Language Focus: be busy doing, discussion, diagram, chart

Teaching Objectives:

1. Practise listening.

2. Do the writing according to the diagram.

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector.

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

Choose some useful sentences from the students' homework and read them to class, then do more oral practice using the Future -in-the- Past Tense.

III. Leading in

Say: today we're going to hear about different languages in the world, and have the students look at the Exercise 1 in the workbook, read all the questions first, then read the numbers aloud. Try to guess the answers before listening.

IV. Listening

Listen to the tape and do Exercises. The answers are: 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. B7.C 8.A

Check the answers with the whole class.

V. Practice

Ask the students to look at the diagram in Part 2. Discuss it with the students, let them understand the information. Ask the students to do the exercise in pairs. Then check the answers orally. Finally get them to write down the whole passage. Pay attention to the first sentence, it means the people will not be able to find room to stand in if the population is too large. The answers are: small, slowly, quickly, faster, more, smaller, fewer, healthier

VI. Look and ask

Ask the students to look at the list of cards and let the students ask and answer in Pairs. For example: A: How much is the car? or What’s the price of the car? or How much does the car cost? B: It’s… Then discuss about why your car is the best.

VII. Presentation

Ask the students: Do you like travelling in your holiday, let the students discuss. Then tell the students we'll learn something about Sam, ask the questions:

1. Which countries would he travel to for holiday?

2. Was his plan very good?

Listen to the tape and answer the questions. Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Explain some language Points:

1. travel to…

Last year Sam travelled to Beijing.

2. become interested in:

He became interested in science when he was eight years old.

3. be busy doing something:

The students are busy reading English now.

VIII. Checkpoint 13

Go through Checkpoint 13 and make sure the students can understand the grammar and useful expressions.

IX. Homework

1. Revise the whole unit.

2. Use the useful expressions to make up a story.

3. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.