Period 5 reading and writing

Teaching Aims:

1. To help the students learn to read stories.

2. To help the students learn to imagine the development of a story.

3. To develop the students’ writing ability, for instance, how to write a surprising ending, how describe one’s feeling, etc.

4. To cultivate the students’ learning strategies as association, cooperation and prediction.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points:

1. Predicting the development of the story.

2. Writing their own stories.

Teaching Aids:

A blackboard; A tape recorder

Students’ activities:

Pair work; Individual work

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

1. Talk about the interview and give some suggestions to the students.

(be ready for the questions, be on time, behave in good manners……)

Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Have the students read the title of the story “We’ve already met, haven’t we?” and discuss:

Who are “we ” in the title?

Who do you think say it? To whom?

2. Let the students read the 1st and the 2nd sentences then guess the answer.

Step 3 Reading & writing

Section 1

Reading

Play the tape for the students and get them to read the passage from the beginning to the 4th sentence of the 2nd paragraph.

Task: Try to know what happened.

Qs: How did the writer go to the interview?

Why did she shout at the driver of the yellow car?

Was the writer on time for the interview?

How many people were going to interview her?

Discussion (Pair work)

1. Deal with the above questions.

2. Anticipate what the writer saw and what her feeling was . (Work in pairs)

Writing (Individual work)

Have the students writ down their ideas and ask them to use the adjectives.

Article show

Have two or more students read their passage in class.

Section 2

Reading

Play the tape for the students and get them to read the rest of paragraph 2 and the 3rd paragraph.

Task: Try to know what she saw, how she felt and what she thought.

Qs: Who are going to interview the writer?

What was her feeling? Use some adjectives to describe it.

What does the sentence “I decided to look on the whole matter as a great joke” mean?

How will she look on it as a joke?

What will she say and do?

Discussion (Pair work)

1. Deal with the above questions.

2. Anticipate what the writer would say and do when she swathe boss (Work in pairs).

Writing (Individual work)

Have the students write down their story.

Article show

Have two or more students read their passage in class.

Section 3

Reading

Play the tape for the students and get them to read the rest of passage.

Task: Try to know how she solved the problem and what the ending was.

Qs: What does she mean by the sentence “…the last time we met I did most of the talking?”

What does she mean by the sentence “I say to everyone that dare tell my manager exactly what I think of him”?

Step 4 Post-reading

Have the students discuss together:

1. Deal with the above questions.

2. Is the ending happy? Is the story funny?

3. What is the humor of the story?

4. How could the writer change the difficult situation to a happy one?

5. What can you learn from the writer?

6. How do you think of the boss?

Homework:

Write a short funny story or a joke in English.

Or:

Rewrite the story in the person of the boss.