Unit 2 Task Report on advising a friend

1. Learn how to listen for specifics in a conversation

2. Learn how to get the true meaning of the speaker.

3. Learn how to make some suggestions.

Procedures:

Skills building1: listening for specifics

Have the Ss to guidelines on page32. Make sure that they understand it is important to pay close attention to what he or she is saying to select the information you want.

Listening. Finish the exercise on page 32.

Ans. 1.Yes 2.England 3.Yes 4.Japan 5.France 6.China 7.Yes 8.Yes 9.No

Step 1:completing a new training schedule

1. Have the Ss to read the instructions on page 33. Make sure they will know what they are going to listen to. And ask them to read the training schedule.

2. Have Ss listen to a recording and confirm their predicted answers.

Finish the schedule on page 33.

1.increased 2.2 3.weightlifting 6.8 8.False 9.True

10. vegetables 11.4 12.water tea without caffeine

Skills building 2: identifying/selecting relevant information:

1. Read the guidelines on page 34 to make sure that they know they will learn to identifying and select relevant information when they are reading or listening to English.

Help the Ss to report what they are asked to write about and what information they should get from the letter.

Answers: Table tennis, also called ping-pang, is played throughout the world and is an Olympic sport.

The exact origin of table tennis is not known…. It began in England in the 1890s.

Today, players from China, South Korea and Germany among others play leading roles in the international table tennis competitions.

Step2:designing a new daily routine:

1. Begin this part by asking students if they can tell what the coach and the athlete talk about in Skills building 1.

2. Have students read leaflets 1 and 2.

3. Have students make changes on the daily routine individually. Try to give different answers.

Skills building 3: giving advice and making suggestions

1. Read the three points at the top of page 36 and ask them to pay attention to the differences between advice and advise in Pattern 1.

2. Have students to read the five question forms in the second part.

3. Have students read the dialogue on page 36 in pairs and underline the sentences which give advice and make suggestions.

Answers: John: You are good at the 400-metre race. Why not try that?.

Step 3: offering advice to your friend

1. Have students read the instructions in Part A. Have them do the questions-and-answers exercise. They should take notes of their partners’ answers and complete the chart.

2. Have students read the instructions and then offer some advice to his or her partner.

Possible example

B. ●I advise you to take more exercise during the week-perhaps three or four times a week.

● I suggest you have three servings of vegetables and four servings of fruit per day.

● If I were you I wouldn’t drink soft drinks. Why not drink some water? You should drink eight glasses of water of water every day.

● I advise you go to bed no later than10 p.m. every night.

● I also advise you have at least 8 hours of sleep every night.

● I suggest you shouldn’t spend too much time in the Internet café or playing computer games.

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