Lesson 55 Some News about English 1. Class Opening and Review * Greeting * Drill Review the content of last class. Ask some students to read the text of Lesson 54 2. Key words and Expressions * website: explain this word (It’s a place on the Internet. “Web” is another word for “Internet”. “Site” means “place.”) * encourage v. encouragement n. encourage sb. to do sth. * practise [`prAktiz] v. practice [pArktis] n. * information * opportunity * opening a door: in English, it means “having opportunity” or “learning something new” 3. Teaching procedures Step 1 1. Let the students watch the video about some foreign countries. 2. Ask: What do you know about foreign countries? And do you know sth. about the communication between our country and other countries? (Let the students talk about the questions) Step 2 1. Listen to the radio about the text 2. Ask the students to read the text twice loudly Step 3 Use the computer to search something about the text Step 4 Grammar: The Past Participle Past participles usually end with an –ed or a –d. For example: talk – talked – talked, wait—waited –waited, turn – turned – turned, like – liked – liked However, some verbs are different. For example: speak – spoke – spoken, blow – blew – blown, wear – wore – worn, build – built – built, cut – cut – cut, have – had – had Step 5 Do some exercises about phonetic symbol and pronunciation 4. Homework Workbook, Page 102-103 (责任编辑:admin) |