1. Rewrite the reviews and make sure that there will be no mistakes in them.

5. suggest= bring an idea into the mind; propose.

Step Ⅳ 3b

This activity provides reading and writing practice using the target language.

Read the instructions to the children first. Ask one of them if he or she knows what we will do to make sure each one knows the tasks of this activity. Look at the chart now. We see two new words in the boxes, pros and cons. Pro means in favor of and con means against. We have to find out the pros and cons of the reviewers in Activity 3a and fill in the blanks with proper sentences. Have a look at the sample answer and try to write out the other answers, using the information from the reviews in Activity 3a. Move around the classroom while the children are writing to see if they can write out the right answers, offering help as needed.

Check the answers by asking several students to read their answers to the class. If someone did wrong, let the other students correct his or her answers.

Writing the answers on the blackboard as the students read makes it easy for the whole class to check the answers. Say, let’s review the task. What can we find out? Yes, right, we have got the similar answers with those in Activity 3a.

Answers

Pros

Movie: The fisherman’s wife was funny.

Exhibition: There are many great photos of people and of the countryside.

Band: They play the kind of music that I love to hear.

Cons

It’s too long and it’s really boring.

The few city photographs are less successful.

Every song is really loud and often you can’t understand the words.

Step Ⅴ 3c

This activity provides writing practice using the target language.

Read the instructions to the students.

Say, Decide what review you will write first, a review of a book, a CD or a movie?

Write down the name first. Note to use the capital letters. Let them think it over for a while and ask some ones the names of their articles. Next write a list of questions you plan to answer in your review.

e. g. Who wrote the book/made the movie/sang the songs?

What kind of people the writer/director/singer is?

What do I think of the writer/director/singer?

What do I think of the book/movie/songs/What do I like and dislike?

What suggestions will I give the readers?

etc.

These questions will help you to write your passage well. And you can look back at the questions in Activity 3a, Section A, before you begin writing. Use the three reviews as models. As the students are writing the list, move around the classroom to direct them.

After they have finished writing the questions, tell them to begin writing.

Continue moving around and always offering help when they need.

Ask several to read their passages to the class after they all have finished. Get the others to help correct the mistakes while they are reading.

Let them exchange their reviews with their partners. Help each other with the errors.

Step Ⅵ Part 4

This activity provides reading, writing, listening and speaking practice using the target language.

Read the instructions to the class. Talk about what is happening in our city next Monday. Ask a question like, What will happen in our city next Monday? Let the students tell the event which is happening, such as, A VIP will visit our city and a new movie will be on show.

Tell them to write the sentences in the boxes below Monday. Ask the students to work in groups of four to complete the work. Ask each other questions like, Do you know what will happen in our city next Tuesday? Is there a football match in our city next Saturday? Is Song Zuying coming to sing songs at the biggest theatre in our city next Friday? etc.

Tell them to fill in the boxes, using the phrases with relative clause.

For example, a football match which is between Dalian Football Team and our City Team. If they don’t know what will happen, they can invent events they would like to go to.

Ask some groups to share the events with the class. Then have the students discuss in groups of four again. Let them discuss what they would prefer to do together this time. Help them to express preferences with the target language. For example:

S_A: What would you prefer/like/love to do together?

S_B: Let’s go to see the new movie that was directed by Zhang Yimou.

S_C :Why not go to watch the great football match that will be between two famous teams? It’s on Friday evening. We can have a great weekend together.

S_D: No, we’d better go to…

After the discussion, let some groups report the results to the class. Help them to use sentences with relative clause in their reports. Help them to say in correct sentences. They may say like this:

Our group would like to watch :the fashion show that Chen Juanhong will perform on Friday evening. And we would prefer to go to listen to the musical group that is called Black Ducks on Saturday afternoon.

Sample answer

Monday: a movie that is directed by Zhang Yimou an exhibition that is about Chinese traditional culture.

Tuesday: a performance that will attract many famous singers to come a fashion show that many famous models will take part in.

etc.＇

Step Ⅶ Summary

In this class, we’ve read three reviews and done some writing. We’ve also learned some new words.

Step Ⅷ Homework

4.…from a world class photographer=…from one who is among the best photographer in the world.

3.…they don’t interest me as much=…they don’t attract me as much.

2. The few city photographs are less successful.=Most of the city photographs are very successful.

Step Ⅰ Revision

(1) Revise the contents of last class by asking some questions.

　What kind of clothes do you like?

　What’s your favorite movie?

　What kind of writers do you like?

　etc.

　Ask some students to give answers.

(2) Check homework by asking several students to read their articles to the class. Ask the other students to help them with the mistakes. Then ask the students to work in pairs, exchange their articles and help each other to correct the mistakes. Move around the classroom and offer as much help as possible.

Step Ⅱ 3a

This activity provides reading practice using the target language.

Show the key vocabulary on the screen by a projector.

Read the words and have the students repeat again and again till they can pronounce the words fluently and correctly.

Ask the students to turn to page 48, look at Activity 3a on this page. Say, We can see there are three passages in this activity. They are three reviews about a movie, an exhibition and a band. Let's see the first one now. It is about a movie that is named Yellow River Fishermen. What does the reviewer think of the movie?

Who made it? What does the reviewer think of the director? Please scan it as quickly as you can and tell me the answers.

After about one minute, get all the children stop reading and ask who has got the answers. Choose three children who have put their hands up to show they know the answers to the three questions. Help them to get the proper answers.

Then ask the children to reread the reviews more carefully and tell them I will ask some more questions on it in details.

Let them read a little longer this time, around three minutes. Then ask the following questions orally and ask different students to reply, providing some help as necessary.

1: Is Yellow River Fishermen Hung Tao’s latest movie?

2: Does the reviewer like Hung Tao?

3: What has Hung Tao done over the years?

4: Does the reviewer think Yellow River Fishermen is the best movie of Hung Tao?

5: What does the reviewer suggest you doing if you are looking for entertainment?

6: Why does the reviewer think it is the worst movie of Hung Tao?

7: What good feature does the movie have?

Give some explanation on the problems which are hard to understand for the children, such as, entertainment means fun, feature means special part of sb./sth., very different from the others, easy to recognize or remember, and wife is the opposite word of husband, A husband and a wife make up a family. And tell the children the plural form of wife is wives.

Now read the instructions to the students.

Ask them which sentences we should circle and which ones we should underline.

Check the answers with the students.

Teach the other two reviews with the same way.

Answers

Yellow River Fisherman

Circled: He’s made some great movies.

The fisherman’s wife was really funny.

Underlined: Yellow River Fisherman is too long and it’s really boring.

Amy Kim, Photography

Circled: Her best loved photos are on display in this exhibition… has something for everyone…many great photos of people and of the countryside.

Underlined: The few city photographs are less successful.

Wild and Windy

Circled: The band has lots of energy…they play the kind of music that I love to hear…these are musicians who make us happy.

Underlined: Every song is really loud and often you can’t understand the words…the lyrics aren’t very good.

Notes

1. on display= be on show

A projector

2. Group work

1. Teaching by illumination and asking questions

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