Warm-up

Teaching Aim:

The part here introduces the topic of the whole unit----stories. Students are asked to accumulate the English names of all kinds of stories, such as true story, love story, legend, myth, biography, adventure stories, and detective story and so on.

Step 1 Word -building

Look at the pictures and match each picture with its concerning type.

Step 2 Testing their short-time memory

In order to check students' short-time memory, students are asked to identify the characters in exercise 2 and match the name to the extra pictures given by the teacher.

Step 3 Listening

Listen once to the tape and identify the type of the story. Before listening, teacher can give several relatively difficult words to students.

Step 4 Translation

Before listening for the second time, the teacher can give several Chinese sentences on the screen and ask them to listen for their equivalent.

Step 5 Speaking

Students are asked to talk about numbers of books they read a month, the last book they read, the best book they read, the book in English they read, book they enjoy as a child, and their favorite legend.