Unit 13 Rainy days make me sad.
Ⅰ. Analysis of the Teaching Material
1. Status and Function
In this unit, students learn to talk about how things affect them. The topic is meaningful and practical to students, It is very useful. It can help students express their own opinions in their daily life. It continues to train students' speaking ability and integrating skills.
After studying this unit, students will be in charge of their attitude and they can do everything better.
(1) The first period mainly gives students listening and oral practice using the target language I'd rather go to the Blue Lagoon Restaurant because I like to listen to quiet music while I'm eating. OK, really Loud music makes me energetic. Not me! Loud music makes me stressed out.
(2) The activities in the second period give students more listening and speaking practice as well as grammar focus to practise the target language. The practice can help students improve their listening and speaking skills.
(3)The third period provides an article. Students learn to get detailed information from the article. It is a basic reading skill, and also it is of great help for students to improve their reading skill.
(4) The fourth period not only introduces some new words but also provides students with many different kinds of activities. In this class, students learn how to express their own opinions using the target language.
(5)A lot of practice is designed in the fifth period to train students' reading and writing skills. Students also learn how to treat the advertisement from the reading material.
(6) All the activities in the last period in this unit are used to provide writing practice using the target language.
2. Teaching Aims and Demands
(1)Knowledge Objects
In this unit, students learn to talk about how things affect them, and how to express their own opinions using the target language,
(2) Ability objects
To train students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using the target language,

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