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

Write a review of a book

3. Write a review.

2. The main ideas of the three short articles.

1. Key Vocabulary.