陳梅花

Teaching aims：

To practice listening for gist and for specific information.

To revise areas of vocabulary connected with food and drink.

To write an essay about a party.

Teaching difficulties：

To get the important words of the passage.

Teaching Aids：

computer and cassette.

Teaching procedures：

Ⅰ Warming up

★ Brainstorming -what kinds of parties are there？

Then show some pictures of parties.

ⅡListening

Do the exercise 3

★In life there are always things worth celebrating such as： passing test， retiring， going to study abroad， getting a job with good salary and so on. And show some pictures of them.

Before listening， learn the key words first： alcohol， close friends ，hot pot， snacks， present ，reception， sit-down meal， soft drinks， speech.

★Now lets listen to four peoples speech， judge why each person is celebrating？ Before listening， learn the listening strategies first.

★Students listen to the cassette twice and note down why each person is celebrating.

★ Listen again and try to fill the blanks of the typescripts.

1. Dave： I never thought Id do it. I mean， Ive had so many__________________， and as you know， Ive__________________I feel just great！ Today I drove my mum to the supermarket .And she says I can borrow the car this weekend.

2. Mike： I was very lucky to__________________it！ There were twenty other people__________________the job ！ The__________________is good but Ill have o travel over forty miles to get to work one day.

3. Eva： Its a great opportunity -one year at one of the__________________in California. And the best thing is that my English will be excellent__________________one year in American.

4. Lisa： Id just like to say how much Ive enjoyed__________________with you all. Its a sad time for me. But also a happy one. Ive got plenty to do at home.， all the things I never had time to do _ _____________________. I want to take art classes and I can see more of my__________________and of course， Ill come to__________________you from time to time. Thank you very much for this lovely watch， Ill ...

Ⅲ Writing describe the Spring Festival that they celebrated

Suppose your brother married a foreign beauty .This year， your sister-in-law will celebrate the Spring Festival with your family. Now， write an E-mail to tell her what your family have and what your family do during the Spring Festival.

★Show some pictures and words that may be used to describe the Spring Festival.

· do a thorough cleaning 大掃除

· dumpling 餃子

· set off fireworks /firecrackers 放煙花/鞭炮

· paste Handwritten couplets 貼對(duì)聯(lián)

· conduct Yangge dance and lion dance 扭秧歌/舞獅

· increase the festival atmosphere 增加節(jié)日氣氛

★Give students ten minutes to write an essay.

★Ask some students to read the essay aloud in front of the class .some volunteers are best.

Ⅴ Homework

According to the following request， write a composition.

9月5日（星期天）上午11點(diǎn)，舉行一次迎新Barbecue活動(dòng)，地點(diǎn)是mills river park， 位于north Amherst，大約離學(xué)校10分鐘車程，或者坐30路校車（在北村下），或31路校車（北村下一站），然后步行5分鐘～10分鐘就可以到。

Barbecue活動(dòng)內(nèi)容：

1. 首選的當(dāng)然是barbecue，歡迎所有的老生和新生，備有各種原料如烤牛排、火腿 雞肉和各式調(diào)料。

2.有游戲，還有各種球類活動(dòng)，足球、籃球、網(wǎng)球、飛盤等。

3.最重要的是，屆時(shí)差不多每個(gè)系都有老生到場(chǎng)，可以向新生傳授各種經(jīng)驗(yàn)，認(rèn)識(shí)很多朋友。