time to listen. While practicing, teachers had better offer students some advice on how to do it well. Especially, train the students to predict what to be talked about according to the hints and limited information and let them form the good listening habit of listening with the purpose of finding useful information and to summarize. Certainly, suppose there are many new words and expressions, teachers should help them to deal with them at the first place. All the listening practice should focus on developing the students' listening skill.

　　After practicing listening, the Ss are expected to learn some expressions about talking about scientific job as well as scientists' achievements and recount stories. Besides those, the students are expected to learn the skill of describing a person.

　　During the course, teachers should rank class activities from the easy to the difficult. First, ask them to learn the expressions. Then, ask them to imitate it to have a dialogue. Finally, the students are expected to create a dialogue or discuss the given topic. In order to draw students' attention, the teacher had better prepare for some interesting situations.

This period centers on emphasis on speaking and listening. The teacher should try his or her best to encourage the students to say something. Don't always correct the mistakes that the students would make while speaking. Otherwise, the students would feel reluctant to speak out their opinions.