Task

Teaching objectives:

1. to help students review some kinds of figures and master the forms of figures as well as the way to listen to the figures.

2.to teach students what information should be included in a biographical article and how to write one.

3 to make students be aware of the appropriate ways of performing each individual procedure and master the skills

4 to make sure students have opportunities to combine the skills they have learned with reality

5 to aid students to choose and organize the information they have got and help them complete their products

6 to enhance students' overall abilities and improve their integrated skills

Important and difficult points:

1. help students learn how to make a note of figures

2. help students how to organize information in a logical order correctly.

3. Make students learn how to conduct an interview, how to analyse statistics and how to write a biographical article based on the interview

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Ask students some questions related to the figures:

1. How old are you ?

2.Which floor are you on at school?

3. What is the date today?

4. How old is your father?

Step 2 Skills building 1: Listening for figures

A. Ask students to read directions on P52 to get a general idea of what is to be learnt.

B. Help students to understand the following:

　1. Kinds of figures: Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers Plural form of numbers

Cardinal and Ordinal numbers

Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers