Teaching Objectives

　　The expressions of place.

　　Main Points

　　New words: city, foreigner, city, word , well, why, English-speaking, letter

　　Difficult Points

　　How to use the Simple Present Tense correctly. And how to writer an English postcard correctly.

　　Teaching Aids

　　a tape-recorder, tapes

　　Teaching Procedure

　　Step 1 Revision

　　1. A duty report.

　　2. Revise the words, expressions and the postcard from Lesson 95.

　　Step 2 Word families

　　let students read out these words, and pay more attention to the English pronunciation, or let students listen to the radio and repeat.

　　Step 3 Stress and intonation

　　1. Students listen and repeat.

　　2. Get them to show the stress and intonation with gestures.

　　Step 4 Guess and game

　　have the students look at the postcard in the SB. Teacher ask: Where is this postcard from? Help the students to answer I think it’s from Sydney/ Paris/ Toronto. Now get the students to talk about the postcards.

　　in pairs, have the students make their own postcards. Each pair should choose a place in China to draw their postcards of the same place. They do need to be from the same place..

　　Step 5 Listen and answer

　　1.have the students look at the table in Wb Lesson 96, Ex. 3 before playing the tape.

　　2.help the students with the spelling of place names.

　　Step 6 Prsentation

　　teacher explain to students that E-mail is a way to talk to people from around the world. And ask Does anyone have e-mail? Do you e-mail people from other countries?

　　have the students make up their own e-mail addresses. Encourage them to be creative.

　　Step 7 Read

　　give the students 3 minutes to skim. Then ask some students to give the main idea.

　　have the students read the passage. Ask comprehension questions such as, How old is Jack? Where does Jack like? How many students are in his class? etc.

　　have students read the text aloud together. Pay attention to pronunciation and intonationl.

　　Step 8 Read and complete

　　before playing the tape have the students fill in the blanks with the words they think. Then paly the tape and have them listen and change the words in the blanks if they guessed something.

　　have the students discuss their first answers with the answers on the tape in groups.

　　have the groups make a list of the words they think could be put in the blanks.

　　at last teacher check the answer with the students.

　　Step 9 Write

　　Have the students write this letter as homework. And the next day teacher give the students a chance to read each other’s letters.

　　Step 10 Checkpoint 24

　　Go through Checkpoint 24 on the book and discuss any problems. Explain that the Present Indefinite Tense is used to give general information. And give some examples to students on the Bb.

　　Step 11 Workbook

　　Revise the map on the SB and do Ex.2., Ex 4.

　　Homework

　　Finish off the Workbook exercises.