Teaching Aims:
1. Students are expected to learn how to identify emotive language, how to discuss probability of the future, and how to write an essay.
2. Enable students to understand and use.
Teaching Important and difficult Points:
Develop the students’ ability by writing an essay on the development of their town for the writing competition.
Teaching Methods:
Listening, speaking reading and writing.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead-in
Show pictures to the students and ask: How do you feel when you see the pictures?
2. Skills building 1: identifying emotive language
People use emotive language to express how they feel about something.
Emotive adjective hyperbole Tone of voice
positive negative
Step 1: asking about life in the past
During the past twenty years, great changes have taken place in our country, especially in education, transport, buildings, jobs and environment.
1. Listen to an interview and take notes in the table.
In the past today
transport ______________
______ to school Takes_____ or______
buildings ___________ and a few shops; biggest building was the _______ The _________
____ is far bigger
Jobs a lot of people were involved in the______ industry Big industries include the ________ industry and the ______ industry
environment Air was _______ Sea is full of ________; air is __________
2. Listen to the conversation again and fill in the missing words.
Hyperbole
as cold as _____ sleep for ___________________
as _____ as a mountain as _____ as a whale
3. Listen to your grandfather’s talk and take notes, then fill in the blanks in the old newspaper article on Page 11 using the information from your notes.
catering industry
type of restaurant: ________ location: _________ jobs: _______
fashion industry
clothes being sold: made by _________
fashion show: to raise money for a ____________
publishing industry
author visiting bookshops to sign book: local _________
tourism industry
types of business: _______________and _________________________
answers to the article:
(1) shopping centre (2) catering (3) seafood (4) chef (5) waiters (6) fashion (7) charity (8) authors (9) publishing (10) tourist (11) tourist
Skills building 2: discussing probability of the future
What will happen in the future?
●If you are certain that something is or is not going to happen in the future, you can use the following phrases:
It will (not) … It will certainly (not) …
It is (not) going to … It will surely (not) …
It will definitely (not) …
●If you expect something to happy or not to happen in the future but are not very certain, you can use the following phrases:
It will probably (not) …
It is (not) likely to …
It should (not) …
●W hen something in the future is not a certainly but only a possibility, you can use the following phrases:
It may (not) … It could (not) … It might (not) …
● If you think that something has no chance at all of happening in the future and want to express this in strong term, you can use the following expressions. However, you should be careful in doing so as this is usually considered very rude:
no way out of question not in a million years
Step 2: interviewing the City Development Council
Practice how to interview with your partner using predictions.
e.g. (not) (very) certain possible no chance at all
Skills building 3: writing an essay
When writing an essay, it is very important that you structure it in an ordered way. Otherwise, it will not make sense to readers. To do this, you should divide the information into sections---the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. Besides following the structure, you should also:
Use objective language Provide facts and figures Give examples Discuss future probability
Homework:
1. Write an essay on the development of your town for the writing competition.
2. Preview the Project part.