5. Many foreigners can cook dumplings.

Step Ⅲ 2

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

Read the instructions to the class. Get them to look at the pictures.

Say, Can you say out the English names of the four famous places in the pictures?

Ask some students who know that to tell the names. Write the four names on the blackboard: the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Sydney Opera House, Big Ben in London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Then teach them to read the names several times till they can read them fluently and correctly.

Practice reading the names by showing some pictures of the four places to students. Get them to say out the English names of the places as soon as they see each picture. Change the pictures more and more quickly and students do as fast as they can.

After practicing the names, ask, Which these places would you like to visit most? Why? Ask two or three students to tell their answers to the class. They may say like this,

I’d like to visit Paris most. Because I cam see the famous tower, the Eiffel Tower. there. And I have ever heard the people there are very romantic. I’m interested in that.

Then say, Please say something on the place where you would like to visit most to your partner now. Get them to work in pairs. Move around the room as they work, offering words and sentences as needed.

After they’ve all finished, tell them to write an article about where they would like to visit most and why. Ask students to complete the work on their own. Move around the classroom and help them.

After they’ve finished writing, ask a few students to read their articles to the class. Encourage the rest of the class to tell the mistakes they may have made in their passages.

Work in pairs. Each one reads their own passage to the partner. Help correct any mistakes in the passage.

Sample writing

I’d like to go to a beautiful place. I think it would be Paris. If I went there I could visit the Eiffel Tower. It is famous all over the world. I like the Eiffel Tower very much. I have collected lots of pictures of it. Some of them are on the walls of my small room. It is my dream to go to visit the Eiffel Tower and take photos there by myself. That’s the main reason for me to like to visit Paris most.

I also like to see the other scenes in Paris. I have heard that the streets there are very beautiful. And there are many famous buildings in Paris. I would like to visit the museums there, too. I hope my dream can come true some day.

Step Ⅳ Just for Fun!

This activity provides reading and speaking practice with the target language.

Teach the new words surf and arctic first. Explain them in English like this, Surf means try to ride the waves on the board on the ocean. Surfing is a kind of very popular water sports.

Arctic means the north polar regions, and a polar bear is a kind of bear which live in the north polar regions.

Teach them to read the two words several times.

Get students to read the conversation in the pictures in two halves. Then ask them what is funny about this cartoon? Help them to answer: At first we think the travel agency is talking to a woman, and then I find out it’s a polar bear.

Call students’ attention to the posters on the wall in the first picture and the words on the polar bear’s board. Do some explanation on them.

Step Ⅴ Summary

In this class, we’ve practiced using some words. We’ve done some exercises on writing, too.

Step Ⅵ Homework

4. The hotel provides breakfast for free.

3. We’d better save time for study.

2. He is packing all his clothes. He will leave for London tomorrow.

1. My family hope to go to Sydney soon.

1. provide 2. cook 3. saving 4. pack 5. hope

Ask students to make their own sentences with the words, preferably sentences that are meaningful. Move around the room.

Collect a few students’ answers with mistakes on the blackboard. Along with the students help correct the mistakes.

Sample answers

2. Have a dictation to see if they can remember the new vocabulary which they learned last class. Dictate the following ones. provide, firm, offer, spot. the Forest of

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Step Ⅱ Part

This activity focuses on vocabulary introduced in the unit. Focus attention on the box. Invite a student to read the vocabulary words at the top.

You are asked to fill in the blanks with the words. In some cases, you may need to use another form of the word, for example, adjusting for tense or subject/verb agreement.

Ask students to fill in the blanks on their own.

Check the answers. Five students each read a sentence, filling in the blanks. The rest of the students check their work.

Answers

Step ⅠRevision

1. Check the homework by asking students to show their e-mails.

Choose several to read theirs to the class. Then let them work in pairs and read their own letters to the partners. At last, collect all the letters.

The pictures of the four places

2. Teaching by writing.