Unit 2 English around the World
Period 4 Learning about Language
1．Teaching aims
Ss will be able to use direct speech and indirect speech
2. Teaching important point
Summarize the rules of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech.
3. Teaching difficult point
Learn about the special cases in which the tenses shouldn’t be changed.
4. Teaching methods
Discussing, summarizing and practicing.
5. Teaching procedures
Step 1.Discovering useful words and expressions
1. Work in pairs. Do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then check the answer you’re your classmates. The teacher helps the students discover the difference in prepositions.
2. Revise the phrases
be different from, pay a role(part) in, because of, in/on a team, the number of/a number of, than ever before, even if, comp up to, over time, communicate with, be based on, make use of, have one’s own identity, such as, Only time can tell, native speaker,
Step2.Direct and Indirect Speech
Revise the grammar of unit 1
Please change the direct speech into indirect speech
1. He said, “I’m going to Beijing tomorrow.
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2. “What a lovely girl!” they said.
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3. He asked, “Are you a teacher?”
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4. “This is the craziest thing I have heard of so far,” she thought.
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5. Mr Wang said, “I was born in China in September, 1972.”
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6. She said, “They had left when I arrived there.”
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7. She says, “Liu Fang is good at English.”
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8. He said, “The plane takes off at 6:30 am.”
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9. He said, “Where there is a will, the is a way.”
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10. “ How much do you think it will cost?” he said.
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Step3 Discovering useful structures
Ⅰ.Request and command
Open your books-------------command
Please open your books.------ request (polite)
Can you open your books please? --------request (polite)
Could / would you please open you books? --------request (polite)
1. Make clear the difference between commands and requests and finish the following exercises:
1） Go and collect the wood right now.
2） Could you go and get the shopping bags, please?
3） Shut the door at once.
4） Go and get my coat.
5） Would you please get that book for me?
Unit 2 English around the World