Section I Listening and Conversation
Section II Reading Comprehension
Section III Writing and Translating
Unit 4 Timetables and Schedules
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Section I
Listening and Conversation
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Section I
Listening and Conversation
Part I Leading in
Part II Putting in Use
Part III Further Practice
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
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Part I Leading in
1,Pre-class Work
2,Warming up for the new class
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1,Pre-class Work
1)Collect some timetables and schedules;
2)Find out the words and expressions to talk
about timetables for buses,trains and planes.
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2,Warming up for the new class
1) Present your collections;
2) Put the collections into a data bank for your reference;
3) Presentation of new materials;
4)Practice Dialogue 1 Talking About a Flight Timetable.
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Sample 1
Sample 2
Actual flight information
Arrival times 00:00 - 10:00 00:00 - 10:00
14:00 - 18:00 14:00 - 18:00
Departure times 00:00 - 10:00 00:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 14:00
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Part II Putting in Use
1,Divide the students into groups
2,Offer the timetables and schedules
and ask the students to make
dialogues
3,Act out and comments
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Timetable for Olympic Gold Medals
on September 25,2000 ----
18:00 Women's pole vault
19:00 Men's discus throw
20:00 Men's triple jump
20:10 Women's 400m
20:25 Men's 400m
20:40 Men's 110m hurdles
20:55 Women's 5,000m
21:35 Women's 800m
22:00 Men's 10,000m next
A Flight Timetable
Departure Arrival Destination
6:50a.m 10:10 Beijing
8:55a.m,14:10 Beijing Stop over Changsha 11:15 to 12:15
13:40 17:10 Beijing
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A school schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:30-
9:30am Maths Maths
10:00-
11:30a.m,
Computer
Science
Computer
Science
Computer
Science
1:30-
3:00p.m,English
Business
Managem
ent
English
Business
Managem
ent
English
7:30-
9:00p.m,
Foreign
Trade
Practice
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3,Act out and comments
? After the act of each group,the fellow students
to make comments on the performance and the
appropriateness of their English; and then
teacher summarizes this part,
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Part III Further Practice
1,Practicing and Furthering
2,Listening and Decoding
3,Responding
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1,Practicing and Furthering
? Practice the dialogues on Page 55
of the textbook in groups and try to
further them.
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2,Listening and Decoding
? Listen to a dialogue and then fill
in Susan's schedule on Page 57 of
the textbook,Work in groups,
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3,Responding
? Practice Exercise on Page 56 of the
textbook orally,Teacher offers the
situation in Chinese,and asks the students
to give the English equivalent,the whole
class work together.
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The script for the dialogue
Kate,Hi,Ann,What's your plan for this weekend?
You,I will go to Hangzhou.
Kate,Oh,how interesting!
You,I have the some friend there,I think of them very
much.
Kate,I guess your friends would arrange your trip there,
You:Yes,a friend drives to take me to turn in municipal
on Saturday inside The noon has a meal with the some
friend,we go to the concert in the evening.
Kate,How wonderful,When are you coming back?
You,On Sunday evening.The airplane that I am last last
night came back.
Kate,I hope you have a nice weekend,
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Part IV
Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Match after you listen
2,Judge after you listen
3,Make after you learn
4,Self Assessment and Teacher's Guidance
5,Assignment
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1,Match after you listen
? A diagram will be given to each of you,
After listening to a passage,match the
information in Column A with the choices
in Column B,
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2,Judge after you listen
? The multiple choices to each of the
questions will be given on the
blackboard,After listening to a dialogue,
you are asked to make a choice from A,
B,C or D,
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3,Make after you learn
Make a short dialogue by using what
you have learned,
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4,Self Assessment and
Teacher's Guidance
? Check the answers to Exercise 1 and 2,
? score your own paper,
? Hand in the paper,
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5,Assignment
? Workbook Page 48---3,4
? Read fluently the passage on Page 60 of your
textbook New Practical English and try to
understand it as possible as you can by using
a dictionary.
? Recite Practical Sentences for Tourism from
22 to 28 and Passage 4.
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Section II
Reading Comprehension
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Section II
Reading Comprehension
Part I Leading in
Part II Comprehension and Practicing
Part III Further Practice
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
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Part I Leading in
1,Revision
2,Warming up for the new class
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1) Recite the seven practical sentences for
tourism and the others repeat;
2) Answer teacher's questions according to
Passage 4 for tourism
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1,Revision
2.Warming up for the new class
1) Work in groups of four or five to make short
dialogues with the sentences and structures
they've reviewed.
2) Teacher makes comments
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Part II
Comprehension and Practicing
1,Checking and Explaining
2,Retelling the story
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1,Checking and Explaining
1)Tell the main idea of the passage on page 60 of the
textbook.
2)Answer the questions in details according to the
passage on Page 60 of the textbook,at the same
time explaining some language points.
3)Possible difficult words,phrases and sentences
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Difficult Words
? punctuality n,The being on time strictlies guard time
? e.g,Our teacher insists on punctuality,
? emphasize v,The to place emphasis on emphasizes,emphasizing
? e.g,I must emphasize that they are just children,?
concerned a,Anxious,worried; the involved is anxious,worrying
of;Concerning of?
e.g,I was very concerned about my mother's illness,
? embarrass v,To cause to feel ashamed,the uncomfortable makes
hard-pressed,e.g,He embarrassed everyone by saying that the picture
was terrible.
? entertain v,to amuse and interest; to provide food and drink for
? Make happy,make interested in;Hospitality,pay
? e.g,A teacher should entertain as well as teach.
? He entertained his guests generously.
? inform v,The to give information to tells,notifying
? e.g,He promised to keep us informed of how the negotiations were
going on.
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Difficult Phrases
ahead of schedule,The ahead of time advances
e.g.The students finish research paper ahead of
schedule.
fail to,To not do what is expected,the needed or
wanted coulds not,can't
e.g,Unfortunately,Larry failed to submit his
proposal on time.
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Difficult Sentences
? (Para,1) … how anxious and embarrassed he will be when
he,as a stranger to the place,sees no person meeting him!
If he went to a not seen before place,seeing no one to pick him
up,he will be how anxious with embarrassed.
This is an exclamatory sentence with when-clause as an
adverbial of time.
e.g,How happy and delighted she will be when she,as a
foreigner,sees a friend meeting her at the airport.
? (Para,1) The same is true with the activity of seeing off a
foreign guest,Send off the foreigner to also is such.
With is a preposition introducing the kind of thing which has the
specific feature(s) mentioned in the previous sentence(s).
e.g,The same is true with the learning of a foreign language.
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? (Para,2) So,as a host,whenever there is an activity,you
should come to the place ahead of schedules so as to wait for
the guests to come.
Whenever introduces an adverbial clause of time,In the main
clause ahead of schedule is an adverbial of tie while so as to
introduces an adverbial of purpose.
e.g,So,as a host,whenever there is a fire,you should come to
the place at once so as to put the fire under control.
? (Para,2) Anyone,guest or host,who is really late for a
social activity,should apologize to those who have already
been there.
Guest or host is reduced form of whether he is a guest or host.
Note that here singular forms are used with no articles at all.
The two who-clauses are used to modify anyone and those
respectively.
e.g,Anyone,man or woman,who is in charge of a project,
should often talk to those who participate in the project,back
2,Retelling the story
? Read the passage again.
? Retell the importance of
being punctual.
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Part III Further Practice
1,Simulating and Translating
2,Read and Complete
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1,Simulating and Translating
Do exercise 6 on Page 61 of the textbook.
Pay attention to the italicized parts in the English
sentences and translate the Chinese sentences by
simulating the structure of the English sentences.
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2,Read and Complete
Write a summary of the passage based
on Exercise 2 on Page 61 of the textbook,
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Part IV
Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Translating
2,Assignment
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1.Translating
? Remember the words,phrases and sentence structures in the
passage they have learned and translate the following sentences
into Chinese orally and the teacher comments.
1) Bad weather ruined our holiday.
2) He made a list of daily items he should buy.
3) Sally feels like a cup of coffee whenever she comes home.
4) We all know that the plan is divided into three parts.
5) The manager gave a brief report and the meeting ended at 2 p.m.
6) Our plans are quite flexible,so we can change them if necessary,
7) Can you spare then minutes to discuss our schedule?
8) I will ask my secretary to draw up a plan,back
2,Assignment
? Workbook page 1-3
? Collect timetables or schedules
as many as possible,
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Section III
Writing and Translating
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Section III
Writing and Translating
Part I Leading in
Part II Putting in Use
Part III Further Practice
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
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Part I Leading in
1,Checking the assignment
2,Warming up for new class
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1,Checking the assignment
? Check the answers to
comprehension exercises on the
workbook orally and comment.
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2.Warming up for new class
? Present your collection of timetables and
schedules,
? Put the collections of timetables and
schedules into the data bank on the screen,
? Make sure all the students understand the
meanings of the timetables and schedules,
back
Part II Putting in Use
1,Divide the students into groups;
2,Present new timetables and schedules;
3,Talk about the timetable and schedules.
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Part III Further Practice
1,Creating schedules
2,Writing
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1,Creating schedules
Each of you makes
a schedule and
read to the whole
class.
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2,Writing
? Make an English TV program
schedule according to the
Chinese version,(Refer to the
Chinese TV guide )
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Part IV
Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Grammatical rules concerning the tenses
2,Applying
3,Self-assessment and Guidance
4,Assignment
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2,Applying
Exercises for you:
1) Complete the following sentences using the
correct form of the verbs given in bracket,
2) Correct the errors in the following sentences,
3) Translate the following sentences into English.
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1) and 2) are printed on the paper,After
the teacher checks the answers,the students
can score their own paper; as for 3) the
teacher can collect the paper and correct after
class if time is not permitted.
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3.Self-assessment and Guidance
4,Assignment
? Workbook Exercises 3-5 on page 57
? Collect weather reports
? Make weather report according to
the weather that specific day,
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Section II Reading Comprehension
Section III Writing and Translating
Unit 4 Timetables and Schedules
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Section I
Listening and Conversation
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Section I
Listening and Conversation
Part I Leading in
Part II Putting in Use
Part III Further Practice
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
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Part I Leading in
1,Pre-class Work
2,Warming up for the new class
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1,Pre-class Work
1)Collect some timetables and schedules;
2)Find out the words and expressions to talk
about timetables for buses,trains and planes.
back
2,Warming up for the new class
1) Present your collections;
2) Put the collections into a data bank for your reference;
3) Presentation of new materials;
4)Practice Dialogue 1 Talking About a Flight Timetable.
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next
Sample 1
Sample 2
Actual flight information
Arrival times 00:00 - 10:00 00:00 - 10:00
14:00 - 18:00 14:00 - 18:00
Departure times 00:00 - 10:00 00:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 14:00
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Part II Putting in Use
1,Divide the students into groups
2,Offer the timetables and schedules
and ask the students to make
dialogues
3,Act out and comments
back
Timetable for Olympic Gold Medals
on September 25,2000 ----
18:00 Women's pole vault
19:00 Men's discus throw
20:00 Men's triple jump
20:10 Women's 400m
20:25 Men's 400m
20:40 Men's 110m hurdles
20:55 Women's 5,000m
21:35 Women's 800m
22:00 Men's 10,000m next
A Flight Timetable
Departure Arrival Destination
6:50a.m 10:10 Beijing
8:55a.m,14:10 Beijing Stop over Changsha 11:15 to 12:15
13:40 17:10 Beijing
next
A school schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:30-
9:30am Maths Maths
10:00-
11:30a.m,
Computer
Science
Computer
Science
Computer
Science
1:30-
3:00p.m,English
Business
Managem
ent
English
Business
Managem
ent
English
7:30-
9:00p.m,
Foreign
Trade
Practice
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3,Act out and comments
? After the act of each group,the fellow students
to make comments on the performance and the
appropriateness of their English; and then
teacher summarizes this part,
back
Part III Further Practice
1,Practicing and Furthering
2,Listening and Decoding
3,Responding
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1,Practicing and Furthering
? Practice the dialogues on Page 55
of the textbook in groups and try to
further them.
back
2,Listening and Decoding
? Listen to a dialogue and then fill
in Susan's schedule on Page 57 of
the textbook,Work in groups,
back
3,Responding
? Practice Exercise on Page 56 of the
textbook orally,Teacher offers the
situation in Chinese,and asks the students
to give the English equivalent,the whole
class work together.
back
The script for the dialogue
Kate,Hi,Ann,What's your plan for this weekend?
You,I will go to Hangzhou.
Kate,Oh,how interesting!
You,I have the some friend there,I think of them very
much.
Kate,I guess your friends would arrange your trip there,
You:Yes,a friend drives to take me to turn in municipal
on Saturday inside The noon has a meal with the some
friend,we go to the concert in the evening.
Kate,How wonderful,When are you coming back?
You,On Sunday evening.The airplane that I am last last
night came back.
Kate,I hope you have a nice weekend,
back
Part IV
Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Match after you listen
2,Judge after you listen
3,Make after you learn
4,Self Assessment and Teacher's Guidance
5,Assignment
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1,Match after you listen
? A diagram will be given to each of you,
After listening to a passage,match the
information in Column A with the choices
in Column B,
back
2,Judge after you listen
? The multiple choices to each of the
questions will be given on the
blackboard,After listening to a dialogue,
you are asked to make a choice from A,
B,C or D,
back
3,Make after you learn
Make a short dialogue by using what
you have learned,
back
4,Self Assessment and
Teacher's Guidance
? Check the answers to Exercise 1 and 2,
? score your own paper,
? Hand in the paper,
back
5,Assignment
? Workbook Page 48---3,4
? Read fluently the passage on Page 60 of your
textbook New Practical English and try to
understand it as possible as you can by using
a dictionary.
? Recite Practical Sentences for Tourism from
22 to 28 and Passage 4.
back
Section II
Reading Comprehension
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Section II
Reading Comprehension
Part I Leading in
Part II Comprehension and Practicing
Part III Further Practice
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
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Part I Leading in
1,Revision
2,Warming up for the new class
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1) Recite the seven practical sentences for
tourism and the others repeat;
2) Answer teacher's questions according to
Passage 4 for tourism
back
1,Revision
2.Warming up for the new class
1) Work in groups of four or five to make short
dialogues with the sentences and structures
they've reviewed.
2) Teacher makes comments
back
Part II
Comprehension and Practicing
1,Checking and Explaining
2,Retelling the story
back
1,Checking and Explaining
1)Tell the main idea of the passage on page 60 of the
textbook.
2)Answer the questions in details according to the
passage on Page 60 of the textbook,at the same
time explaining some language points.
3)Possible difficult words,phrases and sentences
back
Difficult Words
? punctuality n,The being on time strictlies guard time
? e.g,Our teacher insists on punctuality,
? emphasize v,The to place emphasis on emphasizes,emphasizing
? e.g,I must emphasize that they are just children,?
concerned a,Anxious,worried; the involved is anxious,worrying
of;Concerning of?
e.g,I was very concerned about my mother's illness,
? embarrass v,To cause to feel ashamed,the uncomfortable makes
hard-pressed,e.g,He embarrassed everyone by saying that the picture
was terrible.
? entertain v,to amuse and interest; to provide food and drink for
? Make happy,make interested in;Hospitality,pay
? e.g,A teacher should entertain as well as teach.
? He entertained his guests generously.
? inform v,The to give information to tells,notifying
? e.g,He promised to keep us informed of how the negotiations were
going on.
back
Difficult Phrases
ahead of schedule,The ahead of time advances
e.g.The students finish research paper ahead of
schedule.
fail to,To not do what is expected,the needed or
wanted coulds not,can't
e.g,Unfortunately,Larry failed to submit his
proposal on time.
back
Difficult Sentences
? (Para,1) … how anxious and embarrassed he will be when
he,as a stranger to the place,sees no person meeting him!
If he went to a not seen before place,seeing no one to pick him
up,he will be how anxious with embarrassed.
This is an exclamatory sentence with when-clause as an
adverbial of time.
e.g,How happy and delighted she will be when she,as a
foreigner,sees a friend meeting her at the airport.
? (Para,1) The same is true with the activity of seeing off a
foreign guest,Send off the foreigner to also is such.
With is a preposition introducing the kind of thing which has the
specific feature(s) mentioned in the previous sentence(s).
e.g,The same is true with the learning of a foreign language.
next
? (Para,2) So,as a host,whenever there is an activity,you
should come to the place ahead of schedules so as to wait for
the guests to come.
Whenever introduces an adverbial clause of time,In the main
clause ahead of schedule is an adverbial of tie while so as to
introduces an adverbial of purpose.
e.g,So,as a host,whenever there is a fire,you should come to
the place at once so as to put the fire under control.
? (Para,2) Anyone,guest or host,who is really late for a
social activity,should apologize to those who have already
been there.
Guest or host is reduced form of whether he is a guest or host.
Note that here singular forms are used with no articles at all.
The two who-clauses are used to modify anyone and those
respectively.
e.g,Anyone,man or woman,who is in charge of a project,
should often talk to those who participate in the project,back
2,Retelling the story
? Read the passage again.
? Retell the importance of
being punctual.
back
Part III Further Practice
1,Simulating and Translating
2,Read and Complete
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1,Simulating and Translating
Do exercise 6 on Page 61 of the textbook.
Pay attention to the italicized parts in the English
sentences and translate the Chinese sentences by
simulating the structure of the English sentences.
back
2,Read and Complete
Write a summary of the passage based
on Exercise 2 on Page 61 of the textbook,
back
Part IV
Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Translating
2,Assignment
back
1.Translating
? Remember the words,phrases and sentence structures in the
passage they have learned and translate the following sentences
into Chinese orally and the teacher comments.
1) Bad weather ruined our holiday.
2) He made a list of daily items he should buy.
3) Sally feels like a cup of coffee whenever she comes home.
4) We all know that the plan is divided into three parts.
5) The manager gave a brief report and the meeting ended at 2 p.m.
6) Our plans are quite flexible,so we can change them if necessary,
7) Can you spare then minutes to discuss our schedule?
8) I will ask my secretary to draw up a plan,back
2,Assignment
? Workbook page 1-3
? Collect timetables or schedules
as many as possible,
back
Section III
Writing and Translating
back
Section III
Writing and Translating
Part I Leading in
Part II Putting in Use
Part III Further Practice
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
back
Part I Leading in
1,Checking the assignment
2,Warming up for new class
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1,Checking the assignment
? Check the answers to
comprehension exercises on the
workbook orally and comment.
back
2.Warming up for new class
? Present your collection of timetables and
schedules,
? Put the collections of timetables and
schedules into the data bank on the screen,
? Make sure all the students understand the
meanings of the timetables and schedules,
back
Part II Putting in Use
1,Divide the students into groups;
2,Present new timetables and schedules;
3,Talk about the timetable and schedules.
back
Part III Further Practice
1,Creating schedules
2,Writing
back
1,Creating schedules
Each of you makes
a schedule and
read to the whole
class.
back
2,Writing
? Make an English TV program
schedule according to the
Chinese version,(Refer to the
Chinese TV guide )
back
Part IV
Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Grammatical rules concerning the tenses
2,Applying
3,Self-assessment and Guidance
4,Assignment
back
2,Applying
Exercises for you:
1) Complete the following sentences using the
correct form of the verbs given in bracket,
2) Correct the errors in the following sentences,
3) Translate the following sentences into English.
back
1) and 2) are printed on the paper,After
the teacher checks the answers,the students
can score their own paper; as for 3) the
teacher can collect the paper and correct after
class if time is not permitted.
back
3.Self-assessment and Guidance
4,Assignment
? Workbook Exercises 3-5 on page 57
? Collect weather reports
? Make weather report according to
the weather that specific day,
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