Welcome to this unit
Teaching objectives:
To introduce and develop the theme of growing pains.
To develop speaking ability by talking about families and problems that happen between teenagers and parents.
To know more about classmates and their families.
Important and difficult points:
Get students to understand what growing pains means.
Make students know the relationship between parents and their teenage children in the USA.
Help students to form a positive attitude towards relationships between their parents and them.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 lead-in
Present family albums:
In this part, Ss are encouraged to say something about their families by showing the class pictures with their parents.
Who may have growing pains?
What are Growing pains?
When do they probably have growing pains?
How do you solve this problem? Growing pains aren't a disease. You probably won't have to go to the doctor for them. But they can hurt. Usually they happen when kids are between the ages of 3 and 5 or 8 and 12. Growing pains stop when kids stop growing. By the teen years, most kids don't |