A Telephone Call
would you please tell me your home telephone number?
5) make a telephone call to a student and get the students to
learn the following short dialogue:
t: hello. is that 8614761?
s: yes.
t: may i speak to xiao long?
s: sorry, he is not in the office.
t: would you please take a message and ask him to come to
school this afternoon?
s: sure.
t: thank you.
6) ask the students to make calls in groups.
then ask some pairs to act out to see if they know how to use
the patterns below:
may i speak to..,?
would you please take a message?
7) ask the students to look at the screen and listen to the
dialogue "a telephone call" with
the following questions in mind:
what is the message about?
what time is the party?
then ask the students some questions if they have understood
the dialogue.
8) ask the students to look at the dialogue on the screen and
listen to it again.
9) the teacher tells the students the meaning of the word
"tomorrow" with the help of a
calendar and the following sentences:
we'll have a party at school.
i'll tell him when he's back.
10) ask the students to read the new word and the sentences on
the blackboard.
11) ask the students to retell the dialogue in their own words
in pairs.
12) play the game "throwing santa claus" to see if the
students can say the sentences well.
the teacher throws the toy santa claus to a student. when the
student catches the santa
claus, he or she must say one of the sentences on the
blackboard, and then throws the santa
claus to another student.
13) ask the students to act out the dialogue
in roles.
step 3.
1) show the students three pictures on the screen. ask them to
make telephone calls in groups
based on the picture they have chosen.
picture one: you want to invite tom to play footbauwithyou,
buttom hasn't got a telephone at
home. you ask rose to take a message to tom.
picture two: miss wu is ill. you want to pay a visit to her
with jack. but jack is not atme. his sister picks up the
phone.
picture three: you will hold a birthday party on sunday. you
phone to lily to invite her to your party, but she isn't at
home. how do you speak to her mother, who is at home at that
time?
2) ask some pairs to act out their telephone calls.