Listening in
I. Time Allotment
4 periods
II.Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1. Develop the Ss’ awareness of involving of talking about personal experience about the guided tour .
2. Ask Ss to remember use words and expressions;
3. Strengthen Ss’ ability to listen for the specific information about the USA;
4. Provide Ss some information about how to retell the story.
III. Teaching Procedures
News report
Step1 Provide students information about " Forest Hills", "Queens", "Brooklyn" and so on.
Step 2 Detailed study of the news.
Step 3 Summarize the news report.
Passage 1
Step 1 Lead-in
Tell each other a story of your own experience by integrating the answers to the following questions instead of answering them separately.
Questions:
Have you ever been cold, lost, hungry or alone?
What happened?
Step 2 Go through the vocabulary list and students can be familiar with them.
New words
relieved a. 宽慰的
the Bronx 布朗克斯
Step 3 Detailed study of the text.
A. Listen to Passage 1 and match the answers with those questions.
B. Work in the groups of two and role play activity 5 and then check out their answers. .
Student A is questioner who will conduct the questions with the other student, B about the passage.
A asks B several main questions: “Where did she go ?” “How did she get to the school ? ” “Who invited her to stay”
Step 4 Critical thinking
What would you do to feel comfortable if you were away from home?
What dangers or inconvenience might a person meet if they travelled alone?
What advice would you give to someone going to an unfamiliar region or country?
Passage 2
Step 1 Warming-up activity
Ask students to work in groups of pairs and make up an ending to the story;
Share the endings with other neighbouring groups;
Each group speakers will report their endings to the class;
The class vote for the best ending;
Step 2 Detailed study of the text.
Step 3 Comparison
Ask students to compare their own endings with the original one, and express their different ideas towards the story .
Passage 3
Listen to another funny story, relax and enjoy it.

