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(1)UNIT 16: THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS LESSON 2: B SPEAKING
I Objectives: 1 Aims:
- Students work in pairs to describe the pictures
- Students talk about measures and effects of the economic reforms 2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: economic reforms
- Language: + Words related to economic reforms + The way to make suggestions or predictions + The tenses
II Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative III Anticipated problems:
-Problems: Students may face difficulty using terms - Solutions: teacher can give useful suggestions
IV Teaching aids: picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts V Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1 Warm-up: (5 mins)
Tell a short story to prove that the renovation measures has apparently changed the social and people’s lives positively
2 Pre-speaking: (9 mins) + Task1:
- Explain the requirements clearly in English “in your textbook, there are four pictures Now, what I would like you to is to look at them carefully and say what they are about”
- Ask students to work in pairs to discuss the three questions and find the answers
- Correct the students’ work and give remark 3 While-speaking: (20 mins)
+ Task 2:
- Explain the requirements “The country of Fantasia started its overall reforms…”
- Divide the class into groups, asks each groups to discus a section: Education
Health care Agriculture
- Guide the students how to speak by giving them useful suggestions:
+ They have………… so …… + Due to the ………
+ Thanks to the……… + By applying……….
- Walk round from group to group to give help if necessary
- Encourage students to speak out what they think even a phrase or a singular word
Listen and give one’s own ideas or story if being asked
- Work in pairs to discuss the three questions and find the answers
A: What does each pair of picture tell you? B: It tells us the contrast between the present and past situations.
A: What changes can you see in each pair of…?
B: The new school and factory are much bigger
and more beautiful than the old ones. A: What you think … to achieve these…? B: They must have taken some renovation measures.
- Correct the answers oneself Group 1: Education
S1: The government of Fantasia has changed the curriculum and textbooks.
S2: They also provided schools with more equipment and facilities.
S3: They build more schools and raised the teachers’ salaries.
S1: It is obvious that they…… Group 2: Health care
(2)4 Post-speaking: (10 mins) + Task 3:
- Ask students to work individually to summarize what they’ve discussed in their own words
- Move round to check the activities and to make sure that students are working effectively
- Ask one or two students to report in front of the whole class
- Check and give remarks 5 Homework: (1 min)
Name some measures we’ve made to promote our economic system
S2: Due to the government’s policy, many more highly qualified doctors have worked to improve the people’s health.
Group 3: Agriculture
S1: Fantasia has applied appropriate policy to encourage farmers to work more efficiently, and they have built more dykes and damps, irrigation and drainage systems.
S2: They’ve also applied new and advanced farming techniques, more facilities and equipment.