The use of Ellipsis

5. Teaching difficult points

How to teach Ss to master Ellipsis

Teaching aids

A projector, and a blackboard

Teaching procedures and ways

Step 1 Revision

1. Greet the whole class as usual

2. The teacher checks the students' homework.

Step 2 Word Study

T: Now please open your books and turn to Page 36. Let's learn "Learning about Language".

First let's do Discovering useful words and expressions

1. Complete the table with the correct verbs, nouns or adjectives.

T: Let's do some more exercises about new words. You are to explain the words on the screen

in English and then fill in the blanks.(ask students to explain or guess the meanings of the words)

2. Complete the questions with words from the text.

The students will try to complete the exercises. Later the teacher will ask some of them to read each of the sentences and tell the class the answers.