Lesson 2

Lesson 2 History MakersTeaching aims:To practise listening for gist and for specific informationTo express opinions and to agree or disagree with other peoples spinions.To practise sentence stressTeaching difficulties:To practise listening for gist and for specific informationTeaching Aids: computer and cassetteTeaching procedures: . Warming upT: History makers mean people make great contribution to human and societys development. Now I give you some information and you guess who they are?Do the exercise 1. First give four sentences and ask student guess who they are?If students have some difficulties the teacher give their photos to match these descriptions with the photos.TalkAdd more information to make students interested( first ask students to talk about these famous people then teachers to add information)Sun Zhongshan: He is a history maker. He led the 1911 revolution and founded the first Republic of China. we called the city “the city of Zhongshan” in honor of him.Thomas Edison: invented the light bulb, the moving picture camera and many other things. He is a great inventor. He invented lots of things and changed the world a lot. His discoveries changed and improved our life.Mother Teresa : worked to help poor people in India. She is one of the most successful women in the world. She won the Noble Peace Prize in 1979,said:I touch the poor as touch the Jesus.Martin Luther King: He is a black man. He was born in 1929. He fought for the rights of black people in the USA. He devoted his life to equality of the black. He won the prize of Nobel Peace.Are they history makers? Why?S:Teacher draw a conclusion: Yes, they actions did much to advance society. They make things so important that it will be recorded in the history book. They set examples to us. Listen to learn How to express agree and disagree?First ask students to express agree and disagree then read these wordsagree, think, youre right, dont agree, in my opinion, personallyDo the exercise 2 Play the cassette for students to listen first, before looking at the Function File. See how much students can remember from the first listening.Students listen again, fill in the blanks with the key words . Listening Read through the Listening Strategies with the students and show students Key words to see if they can guess the meaning of these words. Ask students to pronounce the Key Words. One of purposes is that can then check if their pronunciation is correct as they listen to the tape. The other purpose is to remember these words to understand the radio Programme better. Do the exercise 5Students read through the sentences and predict what the answers are.Students listen to the cassette and see if their predictions are correct.As you check students answers, ask them to correct the false sentences and make them true. Pronunciation: stressAsk students to read the four sentences and predict where the stressed will occur in sentences. They listen to the cassette and see if they were correct.Play the cassette again for students to repeat the sentences SpeakingGive students time to read about some famous people. They take turns to choose a hero and ask and answer three questions about their hero. Enc