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Unit Ten Chinese Women Yesterday and Today LANGUAGE STRUCTURE PRACTICE Procedure ? 1. Have the students listen to the tape recording of the plete dialogues with their books shut and say after each of them at least twice. Then fill in the blank space in Student’s Book (SB) with the exact words they hear from the tape. ? 2. Discuss the key language points and structures. ? 3. Do substitution practice according to the pattern of the examples in SB by making full use of the given cues, ., 1) A: Shall we go to the cinema this evening, Jim? B: I’d love to, but I can’t. / I wish I could but… / I’m afraid I can’t. / That sounds a good idea but I don’t think I can. // I’ll be meeting some friends from abroad. A: In that case, I’ll go by myself. B: You can ask Tom to go with you. He won’t be doing anything this evening, I think. ? 2) A: You’re saving up some money, I hear. B: Yes, I’m saving two hundred yuan a month and I expect to buy an airconditioner in two years. A: How much will you have saved up by the end of the second year? B: Let me see. I save two hundred yuan a month, that means two thousand four hundred yuan a year. So I’ll have saved up almost five thousand yuan by then. A: So you’ll be able to get your airconditioner with that money. ? 4. Prompt the students to form dialogues different from the given pattern but still based on the given cues, ., 1) A: Would you like to go to the football match with me this afternoon, Ben? B: It’s nice of you to ask, but I can’t. I’ll be seeing my uncle off. A: Then, I’ll just have to go alone. B: Why don’t you ask Dick? I know he won’t be doing anything particular this afternoon. 2) A: Will the joiner be putting in the doors towards the end of the month? B: Yes, if everything goes all right. A: Will the decorator be painting the outside walls while the joiner is doing the doors? B: Yes, if nothing goes wrong. Language Notes ? 1. I’ll be meeting some friends from abroad. ─ This sentence is the future progressive, which implies an action which will take place in the future as a matter of course. In other words, it expresses a future action which will happen without anyone’s will or intention. ? 2. While the gasfitters are doing the kitchen, will the electricians be doing the wiring? ─ The future progressive is also used to express tw