Unit 9 Can you come to my party？
                        Section B（2a-2e）
Teaching aims： 1. Learn to make, accept and turn down invitations.
              2. Be able to understand the massages.
3. Improve the students’ comprehensive skills.
Key points
1. Learn to make, accept and turn down an invitation.
2. The useful expressions
Difficult points：
Learn to make, accept and turn down an invitation.
Teaching procedure
Step1 Warm-up
  In this part, I’ll have a free talk with students. The first aim is to review the target language by oral work. The second aim is to arouse Ss’ interest.
Step2 Pre-reading
1. Make a list of the kinds of parties people have by showing some pictures.
2. Presentation
I’ll ask“if we are going to have a party，what can we do before it？”
Ss may have different answers. I’ll tell the Ss what we said are called ‘party preparations’Then read and repeat‘party preparations’
T: one of the most important things during the party preparations is to‘make an invitation ’ Then read and repeat ‘make an invitation ’
T：There are two kinds of replies. One is to ‘accept an invitation ‘, thefaster怎么读? other is to
‘turn down an invitation’.
Step3While-reading
Part I
1. Faster reading ,underlining and matching
Ss skim the three messages, underline the basis, and match the reasons with each message.
2. Faster reading and answering 
  Who made/accepted/turned down an invitation?
Part 2 Message by message
1. Read M3
First, read the third message carefully and fill in the form
Kind of the party
 
For whom
 
When
 
Where
 
Who was invited
 
Next, read and discuss. Suppose you are one of the classmates, what things you can help with? The students may give the answers according to the message.
Then, explain some language points.
Finally, talk about how to write an invitation together.
2. Read M1 and M2
First, read by scanning and listening. Read and fill in the form.
Who
Reply
  Reasons
Thing they can do
Hewei
   
 
 
Jake
   
 
 
  Next, read M1 aloud in groups and underline the useful expressions that we can use in every reply.
  Then, make a reply model and let the students retell M1. 
Then, make another reply model and let the students retell M2
Finally, conclude how to accept and turn down invitations.
Step4Post-reading 
1. Complete the invitations in 2d
2. Process writing. The writing material will be listed by some questions.
First, ask and answer. T: New Year’s Day is coming. Are you going to have a party in your class?  Who are you going to invite? When and where? What are your party preparations...
Next, let the students write an invitation.
Finally, show some of the students’ invitation.