The teacher mimes having a stomachache with an action of touching his stomach, andasks, "What's the matter?" (Write it on the blackboard), then says, "I'm not feeling well, I have a stomachache." (Students repeat with teacher.)

　　 Then show some pictures on the screen and ask students to practice.

　　 Have students look at the picture and ask: What can we say to him?

　　Ss:What's the matter?

　　T:Yes. And what should the boy say?

　　Ss:I have a stomachache.

　　Let students repeat with other pictures about other illness.

　　Asksome students to use gestures to show the illness, and have others to guess.

　　Make a model dialogue. (S1 does an action to express an illness.)

　　T:What's the matter?

　　Ss:He/ She has a headache.

　　Let students practice other illness.

　　A:What's the matter?

　　B:He/ She has a headache/ toothache/ a sore back/ a sore throat/ a cold and acough.

　　Show other pictures, and ask students to talk about health problems of the persons in the pictures in pairs.

　　Step4 Listen and Say (about 8 minutes)

　　Work on Section A 1b, listen and number the names [1-5].

　　Have students look at the picture and read 1c, and tell students that the girl talked too much yesterday and she has a very sore throat now. Then askthem look at the picture, practice saying other problems. For example: The boyeats too much ice cream and has a stomachache.

Have students work in pairs according to 1c and ask some pairs to act out their conversations.