The Fourth Period—Section B(2a－2e)
Teaching Important Points 【教学重点】
Key words & phrases：
gentleman，congratulate，thirsty，thankful，task，ahead，separate，wing
first of all，be thirsty for，be thankful to sb.，ahead of，along with，be responsible for，set out，separate from
Key sentences：
1.Thank you for coming today to attend the graduation ceremony at No.3 Junior High School.
2.I'd like to congratulate all the students who are here today.
3.I hope you'll remember the important people in your lives who helped and supported you.
Key structure：
Review of the tenses.
Teaching Difficult Points 【教学难点】
★Practice and learn the speech at the graduation ceremony.
Teaching Aids 【教学工具】
A tape recorder，CAI or multimedia courseware.
Teaching Steps 【教学过程】
★Step 1 Leading in 【新课导入】
1．Greeting
2．Warming－up
Ask some questions about the students' junior high school life.Use questions in 1e.
★Step 2 Cooperative inquiry 【合作探究】
1．Finish the task in 2a
①Work in groups.Ask：
What is the most important thing you have learned in junior high school?
Get the students to think about it and then discuss it in groups.
②Ask individual students the question.Then say “We may find a good answer to this question in the following passage.” and lead to the reading.
2．Finish the task in 2b
①Ask the questions in 2b and get the students to focus on the literary form and the writing aims.Students can guess the answers.Then read the passage for the first time.And answer them.
②Read the passage and get the details.Students read the article and learn the key words and expressions.For example，be thirsty for，be thankful to sb.，ahead of，along with，be responsible for，set out，separate from，etc.
3．Finish the task in 2c
①Read the questions in 2c.
②Read the passage again and ask some students to answer the questions.
4．Finish the task in 2d.
①Read the article slowly and learn the structure of the writing.Then find the key sentences and key words or phrases in each paragraph.Get them to write down the words and phrases.
②Get the students to learn how to write a speech for graduation.Feel the pleasure and the pride in the speech and learn to be thankful to the people around us.
