IV. Leading - in
Teacher: We have talked about the country life and the city life. Now let's see what Katy and Sandy like better.
V. Read and complete
Students do the exercise themselves and then check the answers
(The answers: older, exciting, beautiful, quickly, better, faster, longer, interesting)
Then explain some words and phrases, point out the comparative and superlative forms of adverbs ending with "ly" are "more + adverbs" and "most + adverbs".
VI．Exercise in class
1. Complete the sentences
①公共汽车和轿车，哪个开得快？轿车。
Which goes__________ ______, the car or the bus? The car_______.
②所有人当中，我摘的玉米最多。
I can pick ________ ________ corns of ______.
③她喜欢住在乡下。
She likes ______ ______ the country.
④迈克经常读书到深夜。
Mike often reads ______ ______ ______ ______.
⑤我认为住在城市比城镇有趣得多。
I think ______ in the city is ______ ______ ______ than in the town.
⑥她经常帮她阿姨干农活。
She often ______ her aunt ______ the farm work.
Answers: ①more quickly, does ②the most, all ③living in ④until late at night ⑤living, much more interesting ⑥helps, with/do
VII. Homework
1. Preview new lessons.
2. Copy the text and ask three questions.
VIII. The design of the blackboard
Lesson 15
more the bus, the car
the quickest the bus, the car, the train
the earliest I ,you
Lesson 16
Period: The Fourth Period
Content: Lesson sixteen
Properties: Tape recorder, pictures
Teaching Objectives: Students should grasp
1. the pronunciation 2. the text
Language FOCUS:
1. Review the future intention “be going to”
2. Pronunciation:
/u: / u, oo /u/ u, oo, oul /uE/ ure, ua,
Teaching procedures:
I. Organizing the class
Greeting and a duty report.
II. Revision
Students read some words on the cards. “term, certainly, first, third, turn, early, hard, class, half, house, now, evening, leave, machine, ship, forget, broken, away, heavy, second, family, hungry, young, many, etc.
III. Pronunciation and spelling
Play the tape for students to listen and repeat, then ask students to give more words having the same pronunciation.
Play the part of “rhyme” for students to repeat and recite.
IV. Listening practice
Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
V. Reading
Students read the text silently and answer the following questions.
1. Where are Ji Wei and John now?
2. What are they talking about?
3. Where did they do just now?
4. What is John going to do after school? After college?
5. What does he want to learn at college?
6. Who is following them?
Play the tape, students follow, teacher answers question they ask and explain some difficult point “college, school for higher education”, “each, every” nobody, not anybody, not anyone .
VI. Speaking
Students describe the picture of Aunt Peggy’s farm, first in pairs, then together.
Another picture for them to describe (a city scene).
VII. Word puzzle
First explain the word “haystack, large pile of hay firmly packed for storing.”
Then students find out the words in pairs.
VIII. Exercise in class
Complete the words, using the proper words.
Different people have different ideas.
O______ people like life in the country, but y______ people don’t. They think life in the country isn't i ______. They like to go to the c______, have dinner in the r______ and s______ and dance with their friends.
My uncle and my a______ aren't f ______, but they live in the country. They grow f______ and vegetables for f ______. Every morning they will walk r ______ the fields. They can hear b ______ singing and sheep bleating. They often say, “Life in the country is much b______ now.”
Answers: Old, young, interesting, cinema, restaurant, sing, aunt, farmers, fun, round, birds, better.
IX. Homework
1. To write out the description of the picture.
2. To finish off the workbook.
X. The design of the blackboard
Lesson 16
