City: New York

Language: English

Teaching Steps:

Key points:

Where is your/John's pen pal from? He/She is from...

Where does he/she live? He/She lives in....

(Homework for preview)Pre-task:

Let the Ss give themselves pen pals and they should write down their pen pals' information, such as their names, countries and cities they live even the language they speak

T can give the Ss an example meanwhile T gives the different countries which can be used by the Ss. T gives the Ss Chinese words for the countries, they are following: 加拿大，法国，日本，美国，澳大利亚，新加坡，英国，中国( The Ss can look them up in the dictionary if they are new for them)

The example is following:

Name: Curry Muray

Age: 75

From(Nationality): the United States

City: New York

Language: English

Teaching Steps:

Step 1 Leading-inThe information of the teacher's own pen pal's information.

"I have a pen pal. His name is Curry Muray. He is from the United States. Do you have a pen pal? Where is your pen pal from? What's your pen pal's name?"

Different students say the information about their own pen pals. T should choose the different countries. T writes the different countries on the Bb(both Chinese and English)

Step 2 Learning

Section A 1a Learn the new words on the Bb. The new words are:

pen pal; Canada; France; Japan; the United States(the US/the USA/America); Australia; Singapore; the United Kingdom(the U.K./Great Britain/England)

Pay attention to the pronuciation of the new words.

Step 3 Listening

1b Listen and circle the countries in 1a they learned