Lesson 40

　　Teaching aims and demands

　　1. Provide the chance for students to have a listening practice

　　2. Revise the grammar with the students: the indirect speech

　　3. The students are required to practice the words and useful expressions in Checkpoint 10.

　　Key points: 1. Grammar;  2. Listening  3. Useful expressions.

　　Teaching methods: Listening — practice

　　Teaching procedures

　　Step 1. Revision

　　(1) Check the homework exercises.

　　(2) Revise the previous two lessons.

　　(3) Revise Step 7 of the previous lesson.

　　Step 2. Listening

　　(1) Pre-listening: Tell the students turn to Page 142 and read the instructions to get a gist of the listening passage.

　　(2) While-listening:

　　① Play the tape for the students to answer the questions.

　　② Check the answers with the students.

　　(3) Post listening activity: get the students to talk about the listening passage.

　　Step 3. Checkpoints

　　Go through Checkpoint 10 with the students. Get the students to make up sentences using the useful expressions if time permits.

　　Step 4. Word study

　　SB P60, Part 2. Read the instructions and get students to fill in the blanks with the words in correct form.

　　Step 5. Writing

　　SB P60, Part 3. Read the instructions and tell the students to develop a paragraph by using given phrases below and use the ing form that we have just learned.

　　Step 6. Workbook

　　Workbook Lesson 40. Ex. 1~3. Get the students to do the exercises and then check the answers with the students. Answers: See P112.

　　Homework

　　(1) Finish off the wb exercises of Lesson 40.

　　(2) Revise the key points of this unit.