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. Revise the vocabulary in the last unit.
2. Get the students to retell the story in Lesson 66, ask two students to make a dialogue according to the reading, one is Mr Green, the other is an inspector.
III. Leading in
Present this dialogue:
T: Do you like going to the zoo?
S: Yes.
T: Will you go to the zoo with me next week?
S: Yes, I’d love to.
T: When and where shall we meet?
S: At a quarter past eight, outside the school gate.
T: All right.
Let the students practise in pairs.
IV. Presentation
Tell the students : Today Lily and Li Lei will go to the zoo, they are waiting for Jim to come together, but Jim was late. Why was he late? Listen and find the answer,
Part 1. Books closed. 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. Summary
Exercises in class
Translate the following into English.
1. 他太小而不能上学。
2. 李平昨天起床迟，结果上学迟到了。
3. 这个桌子太重了，他搬不动。
4. 爬山过后，我太疲劳了而不能再走了。
5. 格林先生买了一辆车，以便他能周游世界。
Answers:
1. He was so young that he couldn't go to school.
2. LJ Ping got up very late so that he was late for school.
3. The desk is so heavy that he can't carry it.
4. After climbing the hill, I was so tired that I couldn’t walk any more.
5. Mr Green bought a car so that he could travel around the world.
IX. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.
2. Act out the dialogue in Part 1.