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Teaching Objectives:

1. Practise listening ability.

2. Understand the letter, try to learn how to write a diary and write an English letter.

3. Learn some useful words and expressions.

Language Focus: Checkpoint 16

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

Check the homework first, then invite some students to retell the story.

III. Listening

Do Exercise 1 in the workbook, go through the questions, let them guess the answers. Play the tape twice or three times, finally check the answers with the whole class.

IV. Presentation

Tell and show the students how to write a diary. (Write the date on the top of the left side and the weather on the top of the right side.)

Let the students fill in the missing words in the blanks, then read the diary.

V. Reading

Get the students to read the letter and ask them some questions about the English letters: Where is the address? Where is the date? How can we begin a letter? Get the students to find the answers from the reading. Then get them to read the letter again, and answer the questions, check the answers with the class.

The answers are:

1. It came from Andy.

2. It is called soccer.

3. Yes, they do.

4. No, they don't.

5. She plays Aussie rules.

VI. Checkpoint 16

Go through the grammar part and practise the useful expressions.

VII. Workbook

Do Exercise 5, and check the answers with the students. The answers are: had, had played, were, won, woke, had, got, found, kept, ended, went, started, were playing, were, felt, said, beat, keep, be found, had, were, play, was, kicked, got, were playing, get, were winning, kicked, make, had kicked, had kicked, played, is Exercises in class

Fill in the blanks with the right verb form.

1. A: Did you see him last night?

B: No, When I got to his home, he _________ _________ (go) to bed.

2. A: You ________ (watch) the TV Play last night, didn’t you?

B: Yes, But I missed the beginning. When I turned on TV, it _________ (begin)

3. The little boy said that he _________ never _________ (hear) such an interesting story.

4. When Xiao Wang _________ (hurry) home, he found that his mother _________already ________ (go) to hospital.

VIII. Homework

1. Revise all the contents of this unit.

2. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.