Unit 1 Making Friends
The first period
A letter from a penfriend

The first period
Pre-reading:
Cartoon talk
I have a letter from my penfriend. Do you have a penfriend, Lo?
Yes, I do.
Hi
Lo
Do you have a penfriend / an e-friend?
What’s e-friend?
E-friend is someone you haven’t met before but always chat online with.
Reading(Ⅰ)
Read the following five things:
The address and the date
The greeting
The first sentence
The last sentence
The signature
Complete the following paragraph:
The letter is from a boy called _________ to a girl called ________. The boy lives in a country called_______. He wrote this letter to the girl on _________. He wants to be the girl’s _______
Simon
Li Jie
UK
12 October
penfriend
Reading (Ⅱ)
Words and meanings
1) address
what you like (B) what you live
2) magazine
(A) something you can read
(B) something you can write or draw on

3) hobby
something you like to do
someone you like
4) own
like (B) have
5)architect
a kind of food (B) a kind of job
6) be keen on
like very much
(B) don’t like very much
7) rugby
a subject (B) a sport
8) physics
a subject you learn at school
(B) the best subject at school
9) engineer
a person who works with machines
(B) a person who works with animals


Reading (Ⅲ)
 his full name
 his age
 his height
 his weight
 his hobby
 the name of his parents’ restaurant
7.  the name of his school

8.  his brother’s name
9.  his worst school subject
10.  his dream
Tick the things that Simon talks about himself.
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Li Peichun
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12 years old
163 cm
playing chess
Walker School
Edwin
to be an engineer
Simon knows Li Jie’s address.
He has an English name and a Chinese name.
He is less than 165 cm.
He likes playing chess.
He cannot write Chinese at all.
He wants to become an engineer.
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Homework:
Copy the new words and remember them.
Re-read the letter and try to retell about Simon.