Wb Lesson 56, Exx. 1-2.
Before starting to do Ex. 1, Ss should revise the expressions about wishes and intentions. Get the Ss to work in pairs. Then collect the answers from the Ss. Put them down on the Bb.Before doing Ex. 2, make sure the Ss understand the meaning of the phrases in bold. Then ask Ss to read and translate the sentences into Chinese.
Step 6 Checkpoint
Go through the Grammar study section in the previous lesson. Revise the use of “it”, especially if any Ss had difficulties, and deal with any language points that you or the Ss wish to raise.
Step 7 Test
Give the Ss the following test to practise the use of “it”.
Complete these sentences in a suitable way.
1 It was … I had ever seen.
2 What was the weather like in Shanghai? It ….
3 It was only…that I realized I had no money on me.
4 It…ot me.
5 It was about … that she came to visit me.
6 It is … who decides such things, not me.
7 It … that they caught Kunta.
8 It was after about three hours ….
9 It is a problem that ….
10 It is obvious that ….
The test may include the following dictation. To make, the dictation easier, the Ss may be given the passage with blanks. Ask the Ss to fill in the blanks with the italicized words after they hear them.
One day *while Kunta Kinte was cutting down a tree *in a forest, he was suddenly hit on the head by .some men *and then put in chains. *Then he was sent to America *as a slave. *There he and his younger generations suffered a lot. Now one of his great grandson became a writer. *He made up his mind to find out his “roots”. *He collected letters and made copies of peoples diaries. *He went to Africa *and visited people in Gambia. *As a result of his hard work, he finally found out *where his ancestor came from.*
Step 8 Writing
SB Page 12, Part 3. The aim of this writing task is to practise writing a narrative using the different narrative tenses correctly. Prepare for the writing task in the following way. First let Ss decide which story they want to tell. Then let the Ss practise orally in groups of four. Finally get them to write their compositions for homework. Let them exchange them later for comment and correction.
Homework
Finish writing the composition.
Revise the story about “Roots”.
