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Unit 1 You and Me Section 6 Reading Plus
Content analysis
This section focuses on three core strategies to help students build school friendships: overcoming shyness through initiating conversations and recalling names, asking thoughtful questions to express interest, and sharing personal stories to create emotional connections. It integrates social-emotional learning (SEL) goals—promoting confidence, active listening, and mutual understanding—while offering useful social interaction vocabulary and advice-giving language structures that enhance students’ communication abilities.
By presenting advice on how to make new friends at school, this section empowers students with practical social skills for forming friendships, addressing common challenges like shyness and passive communication. Through three pieces of advice and practical vocabulary, it guides students to recognize the importance of mutual understanding, confidence, and emotional intelligence in relationships. By encouraging active listening and self-expression, the text fosters inclusivity and empathy, reinforcing that successful social connections rely on both curiosity about others and a willingness to share oneself.
This text adopts a clear problem-solution structure, opening with a relatable question about making friends, followed by three actionable tips (initiating contact, active questioning, and self-sharing), and concluding with encouragement. The organization is logical and student-friendly, using sequencing markers (First, Second, Last) to scaffold understanding. The text also shows simple, conversational English (e.g., Hello! What’s your name ) to mirror real-life interactions. Overall, it balances instructional clarity with relatable scenarios, making it both practical for skill-building and accessible for learners.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this section, students will be able to:
1. extract specific information from the text about making new friends at school;
2. express themselves to make new friends in English, for example, by applying the advice in the text to start conversations;
3. develop a positive attitude towards making new friends and recognize the value of interpersonal relationships.
Focal and Difficult Points
Focal Points
1. Understand and memorize the three pieces of advice for making new friends in the text: not being shy, asking questions, and sharing.
2. Master the usage of relevant vocabulary and sentence patterns in practical communication scenarios.
Difficult Points
1. Apply the learned advice and language knowledge to real-life situations to make new friends effectively.
2. Use appropriate English expressions to ask questions and share personal information naturally and fluently.
Procedures
Teaching Activities Learning Activities Purposes
STEP 1 Lead in T: Welcome to our school! We have a Psychology Class here, and our topic today is helping everyone make new friends. Do you have any tips on how to make friends If so, please email me at Psychologyclass.123@. Now, let’s talk about it. 1. Watch a video about How to Make Friends. 2. Look at the picture and predict: (1) Who is in the photo (2) What is their relationship (3) Where are they (4) How do you think they feel Students watch the video and find out how to make friends. Students answer the questions. To arouse students’ interest in the topic of making new friends.
STEP 2 Fast Reading Task 1: What’s the structure of the passage Task 2: Read and find the advice Find the three pieces of advice from the text and write them below. Students read the text and sort out its structure. Students read and write down the three pieces of advice. To boost students’ reading comprehension by analyzing the article’s structure and key information.
STEP 3 Careful Reading Read and think about how you can follow the three pieces of advice. The first piece of advice Task 1: Read carefully and answer the questions. (1) How can we start our conversation (2) Is it easy for the writer (3) Is getting people’s names right important for us Why Task 2: Find the pronouns and what they refer to. T: Now let’s find out what these pronouns refer to. Sorry, can you repeat that for me, please It is really as simple as that! It is important to get people’s names right. Task 3: What else can you say to start a conversation Try to use “if” to describe the situation. The second piece of advice Task 1: Read and finish the mind map. The third piece of advice Task 1: Match the sentences with the writing skills. Advice Example Purpose Result Task 2: What else can you share Please tell us something you are willing to share, along with its purpose, reason, and result. Students find specific ways to make friends. Students answer the questions. Students find what the pronouns refer to. that: the name that: talking to your classmates it: getting people’s names right Students give different answers. eg: If you don’t know how to spell the name, you can say, “Can you tell me how to spell your name ” Students find out the advice and examples, then finish the mind map. Students match the sentences with advice, example, purpose and result. Students can choose any topic they like to give advice on, such as family, pets, hobbies, or their favorite stars. To guide students to understand key information about initiating conversations (the first advice). To guide students to identify the referents of key pronouns in the given sentences, deepening their grasp of contextual meaning and improving their text analysis skills. To guide students to think of more conversational openers and practice using “if” for situational descriptions. To help students understand the article’s structure by extracting key details from the text. To enhance students’ awareness of the writing techniques employed in presenting advice. To boost students’ creativity and practical use of the sharing concept, guiding them to think beyond the text, propose personal sharing ideas, and analyze sharing's purpose, reason and result.
STEP 4 After Reading Task 1: T: Why does the writer give the three pieces of advice in this order T: Are these pieces of advice easy for us to follow Why or why not Task 2: Create a conversation about giving advice on how to make new friends. Remember to mention the examples, result, reason and purpose. Students discuss the teacher’s question. Students create a conversation in pairs and give more advice on how to make new friends. To help students practice applying advice-giving language in real communication by creating a conversation.
STEP 5 Homework Must-do Role-play the conversation they created and use the advice mentioned in the passage. Choose-to-do Write down some advice on how to make new friends. Remember to share them with examples, results, reason and purpose. To guide students to practice applying advice on making new friends through role-playing and optional writing.
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