Lesson 2 Name Stories

Teaching Aim:

Learn to talk about the origin and hidden story behind one's name.

Learn to make suggestions, assumptions and guesses.

Stage 1 warm up

Teacher at this time can raise some questions about name, such as the following:

Among some of the Chinese celebrities, whose names do you like? Why?

Are you satisfied with your name?

If you had a choice to make a name for your children, what name would you like to make? Why?

Part /Period A

b. Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks with proper words, which are from the listening.

Stage 3 while -listening

a. Listen for the first time for the answer of exercise 4

b. Listen for the second time for blank-filling

Stage 4 post-listening

Guess the meaning of some phrasal verbs in exercise 5 and finish exercise 5.

Part /Period B

Stage 1

a. listen to the monologue in exercise 6 for the expressions of guessing, assumptions and beliefs.

b. Do some oral work in exercise 7

a. Listen to the name story for the answer of linking words in exercise 8.

b. Listen for the second time for contractions

:exercise 1 and 2 on page 54 can be treated as supplementary exercise.