Lesson 2 Different School

Teaching aims:

To prepare questions for a listening exercise and to predict contents.

To practise using vocabulary of school and education.

To practise disagreeing and contradicting politely

To practise using phrasal verbs

Teaching difficulties:

To practise disagreeing and contradicting politely

To practise using phrasal verbs

Teaching Aids: computer

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

T: Read these words together and put them under the three headings

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T: Can you use the Key Words above to describe your school?

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T: Jack had a traditional educational education. Nicholas had an alternative one. Jack and Nicholas who are exchange students from the UK are discussing their learning experience. Predict what topics you think will be mentioned.

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T: Think of things you would like to know and write questions. Now listen and see if your questions are answered?

Ⅱlistening

1. Traditional education ______ .

A. isn’t very strict

B. making our school fit for every child

C. test studied everything

2. Jack in school _______.

A. has to obey many rules

B. needn’t wear uniform

C. recite all texts

3. Jack’s school is different from Nicholas’ one in ______.

A. teachers’ requirements

B. teachers’ experience

C. teaching marks.

4. Nicholas _______ .

A. dislikes Jack’s school

B. seldom review the notes

C. doesn’t memorize any the text

Answers：1.C 2.A 3.A 4.A

Now listen again and see if your questions are answered

Do the exercise 4

Here are extracts from two school leaflets. Listen again and match the extracts with Jack’s (J) and Nicholas’ (N) schools.

Check answers as a class.

T: I think you must be interested the following exercise--exercise 5. Who said these things? Decide if they are said by Jack’s or Nicholas’ teachers. Write J for Jack’s teacher and N for Nicholas’ teacher.

Students can work in pairs deciding whether these sentences are said by Jack’s or Nicholas’ teacher. It is better if students can tell reasons.

It is necessary to listen again to make students test their answers.

T: Now let’s listen another dialogue between Jack and Nicholas. What will they say? Now listen carefully to test your ability.

1. _______teaches how to analyse something critically.

A. The learner center approach

B. Traditional school C. Jack

2. Jack prefers to _______.

A. traditional school

B. Nicholas’ school

C. neither of them

3. Parents think_________.

A. Students in alternative school don’t prepare well for tests.

B. Learning about our own learning style is better

C. Nicholas’ school is better.

Answers: 1.A 2. B 3. A

Do the exercise 6.

Give students time to read through the expressions and the Function File before playing the cassette and encourage them to guess the missing words.

Play the cassette for students to fill in the missing words

Check students’ answers by having them read the dialogue.

Do the exercise 7

Listen and practise saying the expressions.

Ⅲ Speaking

Do the exercise 8

Read through the question with the whole class.

Students work in pairs, discussing the questions and using expressions from the Function File to disagree ad contradict politely.

Say out what they think about.

Do the exercise 9 and 10.

Ⅳ Homework

Do the exercise page 80