2. Do you keep any animals at home? What is it or What are they?

3. Can you explain how you care for them?

4. How do you feed them?

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Step 3 Dialogue Presentation

1. The first listening

After the teacher's brief introduction to the dialogue about keeping fish. Then ask the students to listen to the tape of the dialogue with their books closed. After listening to the dialogue, ask the students to answer two simple questions focusing on the general idea of the dialogue. This step is employed to make the student get the general idea of the dialogue as a whole one. At the same time let the students have a chance to practise their listening ability.

Questions :

1.Where will such dialogue happen in your opinion?

2.What are they mainly talking about?

2.Second listening

This time ask the students to listen to the tape carefully with their books open. After listening, ask the students some questions focusing on the details of the dialogue. In the meanwhile, deal with some language points raised by the students or appearing in the questions.

Questions: (Show the questions and answers on the screen using computer)

1.     What does Kate want to do ?

2.     Where would Kate keep them at first?

3.     What does LiQun advise her to do?

4.     What size tank should she get?

5.     What should Kate put in the tank?

6.     Why should Kate put a few large rocks in the tanks?

7.     Why should Kate put some underwater plans in the tank?

Language points: (Show them on the screen using computer)

a.    the other day = a few days ago

b     They don't get enough air:

With a bowl, only a small surface area of the water is in contact with the air. So the water does not receive enough oxygen.

c     30 cm by 30 cm by 50 cm.

We describe two-dimensional and three-dimensional measurements using the word by. So the length of the tank is 50 cm, and the width and height both 30 cm.

e     underwater plants:

These plants oxygenate the water and keep it clean.

d     For one thing = one reason (for putting plants in the tank)

Step 4 . Dialogue Drill

1.In this step the students are required to practise the dialogue in pairs by reading the dialogue aloud. This step is employed to make the students grasp the useful phrases and sentences pattern for making suggestions and replying on the base of reading the dialogue fluently.

2.Let the students find out the expressions and sentence patterns for making suggestions and replying in this dialogue , in the meanwhile show these expressions and sentence patterns on the screen by computer one by one. This step is employed to give the students a deep understanding of those expressions.

　Step 5 . Practice (part 2)