Teaching Aims:

Question forms in different tenses

Teaching Difficult Points:

Questions:

Teaching Methods:

1. Give the students more chances to ask questions.

2. Give them some exercises to practise asking questions.

3. Do some consolidation exercises.

Teaching Aids:

1. a multi-media teaching system

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Greeting

Greet the whole class as usual.

Step 2 Retelling

Ask the students to retell the main idea of the passage using some key words. Give them help if necessary.

Step 3 Pair-work

Ask the students to work in pairs and ask each other as many questions as possible. Give them some examples if necessary. Correct the possible mistakes.

Step 4 Free talk

Ex. 1 on page 60. Ask the students to ask each other the given questions. Later check the answers and correct the possible mistakes.

Step 5 Practice

Do Ex. 1 on page 61. Ask the students to fill in the blanks with questions. Later check their answers.

Step 6 Further Study about question forms

Tell the students when they are reporting other people's questions, they should change the order of the question. Give the students two examples:

1. A: Where do you live? B: Pardon? A: I am asking you where you live?

2. A: Are you from China? B: What does he say C: He asks if you are from China.

Give them more examples to help them grasp the basic rules. After that, give them some exercises to make the rules more clear.

Step 7 Homework

Revise questions in this unit.

Finish all the other exercises of this unit.