Unit 1 The summer holidays
Lesson1
Step 1Introduction
1 If you are a new teacher for the Ss, introduce yourselfto the class: Hello, everyone. My name‘s .... I’m your English teacher thisyear.
1 Goaround the class and get individual Ss to introduce themselves. Say Hello!What‘s your name ? Nice meeting you, etc.
Step 2 Dialogue
Tell the Ss Now weare going to listen to two people. Bill and Harry, meeting for the first time.Listen carefully. What questions does Bill ask ? Speech Cassette Lesson 1.Play the tape for the Ss to find the questions What’s your name? Whichschool were you at last year? Do you know him (Bob White)? When the Ss havefound the questions, they should listen one more time to the tape and get theanswers to these questions (Harry;
Centre School; they werein the same class). SB Lesson 1, Part 1. Books open. Go through the dialoguewith the Ss. Deal with any language points.
Notes:
a Sure. = Certainly.
b I must be off now.=It‘s time for me to go now. c Nice to meet you/Nice meeting you. = It was niceto meet you.
Play the tape for the Ssto listen and repeat. Then let them practise the dialogue in pairs.
Step 3 Presentation
Ask two Ss to come tothe front of the class. Find out their names. Use their names to make an introduction:
T: (Sl), I want to introduce my friend, (S2).
Sl: Hello.
S2: Hello.
Repeat with other Ss. Then get one student tomake the introductions. Play the tape of the second dialogue in Part 1 for theSs to listen and repeat.
Then let them practise it in pairs.
Wb Lesson 1, Ex. 1. Do questions and answers inpairs.
Step 4 Practice
Ss work in small groupsintroducing each other, using the second dialogue as a model.
Step 5 Oral practice
SB Lesson 1, Part 2.Work with the whole class first of all. Ask different Ss: What did you do inthe summer holidays? Use the questions in SB Part 2 as a guide. Teach thephrase in your opinion (= What do you think?).
Let the Ss ask andanswer in pairs. Get some Ss to report their partners’ answers to the wholeclass. If you wish, get the Ss to write three or four sentences saying whattheir partners did in the summer holidays.
Step 6 Workbook
Wb Lesson 1, Exx. 2 and3. First get the Ss to do the exercises in pairs and then check the answerswith the class. See the key to the exercises in the Appendix at the back ofthis book.
Step 7 Consolidation
Revise the dialogues inPart 1. Get the Ss to make up similar dialogues.
Homework
Finish the Workbook exercises.
Write down the answers to Ex. 1 in the exercisebook.