【正文】 ions. Questions are useful not only for starting a conversation, but also for keeping the conversation going. After your first question, ask followup questions, especially openended questions, to encourage the person you are talking with to go on with the conversation. Secondly, give extra information. When answering questions, try to give extra information such as whom you did something with, when and where you did it, how it was. Thirdly, make ments. Encourage your conversation partner to go on talking by making ments on what he / she says. You may use expressions such as That sounds good!, Really?, or I don’t believe you!.Speaking skills training: Imitation。 Roleplay。 Group discussion3. Further practice in listening1) Understanding ten short conversations.2) Understanding a long conversation followed by five questions.3) Understanding a passage following by five questions.4. Introduction to English News (Unit 1 of Listen to News):1) Definitions of News “新聞” 2) English News “英語(yǔ)新聞”two types of English newsdifferent carriers of English news2) The Importance and Necessity of Learning English NewsVI. Assignments1．Ask Ss to finish Task 3, on Page 5. and Task 2, on Page 9.2．Assign Ss to prepare a threeminute oral report on one of the above topics or any one related to what he/she has learned in this unit and present it in the next class. VII. References1. 鄭樹(shù)棠，《新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)視聽(tīng)說(shuō)教程1教師用書(shū)》，外語(yǔ)教學(xué)與研究出版社，2015年2. 張明倫，《英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力入門(mén)IIV》，華東師范大學(xué)出版社，2009年.3. 潘培忠，《VOA新聞聽(tīng)力教程》，青島出版社，2001年.VIII. ReflectionUnit Two A Break for Fun(3 periods)I. Teaching Objectives and Requirements1. Topic: Talk about various leisure activities.2. Skills: 1) Listening: able to identify words and expressions for describing people’s appearance.2) Speaking: able to ask for and give remendations。 able to describe an event.3. Vocabulary, Expressions and Grammar Slumdog Millionaire, Terminator, The Proposal, Sweeney Todd, The Graduate, Bestival, masculine, blonde, ing of age, survey, personality, presenter, live, surf. II. Teaching Focuses 1. Topic understanding and improving the students’ listening and speaking ability about talking about the various leisure activities.2. Listen and learn by heart some useful expressions about the relevant films and leisure activities.3. Practice talking about one’s appearance, describing an event.III. Teaching Difficulties 1. How to improve the students’ listening and speaking ability about topics in this unit.2. How to understand the movie names in the dialogs.IV. Teaching Methods and Teaching AidsTeaching Methods: presentation, discussion, selflearning, instruction, interactionTeaching Aids: Multimedia, physical objects, models, pictures, CDV. Teaching ProceduresStep One: Lead inTeaching tips: Ask Students to work in pairs discussing the following questions and then pare their answers with their partners.What is your favorite activity in your spare time?How often do you go to the cinema?Step Two: Listening SkillsTask 1:Understanding short conversationsNow you will hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.Task 2: Understanding a long conversationNow you will hear a long conversation followed by four questions. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.Task 3: Understanding the two passagesNow you will hear two passages, in which the first passage is followed by four questions and the second passage is with word blanks for you to fill in. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the listening materials.Task 4: Listening to the worldSharing: Watch the podcast which includes three video materials before doing the exercises. Practice the topics: 1) How often do they go to the cinema?