Suggested answers:

1.dislikes/hates 2. stop/keep 3. finished 4 practise 5. avoids

Activity 5.

Do you remember giving me this shirt for your birthday?

Remember to tell him the news.

Look at the two sentences above carefully. Then answer the following questions:

In the first sentence, have I been given this shirt?

In the second sentence, has he been told about the news?

1. If you can keep ________(read) English newspapers, your English will be improved.

2. I hate _________________(tell) lies!

3. I will never forget __________(go) to Beijing with him last summer.

4. I forgot ________(tell) her the news; so she knew nothing about it.

Activity 6 Work in pairs. Talk about the parts of school life you enjoy most and why.

Some useful sentences may help you:

I’m interested in…

I enjoy…

I’m fond of

I prefer…to…

I’m good at…

Activity 7 homework

Finish the exercise 4 of page 73.

Period 4

Teaching Content Listening and Vocabulary

Function and speaking

Activity 1 presentation.

Before listening, try to understand the meaning of the following words in the box.

Choice exam headmaster headmistress library

period revision translation timetable topic vacation

1. How much revision do you do before an exam?

2. Do you do a lot of translation in your language classes?

3. Do you have any free periods in your timetable?

4. Is the head of your school a headmaster or a headmistress?

5. How much time do you spend in the school library?

6. Do you do different topics in your language classes?

7. Do you have a choice about which language to study?

8. How much vacation do you have?

Activity 2 Listen to a conversation between an English teacher and his students; complete the sentences.

1. this afternoon I’m going to give you a ______.

2. We can either do some ______or we can do some_____.

3. Firstly, have you all got your new_______?

4. At present, you have a free_______ on Tuesday afternoons.

5. The ______wants to see everyone in the school_______.

Activity 3 Pair work

Write answers to the following questions. Use the words provided an add other words where necessary.

1. Would you like to go to the school play tonight?

I/rather/stay/home/revise

__________________________________________

2. Shall we do some work on vocabulary?

I/ prefer/do/work/grammar

____________________________________________

3. Why don’t we study in the library?

I/prefer/study/home

____________________________________________

4. Which would you rather play, tennis or badminton?

I/rather/play tennis/badminton

_____________________________________________

5. Who would you prefer to work with, LI Kang or Zhou Kai?

I/prefer/work/Zhou Kai

_______________________________________________

6. Which would you rather discuss next week, nineteenth-century literature or twentieth-century literature?

I/rather discuss twentieth-century literature/nineteenth-century literature

_______________________________________________

Activity 4 Work in pairs. Which subject/course would you prefer to have? Give the specific reasons to support the idea.

1. English/Russian 2. physics/chemistry 3. IT/biology

4. Japanese/PE 5. maths/Chinese

Activity 5 Homework

Finish the exercise 11,12,13 of page 76.