Teaching Aims:

1. Make the students be familiar with the courses in a language school.

2. Practice their listening ability

Teaching Important Points

1.enable the students to get the general idea of the listening material

Teaching Difficult points

1. Get the information about their courses and the time

2. Know some details

Teaching Methods

1. First listening to get the general idea of the text

2. The next listening do the exercise 1,2, 3,and find the answers in the listening material

Teaching Aids

1. A tape record

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Lead in

T: this unit, we learned the British Isles. We have talked so much about the United Kingdom, right? We have talked about its famous cities, its people, its geography and its typical features. Do you remember them?

Ss: yes

T: very good. We have also learned that there are two famous universities in the United Kingdom. Do you still remember what their names?

Ss: Oxford and Cambridge

T: very good. They are 2 world-class universities. Do you want to know students’ school life there?

Ss: yes

T: ok, today we will learn something about students’ school life in Dublin University. Do you know where Dublin is?

Step2 Listening

T: Dublin is the capital city of the Republic of Ireland. Today we are going to do listening part. Now, please go through the exercises on page 33 and 34. From the chart and these questions, can you guess what the listening material talks about?

Ss: a school, timetable…….

T: yes, good, it talks about the timetable of the language school in Dublin University. Now, let’s see what we should do when listening.

Q1: How are classes arranged in schools in the UK?

(Four classes in the morning and 3 classes in the afternoon.)

Q2: How long does one lesson take up?(50min)

Listen to the tape again and fill in the timetable below. This is a bit difficult. When you are listening, try your best to hear what is taught, where and when is taught. Ok?

Step3 Speaking

T: Just now, we got some information of the timetable in Dublin University. From the timetable, we can see students there can get more practice in listening and speaking. Do you think so? You see, there are so many skill lessons to practice students’ listening and speaking, and conversation workshops to train students’ speaking ability and language lab trains students’ listening. What about us? How many English classes do we have in a week?

Ss: 6

T: yes, we only have 6 English classes. Among these classes we pay more attention on language study. That is to say, we pay more attention on grammar and vocabulary. Do you agree with me?

Ss: yes

T: ok, for Chinese students, some people think speaking and listening are more important, because the ability of speaking and listening is more practical, but some people think grammar and vocabulary should be practiced more, because we have to pass a lot of examinations. What’s your opinion? What do you think we should practice more, listening and speaking or grammar and vocabulary?

Now, please form groups of 4 or 3 or just discuss with your partner, make up a dialogue to express your agreement or disagreement, using these useful expressions on the slide.

S1 think listening and speaking should be practiced more because if you meet a foreigner but you can not talk with him, it is a great pity. Do you think so? But I think as Chinese student, we should practice grammar and vocabulary more, it depends on the special situation in china. We must pass a lot of examination, when we have enough free time, we can practice listening and speaking by ourselves, because both of them are very important right? Ok, any other groups? You can keep your own opinions and we can have discussion after class. Try to remember these useful expressions.

These expressions express agreement or disagreement:

Agreement: certainly/surely it must be right

Yes, I agree with you.

Yes, you are right.

Disagreement: I don’t agree with you.

I am afraid not.

I don’t think so.