T: Yes , most of you have known something about the conversation ,but you didn’t get the details clearly. I will play the tape for you after you read the questions in activity 4. Now please read the questions quickly.

Play the tape for the students and ask them to make some notes which will help them to answer the questions by write down some key words or phrases.

Check answers with the students and write down the difficult points.

Play the tape for the third time , stop when and where necessary, repeat the difficult parts.

Step 4 Summary

The teacher summarize the class by revising the word-formation. And ask the students to read the sentences in activity2 in Listening and vocabulary.

Homework

I Remember the words and the sentences in Listening and vocabulary.

II Try to find some other principles of word-formation.

III Preview Grammar 2 , Pronunciation &Writing. Speaking

Period 6

Teaching content

a) Grammar 2

b) Pronunciation

c) Speaking

d) writing

Teaching aims and demands

a) get the students to master the uses of –ing form and –ed form

b) help the students to improve their ability of talking about the school life.

c) to improve students’ pronunciation by listening and summarizing

d) to teach the students something about how to write an E-mail reply.

Teaching methods

a) discovering and summarizing

b) listening and speaking

c) imitating

d) discussing and writing

Teaching steps

Step 1 Revision

a) Ask the students to repeat the uses of the present simple tense and the present continuous tense.

b) have a dictation about the words and sentences in activity 2 in Listening and vocabulary.

Step 2 Grammar

I Lead in by doing exercises:

1 I was ________ when I saw the _______ news. (exciting & excited)

2 The dog was ________ in playing _________ games, such as playing balls, wires and plates. (interesting & interested)

Now please look at these two questions, can you fill in the blanks?

II Discovering and summarizing

Read My First Day at Senior High again and underline the adjectives with –ing or –ed endings. After you have found out them try to find out the different uses of words with different endings.

Ask the students to choose the correction explanation in activity 2 in Grammar 2.

Finish the excises in activity 3.

Step 3 Pronunciation

T: I found some students could not pronounce the words with –ed endings correctly, now let’s have a look at these words:

1 amazed bored tired

2 embarrassed

3 disappointed excited interested

Play the tape for the students and ask the to find the differences and try to imitate the pronunciation . Ask the students to find out the principles.

Step 4 Speaking

T: We often take part in many after-school activities , now let’s look at the pictures in Speaking part to find out what the US high school students do after class.

1 What can you see in the picture and what are they doing .

2 Is the school similar to ours? Explain why it is or isn’t.

3 Do students at our school do things like this ?

4 How do you think about the after-school activities? Are they good or bad? How can we make best use of after-school activities.

Give the students some time to discuss the questions and try to report their own ideas. Then the teacher make a summary.

Step5 Writing

T: We have sorrows and happiness in our school lives, sometimes we want to exchange our feelings with others, so we write a letter or make a call. Now we will read a letter from an American girl who likes sharing her memories of her first year at school. Ok, please turn to P8 and read it.

Give the students some time to read the letter.

Go through the letter and deal with some important or difficult points.

T: Do you want to write a letter to her and tell your memories of the first year at school. Now , can you tell me what should we write this reply and what will you write in it.

Ask the students to tell their own ideas and collect them and write down them on the black board.

The teacher give the students some suggestions.

Ask the students to write the reply in the class if enough time is left. Or, leave it as home work..

Homework

I Ask the students to write and correct their reply.

II Remember the uses of –ing&-ed endings.

III Finish the exercises about this module.