Lesson 18

Language Focus:
　　the useful expressions:
　　Hainan Island; the second largest; the capital of; in the northeast of; no matter; click on; some information about; be fanmous for; a deer park; the edge of, the sky and the rim of the sea.

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector: Pictures

Teaching Procedures:
　Ⅰ. Showing aims
　　Have the students know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:
　　1. Master some useful expressions.
　　2. Read the Information from the Internet.
　　3. Know something about Hainan Island.

　Ⅱ. Revision
　　1. Revise Lesson 17. Ask: Could you tell me how to search the Internet? Have the students say out the instructions. Make sure the students can say correctly.
　　2. Ask one student to come to the front, ask another student to leach him how to search the Internet, just act according to the instructions if it can't be done in class.
　　3. Revise the Object Clause in Lesson 17. Ask the students to make up sentences. Then ask the students to act out the dialogue of Part 1 in pairs.

　Ⅲ. Pre-read
　　Show a map of Hainan on the slide. Get the students to find out 'HaiKou' and divide the students into small groups to discuss about Hainan Island. Ask: Do you have some knowledge about Hainan? How do you know about it? Have some students share their ideas with the class.

　Ⅳ. Read
　　Part 2. Speech Cassette. Books closed. Get the students to listen to the tape. Then books open, read the passage loudly, and find the answers to the questions of Exercise 1 in the workbook. Check the answers in pairs.

　Ⅴ. Practice
　　Play a game. Ask one student to act as a tourist to show the other students around Hainan Island. He can introduce the scenery and the food to the other students. Any information is OK. First play this game in small groups, then in front of the class.

　Ⅵ. Read and complete
　　Have the students work in pairs to complete the dialogue. Then ask some pairs to read the dialogue, and check the answers with the whole class.
　　Note:
　　1. Have you found out what we can do on Hainan Island?
　　2. no matter
　　 　No matter how he will say, I won't believe him.
　　3. Let's see if we can find some information about that city.
　　4. be famous for
　　 　Hangzhou is famous for it's beauty.
　　5. The edge of the sky and the rim of the sea

　Ⅶ. Workbook
　　Do Exercise 2 with the whole class. First get the students to do it individually, then ask one student to read the passage for the class to check the answers.
　　Do Exercise 3 in class. Have the students make up similar dialogues in pairs.
　　Do Exercise 4 after clas.

　Ⅷ. Exercises in class
　　Listen the type and answer:
　　Who went on the picnic over the weekend?
　　What did they take to the picnic?
　　What did they see in the park?

　Ⅸ. Homework
　　1. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.
　　2. Ask the students to retell the text in the following class.