Period 8 Task (1)

Learning aims

1. To learn how to ask for and give advice

2. To develop listening and speaking ability in asking for and giving advice.

Important and difficult points

1. How to ask for and give advice.

预习导航

Think about the following questions.

1. When to ask for advice/help?

2. How to ask for advice/help?

3. How to give advice/help?.

4. Which modal verbs will be often used when asking for and giving advice?

5. Which sentence patterns will be often used when showing sympathy to the person .asking for your advice?

☆Skills building 1: understanding how to ask for and give advice

▲Self-study: read the guideline on page 32 and find out the main points in asking for and giving advice

▲Warm up

Please listen to part A&B on page 32 and try to figure out what problems they are asking advice for and complete the sentences below on page 32 with words from the recording

▲Practice: Listen to a radio phone-in programme

* Please listen to the programme for the first time and write the names of callers in the space.

* Please listen to the programme for the second time and think about the question:

Why do they call?

*Task-based reading(Note：just one word in each gap)

　　Maybe you are an average student. You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessary so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here's how:

　　2. Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

3. Make good use of your time in class. Take advantage of class time to listen to everything