Lesson 59

Properties: Recorder, Overhead Projector

Teaching Objectives:

1. Understand the dialogues

2. Learn the grammar

Language focus: the Infinitive

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing the teaching aims

II. Revision

Check homework, ask two or three students to retell the story about Lesson 58.

III. Leading in

Give the students a topic; let them make up a dialogue. For example: Why did you become a doctor for animals?

What do you like best about your job?

Is it easy to heal sick animals?

IV. Presentation

Tell the students that we’ll learn a dialogue about a child’s doctor. First, ask the students to use the following dialogue in Exercise I to help them. Then work in pairs.

V. Free Practice

Suppose your friend is a doctor for. . . . Interview her or him about her or his job. Use the dialogue in to help you, make up a new dialogue, work in pairs, then do Exercise 1.

VI. Practice

Part2. Look at the picture. Say something about it. For example:

To be a doctor is very interesting.

To be a sick man is very painful.

To do as the doctor tells you is important.

Change these sentences beginning with: It’s + adj. + to do something. Go through Exercise 2, ask the students to finish changing these sentences.

VII. Workbook

Do Exercise 2. The answers are:

1. It’s necessary to prepare a place for the dog.

2. It’s good for the dog to take a walk every day。

3. It’s very important to keep the dog clean.

4. It’s not a good thing to let the dog bark at night.

5. It’s necessary to give the dog injections regularly.

VIII. Summary

Exercises in class

Change these sentences, beginning with It is ...to...

1. English is difficult for me to learn well.

2. To say is easier than to do.

3. To treat large animals isn’t easy.

4. To take medicine on time is necessary.

5. To keep the classroom clean is very important.

6. To take a walk after supper is good for your health.

IX. Homework

1. Make up a new dialogue according to .

2. Finish doing Exercise 3 in the workbook.