Activity 2 Answering questions

　　Teachers may ask the students some questions about school activities, for example:

　　1. What kind of school activities do they like best?

　　2. What can they learn from school activities?

　　3. What school activity program would they like to work out?

　　4. What may be the purpose of making a school activity program?

　　→Step 4 Understanding a program

　　Activity 1 Reading

　　Ask the students to read skills building 1 on page 12 to know about the following questions:

　　1. What is a programme?

　　2. What is a programme made up of?

　　Teachers can ask the students to scan the page and find the answers to the two questions above.

　　Then check the answers.

　　Suggested answers:

　　1. A programme is a plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved.

　　2. A programme includes date, day, time, venue, event/activity.

　　Activity 2 Learning some short forms

　　Teachers can ask some students to write down the names of months and the seven days of a week on the blackboard. Then ask the students how to write them in short forms in order to save time. If students have some difficulty, teachers should help them to know their abbreviations.

　　Sample answers:

　　Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

　　Short forms: Jan. , Feb. , Mar. , Apr. , May, Jun. , Jul. , Aug. , Sep. , Oct. , Nov. , Dec.

　　Seven days of a week: Mon. , Tue. , Wed. , Thu. , Fri. , Sat. , Sun.

　　Students should also be told about how to write down time in short forms. Time can be presented in several ways: For example, 8 a. m. /08: 00 6: 35p. m. /18: 35

　　In order to know about whether students have understood them, teachers take some measures to test them. For example, teachers read the following time fast and ask them to write them down.

　　Date: 1st January-1st/1 Jan

　　Day: Sunday-Sun.

　　Time: 9 in the morning-9 a. m. /09. 00 4 in the afternoon-4 p. m. /16. 00

　　Activity 3 Venue

　　Let the students know what the word "venue" means.

　　Sample answer:

　　"Venue" refers to the place where events or activities take place. For example: assembly hall, meeting room, 3rd Floor, Park Hotel and so on.

　　Activity 4 Event

　　Ask the students to learn what event means.

　　Sample answer:

　　Events or activities are the most important part of a programme. For example,

　　Event/activity: a speech on Chinese history/art festival. . .

Activity 5 Listening