A letter from a pen-friend
j) what did sidney enclose in his letter?
2 have students finish the questionnaire in no more than 8 minutes without looking back to their books. ask them to use complete sentences.
3 after they have finished, ask the students to open their books and check their answers.
a) he lives in newcastle upon tyne.
b) his eyes are brown.
c) his favourite hobby is playing computer games.
d) he is fourteen years old.
e) the family went to britain about 30 years ago.
f) sidney is in form one.
g) sidney is keen on sports.
h) his ambition is to be an engineer.
i) because the teachers are very friendly.
j) he enclosed a photo of himself and some school friends.
4 put the answers aside. tell students that we will use it again in later of this class.
language
1 say: we use question words to ask questions. we can use question words to find out the facts that we want to know. sometimes we may want to find out some information from a person. so we may ask his several questions, such as, what's your name? how old are you? where're you from? etc. so mastering question words well is quite important.
2 what, where, when, how old, and how many
a) have students finish section a1 in language a on page 8.
b) remind the students that they can refer the reading passage if necessary.
c) check the answers orally.
d) conclude the usages of these questions words by using section a2 in language a on page 8.
what? - things
where? - places
when? - times
how old? - ages
how many? - numbers
e) have students finish section a3 in language a on page 8.
f) remind the students to add more words to finish the sentences.
g) invite several students to come to front and write their answers on the board. check the answers orally.
3 who and which
g) who?
we use 'who' for people (somebody)
who is your favourite singer?
who are you?
we can use question word 'who' in two ways:
(a) we use it as the subject.