1. 　T: Now, let’s do some reading. We will learn some famous people. Most of them started doing things when they were very young. And they became famous when they were young, too. Please look at Activity 3a. Let’s read after the tape…

2.　 Play the recording twice and have Ss fill in the chart on the books. Later, check the answer.

Step4 Pairwork 2c

T: Now, let’s come to Activity 2c-Pairwork. Please fill in the blanks with information from the chart in Activity 2a. (Ask two pairs of Ss to practice the conversation.) Now, I’d like you to work in pairs and make the same kind of conversation about Donna Green, understand? Pairwork, begin. (Ask several pairs to act it out.)

Step 5 Reading 3a

1.　 Show the picture and the chart on the screen.

T: You all did a good job. Thank you. This period, we are going to talk about another kind of famous people. Look at this picture and the chart please. Now, we will listen to a conversation about the two people on this chart. What are their names? … They are two unusual people. What did Charles Smith do? ( He had a world record for hiccupping打嗝.) What did Donna Green do? (She had a world record for sneezing打喷嚏.) Now let’s see how they got the world record. Please open your books and turn to Page 54, Activity 2a. I’ll play the recording twice. While listening, please fill in “How long”, “started” and “stopped” columns.

2.　 After that, show some photos of other famous people on the screen and ask some pairs of Ss to make dialogues one by one.

A: Who’s that?

B: That’s______. He is _______.

A: When was he born?

B: He was born in _____

Step3 Listening 2a&2b

1. (T: Well done. Now I’ll show you some photos. Please look at Picture 1.)

Show a photo of David Beckham, and ask “Who’s he?”, “What does he do?” and “When was he born”. Next ask two Ss to make a conversation about Beckham. Then ask boys to act as A and girls to act as B to make a conversation, vice versa.

1. Game: Who is he/she?

Ask a student to come to the front, say some sentences about a famous person or one of the classmates, including his or her birth date, occupation, and so on. And ask other Ss to guess who he or she is talking about. Later, the student gives the answer and shows the pictures.

T: Last period, we have talked about some famous people. Now, let’s play a game. I’ll ask a student to come here and talk something about a famous person or your classmate, and you guess who he or she is, understand?...

Step2 Revision

2.Exercise on Page82-83 in Meikeyilian

1.Recite Activity 3a

3.　 Ask a student to give a report about how old he was when he did these things for the first time.

Step4 Summary

T: OK, let’s summarize. In this period, we have talked about some famous people. They all started doing things when they were very young. And finally they have made great success. So please remember: “You are never too young to start doing things.”(show on the screen). So much for today.

Step5 Homework

2.　 Ask three groups to come to the front and act out the interviews.