2.Ability Objects

(1)Train the. students’ reading, writing, speaking and listening skills with the Target language.

(2)Train the students to use the new vocabulary.

1．Knowledge Objects

(1)Key Vocabulary

sweet, salty, crispy, sour, potato, chip, mistake, by mistake, thin, in the end, chef, sprinkle

(2)Target Language

Did you know potato chips were invented by mistake?

No, I didn’t know that. Who invented them?

2. Reread the conversations in activities 3,4 and 5 to get a further understanding of the target language.

Step Ⅶ Blackboard Design

The Fourth Period

Step Ⅰ Revision

Check homework. Ask different students to say their conversations to the class.

Then let students hand in their homework and correct any errors before returning them.

Step Ⅱ Part 3

This activity provides writing and speaking practice using the target language.

Point out the list of questions. Ask a students to say them to the class. Say, please write your answers to these questions. Point out the sample answer. Remind them to look back at the information in activity 2a to get extra help.

Get students to complete the task on their own. Walk around the room offering help with names of different countries.

Point out the sample conversation in the box. Invite a pair of students to say it to the class. The B student should think of something to finish the conversation.

S_A: Where would you like to visit?

S_B: I’d like to visit Holland.

S_A: Why do you want to visit there?

S_B: I want to see the windmills and smell the flowers.

Write the conversation on the blackboard.

Please work in pairs. Make conversations to talk about places you’d like to visit or you don’t want to go and give reasons.

As the pairs work together, walk around the room listening in on various pairs and offering help as needed.

Ask several pairs to say their conversations to the class. Answers will vary.

Step Ⅲ Part 4

The activity lets students work in pairs to practice writing and speaking skills.

Point to the list of sentence starters. Read the sample answer. By the time I was five, I had started learning English to the class.

Say, please complete these sentences using your own experience. Get students to complete the task individually.

Point out the sample conversation in the box. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class.

S_A: By the time I was five, I had started learning English.

S_B: Really? Where did you learn?

S_A: I went to classes at an English language school.

Write the conversation on the blackboard.

Please work in pairs. Make conversations to narrate some of your past events.

As the pairs work together, walk around the room listening in on various pairs and offering help as needed.

Ask several pairs of students to say their conversations to the class.

Answers will vary.

Then encourage students to talk about what sorts of things they had done by different ages other than those ages in the book.

Ask students to compare who had done the same things by different ages.

Step Ⅳ Part 5

This activity provides writing and speaking practice using the target language.

Read the instructions to the class.

Point out the sample conversation in the box. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class.

S_A: When was it invented?

S_B: It was invented about a thousand years ago.

S_A: Who was it invented?

S_B: It was invented by a Chinese man.

Encourage students to go on with the conversation.

S_A: What is it used for?

S_B: It is used for many things including writing and printing.

S_A: How has it developed?

S_B: It has developed by being created by machine rather than by hand.

S_A: Is it paper?

S_B: Yes, it is.

Write the conversation on the blackboard.

Please think of an invention. Then talk to your partner and try to guess his or her invention.

As the pairs are working together, move around the room offering help with names of the inventors and exact dates it necessary.

Ask selected students to model their conversations to the class.

Step Ⅴ Summary

In this class, we’ve practiced talking about places you would like to visit, narrating past events and talking about the history of inventions using the target language.

Step Ⅵ Homework

1. Collect more detailed information of different inventions.

The blackboard.

Practice method.

Train students’ speaking and writing skills.

3. Talk about the history of inventions.

2. Narrate past events.

1. Talk about places you would like to visit.