Lesson 55 Some News about English

　　Lesson 55 Some News about English

　　1. Class Opening and Review

　　* Greeting

　　* Drill

　　Review the content of last class.

　　Ask some students to read the text of Lesson 54

　　2. Key words and Expressions

　　* website: explain this word (It's a place on the Internet. "Web" is another word for "Internet". "Site" means "place.")

　　* encourage v. encouragement n. encourage sb. to do sth.

　　* practise [`prAktiz] v. practice [pArktis] n.

　　* information

　　* opportunity

　　* opening a door: in English, it means "having opportunity" or "learning something new"

　　3. Teaching procedures

　　Step 1

　　1. Let the students watch the video about some foreign countries.

　　2. Ask: What do you know about foreign countries? And do you know sth. about the communication between our country and other countries? (Let the students talk about the questions)

　　Step 2

　　1. Listen to the radio about the text

　　2. Ask the students to read the text twice loudly

　　Step 3

　　Use the computer to search something about the text

　　Step 4

　　Grammar: The Past Participle

　　Past participles usually end with an -ed or a -d. For example:

　　talk - talked - talked, wait-waited -waited, turn - turned - turned, like - liked - liked

　　However, some verbs are different. For example:

　　speak - spoke - spoken, blow - blew - blown, wear - wore - worn, build - built - built, cut - cut - cut, have - had - had

　　Step 5

　　Do some exercises about phonetic symbol and pronunciation

　　4. Homework

　　Workbook, Page 102-103