4. Ss act the conversation in pairs. Ask some pairs to act out their conversations.

Step 7 Role-play

1. Ss read the conversations and try to understand the meaning.

2. Read the conversation after the teacher.

3. Practice the conversation with their partner. Then let some pairs to act out the conversation.

4. Explain some new words and main points in the conversation.

(1) guess

e.g. Let us guess the height of the building. 让我们来猜一下这个建筑物的高度。

(2) big deal, deal

big deal是英语中的一个固定搭配，表示 "重要的事情或状况"，多用于非正式交流。作否定用法时，常说It's not a big deal或It's no big deal.表示说话人并不认为某事有什么了不起。

e.g. There's a soccer game on TV this evening but I don't have to watch it. It's no big deal. 今天晚上电视上有一场足球赛，但我不一定要看。没什么大不了的。

It's a big deal, David, bigger than you know.

这事挺重要的，戴维，比你所知道的要重要。

What's the big deal? It's only a birthday, not the end of the world.

有什么了不起的？这不过是个生日，又不是世界某日。

(3) work out

work out 解决（问题）；算出

e.g. Mike worked out the difficult problem by himself.

迈克自己算出了那道难题。

Is it possible to work out the problem? 有可能解决这个问题吗？

Homework:

Write three conversations about your problems and your friends' suggestions.

A: I have too many after-school classes.

What could I do?

B: You could ...

Section A 2 (3a-3c)

一、教学目标：

1. 语言知识目标：

1) 学习掌握下列词汇：get on with; relation, communication, argue, cloud, elder, instead, whatever, nervous, offer, proper, secondly, communication, explain, clear

2）阅读短文，能按要求找到相应的信息。

3）通过阅读提高学生们的阅读能力。

4) 了解在如果生活中发生了一些不尽如人意的问题，应当如何面对理性地去解决。

2. 情感态度价值观目标：

人的一生并不都是一帆风顺的，难免有一些挫折的困难，如果生活中发生了一些不尽如人意的问题，我们学会冷静对待，学会合理的办法去理性地去解决。

二、教学重难点

1. 教学重点：

1) 掌握本部分出现的生词和词组，达到熟练运用的目标。

2) 阅读短文，获得相关的信息。通过阅读练习，来提高阅读能力。