A Telephone Call

i.teaching material
         a telephone call

         a: may i speak to jim, please?
         b: sorry. he's not at home.
         a: where is he now?
         b: he went to the bookshop.
         a: would you please take a message?
         b: sure.
         a: tomorrow is teachers' day. we'll have
         a party at school.
         b: what time is the party?
         a: at three thirty in the afternoon.
         b: ok, i'll tell him when he's back.
         a: thank you.

 ii. teaching aims
 1) enable the students to make telephone calls in english and
 get them to know how to behave themselves on the telephone.
 2) raise the students' interest to learn english.
 3) encourage the students to have good cooperation with one
 another.
 iii.teaching contents
 1 ) patterns:
 may i speak to ...?
 would you please take a message?
 2) vocabulary: message, party, take a message
 iv.teaching aids
 four toy telephones, a cd-rom, a toy santa claus.
 v. teaching procedures
 step 1. warming-up exercise
         sing the song "greetings".

 step 2. presentation and practice
 1) ask the students to look at the screen and listen to the
 talk between the teacher and the person in the screen.
 2) after the talk, the teacher tells the students how to make
 a telephone call in english. write the pattern "may i speak
 to...?"on the blackboard and teach them how to use it on the
 phone.
 3) using the four toy telephones, ask the students to make
 telephone calls in pairs with the following patterns:
 ---- may i speak to...?
 ---- speaking.

 those students who do not have toy telephones can use their
 pencil-boxes instead, or they can put their fingers to their
 ears as a sign to make phone calls.
 4) ask one student his/her name and his/her home telephone
 number, using the following sentences:
 would you please 'tell me your name?