Unit 2 English around the World

　　Period 4 Learning about Language

1．Teaching aims

　　Ss will be able to use direct speech and indirect speech

2. Teaching important point

Summarize the rules of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech.

3. Teaching difficult point

Learn about the special cases in which the tenses shouldn't be changed.

4. Teaching methods

Discussing, summarizing and practicing.

5. Teaching procedures

Step 1.Discovering useful words and expressions

1. Work in pairs. Do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then check the answer you're your classmates. The teacher helps the students discover the difference in prepositions.

2. Revise the phrases

be different from, pay a role(part) in, because of, in/on a team, the number of/a number of, than ever before, even if, comp up to, over time, communicate with, be based on, make use of, have one's own identity, such as, Only time can tell, native speaker,

Step2.Direct and Indirect Speech

Revise the grammar of unit 1

Please change the direct speech into indirect speech

1. He said, "I'm going to Beijing tomorrow.

2. "What a lovely girl!" they said.

3. He asked, "Are you a teacher?"

4. "This is the craziest thing I have heard of so far," she thought.

5. Mr Wang said, "I was born in China in September, 1972."

6. She said, "They had left when I arrived there."

7. She says, "Liu Fang is good at English."

8. He said, "The plane takes off at 6:30 am."

9. He said, "Where there is a will, the is a way."