Language Focus: Checkpoint 16

Teaching Objectives:

1. Practise listening ability.

2.Understand the letter, try to learn how to write a diary and write an English letter.

3. Learn some useful words and expressions.

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

1.    Check the homework

2.    Retell the football story.

III. Listening

Ask Have you ever listened a football match on the radio? Now we are doing to listen to a football match on the radio. First let’s get the main idea about the match.. Then answer the questions below:

Where is this game played?(London)

Ask Ss: Who can write the two teams on the Bb?

IV. Presentation

Tell and show the students how to write a diary. (Write the date on the top of the left side and the weather on the top of the right side.)

Let the students fill in the missing words in the blanks, then read the diary.

V. Reading

Get the students to read the letter and ask them some questions about the English letters: Where is the address? Where is the date? How can we begin a letter? Get the students to find the answers from the reading. Then get them to read the letter again, and answer the questions, check the answers with the class.

The answers are:

1. It came from Andy.

2. It is called soccer.

3. Yes, they do.

4.No, they don't.

5. She plays Aussie rules.

VI. Checkpoint 16

Go through the grammar part and practise the useful expressions.

VII. Workbook

 Do Exercise 5, and check the answers with the students. The answers are: had, had played, were, won, woke, had, got, found, kept, ended, went, started, were playing, were, felt, said, beat, keep, be found, had, were, play, was, kicked, got, were playing, get, were winning, kicked, make, had kicked, had kicked, played, is

VIII. Homework

1. Revise all the contents of this unit.

2. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.