Lesson 55 Some News about English

1. Class Opening and Review

* Greeting

* Drill

Review the content of last class.

Ask some students to read the text of Lesson 54

2. Key words and Expressions

* website: explain this word (It’s a place on the Internet. “Web” is another word for “Internet”. “Site” means “place.”)

* encourage v. encouragement n. encourage sb. to do sth.

* practise [`prAktiz] v. practice [pArktis] n.

* information

* opportunity

* opening a door: in English, it means “having opportunity” or “learning something new”

3. Teaching procedures

Step 1

1. Let the students watch the video about some foreign countries.

2. Ask: What do you know about foreign countries? And do you know sth. about the communication between our country and other countries? (Let the students talk about the questions)

Step 2

1. Listen to the radio about the text

2. Ask the students to read the text twice loudly

Step 3

Use the computer to search something about the text

Step 4

Grammar: The Past Participle

Past participles usually end with an –ed or a –d. For example:

talk – talked – talked, wait—waited –waited, turn – turned – turned, like – liked – liked

However, some verbs are different. For example:

speak – spoke – spoken, blow – blew – blown, wear – wore – worn, build – built – built, cut – cut – cut, have – had – had

Step 5

Do some exercises about phonetic symbol and pronunciation

4. Homework

Workbook, Page 102-103