4. Reading skill

(1) Understanding how to describe a person

(2) Affection and attitudes

(3) Understanding new teachers and forming positive attitudes towards the studies of all subjects in senior high.

5. Learning strategies

(1) Categorizing adjectives used to describe characters of people

(2) Summing up verbs followed by V-ing.

(3) Learning how to punctuate a paragraph.

6. Cultural awareness

Getting prepared for the comparison of education systems, teacher-student relationship and other aspects between China and foreign countries.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Revision

1． Help students to revise words that is learnt in Period Two of this module by doing Activity 2 P13.

2． Help the students to review the adjectives used to describe a person by doing Exercise 5 (Workbook P74).

3． Ask the students to read "My New Teachers" and then check their understanding of the passage by doing Activity 4 P13.

Step 2. Grammer learning

Lead in the study of grammar by carrying out the following activities.

1．What verbs have you found that can be followed by V-ing from the passage you've just read?

(Ask students to speak out the verbs like "like, avoid, hate, keep, admit , enjoy")

2．Look at the passage again. Ask the students to find the sentences with the verbs followed by V-ing.

(Ask students to underline the sentences in the passage and then Teacher shows them on the screen with the verbs underlined.)

3． Encourage the students to find out themselves why the sentences are written in this way by asking "What do you notice about the verbs that follow the underlined verbs?"

(The students may work in pairs.)

4． Collect the answers from the students.

( The verbs are followed by the gerund rather than the infinitive used as the object of the verbs underlined.)

5．Help the students to sum up the words they've learned which can be followed by