Lesson 2 Websites

Teaching aims:

To practise extensive and intensive listening skills.

To find information from a website.

To focus on prominently stressed as an aid to understanding - the key content words in every sentence that are stressed.

To practise making plans and suggestions over the telephone.

Teaching difficulties: To practise expressing preferences

Teaching Aids: computer and cassette

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

T: Do you use the Internet?

S:

T: What do you usually use it for?

S:

T: Net changes our life and makes life more convenient. Do you want to know its history?

Can you answer any of these questions about the history of the Internet?

1. Why did the Net begin?

a) for military reasons

b) for scientific reasons

c) for business

2. What year did it start in?

a) 1959 b) 1969 c) 1979

3. When did people start calling it the 'Internet'?

a) the 1980s

b) the early 1990s

c) the late 1990s

4. When did the Internet start to grow very fast?