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(Justification: By doing this, students can improve their speaking skills and divergent thinking abilities, as well as attract their interest through predicting.)

Step 3 While-listening

1. Fast listening

Play the tape for the first time without stopping and let students find out the main idea of the listening material as well as check their predictions. Remind students to pay attention to the repeated words in the dialogue.

(Justification: Students will have a basic understanding of the listening materials through fast listening. Students can also master the listening strategies of catching repeated words while listening.)

2. Careful listening

Activity 1: Ask and answer

Play the tape for the second time and let students answer the questions in exercise 2.

(1) Where did George’s tour start and in which direction has he been travelling?

(2) What surprised George about California?

(3) Why did George have the wrong idea about California before he went there?

(4) Why are there so many different kinds of music, food and art in California?

Activity 2: Complete the postcard.

Play the tape for the third time and let students complete the postcard George wrote in the textbook.

Dear Christie,

I’m here in Joshua Tree National Park, in southeastern California. Have been travelling around the state of California for three weeks now. Very different from what I have seen in American movies. Not everyone is rich and not everyone lives near the beach/coast. First travelled southeast through rich farmland then to the central part. They grow everything here including cotton, vegetables, nuts and fruit. Cattle too. Then travelled further southeast into mountains and desert. Californians are very friendly, and they are from many different races and cultures. Every culture has its own festival, music, food and art. Most interesting.

Wish you were here. Give my love to Paula.

Yours,

George

(Justification: Careful listening can help students to have a deeper understanding of whole listening materials. It can improve their abilities to find out detailed information. Besides, students can review the format of the postcard after activities 2.)

Step 4 Post-listening

Activity 1: Collecting

Ask students to imagine a situation “When you are on a call with your friend, and you want to know more about something, think about what questions or expressions you will say”. After that, invite some students to share their answers and write them down on the blackboard.

Activity 2: Making a telephone call

Students work in pairs and sit back-to-back. They will have a telephone call with each other within 5 minutes and the topic should be “A place you have visited recently”. Remind them to use the questions and expressions they collected in the collecting part.

Justification: Through those activities, students’ speaking ability will be promoted and they will collect more useful expressions of making a telephone call, besides, their interest and confidence in learning English can be stimulated.

Summary

Ask some students to review what they’ve learned in this class, and make a summary together.

(Justification: By doing so, students can evaluate the teaching effects of this class and find out what they have mastered and what they don’t handle.)

Homework