The 7th period

　　Task

Teaching objectives:

1. To train students as to how to get information about dates and places through listening.

2. To help students improve their listening, reading, speaking and writing abilities

3. To make students be aware of the appropriate ways of performing each individual procedure and master the skills

4. To make sure students have opportunities to combine the skills they have learned with reality

5. To help them learn to solve a practical problem in their daily life---how to plan a holiday for your family.

Important and difficult points:

1. Help students learn how to make a note of figures

2. Help students how to organize information in a logical order correctly.

3. Make students learn how to conduct an interview, how to analyse statistics and how to write a biographical article based on the interview

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Skills building 1: recognizing dates and names of places

Some tips on what to look out for when we are trying to gather information on travel plans:

1. Pay attention to three pieces of information.

　　◆the day of the month,

　　◆ the month

　　◆ the year

2. When listening for dates, we can pay attention on the ending of the number. Most dates end with -th, some have different endings.

　　• * 1st/first 21st /twenty-first

　　• * 2nd/second 22nd/twenty-second

　　• * 3rd/third 23rd/twenty-third

3. In British English, we can write a complete date in three ways:

23 November 2010, 23rd November 2010 23/11/2010