Lesson 2    Listen and speak

lesson 2    listen and speak
section a 2a---grammar focus
i. teaching aims and demands :
students learn to report what someone said.
ii. teaching key and difficult points:
a.   vocabulary
a surprise party, be mad at, not… anymore, bring …to , happen (on), direct speech, indirect speech.
b.   target language
ben told lana that marcia was going to have a surprise party for her.
she said she was mad at marcia.
he told me he would  call me tomorrow / the next day.
she said she could speak three languages.
iii. teaching methods: audio-lingual methods and ppp
iv. teaching aids:      a tape recorder
v.teaching  procedure
activity 1. revision
task1. check the homework. ask and answer.
i am a student.
what did he say?-----he said he was a student.
i can swim.
what did she say ?------she said she could swim.
i will ring you up tomorrow.
what did she say?
she told me she would ring me up.
activity 2. listening and circling .
task1.read the instructions. learn the key vocabulary.
task2.point to the five sentences and ask different students to read them to the class. then say: you will hear a conversation between two people who are talking about a soap opera on tv.circle true or false after each statement.
play the recording twice and students circle their answers. then check the answers.
activity 3.listening
task 1. read the instructions.
task 2. play the recording again and check the answers.
activity 4. groupwork
task 1.read the instructions for the activity.
task 2. point to the pictures in activity 2b.ask the students to use the words and pictures as they have their conversations.
task 3. have the students work in pairs.
task 4. check the answers by calling on different pairs to say a conversation to the class.
activity 5. grammar focus
review the grammar box.ask the students to say the statements.
pay attention to the following:
direct speech                      indirect speech
am, is , am having, go, will, can      was , was having, would , could, went
a present situation                     a past situation
when you report what someone said, you use words that talk about the past.
homework
1.      review the conversation and the vocabulary.
2.      write the sentences in grammar focus.