【正文】 speaking) Teaching Aims: 1. Improve the students’ listening skills. 2. Improve the students’ speaking skills. Teaching Important Points: Listening Teaching Difficult Points: Help Ss overe the difficulties in listening material. Teaching Methods: Taskbased activities. Teaching Procedures: Step I. Prelistening Show the Ss a map about the relations of the Kings. King Edward IV 14571483 King Edward V 14861486 King Richard III 14831485 King Henry VII 14851509 King Henry VIII Edward VI Mary Elizabeth I 15471553 15531558 15581603 Step II. Listening Task 1. Listen and finish Ex 1 on page 15. Task 2. Listen and fill in the blanks in the following passage. These two princes were _________and _______six hundred years ago. They had e to London for the older brother to be crowned _______after his father, King Edward IV,_____. He was only thirteen years old. His wicked uncle, Richard, was supposed to ___________them both, but instead he had them _______while they were_________. In the 1550s when queen Elizabeth I was still a___________, her sister, Queen Mary, brought her to the Tower as a ________because she thought Elizabeth was a traitor. She ________through a special gate________ “Traitors Gate” . That only ___________to very bad people. Keys: Brothers, lived , King, died, look after, killed, asleep Princess, prisoner, went in, called, happened Task 3 : Ss listen to the tape again and answer the questions on page 15. Step III. Speaking and Listening (page 48) The aim of this exercise is to show how history has affected those who can bee British citizens. Task 4: Ss in groups discuss what kind of person can be British. The rules are fixed in this way: 1. If your parents were born in the old British Empire and they chose to bee British when that country gained independence, you are a British citizen. If your parents chose to bee citizens of the new country, then you have to apply for British citizenship. 2. If one of your parents is British and they were married at the time, you are a British citizen. 3. If you were born in the UK (even though your parents have a different nationality) you are a British citizen. 4. If you have no connection with Britain (either through your parents or the country your were born in) but have lived in the UK for five years, you can apply to bee a British citizen. Task 5: Ss listen to the tape and do Ex 2 Task 6 : Ss listen again and fill in the following form on page 48. Group 1 Group2 Group 3 Born in the old British Empire and asked to be a British citizen Having parents one of whom is British or having been born in the UK Asking to bee British after living in the UK for five years Step IV. Homework assignment ? I beg your pardon? Pardon? ? What did you mean by…? ? I didn’t understand… ? I’m sorry but could you repeat that? Step II. Writing Writing Task 2: Ask the Ss to rewrite the sentence: The temple was build long ago. Ss work in groups of five. Each group has a sheet of paper. The first person write the sentence with one improvement (either a verb or an adjective.) pass it to the next person who keeps the first change and makes a second one. Then the third person does the same. And so on to the end of the team. Possible changes: ? The old temple was built long ago. ? The old temple was built two hundred years ago. ? The old temple was constructed two hundred years ago. ? The temple was burnt down early last century. ? The temple was rebuilt in 1980’s. Task 3: Ss in groups write a guide book about an interesting building or attraction in your hometown. Writing tips: ? Ss look at the model on page 16. ? Ss make a writing plan. ? Ss collect the words they will use. ? Ss begin to write their guide book. ? Read through their guide book and correct the mistakes. ? Rewrite it again. The 6th Period (Reading , listening and speaking ) Teaching Aims: 1. Improve the students reading skills. 2. Learn something about Guy Fawkes Night. 3. Improve the students listening and speaking skill. Teaching Important Points and Difficult Points: 1. Reading Comprehension. 2. Talk about the history story about UK. Teaching Methods: Taskbased activities. Teaching Procedures: Step I. Reading (page 51) Reading task Task 1: Ss read the passage and fill in the Timeline on page 52 October November 10 Catesby asked Guy Fawkes to join a plot to blow up the government. 5 King James had the cellars searched when he heard of the plan. He found Fawkes 27 The two bought a house close to the Houses of Parliament 6 Parliament was opened and there were celebrations because the plot had failed. 2831 They stored gunpowder in the cellars for the next three days. Step II. Listening task (page 52) Task 2. Listen and finish Ex 1 on page 52. 1. King James was a Catholic. 2. King James was frightened of Catholic. 3. King James supported Protes