Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector.

Teaching Objectives:

1. Revise the grammar: The Adverbial Clause.

2. Let the students understand the dialogue and learn some new words and expressions.

Language Focus:

so that / so . . . that, a traffic jam, before long, get angry with somebody, be busy doing something, be badly hurt.

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

1. Check the homework.

2. Revise the vocabulary from the last unit.

III. Leading in

Ask What do you do when you are waiting for someone and he is late?

Let them discuss it. Then let them discuss the questions: How long do you wait? Do you give him/ her a call?

IV. Presentation

Today Lily , Li Lei and Jim will go to the zoo. Books closed, listen to the tape, and answer the questions: Who was late? Why was he or she late?

Play the tape for the students to find the answer.

Books open. Ask the students to read through the dialogue and answer the questions in the workbook.

V. Practice

Play the tape again for the students to listen and repeat, and make sure the students can understand what they mean. Explain some language points.

 1. get/be busy with somebody 2. Be busy doing something 3. not. . . any longer =no longer 5. Somebody be badly hurt. Let the students practise the dialogue in pairs, ask some pairs to act out their dialogues.

VI. Practice

Part 2. Ask the students to choose the best words from the box to complete the sentences. Ask the students to read the sentences.

Note the use of “so. . . that”.

VII. Workbook

For Exercise 1, Let the students work alone, then check the answers with the whole class.

For Exercise 2, do it with the students, the answers are:

1. He was so hungry that he ate up all the food on the table.

2. These houses are so expensive that few people can buy them.

3. He got up early this morning so that he could see the doctor first.

4. He ate less each meal so that he became much thinner.

5. He drove his car very fast so that his car hit the electric - pole.

For Exercise 3: Pay attention to the use of the words in bold, and translate the sentences into Chinese.

VIII. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.

2. Act out the dialogue in Part 1.