Lesson 12
Teaching Aims :
1. Checkpoint 3
2. Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Teaching Important Points :
1. Checkpoint 3
2. Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Teaching Difficult Points :
the use of the Indirect Speech
Teaching Methods :
Inductive method , deductive method and observating method .
Teaching Aids :
1. a recorder ; 2. a slide projector
Teaching Procedures :
Step I . Revision
T: Good morning everyone .
Ss: Good morning , teacher.
T: Sit down , please , Now I'll check the homework . Ren Ping , please do Ex.1on Page 69 ---
Step II . Listening .
T: In the last two periods , we've learned something about the differences between American English and English spoken in England . Today , we are going to listen to a dialogue , An American woman . Terry is talking to her friend David . Let' s listen to what they are talking about .Please listen carefully , then we'll do exercises on Page 129.
Listening Text :
David : What' s it like living in England , Terry ?
Terry : Well , I' m having a great time , But I guess I sometimes have a little difficulty understanding what people are saying .
David : Can you explain a bit more ? Do you have some trouble with our pronunciation ?
Terry : No , but you use a lot of different words over here that I don' t understand.
David : Can you give an example ?
Terry : A woman said she would ring me the next day .
David : What' s strange about that ?
Terry : Well , we say , I' ll call you tomorrow ,
David : Now that sounds very funny to me !
Terry : There' s another thing . In the States people stand closer to each other than English people . For example , if I' m talking to English people at a party . I find that they stand quite a long way away from me .
David : Anything else ?
Terry : Well , yes , It' s clear to me that English people don' t like touching somebody or being touched , Now in the States touch is important , Friends touch each other on the arm , for example . And we often put an arm round a friend when we say " Hello " or " Goodbye " . So I have to remember not to touch people when I' m in England.
David : What else ?
Terry : You drive on the left and we drive on the right . I almost got killed on the street , the other day . I looked to the left and started to cross, There was a car coming from my right ! Luckily it stopped and didn't hit me .
( Play the cassette twice , Let the Ss check their answers in pairs , then with the whole class. Play the tape to check the answers . )
Suggested answers :
Ex.1. English language , words , parties , touching , saying " Hello " and " Goodbye " , driving ,
Ex. 2. True : 2. 4.
Ex. 3. 1. What' s it like living in England , Terry ?
2. A woman said she would ring me the next day .
3. What' s strange about that ?
4. Well , we say " I'll call you tomorrow . "
5. Now that sounds funny to me !
6. So I have to remember not to touch people when I' m in England.
Step III . Checkpoint
T: Please turn to Page 12. Look at checkpoint 3. Make sentences with the useful expressions , Wang Ping . you try , please , Say as many as possible .
Step IV. Word Study
T: Now look at Lesson 12. Part 2. Word study . Please fill in the blanks with a suitable word according to the word given . Pay special. attention to the words " pronunciation " and " pronounce " .
Answers :
Noun Verb Adjective
difference & different
speech speak spoken
difficulty & difficult
pronunciation pronounce &
mixture mix &
Europe & European
Step V . Writing
T: Now let' s look at Lesson 12, Pant 3. Writing . First , look at the checkpoint 3. Grammar
( Ask one student to read . If the verb " say / tell " is in the Past Tense . you usually change the verb tenses into Indirect Speech . ) While doing this texercise , you should pay attention to the verb tenses . First write them in your exercise books , then check them in pair .
( After the students have done , Show the answers on the screen . Let one student to read it aloud . The others check their answers .)
Answers :
1. She said that in china about seven people in ten spoke / speak ( as it is always true ) Putonghua.
2. She said her elder brother had taught her some of the Chinese Characters .
3. She said there were / are over 50.000 different characters in Chinese.
4. She said she had learnt about 5.000 characters at school.
5. She said she had practised writing them for homework .( " practise " must be followed by a gerund.)
6. She said she hadn't found it easy at first .
Step VI . Workbook.
T: Let' s do exercises . Please turn to Page 70. Ex.1. Li Ming , Read the first three groups of words , tell their parts of speech , and then put them into Chinese. ---
Suggested answers :
mix v. 混合 invent v. 發明
mixture n. 混合物 invention n. 發明
operate v. 實施 instruct v, 教育
operation n. 實施 instruction n. 教育
cross v. 越過 build v. 建筑
crossing n. 交叉點 building n. 樓房
luck n. 運氣 danger n. 危險
lucky adj. 幸運的 dangerous adj. 危險的
interest n. 興趣 difference n . 不同
interesting adj . 有趣的 different adj . 不同的
cloud n. 云 difficulty n. 困難
cloudy adj. 多云的 difficult adj . 困難的
T: Now Let' s do Ex . 2. Write the answers in your exercise book , then check them in pairs , at last check them with the sentences on the screen .
Suggested answers to Ex.2.
1. Sara said to Yang Mei she was doing a biology experiment then.
2. Sara said to Yang Mei she wasn't free that day .
3. Sara said to Yang Mei she had to finish that experiment that week.
4. Sara said to Yang Mei she would have to stay in the lab until the next day .
5. Sara said to Yang Mei she was going to write a report the next week.
6. Sara said to Yang Mei she had watched a very interesting TV. programme the day before .
7. Sara said to Yang Mei she had to wait there that afternoon
8. Sara asked Yang Mei whether she would go to the lecture that afternoon.
T: Now let' s do Ex .3. Please tell us which answers are correct and which are wrong ? Ying Ying , how to correct the wrong ones ? Please tell us the correct sentences .
Suggested answers :
True : 1, B 2, A 3, B 4, B
1. A should be : I don' t know what the word means .
2. B should be : What is this word " address " pronounced
3. A should be : He said that he had never been to the States .
4. A should be : She may have some difficulty in pronouncing English words .
T: Now let' s do Ex . 4. Put the following into English , using the phrases given . First write them in your exercise - books , then check them in pairs . At last I' ll give you correct answers
( Show the answers on the screen.)
Suggested answers to Ex . 4.
1. There are more or less some spelling differences between British English and American English .
2. Do you still ask your parents for money ?
3. How do you change water into ice ?
4. In my home town we grow wheat , rice , cotton , corn and so on.
5. You look the same as your father.
6. A great many birds come to Kunming for winter every year .
Step VII . Sum up :
T: In the last period , we've learned some rules of verbs when we change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech . Now let' s discuss how the adverbials of time and place as well as pronouns and the verb " come " should generally be changed if we change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech: . When we change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.
" this -------- that these --------- those
now -------- then today --------- that day
this week ( month , etc , ) ---------- that week ( month---)
yesterday --------- the day before
last week ( month , etc ) ---------- the week ( month, etc ) before
three days ago -------- three days before
tomorrow ------------- the next ( following ) day
next week -------- the next ( following ) week
here --------- there come -------- go
( Write them on the Bb.)
Step VIII . Homework
Revise the Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Step IX . The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Lesson 12
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
this that
these those
now then
today that day
yesterday the day before
three days , --- ago three days --- before
tomorrow, the next ( following ) day
next week the next ( following week
here there
come go
Attachment :
Unit 3 Revision ( Page 71)
Suggested answers to the exercises :
Ex 1 : 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. E 5.C
Ex 2 :
1. She said that she had some difficulty with English pronunciation
2. Mr , Huang said ( that ) he would come to China the next week .
3. She said ( that ) had been to the States three times .
4. The teacher told s that there were lots of differences between British and American English
5. She said ( that) she had once talked with some foreigners in English .
Ex 3 :
Dear Wang Ning ,
In your letter , you asked me to explain the differences between British English and American English . The differences between the two are mainly found in spelling and in pronunciation . For example , the English say ask[ a:sk] , dance[ da:ns], while the Americans say , In England they pronounce not ,box in America they say [nat] , [baks] .The words colour , metre and traveled in British English are spelt color , meter and traveled in American English . Sometimes different words are used for the same thing ,For example , in England they use autumn , ground , floor and toilet , in American they use fall . first floor and rest room and so on .
Best wishes.
Step X . Record after teaching