Unit 5 I Love Learning English
Lesson 25 A Phone Friend
Teaching content:
1. Mastery words and expressions
idea, phone, encourage, follow, repeat, sentence, understand
2. Oral words and expressions
pardon, have a good talk, have an idea
3. Everyday English
May I speak to…
This is…speaking.
I can’t follow you.
Pardon
Teaching aims:
1. How to make a telephone.
2. Describe language difficulties in communications.
3. Learn to write a passage with many tenses.
Teaching important points:
1. Know the time difference between China and Canada.
2. How to express when you can’t follow the others.
3. Oral English.
Teaching difficult points:
Use the expressions you learned in this lesson.
Teaching preparation:
telephone, flashcards
Teaching aids:
audiotape, flashcards
Type of lesson:
new lesson
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Talk about the weather with the students and ask “Who is on duty today ” Know about who is on duty next time.
Step 2. Introduce the topic to the class.
Ask the class:
1. Why should you spend so much time learning English
2. How many people speak Chinese in the world
3. How many people speak English in the world
4. Why should so many countries use English
Tell them if they don’t know the answers, it doesn’t matter. What we will learn is about the topic
Step 3. Play a riddle: You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I (A telephone.) The teacher asks the question: Can you guess what we will learn in this text
Step 4. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT!”
1. How often do you make phone calls to your friends
2. Is it hard to understand your friends when they speak English If so, what can you ask them to do
The students can answer the first question in English. If they can’t answer the second, they can answer in Chinese.
Step 5. Listen to the tape. Write true (T) or false(F).
1. Jenny calls Liming from Canada.
2. Li Jing is Li Ming’s cousin.
3. Li Jing loves learning English
4. Li Jing practice her English by speaking to Li Ming.
Step 6. Ask the students to read the dialogue silently and check the answers.
Step 7. Divide the class into several groups. Each group has three people. Read the text in roles in class. Practice for a while then let several groups go to the front to act it out.
Step 8. Come to “LET’S DO IT!”
Make up a dialogue with a partner. Act out a phone call between two friends. One is in China; the other is in the U.S. Try to use expressions you learned in this lesson.
When the students are making the dialogue, the teacher tours the class. If they meet any trouble, try your best to help them. After five minutes, make sure they are done. Let some students act the dialogue out in front of the class.
Do the others hear it clearly Ask some questions about their passages in order to test their listening ability.
Homework:
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Go on the reading in the student book.
Summary:
“Pardon” is a very popular expression in English when you can’t follow the others. It is useful in English classes. If the teacher takes the sentence as important spoken English, we can use it more often.