The Eighth Period Reading (II)

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇

age, population, dramatic, advance, birthrate, implication, financial, burden, concern, pensioner, bankruptcy

b. 重点句子

　Experts insist that steps should be taken now to prepare for the future.

　They suggest that because people are living longer, they ought to work longer.

It's high time we stopped seeing ageing as a disease and started playing our parts in securing the future of our ageing societies.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

　Enable students to learn about an ageing society.

　Review grammar - expressions of persuasion.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

　Help students learn how to use the expressions for persuasion properly.

Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点

Expressions of persuasion.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Asking and answering, writing, reading and pair work.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A multi-computer.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程及方式

Step Ⅰ Revision

Check the homework.

Check the answers to Ex 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 with the class as a whole.

Check the answers to Ex 7 by having individuals write the words on the board and then