Step 1 Revision

1 Revise the dialogue in SB Lesson 67.

2 Find out from the students who is on duty. Check attendance. Teach another day of the week. Ask What day is today? Teach the name of the day.

3 Have the students contrast similar objects using the adjectives taught so far: This book is red. That one is black.

4 Revise body parts by miming the riddle from Lesson 65 and playing games together as a class.

Step 2 Spelling and pronunciation

SB Page 4, Part 1, Speech Cassette Lesson 68 (Phonic Reading Work). Books closed! Follow the steps below:

1 Say Please listen and play the tape.

2 Play the tape again. Say Listen and repeat.

3 Write the letter A on the Bb, and next to it write same, grade, table. Students read aloud each word as you point to it.

4 Say These words all have the /el/sound. Remind the students of the silent \"E\" at the end of the words.

5 Add a few words such as date, fame, lane, etc. and have the students try to pronounce them.

6 Repeat these steps for the other groups of words.

7 Show flashcards in random order. Get the students to read them aloud. Make sure the students pronounce the letter A in the six different ways.

*Note: Remember this book uses British pronunciation. Your students may have some questions about the pronunciation of some of the words above, which are pronounced differently in American English, (for example: class and basket are pronounced with the /as/ sound in American English).

Do Wb Lesson 68, Ex. 1.

Step 3 Listening activity

Write the following lists of words in two columns on the Bb as follows:


I

wall

went

ball

thanks

hand
II

well

want

bell

thinks

hind



Explain to the students in Chinese, that for each pair of words like wall / well you are only going to say one of them. If you say the word from the first column, wall, then they should raise one finger. If you say the word from the second column, well, then they should raise two fingers. For each pair of words say only one of the words. For example, say well. Ask, which word did I say? And point to both wall and well on the Bb. The students should have raised two fingers. Continue for the rest of the words. In this way you can get a quick check of the students\' listening competence.

Step 4 Word stress

SB Page 4, Part 2. Books closed! First tell the students how to divide a word into syllables. Explain to the students in Chinese that English words are stressed, rather like Chinese words have tones. But unlike tones, the stress is on one part (syllable) of the word.

The stress is not the same for each word.

1 Play the tape and say Please listen.

2 Play the tape again and say Listen and repeat.

3 Show flashcards in random order and get the students to read the word correctly. Pay close attention to the stress. Get the students to make a gesture to show the stress, like a musical conductor.

4 Explain that the stressed syllable is marked with (\'). For example, empty consists of emp (stressed syllable) and ty (unstressed syllable).

Step 5 Listen, read and talk