3. Do your parents trust you?
And then by showing the possible growing pains to enlarge students understanding of growing pains, and then ask students to find out the main reason of growing pains.
Why do these happen more often than not?
Generation gap means there are great differences between the younger generations and the elders.
It occurs when older and younger people do not understand each other because of their different experiences, opinions, habits and behaviour. Especially as one gets older, she or he isn’t always understood by the elders, because of what she or he does, says or wears. So she or he will often have trouble or pains during their growth.
Step 3 Situational Imagination
1. According to the 4 pictures in the textbook, students are required to create a situation to describe growing pains. Besides, the teacher will give some key words and phrases on the black board. (This is a group work, so the students are divided into 4 groups to compete for a prize.)
Pic 1 last Sunday, Li Lei, turn up, shout at, angry, embarrassed, at a loss, confused
Pic 2 Wendy, not later than 6 o’clock, late, 7 o’clock, explain, not trust, depressed
Pic 3 Lisa, ask for signature(签名), a waste of time, regretful, angry, interest
Pic 4 Tom, play computer games, upset and angry, a rest, a time limit, control oneself
2．Then the teacher could give a sample answer on the computer screen to help them.
Step 4 Further Discussion
Ask the students to futher discuss the question:
Do you think there is a generation gap between you and your parents? If so, what is the best
way to solve the problem?
Step 5 Five-minute assessment
Growing up can be d_______. There may often be m_____________and p______ between a____ and children. And this fact is the so called g________ g_____.It is estimated that 75 percent of parents often complain about their children’s unreasonable behaviors. On the other hand, the children usually think their parents are too o___________.
Why are there so many misunderstandings between parents and children? In my opinion, the reasons can be listed as follows. First of all, the two generations, having grown up at different t_____, have different l____ and d________, and that is why the d__________ often arise between them.
Secondly, having little in c_____ to talk about, they are not willing to sit face to face. Last but not least, with the pace of modern life becoming faster and faster, they both are so busy with their work or study that they can’t spare enough time to e_______ their ideas.
Keys: difficult, misunderstandings, problems, adults, generation gap, old-fashioned, times, likes, dislikes, disagreements, common, exchange
The teacher will read the passage for students, and, at the same time, they are required to fill in the missing blanks.
Step 6 Homework
1. Write a note of how to communicate with your parents in terms of one of your growing pains.
2. Preview the new words of Reading and the play in Reading.
