Language Focus:

1. club, expert, trap, tent, freeze, alive

Checkpoint 18

Teaching Objectives:

1. Practise listening ability.

2. Revise the grammar: the Comparative Degrees of Adjective and Adverbs

The Past Perfect Tense

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector and a map of world.

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

1.    Check homework

2.    Revise the use of the Infinitive

III. leading in

Do you know Coco? Maybe you know the singer of Coco-Li, but this Coco is not that Coco. This is a mountain climber.

IV. Listening practice

The Matterhorn is the tallest mountain in the Alps Mountain Range in Southwestern Switzerland on the Swiss-Italian border. Now, listen to the story.

Play the tape or for the students to listen and find the answer, then look at the workbook, Exercise 1, go through the questions with the students and make sure they can understand what they mean. Play the tape again, let the students discuss their answers in pains before the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.

V. Presentation

Show the students a map of the world, and ask: What map is it? Help the students find “China” and “India” on the map. Let the students discuss the two countries: They are developing countries. They have a large population in the world.

Ask: What’s the population of China and what’s the population of India? Let the students read Part 2 and answer the questions. (China's population is 1 328 000 000 and India's population is 1 000 000 000). That’s to say India’s population is smaller than China’s .Ask the students to use the words in the box to complete the passage, then read together, finally ask the students to retell the text.

VI. Practice

Revise the Grammar: The Past Perfect Tense, give some examples:

1. He had left before his wife came back.

2. I remembered that Peter had already got a bike.

3. By the end of last month, he had learned 2000 new words.

4. When I got to the cinema, the film had begun.

Then ask the students to do Exercise 3. The answers are: 1 C 2 E 3 A 4 B 5 D. Let the  students read these sentences together.

VII. Practice

Ask the students to do Exercise 4 first, then check the answers. The answers are: had, in, is, more, the, had, to, in, had, that, to, us, and, to

VIII. Workbook

Give the students five minutes to finish workbook. Do Exercises 1, 3 and 4. Then check the answers.                                                                 

The answers to Exercise 1 are: took, went, found, was, called, told, had happened, said, would go, came, was found, checked, founded, said, stole, went, enjoyed, came, found, had stolen, had

The answers to Exercise 3 are: I worn out 2 try on 3 slow down 4 made up my mind 5 am pleased with 6 were angry with, deserve to 7 at least 8 as if 9 carried on

IX. Homework

Finish off the Wb exercises.