【正文】 g: I try to find the meaning of each new word in the dictionary. Writing: I can’t write E nglish sentences correctly. Grammar: It’s difficult to put the rules into use. Translation: I can’t find the right words and often put the sentences in wrong order Writing a letter asking for advice Sample version: Dear Language Doctor, I understand the speakers, but I can’t remember what they say. After listening, I find nothing has left in my mind. Can you help me? Best wishes, Lingling Writing a letter giving advice: Dear Lingling, You can’t expect to remember all things at once. Try to take some notes while listening. And don’t expect to catch every word of the speaker. Remember always be confident with yourself. Language Doctor Step IV Homework Ask students to 1. work in pairs and practice asking for and giving advice on English learning. 2. finish activities 58 on page 113 in Workbook. Period 3 Integrating skills Language goals 語言目標 1. Key vocabulary 重點詞匯 borrow, group, mark 2. Key structures 重點句式 How about ?? Why don’t you ?? Remember to ? Ability goals 能力目標 Enable students to listen to and give advice. Teaching methods 教學方法 Cooperative learning. Teaching aids 教具準備 Tape recorder, handout. Teaching procedures and ways 教學過程與方式 Step I Warmingup Show the following situations. Ask students to practice asking for and giving advice. 1. Li Ming likes playing puter games. He sleeps late in the evening and is often late for school. 2. Jessie is very interested in sports. She takes part in all kinds of sports activities at school. And she often watches the World Cup late in the evening. But she falls far behind others in study. Her parents are worried about that. 3. Lucy likes eating snacks but often misses meals. She bees fat day by day. She feels worried. T: Look at the three situations. What advice would you like to give them? S: Playing games is helpful in developing our minds. But we shouldn’t put all our hearts on it. Li Ming should not spend too much time on it. S: Jessie should spend more time on her study. S: Try not to eat too much snacks and do more exercise. T: Thank you for your advice. Step II Listening (1, 2: P6) Ask students to list the ways of giving advice. Then ask them to listen to the conversation and check the answers. T: Next, we’ll listen to a conversation between Charlie and Mary. Befor e listening, please read through the seven items in activity 1. Play the tape through and ask students to listen and check the answers. For activity 2, ask students to read through the questions first, and try to guess what the conversation is about. Then listen and write the answers to the questions. Play the tape through for students to plete the answers. Call back the answers from the whole class. Step III Speaking (3— 5: P6— 7) In this procedure, students will work in pairs and talk about Jack’ s daily activities and give him advice, and then practice giving advice according to the problems. First ask students to work in pairs and talk about the pictures. T: Jack is student of your age. What does he do every day? Now look at the pictures and say what he usually does. You can write down your ideas, OK? Sample conversation: S1: What does he do in the evening? S2: He usually watches TV and goes to bed late. After this, ask students to discuss how to be a good student. First ask students to fill in the following blanks. Show the following. T: From the pictures we can see Jack often watches TV and goes to bed late in the evening, and he also gets up late in the morning. During the class, he doesn’t listen to the teacher and he speaks Chinese in English classes, and he can’t do his homework well / write words in groups, so he gets bad marks in the exams. Do you think he’s a good student? S: No. T: Then can you give him some advice? S: He should go to bed on time / early. S: He should get up early. S: Listen to the teacher in class. ? T: Good. But how to be a good student? Now please discuss the question. Sample dialogue: S: To be a good student, you should go to bed on time and get up early. S: And listen to the teacher and try to speak more English in class. S: Don’t fet to do your homework well. ? T: Well done. To be a good student, you should work hard and form good habits of learning and living. Now please read the problems in activity 5. What advice would you give? Now discuss in pairs. Sample conversation: S1: I have a problem. I can’t remember new words? What should I do? S2: OK. You should read and write them down in groups in your notebook repeatedly. S1: And I can’t find my dictionary. S2: I often leave my homework at home. S1: So why don’t we tidy our rooms and put our things away? S2: You’re right. S1: By the way, I want a new book to read and I want some information about Beijing. Can you help me? S2: Of course. I want to know where the Beihai Park is. I think we should go to the library or the bookshop, or we can look on the Inter. S1: Good idea! S2: The teacher tells us to watch TV programs in English, but it’s difficult to understand. Do you have any ideas? S1: You should just try to understand the story, not everything you hear. S2: That’s right. I think we should listen to some English music too. S1: Great! How about buying a radio? S2: Well, OK. Start right now. Let’s go. ? Step IV Reading (6: P7) Ask students to finish activity 6 individually, and then check the answers by asking different students to read different parts of the pleted letter. Step V Homework Ask students to 1. finish activities 9— 13 in Workbook on page 114. 2. look on the Inter and find more English learning resources.