minutes to answer the questionnaire individually.

T: Now let's do the quiz "DO YOU STAND UP FOR YOURSELF?" to see how assertive you are. After you finish the questionnaire, check your answers on Page 103 to see if you stand up for yourself.

Answers "a" show you are assertive. You are self-confident and try to resolve conflict situations in a sensible and constructive way.

Answers "b" show that you are very assertive but you probably react too aggressively to conflict situations.

Answers "c" show you are not assertive. You perhaps lack self-confidence; look at the "a" answers for some ideas on how to react to conflict situations.

After students test their assertiveness, students are given several minutes to learn the phrasal verbs in the questionnaire.

T: There are many phrasal verbs in the questionnaire. Please match the verbs in Ex1 on Page 22 with the underlined phrasal verbs. Two minutes later, we will check the answers together.

Step III Listening Strategies: Identifying moods

The listening strategies will help students build listening skills and get thoroughly prepared. Before listening, ask students to learn Listening Strategies: Identifying moods

 Listen for expressions that are positive or negative.

 Pay attention to intonation to help you identify people's moods.

 Be careful with sarcasm. Sometimes people say something positive but with a falling intonation so that it means the opposite.

Step IV Listening

Deal with Ex3.

Before playing the recording, Teacher asks students to look through the statements first. Listen again if necessary. Then check the answers with the whole class.

T: As we know, most Chinese families have only one child. Most of you don't have the