word means.

II.1b

　　The activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.

　　Write two dates side by side on the blackboard. The first is today's date, including the year, and the second is the same day, but ten years ago.

　　Ask a student to stand up. Use words or phrases to describe that student now. Ask students to suggest words or phrases that describe him/her ten years ago.

　　Ask some more questions and add more examples to both columns.

　　Ensure that the blackboard ends up like this:

　　Sep. 10,2004 Sep. 10,1994

　　tall short

　　long hair short hair

　　... ...

　　Say, we use "used to" to talk about things that have changed.

　　Write the following on the blackboard:

　　Liu Chang used to be short, but she is tall now.

　　She used to have short hair, but she has long hair now.

　　Play the recording for the first time.

　　Play the recording again. This time,

　　Check the answers.

Step3 Consolidation and extension

1c

　　This activity provides oral practice using the target language.

　　Read the instructions to the class.

Call students' attention to the conversation in the box. Invite a pair of students to read it to the class.